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Sophie Cooper
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Social historian of gender, migration & public space | Nuns | Ireland & its diaspora | Senior Lecturer @QUBLiberalArts | Forging Identities in the Irish World @EdinburghUP 2022 | She/her.
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I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Read the full story

www.thenational.scot/news/2578067...
Plan for massive AI-generated mural in Glasgow given green light
AN AI-generated mural has been approved by a Scottish council, despite it including an American bald eagle.
www.thenational.scot
January 20, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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"switch party, stand again" automatic by-election petition is spreading out nicely - past 30K now

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition reaching 30,003 signatures By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their elected official. More details Sign this petition 30,003 signatures Show on a map
January 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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- James Kelly, 'Women’s Agency, Discernment, and Choice in the English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800', The Historical Journal. Read here: 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Women’s Agency, Discernment, and Choice in the English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800 | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
Women’s Agency, Discernment, and Choice in the English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800 - Volume 68 Issue 5
doi.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:01 AM
sophcocooper.bsky.social
Congratulations and well done!!!
January 18, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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Priti Gulati Cox is an artist who has worked in mixed media since she moved to the so-called u.s. in 2000 from India. In 2018, during the Great March of Return protests in Occupied Palestine, she started working on documenting "Israel's" atrocities via embroidery, inspired by Tatreez.
Embroidery of "If I must die" by Refaat Alareer If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so that a child, somewhere in Gaza while looking heaven in the eye awaiting his dad who left in a blaze- and bid no one Farewell not event his flesh not even to himself- sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above, and thinks for a moment, an angel is there bringing back love If I must die let it bring hope
January 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM