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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse... I was too busy rebelling..."

- Leonora Carrington
Surrealist painter

#WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting white woman facing forwards with.elbow resting on her knee and long striped.skirt, looking directly out towards the viewer
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social
In the unprecedented heat of summer 2022, there were almost twice as many so called 'excess' deaths amongst women than men. But this is only one of few data points that highlight how women are more impacted by the climate crisis in the UK.

Read our new guest blog by Impatience Earth:
Why women should be at the heart of building domestic climate resilience
In this guest blog, Yasmin Ahammad and Hannah Dillon of Impatience Earth examine how women and marginalised groups in the UK are disproportionately impacted by climate change, and why funders must cen...
www.wbg.org.uk
September 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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slipstream60.bsky.social
If you want an idea of what we socialist feminists think re gender identity ideology then this would be a good place to start. weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1330/...
A world without gender
‘Queer theory’ actually obstructs the fight for sexual equality. Amanda MacLean insists on a materialist analysis
weeklyworker.co.uk
November 16, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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lizanderson.bsky.social
And it also rocks up on the Thames Foreshore in an area known for Roman finds. It took me years to realise that this little blue thing I thought was *nothing-of-importance* was actually *something-very-much-of-importance* when a fellow mudlarking chum told me what it was #ThamesFoundEgyptianPigment
A small round piece of Egyptian Blue Pigment found while mudlarking on the Thames Foreshore in London.
July 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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richardjgarside.bsky.social
“In 2003, five protesters known as the the Fairford Five were arrested and charged for disrupting military operations at RAF Fairford. One of the defendants, Josh Richards, was represented by Keir Starmer”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover
Through decades of anti-racist campaigning, I have seen that peaceful, direct action can be the only way to get results, says campaigner Suresh Grover
www.theguardian.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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henrymance.ft.com
Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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dmk1793.bsky.social
So many people continue to refuse to acknowledge the reality of what this is.
henrymance.ft.com Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · Jun 27
Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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filiacharity.bsky.social
We are attending the #womensresourcecentre conference Reclaiming Our Power in #Birmingham today. The room is packed! ♀️

🔗 wrc.org.uk/Event/womens-leadership-conference-2025-reclaiming-our-power

#Organise4Change
June 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
This clip encapsulates in just 12 seconds why the Government should pull its plan to cut disability benefits before next weeks vote
June 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
slipstream60.bsky.social
North Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid chuffed.org/project/help...
North Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...
chuffed.org
June 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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physiciansgallery.bsky.social
Handy tip from an 18th century medical guidebook – always remember to prepare your medicinal woodlice in the same manner as your bees
Printed recipe. Reads: Millpiedes prarparati. Prepared wood-lice. Wood-lice are prepared in the same manner as bees.
June 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Nuclear veterans have accused the government of “ghosting” them as the Prime Minister continues to ignore requests meet victims

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Nuke veterans "ghosted" by Keir Starmer as blood scandal grows
The Prime Minister has ignored requests to meet victims, even as the scandal is reported to the police
www.mirror.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 30 May 1937 the steamship Ciudad de Barcelona, carrying 250 international volunteers fighting Spanish fascism was torpedoed, killing 100 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1031...
May 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'I am in the world to change the world'
- Käthe Kollwitz,

Self-Portrait, 1922, woodcut #WomensArt
Print featuring a close up of an older white woman's face and hand in white and black
May 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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shadowsofcontrol.bsky.social
It's important to differentiate the silent treatment, as a tactic used by #abusers to manipulate you, from the silence of a #victim, who is keeping quiet out of self-protection.
May 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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davehillonlondon.bsky.social
From the Observer: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Starmer to scrap two-child benefit cap as Treasury told to find money | The Observer
Policy change will lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty after pressure from cabinet and MPs
observer.co.uk
May 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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filiacharity.bsky.social
Sex-based violence against women and girls: new frontiers and emerging issues - Advance unedited version by @unsrvaw.bsky.social

Hear Reem Alsalem at #FiLiA2025

www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
A/HRC/59/47: Sex-based violence against women and girls: new frontiers and emerging issues - Advance unedited version
The present report by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls examines the new and evolving forms of violence experienced by women and girls based on their sex, which remain insuffi...
www.ohchr.org
May 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Sofia Bonati, a self-taught #artist from Argentina, known for her portraits of women against a backdrop of mazes or floral patterns #WomensArt
#Saturday
Artwork featuring a young Black woman facing left looking forwards with strong expression, dressed in orange which merges with the floral green background
May 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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womensportfeminism.bsky.social
Now they need to do Stonewall.
The disclosure runs to 105 pages.
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/info...
May 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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filiacharity.bsky.social
It's #Saturday and time for #FiLiA2025 speaker news!

Caitlin Roper, Australian writer, feminist activist, & campaigner against the sexual exploitation of Women & Girls.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#EndSexualExploitation #Feminist
May 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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pascallaura.bsky.social
TAKE ACTION: Email your MP!

Calling all sex-realist women and men! Bank holiday weekend action.

Use this tool to write to your MP and tell them how much you appreciate the Supreme Court's clarity and want them to support local organisations to start following it.

sex-matters.org/take-action/...
Email your MP about the Supreme Court judgment - Sex Matters
Make your voice heard – let your MP know why the Supreme Court ruling is important to you.
sex-matters.org
May 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Keir Starmer is facing the biggest rebellion of his premiership as more than 150 MPs are preparing to vote against his forthcoming welfare cuts

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Starmer faces welfare revolt from 150 MPs as frontbenchers ‘poised to quit’
A rebellion on this scale would be a significant knock to the prime minister’s authority and represent wider disquiet about the direction of the government
www.independent.co.uk
May 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Almost 50 MPs to rebel over welfare cuts as Labour revolt grows ahead of key vote

The government's own impact assessment on the plans estimates that 250,000 people will be pushed into relative poverty

www.itv.com/news/2025-05...
May 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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infinite8horizon.com
Exultation - Skyline 231

Some sunrises are quiet, and some are not. This one is a shout of joy and delight.

#photography #sunrise #intense #skyline #landscape #skyscape #gift #joy #EastCoastKin
A riotous, exultant sky strewn with at least two cloud layers and varying fairly ragged shapes, all lit a blazing red or pink by an as-yet invisible sunrise that's hidden by a long, dark bank of cumulus on the low horizon. Below is a wide panorama of dark skyline, still black.
May 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Wheelbarrow Washing" by Pamela Grace, contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, Scotland #WomensArt
Print of a garden scene with bare trees and a washing line with clothes in different colours hanging on it, in the foreground is a green wheelbarrow and two chickens
May 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM