a friend of mine was told by a nursery to submit her nursery placement form for her unborn child after leaving the labour ward on her way to the maternity unit 💀 can you imagine?? it is obscene that access to childcare in the UK is this difficult PregnantThenScrewed

She’d repeatedly heard the apocalyptic warning that fertility ‘falls off a cliff’ in your mid-thirties, so Marisa Bate was absolutely convinced she’d left it too late

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Buiding a seaport for aid into Gaza City will take months during which many more children will die of malnutrition. But if Israel opened the Erez Crossing and cleared the road, aid could be sent in by truck now, and save lives immediately. So why isn't the US insisting on that?

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This got me, as I’m sat at the station commuting into London for the first time in 10 months 🥺 Marisa Bate #writingaboutwomen open.substack.com/pub/writingabo…

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Freya in conversation with Marisa Bate on life writing, family dynamics and adventure

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This is great news, the escalation from indecent exposure to contact sexual violence against women and girls has been shown again and again. That said, the police actually have to recognise it. Would also be v helpful if men stopped pissing in public theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

Just me and my new non-fiction reads that are going to break my heart and put it back together.

📚 #EverythingNothingSomeone by Alice Carrière

📚 #WildHope by Marisa Bate

📚 #Hope by Niall Harbison

📚 #Breathtaking by Dr Rachel Clarke

Hope you’re reading something fabulous too!

Today: gov kill vote to ban alleged sex offender MPs, Jess Phillips MP reads out list of murdred women, saying half could have been saved, and we learn Couzens was serial sex offender, dating back 20 years. 'Overhaul' is not enough, we should be on the streets

Burn the Met down and start again. 'Without a significant overhaul, there is nothing to stop another Couzens operating in plain sight' bbc.co.uk/news/uk-684333…

Sarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens should never have been police officer. He sexually assaulted a child before joining the job. That’s not just a red flag. A sex offender was given a warrant card. His vile behaviour & language didn’t stand out in the Met bbc.com/news/uk-684333…

'I am tired of fighting for systematic change and being given table scraps'

Labour MP Jess Phillips reads the names of the women killed as a result of violence over the past year

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Sorry to be a bit 2014 cupcake feminism about it all but the Rochdale election being fought by 11 men - especially considering the recent history of whistleblowing/campaigning in the area showing Sara Rowbotham and Margaret Oliver to be formidable and noble people - is hilarious?

some people are remarkable but no one should be forced to live like this. How long do we go on ignoring the UK's poverty crisis? theguardian.com/society/2024/f…

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