Just back from SoulsINQUEST at The Bridge in Easterhouse. It’s a powerful collaboration between INQUEST, the families of people who have died in custody & photographer Sarah Booker. It aims to act as a lens onto state violence, grief & resistance and it’s on until June 29.

Blown away by the love, connectivity & discussion at #SoulsINQUEST Photography launch Platform Glasgow. A lens on state violence and neglect, grief and resistance. Families reclaiming their stories. Important focus on custodial deaths in Scotland & family justice campaigns.

Super energising fun and creative day @voxliminis (profile blocked because I entered the company incorporation date for requested DOB, and it’s too young 🫠) on a Blueprints workshop 😀🙌🏻

Who else is struggling w what community work feels like in post-truth, AT/JP, culture-wars times? We in @voxliminis & some Community Education, University of Dundee students have lots of questions about these days! Anyone want to discuss? Henry A. Giroux Vicki Ridley Amy Calder #ifitfliesitspies #egyptisntreal

This is so brilliant and true

Really interesting and timely conversations started at the 'STATE OF THE FIELD AND THE FUTURE OF CLD IN SCOTLAND' event The University of Edinburgh this morning. Thanks to all who organised 🙌

🎉 Today is historic! The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is now part of Scots law, making children's rights legally enforceable in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Let’s celebrate this huge milestone & thank all the children & young people who campaigned to make this possible. ❤️🛡️👏🏾

A 17-year-old has killed himself in Polmont 3 months after legislation designed to make sure no children were sent there again received Royal Assent. My story in The Herald. It's 6 years since William Lindsay's suicide there & it's still happening. heraldscotland.com/news/24458300.…

I am so angry 😡 I can’t take my granddaughter (who is Scottish & black) to a birthday party because it’s too dangerous out there and her parents are so very scared. These are the ordinary consequences of decades of appeasing racists and implementing racist policies.

This is a costly blow for our climate and commuters. Peak rail fares unfairly hit workers and students who have no say over when they travel. Join us in calling for the SNP to reverse the fare hike. 👇 greens.scot/endpeakfares

Solitary confinement is a "Serious indictment" of the way we treat children in custody russellwebster.com/serious-indict… HMI Prisons report

Congrats to our excellent PG student Iain Corbett 💜 and colleagues on their recent paper. Exploring the Potential of Youth Activism in Scotland through the lens of Fraser's tripartite framework of social justice. Check it out! cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusio… #BecauseOfCLD CLD Standards Council

"Rising levels of self-harm and assaults reveal the scale of distress and tragedy in prisons that have been asked to do too much, with too little, for too long." - Andrew Neilson. independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Thinking about a career working against social injustice? Interested in working alongside people to raise their voice in society? Community Education might be the role for you. CLD Standards Council CLD Talks tinyurl.com/3zjwab2z

A little Thursday snippet from the book for anyone interested. This section deals with lived experience storytellers, and how we may differ from others who live with trauma, in that we want to be seen and heard in ways most survivors don't. 'Once we share our traumas in the

this is totally brilliant! bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… Carla J Easton ForestofBlack 💪🙌❤️

Thread. I’m not going to post in-depth about the excoriating FAI determination into the suicides of Katie Allan & William Lindsay. I’ll be writing about it anon & at length BUT what runs through it is a sense of the perceived disposability of the young people the state /