Joanna Foster
@fabticfoster.bsky.social
Head of fabtic, working with children, young people and practitioners. Author of 'Children and Teenagers Who Set Fires'. Proud to be Valleys Welsh in England.
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If multiple people can remember someone being horribly racist, even by the appalling low bar of the racist 1970s, that is entirely noteworthy.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If multiple people can remember someone being horribly racist, even by the appalling low bar of the racist 1970s, that is entirely noteworthy.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.
And that's noteworthy too.
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'The Harp' by Augusta Savage, US sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Her sculpture was displayed at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City #womensart
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
'The Harp' by Augusta Savage, US sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Her sculpture was displayed at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City #womensart
When the weight of the world on fire feels too heavy, I’m #grateful for #YogaWithAdriene to lighten the load
Especially ahead of bedtime
#SelfCare
Especially ahead of bedtime
#SelfCare
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
When the weight of the world on fire feels too heavy, I’m #grateful for #YogaWithAdriene to lighten the load
Especially ahead of bedtime
#SelfCare
Especially ahead of bedtime
#SelfCare
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Mahmood would rather soothe the racists than do the “hard work of confronting the economic failure… and cowardice that has enabled the rise of the far right.”
As if making life even worse for immigrants will make our country happier and better off.
It won’t.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As if making life even worse for immigrants will make our country happier and better off.
It won’t.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Mahmood would rather soothe the racists than do the “hard work of confronting the economic failure… and cowardice that has enabled the rise of the far right.”
As if making life even worse for immigrants will make our country happier and better off.
It won’t.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As if making life even worse for immigrants will make our country happier and better off.
It won’t.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Morning all.
A Monday mornin, March 1964. Smethwick, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, West Midlands. Photograph Birmingham Post and Mail Archive.
A Monday mornin, March 1964. Smethwick, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, West Midlands. Photograph Birmingham Post and Mail Archive.
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Morning all.
A Monday mornin, March 1964. Smethwick, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, West Midlands. Photograph Birmingham Post and Mail Archive.
A Monday mornin, March 1964. Smethwick, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, West Midlands. Photograph Birmingham Post and Mail Archive.
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Morning all.
Photographer Don McCullin. Consett, County Durham, 1970s.
Photographer Don McCullin. Consett, County Durham, 1970s.
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Morning all.
Photographer Don McCullin. Consett, County Durham, 1970s.
Photographer Don McCullin. Consett, County Durham, 1970s.
Delighted to announce #Resilence is on tour in spring 2026
The #artwork will be on display at #CynonValley #museum in #Aberdare
With many of the pieces speaking to the harms of poverty, misogyny and male violence against women and girls, the #exhibition opens on #ValentinesDay
#WomensArt
#VAWG
The #artwork will be on display at #CynonValley #museum in #Aberdare
With many of the pieces speaking to the harms of poverty, misogyny and male violence against women and girls, the #exhibition opens on #ValentinesDay
#WomensArt
#VAWG
Sewing as emotional repair is at the heart of the #Resilience #exhibition
Curated by Liz Davis as part of threads #community art group and the #RedDress project, the #artwork highlights women’s stories of survival and how #creativity heals and gives voice
#WomensArt
reddressembroidery.com/Wales
Curated by Liz Davis as part of threads #community art group and the #RedDress project, the #artwork highlights women’s stories of survival and how #creativity heals and gives voice
#WomensArt
reddressembroidery.com/Wales
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Delighted to announce #Resilence is on tour in spring 2026
The #artwork will be on display at #CynonValley #museum in #Aberdare
With many of the pieces speaking to the harms of poverty, misogyny and male violence against women and girls, the #exhibition opens on #ValentinesDay
#WomensArt
#VAWG
The #artwork will be on display at #CynonValley #museum in #Aberdare
With many of the pieces speaking to the harms of poverty, misogyny and male violence against women and girls, the #exhibition opens on #ValentinesDay
#WomensArt
#VAWG
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Aida Overton Walker (1880 -1914), US vaudeville performer, known as 'Queen of the Cake Walk', after a 1900s dance craze. The Cake Walk, originally performed by enslaved people, mocked slave owners & high society #womensart
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Aida Overton Walker (1880 -1914), US vaudeville performer, known as 'Queen of the Cake Walk', after a 1900s dance craze. The Cake Walk, originally performed by enslaved people, mocked slave owners & high society #womensart
Today my old primary #school celebrates its 150th anniversary
Unable to join in person due to work, I dug out memories from a school #Eisteddfod in 1982 to share at the event
That’s me in the top photograph, third row, fourth from the right
#Grateful to have had the happiest of days at #Caradog
Unable to join in person due to work, I dug out memories from a school #Eisteddfod in 1982 to share at the event
That’s me in the top photograph, third row, fourth from the right
#Grateful to have had the happiest of days at #Caradog
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Today my old primary #school celebrates its 150th anniversary
Unable to join in person due to work, I dug out memories from a school #Eisteddfod in 1982 to share at the event
That’s me in the top photograph, third row, fourth from the right
#Grateful to have had the happiest of days at #Caradog
Unable to join in person due to work, I dug out memories from a school #Eisteddfod in 1982 to share at the event
That’s me in the top photograph, third row, fourth from the right
#Grateful to have had the happiest of days at #Caradog
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This is what happens when you put a preening, lazy, populist, dilettante in charge of a country.
Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is what happens when you put a preening, lazy, populist, dilettante in charge of a country.
Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Photographer Martine Franck, Children's Library, Clamart, France, 1965 #WomensArt
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Photographer Martine Franck, Children's Library, Clamart, France, 1965 #WomensArt
Also great to finally meet @jonpountney1.bsky.social and hear him talk about his work, albeit through a screen
A nurturing, inspiring evening as four #Welsh artists discuss their work on show in #Yorkshire
So many ideas to take into my direct work with #children and #teenagers who set fires, especially on how to connect families across generations
Great things happen when God’s Country meets God’s County
So many ideas to take into my direct work with #children and #teenagers who set fires, especially on how to connect families across generations
Great things happen when God’s Country meets God’s County
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Also great to finally meet @jonpountney1.bsky.social and hear him talk about his work, albeit through a screen
A nurturing, inspiring evening as four #Welsh artists discuss their work on show in #Yorkshire
So many ideas to take into my direct work with #children and #teenagers who set fires, especially on how to connect families across generations
Great things happen when God’s Country meets God’s County
So many ideas to take into my direct work with #children and #teenagers who set fires, especially on how to connect families across generations
Great things happen when God’s Country meets God’s County
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A nurturing, inspiring evening as four #Welsh artists discuss their work on show in #Yorkshire
So many ideas to take into my direct work with #children and #teenagers who set fires, especially on how to connect families across generations
Great things happen when God’s Country meets God’s County
So many ideas to take into my direct work with #children and #teenagers who set fires, especially on how to connect families across generations
Great things happen when God’s Country meets God’s County
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“But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.”
Happy birthday Jodie Foster.
Happy birthday Jodie Foster.
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.”
Happy birthday Jodie Foster.
Happy birthday Jodie Foster.
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Morning all.
Photographer Eric de Maré. St Edward's, Brotherton, with Ferrybridge B power station behind, 1960s.
Photographer Eric de Maré. St Edward's, Brotherton, with Ferrybridge B power station behind, 1960s.
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Morning all.
Photographer Eric de Maré. St Edward's, Brotherton, with Ferrybridge B power station behind, 1960s.
Photographer Eric de Maré. St Edward's, Brotherton, with Ferrybridge B power station behind, 1960s.
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The only difference
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The only difference
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November 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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I'm doing an online talk about this project (and exhibition) this coming Wednesday night if you want to come along! www.inaland.uk/workshops/p/...
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'm doing an online talk about this project (and exhibition) this coming Wednesday night if you want to come along! www.inaland.uk/workshops/p/...
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Ladybird wisdom, 1975
“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”
(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)
“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”
(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Ladybird wisdom, 1975
“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”
(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)
“With so much noise in the world, we have to listen carefully to the things that are worth hearing”
(‘Sounds’, Artist: BH Robinson)
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'Bride’s feet decorated with henna at a Swahili wedding' by Sarah Waiswa, contemporary Ugandan-born, Kenya-based documentary and portrait photographer #womensart
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM
'Bride’s feet decorated with henna at a Swahili wedding' by Sarah Waiswa, contemporary Ugandan-born, Kenya-based documentary and portrait photographer #womensart
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
Food and music with @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
What’s not to love
The UK’s only Basque deli is in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, called Zooteek
Part of its authenticity is the Basque Country music playing as you enjoy good olive oil, peppers, fish and traditional Txakoli wine, pronounced ch-ack-o-lee
What’s not to love
The UK’s only Basque deli is in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, called Zooteek
Part of its authenticity is the Basque Country music playing as you enjoy good olive oil, peppers, fish and traditional Txakoli wine, pronounced ch-ack-o-lee
Morning - we are live with tons of ace music and guests if you fancy joining. Today is a taste and sound special- do you have any thoughts on music/ special sounds / playlists while you eat?
November 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Food and music with @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
What’s not to love
The UK’s only Basque deli is in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, called Zooteek
Part of its authenticity is the Basque Country music playing as you enjoy good olive oil, peppers, fish and traditional Txakoli wine, pronounced ch-ack-o-lee
What’s not to love
The UK’s only Basque deli is in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, called Zooteek
Part of its authenticity is the Basque Country music playing as you enjoy good olive oil, peppers, fish and traditional Txakoli wine, pronounced ch-ack-o-lee