Michaela Makusha
@michaelamakusha.bsky.social
journalist: Black Ballad, The Guardian, The New European, Glamour, Teen Vogue
✉️ michaelamakusha@gmail.com
will ramble about tv and f1 for free
✉️ michaelamakusha@gmail.com
will ramble about tv and f1 for free
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I told my mum I was unsure about having children. Her reply opened my eyes | Michaela Makusha
My mother’s own dedication to parenthood has always floored me, but I realised I hadn’t understood where it came from, says freelance journalist Michaela Makusha
www.theguardian.com
I wrote about not having children and my mother's advice on why you should (or should not) have children either for The Guardian @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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don't really care how this makes me sound at this point, but the free open internet was a mistake and a lot of people out there were clearly never going to be able to handle it
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
don't really care how this makes me sound at this point, but the free open internet was a mistake and a lot of people out there were clearly never going to be able to handle it
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This is so so so much worse than you think it is going to be - absolutely phenomenal reporting by Sirin Kale & Lucy Osborne
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is so so so much worse than you think it is going to be - absolutely phenomenal reporting by Sirin Kale & Lucy Osborne
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
The work diary is a little empty and I am wanting to do some work in November and December - I write about politics, youth politics, social media and gender. I am also available as a researcher in those areas. Check out my work 👇🏾
michaelamakusha.co.uk
michaelamakusha.co.uk
Michaela Makusha
michaelamakusha.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The work diary is a little empty and I am wanting to do some work in November and December - I write about politics, youth politics, social media and gender. I am also available as a researcher in those areas. Check out my work 👇🏾
michaelamakusha.co.uk
michaelamakusha.co.uk
Mercury is in retrograde and so it explains so much.
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Mercury is in retrograde and so it explains so much.
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The attacks on my friend @meghamohan.bsky.social are awful. This is a journalist who has dedicated her career to telling ignored and forgotten stories about women in the global south - from lesbians in Burundi and Chile, to girls fighting child marriage in Malawi & teens in prison in Palestine.
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The attacks on my friend @meghamohan.bsky.social are awful. This is a journalist who has dedicated her career to telling ignored and forgotten stories about women in the global south - from lesbians in Burundi and Chile, to girls fighting child marriage in Malawi & teens in prison in Palestine.
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Please stop dating niggas that “don’t believe in therapy” omg
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Please stop dating niggas that “don’t believe in therapy” omg
The death of Teen Vogue's political coverage is devastating for many reasons but mainly for journalism that is engaging Gen Z with accurate and informative and fun journalism that actually speaks to us rather than speaks down to us.
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The death of Teen Vogue's political coverage is devastating for many reasons but mainly for journalism that is engaging Gen Z with accurate and informative and fun journalism that actually speaks to us rather than speaks down to us.
!! someone needs to commission my essay on how reading became a performance for a lot of women and booktok is an extension of this, pushing books that look interesting, but largely based on tropes.
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
!! someone needs to commission my essay on how reading became a performance for a lot of women and booktok is an extension of this, pushing books that look interesting, but largely based on tropes.
I don't know how I feel knowing Wattpad has shaped mainstream romantic fiction in the last five years.
November 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I don't know how I feel knowing Wattpad has shaped mainstream romantic fiction in the last five years.
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I'm this month's guest writer in The Logging Club newsletter, discussing the yearning I have for the children to be able to log into child-centric spaces online. So much fun working with @adelewalton.bsky.social - whose book you should read if you have not!!
open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...
open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...
Hands up - who misses the old internet?
Guest newsletter by Michaela Makusha
open.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I'm this month's guest writer in The Logging Club newsletter, discussing the yearning I have for the children to be able to log into child-centric spaces online. So much fun working with @adelewalton.bsky.social - whose book you should read if you have not!!
open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...
open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...
On my weekly Sunday 'should I do PhD panic'
October 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
On my weekly Sunday 'should I do PhD panic'
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Liberal Hollywood is naked and afraid
Cheers may have greeted Stephen Colbert’s win but the awards show bore many reminders of the industry’s fragile state.
https://bit.ly/48qsj4o
Cheers may have greeted Stephen Colbert’s win but the awards show bore many reminders of the industry’s fragile state.
https://bit.ly/48qsj4o
Liberal Hollywood is naked and afraid | The Observer
Cheers may have greeted Stephen Colbert’s win but the awards show bore many reminders of the industry’s fragile state
bit.ly
September 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Liberal Hollywood is naked and afraid
Cheers may have greeted Stephen Colbert’s win but the awards show bore many reminders of the industry’s fragile state.
https://bit.ly/48qsj4o
Cheers may have greeted Stephen Colbert’s win but the awards show bore many reminders of the industry’s fragile state.
https://bit.ly/48qsj4o
'If 2020 was the year you needed to listen, 2025 is the year you need to actually do something'
New article from me in @glamouruk.bsky.social on things to do to combat the far right and racism right now after the marches on Saturday:
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/far-...
New article from me in @glamouruk.bsky.social on things to do to combat the far right and racism right now after the marches on Saturday:
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/far-...
The far-right has shown up. Here’s how we fight back
This is a wake-up call.
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
'If 2020 was the year you needed to listen, 2025 is the year you need to actually do something'
New article from me in @glamouruk.bsky.social on things to do to combat the far right and racism right now after the marches on Saturday:
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/far-...
New article from me in @glamouruk.bsky.social on things to do to combat the far right and racism right now after the marches on Saturday:
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/far-...
Reposted by Michaela Makusha
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Reposted by Michaela Makusha
is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
September 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?
Reposted by Michaela Makusha
For @theobserveruk.bsky.social I report on the Gen Z women of the anti-migration movement here in Britain and Europe their impact online and offline. What is their message? Who supports this? Is this helpful? I spoke to numerous authors and academics to find out more:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Women’s safety group accused of setting back sexual viole...
Women’s Safety Initiative harnesses myth of evil migrant man in narrative that bolsters far right
observer.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
For @theobserveruk.bsky.social I report on the Gen Z women of the anti-migration movement here in Britain and Europe their impact online and offline. What is their message? Who supports this? Is this helpful? I spoke to numerous authors and academics to find out more:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
For @theobserveruk.bsky.social I report on the Gen Z women of the anti-migration movement here in Britain and Europe their impact online and offline. What is their message? Who supports this? Is this helpful? I spoke to numerous authors and academics to find out more:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Women’s safety group accused of setting back sexual viole...
Women’s Safety Initiative harnesses myth of evil migrant man in narrative that bolsters far right
observer.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
For @theobserveruk.bsky.social I report on the Gen Z women of the anti-migration movement here in Britain and Europe their impact online and offline. What is their message? Who supports this? Is this helpful? I spoke to numerous authors and academics to find out more:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I wrote about not having children and my mother's advice on why you should (or should not) have children either for The Guardian @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I told my mum I was unsure about having children. Her reply opened my eyes | Michaela Makusha
My mother’s own dedication to parenthood has always floored me, but I realised I hadn’t understood where it came from, says freelance journalist Michaela Makusha
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I wrote about not having children and my mother's advice on why you should (or should not) have children either for The Guardian @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Looking for an expert in Scottish law, specifically looking at sexual assault, for a story in Glamour UK #journorequest
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Looking for an expert in Scottish law, specifically looking at sexual assault, for a story in Glamour UK #journorequest
'Statements of solidarity without meaningful guardrails and a lack of consequence for trolls means the problem will only persist'
words in Marie Claire UK on women's football and racism:
www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/health-...
words in Marie Claire UK on women's football and racism:
www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/health-...
The Racial Abuse Aimed At Jess Carter Is Undoubtedly Appalling - and Highlights A Worrying Trend In Women's Sport
As the sport has grown, so have the eyes on female footballers - and not all of them are looking on with kindness and excitement.
www.marieclaire.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
'Statements of solidarity without meaningful guardrails and a lack of consequence for trolls means the problem will only persist'
words in Marie Claire UK on women's football and racism:
www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/health-...
words in Marie Claire UK on women's football and racism:
www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/health-...
Being black in the UK feels like an olympic sport at times.
July 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Being black in the UK feels like an olympic sport at times.
I'm this month's guest writer in The Logging Club newsletter, discussing the yearning I have for the children to be able to log into child-centric spaces online. So much fun working with @adelewalton.bsky.social - whose book you should read if you have not!!
open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...
open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...
Hands up - who misses the old internet?
Guest newsletter by Michaela Makusha
open.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I'm this month's guest writer in The Logging Club newsletter, discussing the yearning I have for the children to be able to log into child-centric spaces online. So much fun working with @adelewalton.bsky.social - whose book you should read if you have not!!
open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...
open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...
Reposted by Michaela Makusha
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
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happy pride month. that’s right. july is pride month too. in fact it’s pride year, bitches. the pride will continue until rights improve.
July 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM
happy pride month. that’s right. july is pride month too. in fact it’s pride year, bitches. the pride will continue until rights improve.
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Avon & Somerset police tasered its own race relations advisor, harassing him twice. The officer was cleared. You’d think they’d focus on their own racism www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
Tasered race relations adviser mistaken by police again for wanted man
Judah Adunbi is stopped by police a month after an officer was cleared of assaulting him with a taser.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Avon & Somerset police tasered its own race relations advisor, harassing him twice. The officer was cleared. You’d think they’d focus on their own racism www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...