Shami's Speakeasy
@shamisspeakeasy.bsky.social
Resistance and reflection in turbulent times. Hosted by Shami Chakrabarti. Find out more www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
Produced for Chaotic DoGooders Ltd by Bespoken Media Scotland. Artwork by Josh Moir.
Produced for Chaotic DoGooders Ltd by Bespoken Media Scotland. Artwork by Josh Moir.
"I convinced myself I was studying literature within the realms of law and it was very easy to do so because it is a celebration in almost a flamboyance of language." is there anything that @michaelpedersen.bsky.social can't make beautiful?
Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"I convinced myself I was studying literature within the realms of law and it was very easy to do so because it is a celebration in almost a flamboyance of language." is there anything that @michaelpedersen.bsky.social can't make beautiful?
Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
Coming to the website this week - the Doreen Lawrence Zine. Beautifully created by
@joshmoirart.bsky.social - print it, fold it, pass it on...and subscribe on our website for early access! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk #ArtActivismChange
@joshmoirart.bsky.social - print it, fold it, pass it on...and subscribe on our website for early access! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk #ArtActivismChange
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Coming to the website this week - the Doreen Lawrence Zine. Beautifully created by
@joshmoirart.bsky.social - print it, fold it, pass it on...and subscribe on our website for early access! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk #ArtActivismChange
@joshmoirart.bsky.social - print it, fold it, pass it on...and subscribe on our website for early access! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk #ArtActivismChange
'I was trying to experience this grief as the last reverberation of loving someone' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social explains the process of writing the beautiful book Boy Friends in the wake of his dearest friend, Scott Hutchinson's, passing. Listen to the full episode now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
'I was trying to experience this grief as the last reverberation of loving someone' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social explains the process of writing the beautiful book Boy Friends in the wake of his dearest friend, Scott Hutchinson's, passing. Listen to the full episode now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
'it just seemed ridiculous... that they were gonna look down on me...when their education costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and we were sitting at the same table and perhaps I was even getting better grades...' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social - full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
'it just seemed ridiculous... that they were gonna look down on me...when their education costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and we were sitting at the same table and perhaps I was even getting better grades...' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social - full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
Reposted by Shami's Speakeasy
Shami Chakrabarti shared the following on the sad passing of former Victims' Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove
1/2 "The brave and wonderful soul and much-loved Victims’ Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove has passed away. She was an instinctive rights campaigner..
1/2 "The brave and wonderful soul and much-loved Victims’ Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove has passed away. She was an instinctive rights campaigner..
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Shami Chakrabarti shared the following on the sad passing of former Victims' Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove
1/2 "The brave and wonderful soul and much-loved Victims’ Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove has passed away. She was an instinctive rights campaigner..
1/2 "The brave and wonderful soul and much-loved Victims’ Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove has passed away. She was an instinctive rights campaigner..
Need a mid-week pick-me-up? Warm, witty and wonderful - Michael Pedersen is in the Speakeasy this week. Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak... and his beautiful first novel, Muckle Flugga, is available in all good bookshops. www.faber.co.uk/author/micha...
#ScottishFiction
#ScottishFiction
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Need a mid-week pick-me-up? Warm, witty and wonderful - Michael Pedersen is in the Speakeasy this week. Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak... and his beautiful first novel, Muckle Flugga, is available in all good bookshops. www.faber.co.uk/author/micha...
#ScottishFiction
#ScottishFiction
'I was obsessed with friendship. I was obsessed with emotionally vulnerable friendships....I wanted a piece of that friendship pie' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks about the most delicious kind of pie, that we all deserve a generous slice of. Full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
'I was obsessed with friendship. I was obsessed with emotionally vulnerable friendships....I wanted a piece of that friendship pie' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks about the most delicious kind of pie, that we all deserve a generous slice of. Full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
NEW EPISODE DROPS TOMORROW with the rather wonderful @michaelpedersen.bsky.social
Subscribe on our website www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk and prep your ears for a gourmet linguistic experience.
#MuckleFlugga #Makar #poetry #shamichakrabarti #friendship #HairGoals
Subscribe on our website www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk and prep your ears for a gourmet linguistic experience.
