Leanda Morrison
@leanda-morrison.bsky.social
Equity & Earth-first. 🌍
Books, beats, cold dips & chosen family.
“The world doesn’t need what women have - it needs what women are.” – Edith Stein
#GenderHealthGap #Endometriosis #ADHD #MECFS
Books, beats, cold dips & chosen family.
“The world doesn’t need what women have - it needs what women are.” – Edith Stein
#GenderHealthGap #Endometriosis #ADHD #MECFS
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One of many fascinating artists interviewed for the NEW WomensArt book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' is Northumbrian artist Rebecca Vincent #womensart
July 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
One of many fascinating artists interviewed for the NEW WomensArt book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' is Northumbrian artist Rebecca Vincent #womensart
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Why not become part of the science behind saving pollinators this #InsectWeek? 🐝
At our Wakehurst site, you can help our researchers by carrying out a free pollinator safari on the Trees for Bees trail - helping to feed into real-world conservation!
Learn more 👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
At our Wakehurst site, you can help our researchers by carrying out a free pollinator safari on the Trees for Bees trail - helping to feed into real-world conservation!
Learn more 👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
Become a citizen scientist with Trees for Bees at Wakehurst
Help with our scientific research by counting pollinators at Wakehurst.
www.kew.org
June 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Why not become part of the science behind saving pollinators this #InsectWeek? 🐝
At our Wakehurst site, you can help our researchers by carrying out a free pollinator safari on the Trees for Bees trail - helping to feed into real-world conservation!
Learn more 👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
At our Wakehurst site, you can help our researchers by carrying out a free pollinator safari on the Trees for Bees trail - helping to feed into real-world conservation!
Learn more 👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
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Hyper-narcissism was deliberately engineered by a marketing industry which recognized very early on that selfish and narcissistic people will simply buy more products.
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June 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hyper-narcissism was deliberately engineered by a marketing industry which recognized very early on that selfish and narcissistic people will simply buy more products.
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open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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Wonderful news 👏🐙🦀🦞🦐🐳🦪🦭🐟🪼🦑
🚨 JUST IN: Ocean Minister Emma Hardy has officially announced the UK Govt’s proposal to extend bottom trawling bans in English protected areas. If total bans go ahead this is a HUGE WIN! 🎉
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social delves into what we need to do to make sure this happens✊🌊
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social delves into what we need to do to make sure this happens✊🌊
June 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Wonderful news 👏🐙🦀🦞🦐🐳🦪🦭🐟🪼🦑
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12 activists, including Greta Thunberg, have been detained by Israeli armed forces in international waters for trying to bring life saving food & medicine to Gazans who are being starved under the Israeli siege. Withholding food & medicine is a war crime.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Israeli forces intercept Gaza activists' aid boat with Greta Thunberg on board - live updates
Israel's foreign ministry has branded it a
www.bbc.co.uk
June 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
12 activists, including Greta Thunberg, have been detained by Israeli armed forces in international waters for trying to bring life saving food & medicine to Gazans who are being starved under the Israeli siege. Withholding food & medicine is a war crime.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
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The chemical industry is deploying every weapon in its arsenal to fight efforts to regulate harmful forever chemicals, including calling into question the very definition of what PFAS are, writes Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Scientists warn against attempts to change definition of ‘forever chemicals’
Move to narrow classification of Pfas and weaken regulation is ‘politically and/or economically motivated’
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The chemical industry is deploying every weapon in its arsenal to fight efforts to regulate harmful forever chemicals, including calling into question the very definition of what PFAS are, writes Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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At 4C scientists predict 90% of the world’s population could die.
We’re on track to hit 4C within our childrens’ lifetimes.
7,000,000,000+ avoidable deaths.
Waiting for a journalist to ask a politician about this.
We’re on track to hit 4C within our childrens’ lifetimes.
7,000,000,000+ avoidable deaths.
Waiting for a journalist to ask a politician about this.
June 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
At 4C scientists predict 90% of the world’s population could die.
We’re on track to hit 4C within our childrens’ lifetimes.
7,000,000,000+ avoidable deaths.
Waiting for a journalist to ask a politician about this.
We’re on track to hit 4C within our childrens’ lifetimes.
7,000,000,000+ avoidable deaths.
Waiting for a journalist to ask a politician about this.
