FEATURED IN BRITISH VOGUE!! 🤯 This month has been a lot of huge, life-changing milestones and I am suspended in disbelief and immense gratitude. All the late nights have been worth it. Thank you endlessly Mireille Harper for making a dream come true! vogue.co.uk/article/free-b…

All that you touch You change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change God Is Change -Octavia Butler from her novel Parable of the Sower

Happy Parable Day! Today is the date Octavia E. Butler’s prescient & brilliant #ParableOfTheSower, originally written in the 1980s as a warning about what would happen if the US continued to lean into conservative politics & ignore climate change, begins on this date.

Want to know more about the Congo basin? I’m your girl. A thread 🧵

the end of this clip should be a huge story. apsana begum says that the whipping operation yesterday used her history as a survivor of domestic abuse and coercive control to attempt to incentivise her to not rebel through the offer of supporting bills related to domestic abuse

Call for Participants 📣 feel free to share! I am looking at the archaeology of disability for my Masters diss + looking for disabled ppl to discuss case studies w me! If you want to take part + learn a bit about South American archaeology, email [email protected]

Update! 6th of August My Tiny Desk will be yours 😭🤲🏾

Just wanted to share quickly how lovely yesterday felt in Southport; a total contrast to the night before. 🧵 The mosque and people’s garden walls were rebuilt by builders and bricklayers volunteering their time and labour:

Morning all Just wanted to offer emotional support, advice, guidance and advocacy for any victims of hate crime. You can contact us on anthonywalkerfoundation.com Email us on [email protected] Or call us on 0151 2373974 Here to help and support anyone affected

Great scenes in Middlesbrough where there are loads of people out to help with the clean up after yesterday’s disorder

At New Economy Organisers Network we try and help people navigate a complex narrative environment to put out clear messages at times like this. Here's five (much abridged) tips we're suggesting today - worked on with help from lots of friends (and by no means perfect) 👇

We are appalled and weary of the ongoing attacks against Muslim, Black, Brown and Migrant people in the U.K. We have compiled some safety tips to consider in the upcoming weeks and months. We hope they are helpful to you and your communities⬇️ A is for Activism #AdiyahCollective

gofund.me/bb809507 Some words from me 🩷

I'd recommend everyone to watch Defiance right now. It's a Channel 4 documentary detailing the racism British Asian communities faced in the 70's/80s. The first episode looks at the rise of the far right and the death of an Asian boy in Southall youtube.com/watch?v=4JCO_V…

Woke up to images of the fire in Dagenham all over X. Glad to hear it was brought under control by the emergency services and people evacuated. 7 years on from Grenfell yet residential buildings still remain unsafe and wrapped in ‘non compliant’ cladding … really is shameful

We started work on this paper during lockdown. It's an analysis of how experts imagined the public in their advice on covid. The paper was led by the excellent solange, with Warren Pearce and James Wilsdon STS UCL nature.com/articles/s4159…

The media told me a lot about the multi-millionaires who tragically lost their lives in the yacht sinking, just as I learnt plenty about the billionaires who lost their lives in the titanic sub I will never know anything about the migrants who lost their lives in the channel

BREAKING: "The simple truth is the deaths that occurred were all avoidable" Speaking at the publication of the Grenfell fire report, Sir Martin Moore-Bick said that those who lived in the tower were failed by those responsible for safety. trib.al/Rx0iR33 📺 Sky 501

So was I, it was the first thing I noticed. Shameful.

Everyone, at some point, will either need, receive, or provide care. Whether childcare, aging care, or disability care, CARE affects everyone — & the fact that care is seen as an individual issue & not an economic necessity is wild. (+ care workers are underpaid and overworked.)