#MuckleFlugga #Makar #poetry #shamichakrabarti #friendship #HairGoals
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
NEW EPISODE DROPS TOMORROW with the rather wonderful @michaelpedersen.bsky.social
Subscribe on our website www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk and prep your ears for a gourmet linguistic experience.
#MuckleFlugga #Makar #poetry #shamichakrabarti #friendship #HairGoals
Subscribe on our website www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk and prep your ears for a gourmet linguistic experience.
#MuckleFlugga #Makar #poetry #shamichakrabarti #friendship #HairGoals
'You need to create law which is lasting and not dependent on a certain type of technology' Baroness Charlotte Owen on the need to carefully craft legislation to protect against the harm, rather than focusing on an iteration of tech. Listen to the episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
'You need to create law which is lasting and not dependent on a certain type of technology' Baroness Charlotte Owen on the need to carefully craft legislation to protect against the harm, rather than focusing on an iteration of tech. Listen to the episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
Reposted by Shami's Speakeasy
This is a really good interview with Baroness Charlotte Owen, who has been spearheading in the House of Lords new legislation to criminalise creating AI-generated sexual images/videos of people.
As ever, new technologies immediately being put to use to perpetuate misogyny!
youtu.be/woMtATKrLpA?...
As ever, new technologies immediately being put to use to perpetuate misogyny!
youtu.be/woMtATKrLpA?...
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is a really good interview with Baroness Charlotte Owen, who has been spearheading in the House of Lords new legislation to criminalise creating AI-generated sexual images/videos of people.
As ever, new technologies immediately being put to use to perpetuate misogyny!
youtu.be/woMtATKrLpA?...
As ever, new technologies immediately being put to use to perpetuate misogyny!
youtu.be/woMtATKrLpA?...
Find out more about the dangers of generative AI and what Charlotte Owen is doing in the House of Lords to protect us. Listen to the full episode in all the usual places podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
#Deepfake #AI #Consent #BigTech
#Deepfake #AI #Consent #BigTech
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Find out more about the dangers of generative AI and what Charlotte Owen is doing in the House of Lords to protect us. Listen to the full episode in all the usual places podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
#Deepfake #AI #Consent #BigTech
#Deepfake #AI #Consent #BigTech
'The way that I always describe it to people is imagine a woman walking into a pub and suddenly you can take her image and put it into a sexually explicit content of her.' Baroness Charlotte Owen on why it's Image Based Sexual Abuse, not Deepfake Porn. Listen now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
'The way that I always describe it to people is imagine a woman walking into a pub and suddenly you can take her image and put it into a sexually explicit content of her.' Baroness Charlotte Owen on why it's Image Based Sexual Abuse, not Deepfake Porn. Listen now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
The Darren McGarvey edition of the Speakeasy Zine is on the website now! Beautifully created by @joshmoirart.bsky.social - print it, fold it, pass it on...and subscribe on our website for early access! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk #ArtActivismChange
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The Darren McGarvey edition of the Speakeasy Zine is on the website now! Beautifully created by @joshmoirart.bsky.social - print it, fold it, pass it on...and subscribe on our website for early access! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk #ArtActivismChange
Our most recent episode has Baroness Charlotte Owen talking AI, consent and the law with Shami in the Speakeasy. Listen to the full episode now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Our most recent episode has Baroness Charlotte Owen talking AI, consent and the law with Shami in the Speakeasy. Listen to the full episode now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
'Women are more reluctant to use AI because they consider it cheating in the workplace and this is putting women at a disadvantage.' Is AI cheating? New episode with Baroness Charlotte Own as she discusses AI, image-based sexual abuse and the law. Listen and subscribe now www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
'Women are more reluctant to use AI because they consider it cheating in the workplace and this is putting women at a disadvantage.' Is AI cheating? New episode with Baroness Charlotte Own as she discusses AI, image-based sexual abuse and the law. Listen and subscribe now www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
For those at the back....'of course Reform are a threat. Of course populist far-rightism is a threat. It's a threat this country saw off in the 30s and 40s.' Feeling despondent? Join our Speakeasy community for hope, solidarity and action. Subscribe for free at www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
For those at the back....'of course Reform are a threat. Of course populist far-rightism is a threat. It's a threat this country saw off in the 30s and 40s.' Feeling despondent? Join our Speakeasy community for hope, solidarity and action. Subscribe for free at www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