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Ibuprofen can affect fish hatching, diclofenac impacts fish livers, flea treatments kill off the insects fish & birds eat - a cocktail of meds, pesticides, cleaning products, road runoff is poisoning our rivers - no wonder fish numbers are plummeting.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Pesticides, antibiotics, animal medicines: the chemical cocktail seeping into our rivers
The list of everyday pollutants is a long one, and they could be as damaging to our water ecosystems as sewage spills
www.theguardian.com
May 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Ibuprofen can affect fish hatching, diclofenac impacts fish livers, flea treatments kill off the insects fish & birds eat - a cocktail of meds, pesticides, cleaning products, road runoff is poisoning our rivers - no wonder fish numbers are plummeting.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🚨 NEW 🚨
The EHRC was created to protect our rights. Now it’s trying to quash peaceful demonstrations.
goodlawproject.org/the-ehrc-is-...
The EHRC was created to protect our rights. Now it’s trying to quash peaceful demonstrations.
goodlawproject.org/the-ehrc-is-...
The EHRC is silencing trans rights activists
The EHRC was created to protect our rights. Now it's trying to quash peaceful demonstrations
goodlawproject.org
June 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
🚨 NEW 🚨
The EHRC was created to protect our rights. Now it’s trying to quash peaceful demonstrations.
goodlawproject.org/the-ehrc-is-...
The EHRC was created to protect our rights. Now it’s trying to quash peaceful demonstrations.
goodlawproject.org/the-ehrc-is-...
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Angie Lewin, British printmaker working in linocut, wood engraving, lithography and screen printing #WomensArt
June 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Angie Lewin, British printmaker working in linocut, wood engraving, lithography and screen printing #WomensArt
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Incredible stats from Bernie about the wealth gap in the US - so big we should call it the wealth Grand Canyon. It’s not quite as stark here in the UK, where the top 10% merely own 50% of everything and the bottom 50% own 10% - but still the case is overwhelming for reform of our tax system.
June 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Incredible stats from Bernie about the wealth gap in the US - so big we should call it the wealth Grand Canyon. It’s not quite as stark here in the UK, where the top 10% merely own 50% of everything and the bottom 50% own 10% - but still the case is overwhelming for reform of our tax system.
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DWP told grieving mum to 'get a job' after 33-year-old disabled daughter's death
Tracy cared for her disabled daughter until she died aged 33. Now, thanks to the DWP taking all her support away, she is losing her home.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Tracy cared for her disabled daughter until she died aged 33. Now, thanks to the DWP taking all her support away, she is losing her home.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
DWP told grieving mum to 'get a job' after 33-year-old disabled daughter's death
Tracy's cared for her disabled daughter until she died aged 33. Now, thanks to the DWP taking all her support away, she is losing her home.
www.thecanary.co
June 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
DWP told grieving mum to 'get a job' after 33-year-old disabled daughter's death
Tracy cared for her disabled daughter until she died aged 33. Now, thanks to the DWP taking all her support away, she is losing her home.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Tracy cared for her disabled daughter until she died aged 33. Now, thanks to the DWP taking all her support away, she is losing her home.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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2%/y fall in insects may not have the ring of disaster. “But if you run that forward just 4 decades, we’re talking about nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime. That is absolutely catastrophic.”
1/3 of all our food depends on pollinators.
80%of our birds do to.
1/3 of all our food depends on pollinators.
80%of our birds do to.
June 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
2%/y fall in insects may not have the ring of disaster. “But if you run that forward just 4 decades, we’re talking about nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime. That is absolutely catastrophic.”
1/3 of all our food depends on pollinators.
80%of our birds do to.
1/3 of all our food depends on pollinators.
80%of our birds do to.
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Ahead of my interview with Laura Kuenssberg this morning, we spoke about my memoir The Unthinkable - about coercive control and why we still aren’t doing enough to confront this violence.
It airs this morning 9am, on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC One.
📚 #TheUnthinkable is out THURSDAY.
It airs this morning 9am, on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC One.
📚 #TheUnthinkable is out THURSDAY.
June 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Ahead of my interview with Laura Kuenssberg this morning, we spoke about my memoir The Unthinkable - about coercive control and why we still aren’t doing enough to confront this violence.
It airs this morning 9am, on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC One.
📚 #TheUnthinkable is out THURSDAY.
It airs this morning 9am, on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC One.
📚 #TheUnthinkable is out THURSDAY.
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#PeriodProducts - why did I put to the vote in the #HouseofLords an amendment demanding they are regulated in the UK within 12 months?
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#OneHealth #PublicHealth #PlasticPollution #PFAS #HeavyMetals #Microplastics #Pesticides
@fawcettsociety.bsky.social
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#OneHealth #PublicHealth #PlasticPollution #PFAS #HeavyMetals #Microplastics #Pesticides
@fawcettsociety.bsky.social
www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...
How safe and sustainable are period products?
