👉 Never use the term “the homeless” 👉 Let people experiencing homelessness speak for themselves 👉 Be more creative with imagery so as not to prop up stereotypes 👉 Point to systemic failings rather than exaggerating individual ones 🎙️ Hear more: spoti.fi/3s63SUt

What a shot to end #WorldPhotographyDay on, no words are needed for how striking this capture is 😍 We want to say a thank you to all the photographers that capture our National Park so beautifully, we apricate you guys 🙌 📍 : Egton Bridge 📷 : @ash_foster_photography

'Twisting and turning' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered #WomensArt

This is 🔥. Love it mamarayray.bsky.social. On. Repeat. 🎶🎧💃🏼 mixcloud.com/BreaksBassFam/…

822 juvenile lobsters released off Redcar - first release outside of Whibty!! Here's to many more 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞

Good afternoon (or morning, or evening). I went dark yesterday, really dark. But I managed to sleep and I have some clarity about the Al Ahli hospital massacre that I want to share with you. I'll only tweet this rambling thread today and then log off. Please read and share.

Apply to us Lloyds Bank Foundation for a 3 year unrestricted grant & access to probably the best support package for #SmallButVital charities in the UK. You may be eligible if your turnover is under £500k and you work on the issues we fund see 👇

Really good to be at the ABCD in Leeds 10th anniversary gathering at SlungLow in #Holbeck today. Great people, from across #Leeds, doing positive innovative participative work to support + develop power in our communities. Find out more / get involved at abcdinleeds.com.

Original illustration from the Moomins book series by Tove Jansson (1914-2001) #WomensArt

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As it is National Care Leavers Week please share this Observer Cover story where I brought together some people who had been in care. The headline reads "A historic portrait of Care system success". Success is living with the past. #foundlingmuseum theguardian.com/society/2022/j…

It's such a breath of fresh air when instead of a gatekeeper you meet someone with the skeleton key to the doors you've been knocking on I've noticed that they show up more, reveal themselves, when you stop knocking & start making your own doors They are the curious folks

This👇🏻. All day. Thanks Angela Fell- Northern ❤️ & Soul. Citizen of Wigan. and of course nora bateson 🥰

A conundrum. Judgements made from within a prevailing way of doing things about the different ways of doing things people are trying to find. Surely we need to find different ways too of developing, researching, & evaluating these 'new' ways? Otherwise it's just the same old...

I’m beginning to believe & notice evidence of, that good local news has a real part to play in connecting local people & rekindling the function of a community #ABCD

In 2017 women hung wedding dresses along Beirut seafront in protest at a law allowing rapists to escape punishment if they married their victim. The law was eventually repealed after such pressure from Arab women's groups #WomensArt

You can now hear this mix on Wax Poetics Soundcloud! Wow 😳💜 Check out the other 3 winning mixes on the ‘50 years of women in hiphop’ theme too 🔥🔥🔥 Wax Poetics and Polaroid Present: From The Pages | DJ Mama RayRay Mix by Wax Poetics on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/xVAJZweECHMmxc…

The greatest risk in the months and years after pandemic sowed division and wrought it’s havoc was civil disturbance. We planned for the two risks together. We wrongly assumed that any government would 1. Do everything it could to respond to a pandemic effectively…

One snow bunting and a stonechat / whitby to saltwick bay cliff top path .