"..all the training data is around women's bodies. So if you put a man's image into the model, it would simply produce a man's head on a woman's body." Listen to the full episode with Baroness Charlotte Own podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"..all the training data is around women's bodies. So if you put a man's image into the model, it would simply produce a man's head on a woman's body." Listen to the full episode with Baroness Charlotte Own podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
New zines incoming this week! All designed by the wonderful @joshmoirart.bsky.social
Darren McGarvey Speakeasy Zine will be on the website this week and subscribers will receive the Baroness Doreen Lawrence Zine. Subscribe for free for early access to zines & more www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
Darren McGarvey Speakeasy Zine will be on the website this week and subscribers will receive the Baroness Doreen Lawrence Zine. Subscribe for free for early access to zines & more www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New zines incoming this week! All designed by the wonderful @joshmoirart.bsky.social
Darren McGarvey Speakeasy Zine will be on the website this week and subscribers will receive the Baroness Doreen Lawrence Zine. Subscribe for free for early access to zines & more www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
Darren McGarvey Speakeasy Zine will be on the website this week and subscribers will receive the Baroness Doreen Lawrence Zine. Subscribe for free for early access to zines & more www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
'Using AI..you can take any woman's photograph..and create a sexually explicit image..without her consent' NEW EPISODE! Baroness Charlotte Owen visits the Speakeasy to talk about AI, consent & the need for law to catch up with technology. Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
'Using AI..you can take any woman's photograph..and create a sexually explicit image..without her consent' NEW EPISODE! Baroness Charlotte Owen visits the Speakeasy to talk about AI, consent & the need for law to catch up with technology. Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
The Asma Khan edition of the Speakeasy Zine is on the website now! Beautifully created by @joshmoirart.bsky.social - print it, fold it, pass it on...and subscribe on our website for early access! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk #ArtActivismChange
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The Asma Khan edition of the Speakeasy Zine is on the website now! Beautifully created by @joshmoirart.bsky.social - print it, fold it, pass it on...and subscribe on our website for early access! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk #ArtActivismChange
'We shouldn't be sending arms. We should not be sending arms.' Baroness Doreen Lawrence on Gaza in this week's episode of the Speakeasy. Listen to the episode in full please sign up as a free subscriber to receive our zine inspired by this episode www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
'We shouldn't be sending arms. We should not be sending arms.' Baroness Doreen Lawrence on Gaza in this week's episode of the Speakeasy. Listen to the episode in full please sign up as a free subscriber to receive our zine inspired by this episode www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
'Stephen wasn't the only young black boy who was murdered. There was others before him. And others since. But the care that people have around the black community is never the same.' Baroness Doreen Lawrence in the Speakeasy. Listen to this episode in full www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
'Stephen wasn't the only young black boy who was murdered. There was others before him. And others since. But the care that people have around the black community is never the same.' Baroness Doreen Lawrence in the Speakeasy. Listen to this episode in full www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
' I think where the police was concerned, they used it as...we can't do this because we'll be accused of being racist...but if you do your job and do your job correctly, nobody would accuse you of anything' Baroness Doreen Lawrence episode in full podfollow.com/shamis-speak... #BlackHistoryMonth
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
' I think where the police was concerned, they used it as...we can't do this because we'll be accused of being racist...but if you do your job and do your job correctly, nobody would accuse you of anything' Baroness Doreen Lawrence episode in full podfollow.com/shamis-speak... #BlackHistoryMonth
'Stephen wasn't the only young black boy who was murdered. There was others before him. And others since. But the care that people have around the black community is never the same.' Listen to this episode with Doreen Lawrence in full podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
'Stephen wasn't the only young black boy who was murdered. There was others before him. And others since. But the care that people have around the black community is never the same.' Listen to this episode with Doreen Lawrence in full podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
'They see Stephen as a role model...I'm so pleased that I've managed for them to see that, rather than just talking about his death all the time' Baroness Doreen Lawrence talks about her work with young people - Listen to this powerful episode today podfollow.com/shamis-speak... #Blackhistorymonth
October 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'They see Stephen as a role model...I'm so pleased that I've managed for them to see that, rather than just talking about his death all the time' Baroness Doreen Lawrence talks about her work with young people - Listen to this powerful episode today podfollow.com/shamis-speak... #Blackhistorymonth