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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · Sep 6

What time is it?

By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Introduction Zohran Mamdani’s landslide win was not just a local upset—it was a turning point. It proved that member-led, volunteer-powered campaigns c…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 11d

Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. This web page collects together links to all of our essays and interviews related to the project.

The Uni Currency Project: Resource Page

Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Below are links to our essays and interviews relate…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 11d

"Whatever our focus, ... , trans liberation requires a gender framework that expands the present bounds of possibility, in excess of the limited forms of life that have been previously afforded space. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) gives us just that framework."

Modern Monetary Theory and The Trans Agenda (Essay)

By Nia Cola To be trans today is to be treated as a political agent at all times, but afforded no substantive political agency. Everything you do is scrutinized, as your right to exist remain…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 7d

If there is not enough for everyone, the only option is to leave some of us out. This, in turn, always means harming those who are already marginalised and perpetuating cycles of violence and disempowerment.

Why Credit’s Due: Reclaiming Pride in Boro

By Rob Hawkes and Robyn Ollett The summer of 2025, like the summer of 2024 before it, has been one of heightened tensions surrounding the issues of race and immigration in the UK. This year, Union …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 4d

Why Credit’s Due: Reclaiming Pride in Boro

By Rob Hawkes and Robyn Ollett The summer of 2025, like the summer of 2024 before it, has been one of heightened tensions surrounding the issues of race and immigration in the UK. This year, Union …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 3d

Adapted from a prompt by Professor Benjamin Wilson (SUNY Cortland, Spring 2025), this assignment encourages students to perceive money and the labor it mobilizes as social forms that we can collectively remake.

Assignment Prompt: A Classroom Currency Experiment

Adapted from a prompt by Professor Benjamin Wilson (SUNY Cortland, Spring 2025), this assignment encourages students to perceive money and the labor it mobilizes as social forms that we can collect…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

During their conversation, our co-hosts forge connections between the novel’s many complications of time and space and the attitudes to money and identity explored in the first part of this mini-series.

Money, Modernism & Inflation in The Great Gatsby (Part 2)

Rob and Scott return to their dialog about modernism, inflation, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s celebrated 1925 novel The Great Gatsby (click here for Part 1). During their conversation, our co-hosts fo…

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 2d

It’s just 10 days to go until our launch event on Saturday 18 October at Teesside University and there are still a few places available - don’t miss out!

Visit our website for more information and please share widely: wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com/events/

Poster for the Where Credit’s Due project - a rainbow border surrounding the text:

“Where Credit's Due

Making Money for Ecosocial Justice

Reimagining Public Credit and Building
Intersectional Solidarity in Boro

• 18.10.25, 1.30pm: Finding the Money Film Screening and Q&A. Teesside Uni.

• 23.10.25, 7pm: A Curious Night at the Museum. The Dorman Museum.

• 22.11.25, 10.30am: Workshop 1: Where
Credit's Due. The Dorman Museum.

• 17.1.26, 10.30am: Workshop 2: The Other Saltburn. The Dorman Museum.

• 7.3.26, 10.30am: Workshop 3: Everyone's
Included! The Dorman Museum.

Join us to tell new stories about money”

Beneath the text are logs for Where Credit’s Due and TU Proud, the words BOOK HERE and a pointing hand emoji next to a QR code for the Where Credit’s Due website.

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 6d

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · Jul 21

"Money is queer. By this, we mean not only that public money should be mobilized to serve LGBTQ2+ communities, but more profoundly that money as a social medium is never as straight or alienating as it feigns to be."

Analog Critique; or, Isn't Money Queer?

Abstract. This essay introduces a critical theory of mediation developed by the Money on the Left Editorial Collective (MotL) and demonstrates the value of the collective's thinking for current debate...

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 6d

It is time to tell new stories about (and with) money, ones that reject exclusionary violence and instead celebrate our collective capacities and creative potential, stories with room for everyone. It is time to give credit where credit’s due.

A poster with a rainbow border and text that reads:

Tell new stories!

The standard (or 'straight') story of money tells us that:
• Money is scarce - there is not enough to go round
• Responsible budgeting means letting marginalised people suffer (sorry)
• An inclusive society is unaffordable - we have to leave some people out

We say a better story is possible:
• Money has limitless creative potential - we can build a society with space for everyone
• Money is queer - we can take all our beautiful difference into account
• Money is credit - let's give credit where credit's due

Underneath the text are logos for WHERE
CREDIT'S DUE, TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY
PROUD, the INSTITUTE FOR COLLECTIVE PLACE LEADERSHIP, and MONEY ON THE LEFT

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 10d

How it’s going

Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 12d

Where Credit’s Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice is a project devised and developed by @robynollett.bsky.social and @robbhawkes.bsky.social with the support of Teesside University’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).

MEET THE TEAM

Where Credit’s Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice is a project devised and developed by Dr Robyn Ollett and Dr Rob Hawkes with the support of Teesside University’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Acc…

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 10d

How it started…

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 10d

Modern Movie Theory: What We Do in the Shadows

Will Beaman (@agoingaccount) is joined by Robyn Ollett (@robynollett) and Rob Hawkes (@robbhawkes) to discuss What We Do in the Shadows. Citing Robyn’s interpretations of vampirism in The New Queer…

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 12d

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can reimagine public credit creation and build intersectional solidarity with… The @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social Team.

Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 12d

Where Credit’s Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice is a project devised and developed by @robynollett.bsky.social and @robbhawkes.bsky.social with the support of Teesside University’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).

MEET THE TEAM

Where Credit’s Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice is a project devised and developed by Dr Robyn Ollett and Dr Rob Hawkes with the support of Teesside University’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Acc…

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 12d

Where Credit’s Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice is a project devised and developed by @robynollett.bsky.social and @robbhawkes.bsky.social with the support of Teesside University’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).

MEET THE TEAM

Where Credit’s Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice is a project devised and developed by Dr Robyn Ollett and Dr Rob Hawkes with the support of Teesside University’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Acc…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 18d

Why Credit’s Due: Reclaiming Pride in Boro

By Rob Hawkes and Robyn Ollett The summer of 2025, like the summer of 2024 before it, has been one of heightened tensions surrounding the issues of race and immigration in the UK. This year, Union …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 20d

CFP: Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice.

Call for Papers

We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 20d

Hypothesis: If money is a designed human construct, then we can design experiments that test various design elements to yield alternative outcomes.

Assignment Prompt: A Classroom Currency Experiment

Adapted from a prompt by Professor Benjamin Wilson (SUNY Cortland, Spring 2025), this assignment encourages students to perceive money and the labor it mobilizes as social forms that we can collect…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 21d

"This is not fiscal realism. It is self-inflicted austerity, the result of imagining sabotage itself as an inescapable condition of democratic life."

The Case for Fiscal Insurgency

by Will Beaman A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, Ne…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 21d

The conversation traces the development of Rob’s long-standing interest in theories of trust from his doctoral research in literary studies towards an increasing fascination with the topic of money which eventually led him to MMT, neochartalism and the Money on the Left project.

(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust

In this special episode, Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson and Will Beaman to discuss his new article “(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust,” which was recently…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 22d

WHY CREDIT’S DUE: RECLAIMING PRIDE IN BORO

Why Credit’s Due: Reclaiming Pride in Boro

By Rob Hawkes and Robyn Ollett The summer of 2025, like the summer of 2024 before it, has been one of heightened tensions surrounding the issues of race and immigration in the UK. This year, Union …

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The Working Class Climate Alliance @wccalliance.bsky.social · 23d

1/3 We had an absolute blast at the Anti-Austerity Conference in Bristol last weekend, hosted by @modernmoneylab.org.uk. Our Co-Director Sasha Josette joined Plaid Cymru Councillor Mark Hooper & Green Party Leader Zack Polanski to discuss the political economy of the UK, & solutions to austerity.

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Dr Leanne Bibby @leannemichelleb.bsky.social · 23d

👇👇👇 really wish I could make it to this!

Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 23d

Step 1: Check out our brand new website.
Step 2: Book your place at our free public screening of Finding the Money in Middlesbrough on 18 October.
Step 3: Start telling a different story and help us give credit where credit’s due.

Welcome to Where Credit’s Due

The stories we tell about our communities and the people that build them are intimately bound up with the way we account for them in monetary terms. Right now, we’re telling the wrong stories. We’r…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 23d

If you want to start telling a different story, join us on 18 October 2025 in Middlesbrough, UK.

Where Credit's Due

Making Money for Ecosocial Justice

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 23d

Step 1: Check out our brand new website.
Step 2: Book your place at our free public screening of Finding the Money in Middlesbrough on 18 October.
Step 3: Start telling a different story and help us give credit where credit’s due.

Welcome to Where Credit’s Due

The stories we tell about our communities and the people that build them are intimately bound up with the way we account for them in monetary terms. Right now, we’re telling the wrong stories. We’r…

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Modern Money Lab @modernmoneylab.bsky.social · Sep 3

#MMT in Yorkshire. Interactive, accessible, anti-austerity weekend workshop, loosely based on a university course, in Sheffield on 20/21 September.

I hope to see you there.

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