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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 12

hello bluesky! Im Ro, I write about housing, gender, class, squatting, conflict, solidarity, and anarchism.
PhD graduate in geography, looking at the gender and class politics of squatting, now happy teaching housing rights in the charity sector.
Here's a wee thread of some of my writing:

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · May 2

🚨BREAKING🚨

WE’VE WON OUR CASE TO #DefendDemocracy

The Court of Appeal has ruled that anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are unlawful

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · Nov 24

The small farmers of 2024 are not natural allies of the left and certainly not of the anarchists. But we may have more potential strength than we think in getting through to them.
freedomnews.org.uk/2024/11/24/r...

Return the common to the goose - Freedom News

Farmers’ protests over a velvety soft reduction of inheritance tax privileges may seem overblown, but there’s a kernel of something interesting there ~ Rob Ray ~ With tractors besieging Downing Street...

freedomnews.org.uk

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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 21

MoH are rad, follow them 🫡

Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hey gorgeous new followers! Thank you for the support.
We are a small community led museum in a park in North London.
We are outspoken about the things that matter to people who are homeless.
We do a lot of community action work.
And we find joy together and share it online.
Have a great day ❤️

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Youth Legal @youthlegal.bsky.social · Nov 20

YL is recruiting for a Housing/Community Care caseworker- amazing opportunity to provide young people and families w children access to their legal rights to housing and LA service provision more info at youthlegalresourcecentre.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/YouthL...

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Rebecca McCurdy @rebeccamccurdy.bsky.social · Nov 20

It's day two of @heraldscotland.bsky.social investigation into access to justice.

Lawyers in Glasgow tell us there's an "impending disaster" in civil legal aid as 80% consider withdrawing from domestic abuse protective cases because of pay concerns.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472546...

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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 20

god they are just so disingenuous
"The evening spending that supports local businesses is at risk ... there is no upside to Edinburgh’s outlier approach to regulation, and we encourage the city to explore a more inclusive way forward."
Residents literally don't exist to them

Airbnb demands rethink of Edinburgh's 'draconian' curbs as slump in Fringe bookings is revealed

Visitors said to have cut back length of their festival stays by almost a fifth

www.scotsman.com

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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · Nov 19

You can find every article from day one of The Herald's in-depth investigation into Scotland's legal aid crisis HERE: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472727...

@andrewlearmonth.bsky.social @kathleennutt.bsky.social @rebeccamccurdy.bsky.social @hannahmargbrown.bsky.social

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Clapton CFC @claptoncfc.co.uk · Nov 18

Allow us to (re)introduce ourselves 👋

We are East London’s 100% fan-owned and fan-run football club, formed in 2018.

We are proud owners of the Old Spotted Dog in Forest Gate, London’s oldest senior football ground.

Our women’s first team play in tier 6. Our men’s first team are in tier 10.

CCFC women’s first team players huddle in front of the Scaffold stand at the Old Spotted Dog ground

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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · Nov 18

A very important read and it's desperately annoying that it's a taboo even in most parts of the left!
For all abstract definitions of "class" it's clearly the case that it's essentially inheritance and / or easy access to capital.
Once defined can be reformed!
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an ‘inheritocracy’

Family wealth dictates our life choices. So is the Bank of Mum and Dad now behind so many of society’s growing inequalities?

www.theguardian.com

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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 18

really good! this is key "I realised not just how unfair this lottery of birth is, but how bad we all are at talking about it, within our friendship groups, families, society, even to ourselves"
I think at least in my/our? friendship groups we do talk about it - even if uneasily. its so important!

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · Nov 18

This is a great mod/extension for Bluesky, hides or labels AI generated imagery
bsky.app/profile/aimo...

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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 18

Interesting report on the collapse of the Scottish courts due to staff overwork, backlogs, outsources, etc etc all coming to a boiling point letting down those engaged in the criminal justice system - often having to wait 3+ years for a trial

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472916...

Justice in the dock: Why Scotland's courts are broken and set to collapse

In a special report our Writer at Large investigates the delivery of justice in Scotland, and uncovers a litany of failures, mistakes and disasters…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · Nov 13

London friends, this is tonight! ✨

gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · Nov 7

"How can video games challenge the status quo and promote egalitarian values? Games critic Marijam Did
& writer Dan Griliopoulos
discuss ways video games' influence can be harnessed for good."

