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

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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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 · 4d

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 · 8d

How it’s going

Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 10d

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…

wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 8d

How it started…

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 8d

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…

moneyontheleft.org

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 10d

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…

wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 10d

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…

wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 16d

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 · 18d

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 · 18d

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 · 19d

"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 · 19d

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 · 20d

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 · 20d

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 · 20d

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

Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 20d

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…

wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com

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

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

wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 20d

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…

wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com

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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.

events.humanitix.com/public-money...

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ChrisB @chrisb2024.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Great Money Myth

We seem to have forgotten that Britain's government, as the sole creator of the pound, doesn't need to tax or borrow to fund its spending. It creates new money whenever it spends. Taxes don't finance the government; instead, they create demand for the currency and manage…

The Great Money Myth

We seem to have forgotten that Britain's government, as the sole creator of the pound, doesn't need to tax or borrow to fund its spending. It creates new money whenever it spends. Taxes don't finance the government; instead, they create demand for the currency and manage inflation.

chrisblanduk.com

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Doughnut Economics Action Lab @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social · 26d

#GlobalDonutDays 2025 | Finding the Money - Film Screening and Q&A

Film screening, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the director Maren Poitras and other guests.

🗓️ Oct 18 | ⏰ 1:30 PM BST
📍Middlesbrough (UK)

See more:

Finding the Money - Film Screening and Q&A | DEAL

Screening of Finding the Money, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the director Maren Poitras and other guests.

doughnuteconomics.org

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 28d

"Underpinning these divisive myths is a pervasive logic of scarcity: there is not enough to go round."

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 …

moneyontheleft.org

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 28d

Held on the campus of Morehouse College, the workshop fostered dialogue between students, faculty, and activists about the radical possibilities of public money for higher education, broadly, and for communities at and around Morehouse, specifically.

moneyontheleft.org/2025/06/11/t...

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 28d

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 …

moneyontheleft.org

Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 28d

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.

Join us in Middlesbrough on October 18 to give credit where credit’s due.

Where Credit’s Due: Finding the Money

Free screening of Finding the Money, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the director Maren Poitras and other special guests.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · Sep 8

“In the words of Maren Poitras, director of the documentary film Finding the Money […]: ‘This money piece, I think, is really the missing piece in the entire environmental movement’.”

How can novels help us think about money … and maybe even save the planet? (Guest Lecture)

Can novels and, by extension, other works of art help us to think about money and trust in new ways? Could embracing alternative perspectives on trust and money help us to avoid climate catastrophe…

moneyontheleft.org

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