Millions of people around the world use period products every month. Bárbara Pinho finds out what their environmental footprint is and whether they carry chemicals harmful to human health
www.chemistryworld.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#PeriodProducts - why did I put to the vote in the #HouseofLords an amendment demanding they are regulated in the UK within 12 months?
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#OneHealth #PublicHealth #PlasticPollution #PFAS #HeavyMetals #Microplastics #Pesticides
@fawcettsociety.bsky.social
www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...
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#OneHealth #PublicHealth #PlasticPollution #PFAS #HeavyMetals #Microplastics #Pesticides
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Nigel Farage has said that term limits for abortion need to be reduced. His party is currently leading in the polls.
Now is the time for all of us to get behind the movement to protect abortion rights in UK law.
humanists.uk/action/prote...
Now is the time for all of us to get behind the movement to protect abortion rights in UK law.
humanists.uk/action/prote...
Sign our petition: Take abortion out of the British criminal code
We are calling on the Government to protect legal abortions in the UK for all time by taking abortion out of the Criminal Code
humanists.uk
May 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Nigel Farage has said that term limits for abortion need to be reduced. His party is currently leading in the polls.
Now is the time for all of us to get behind the movement to protect abortion rights in UK law.
humanists.uk/action/prote...
Now is the time for all of us to get behind the movement to protect abortion rights in UK law.
humanists.uk/action/prote...
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#Corruption - a huge problem in Global North in a #FinancialSector that is a threat to the security of us all
#Enablers
www.ft.com/content/5530...
#Enablers
www.ft.com/content/5530...
Former Goldman Sachs banker sentenced to two years in prison for 1MDB role
Tim Leissner helped divert billions in Malaysian funds to corrupt officials but pleaded guilty and aided prosecutors
www.ft.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:22 AM
#Corruption - a huge problem in Global North in a #FinancialSector that is a threat to the security of us all
#Enablers
www.ft.com/content/5530...
#Enablers
www.ft.com/content/5530...
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'Cherry Blossom' painting by contemporary U.S impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
May 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
'Cherry Blossom' painting by contemporary U.S impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
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"The UN agency urged climate action to prevent even more dangerous warming in the decades."
We can make a difference as individuals! Taking a flight free year is a great way to cut your emissions and inspire those around you. Real change happens when lots of people take action together. ✊
We can make a difference as individuals! Taking a flight free year is a great way to cut your emissions and inspire those around you. Real change happens when lots of people take action together. ✊
Climate change: World likely to breach 1.5°C limit in next five years
Fact: 2024 was the warmest year on record – but the heat is far from over. A new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that global temperatures will likely continue rising,…
news.un.org
May 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
"The UN agency urged climate action to prevent even more dangerous warming in the decades."
We can make a difference as individuals! Taking a flight free year is a great way to cut your emissions and inspire those around you. Real change happens when lots of people take action together. ✊
We can make a difference as individuals! Taking a flight free year is a great way to cut your emissions and inspire those around you. Real change happens when lots of people take action together. ✊
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2050 is too late.
& Net Zero isn’t zero.
Fossil-fuel grifters want to scrap it.
Greenwashing centrists want to keep it.
Both are distracting us & playing politics with our kids’ futures, so their paymasters can profit right up to the collapse they know for sure is coming.
& Net Zero isn’t zero.
Fossil-fuel grifters want to scrap it.
Greenwashing centrists want to keep it.
Both are distracting us & playing politics with our kids’ futures, so their paymasters can profit right up to the collapse they know for sure is coming.
May 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
2050 is too late.
& Net Zero isn’t zero.
Fossil-fuel grifters want to scrap it.
Greenwashing centrists want to keep it.
Both are distracting us & playing politics with our kids’ futures, so their paymasters can profit right up to the collapse they know for sure is coming.
& Net Zero isn’t zero.
Fossil-fuel grifters want to scrap it.
Greenwashing centrists want to keep it.
Both are distracting us & playing politics with our kids’ futures, so their paymasters can profit right up to the collapse they know for sure is coming.
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🚨 Eight in ten UK adults think bottom trawling should be banned in UK marine protected areas.
The public has spoken. Now it’s time for leaders to listen. ⏰
Take action here to demand the government bans bottom trawling in our ocean havens: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...
The public has spoken. Now it’s time for leaders to listen. ⏰
Take action here to demand the government bans bottom trawling in our ocean havens: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...
May 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🚨 Eight in ten UK adults think bottom trawling should be banned in UK marine protected areas.
The public has spoken. Now it’s time for leaders to listen. ⏰
Take action here to demand the government bans bottom trawling in our ocean havens: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...
The public has spoken. Now it’s time for leaders to listen. ⏰
Take action here to demand the government bans bottom trawling in our ocean havens: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...