🗓️ Nov 13 - 6.30PM - Conway Hall, London
🎟️ £10 • £7
🔗 loom.ly/sTKI_VQ

How can video games challenge the status quo and promote egalitarian values? We discuss ways video games' influence can be harnessed for good.

🗓️ Nov 13 - 6.30PM
🎟️ £10 • £7
🔗 https://loom.ly/sTKI_VQ

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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 13

And the amount of something doesn't effect the vermin designation? Bc it seems more like a value judgement term than a legal (or taxonomical) one!

Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 13

Is there an argument that the number of animals/insects etc is part of what qualifies something as an infestation? I find it hard to believe that if there was e.g. a secret attic full of hundreds of rabid dogs they would be classed as pets

Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 12

rearranging the furniture in your study can bring such a sense of optimism and being in control of your own life.
brutal when it turns it it doesnt lead directly to any work actually getting done

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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · Nov 12

Hey new BlueSkyers! Here goes the inevitable "this is who you followed" 🧵.
A Lithuanian-Tatar who fled for UK after '08 economic crash, but now lives in Copenhagen.
My latest big project "Everything To Play For" is out worldwide with Verso @versobooks.bsky.social.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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Olle Folke @ollefolke.bsky.social · Nov 12

My and @johannarickne.bsky.social 's paper on the ”Class Ceiling in Politics” is now out in the APSR with open access! We describe the key findings below. 1/9

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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 12

managed to put the wrong link AGAIN, here's my review! anarchiststudies.noblogs.org/article-invi...

Article: Invisible – the housing crisis and squatting in Britain – AnarchistStudies.Blog

anarchiststudies.noblogs.org

Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 12

managed to include the wrong link to this one! 🤦‍♀️it is: freedomnews.org.uk/2019/12/08/r...

Review: Skint Estate - Freedom News

Women like me: Carraway’s memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival is “the most important book on the impacts of austerity I have ever read”, writes Rowan Tallis Milligan. by Cash CarrawayEbury Pres...

freedomnews.org.uk

Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 12

And of course, because great minds think alike and we are doing our intro posts at PRECISELY the same time (!) my amazing project I did with @marijamdid.bsky.social !

bsky.app/profile/mari...

Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · Nov 12

Worrying about the crisis of masculinity, @rowanalogue.bsky.social & I also ran a non-judgemental space for people, mostly dudes, to ask us about intimacy and relationships - Anarcho Agony Aunts! Was / is so needed by the left, clearly!
youtube.com/@anarchoagon...

Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 12

My review of Invisible: a diary of rough sleeping in Britain! A must read, get it at freedom press, in @anarchiststudies.bsky.social
freedompress.org.uk/product/invi...

Invisible: A Diary of Rough Sleeping in Britain - Freedom Press

by Andrew Fraser edited by Rob Ray ISBN 978-1-904491-31-6 Paperback: 208pp Freedom Press, 2019 Many writers and books talk about the homeless. Andrew has direct experience. His writing on life as a ro...

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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 12

My write-up of a successful immigration raid resistance in Edinburgh for @freedompress.bsky.social
freedomnews.org.uk/2022/05/06/i...

Immigration raid foiled as hundreds block their way - Freedom News

Scorsby was on the ground at yesterday’s spectacular, and successful, effort to deter an immigration raid in Edinburgh. At around a quarter to six the first call-outs began. An immigration raid van ha...

freedomnews.org.uk

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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 12

My review of Cash Carraway's amazing book:
"Women like me" a memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival. One of the best books on the impacts of austerity I have ever read, in @freedompress.bsky.social
radicalhousingjournal.org/2020/book-re...

Book review of 'Doorways: » Radical Housing Journal

Rowan Tallis-Milligan reviews 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma and Resistance' (2019) by Bekki Perriman.

radicalhousingjournal.org

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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · Nov 12

My review of the incredible heartbreaking and empowering edited collection by
Doorways Project exploring women, homelessness, trauma, and resistance, in the Radical Housing Journal
radicalhousingjournal.org/2020/book-re...

Book review of 'Doorways: » Radical Housing Journal

Rowan Tallis-Milligan reviews 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma and Resistance' (2019) by Bekki Perriman.

radicalhousingjournal.org

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