Alexa Phillips
@alexabphillips
Freelance journalist. Words in @inews @metrouk @independent. Ex @Greenpeace @ActionAidUK. First novel longlisted @Mslexia and @ExeterNovelPriz. Views my own.
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22-09-2009 15:01:08
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Thanks so much to everyone who joined my #EarthLiveLesson yesterday!! It was lovely to chat sunfish with you all 👍☀️🐟 Thanks to @LizzieRDaly for bringing everyone together!😃 If you want to catch up all lessons are on Youtube! youtube.com/watch?v=VLAs0x… #TuesdayMotivation #scicomm
We're running environmental features all this week in i newspaper as part of the Covering Climate Now campaign around #EarthDay
Here mothers talk about how to discuss the climate crisis with their kids, when they're worried themselves - by Alexa Phillips:
inews.co.uk/news/education…
I spoke to Mothers Rise Up 🌍, Caroline Hickman and others about parenting in an age of eco-anxiety for i newspaper.
#EarthDay
inews.co.uk/news/education…
In emergencies, women and girls are especially vulnerable to sexual exploitation, violence and abuse – they've often lost their privacy, belongings, homes or even their families. This #DayOfTheGirl , help us support women and girls in emergencies: bit.ly/2ybYyCv
And it's PhD done! Thanks so much fsbi Chris Harrod Jon Houghton AMP Portofino! What a wonderful way to celebrate with a Tonnarella themed mortar board & 2 delicious #sunfish cakes!!
This #FathersDay , support ActionAid's work to end violence against women and girls, help them speak up and claim their rights. See our short film starring the awesome James Purefoy 🇺🇦, and RT to help us spread the word!
Amazing to see JEANETTE WINTERSON give a shout out to our #mybodyismine campaign in her great Richard Dimbleby Lecture last night! 'Don't protect me, respect me' 🙌🙌 bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b…
I'll be talking about grief in art and literature, and my debut novel #TESTAMENT , on BBC Front Row Friday 7.15 with Cariad Lloyd of the wonderful The Griefcast
Tens of thousands of Irish women have been forced to travel to access safe abortions - now they're travelling to make sure they never have to again #HomeToVote Lynn Enright the-pool.com/news-views/opi…
Leading suffragist #MillicentFawcett co-founded Newnham and helped women get the vote. Thank you, Millicent! Both were excellent campaigns. A statue in her honour will be unveiled in Parliament Square today. Read about her life. newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-news/l…