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MPs publicly call out and criticise JK Rowling in Parliament. I think this might be a first? That is now in the Hansard record for all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwBm...

On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power. Well said.

I've included this info in book two but wanted to share here too. New guidance from the chief coroner. Trans people can be registered with their gender identity, grc or not, and their chosen name, even if not legally changed. www.hilldickinson.com/insights/art...

Happy Daniel Hannon Day to all who celebrate it. I hope you all enjoy the fireworks as we mark perhaps the worst piece of political forecasting going. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

JK Rowling explicitly calls on her followers to engage in vigilante actions against people they suspect are trans in bathrooms. This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.

Printmaking has been vital to both the creation of art and women's activism. Barbara Kruger's “Untitled (Your Body Is a Battleground), 1989, silkscreen #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966 #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Canadian singer-songwriter, musician and painter Joni Mitchell, aged about 10 yrs old #WomensArt

He's not wrong www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/step...

Lewis Carroll’s 'Alice in Wonderland' illustration by Finnish artist and Moomins creator, author artist Tove Jansson #womensart

This is the last thing the BBC needs

'Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998), close friend of Frida Kahlo's #WomensArt #Sunday

lmao get her

Yuko Shimizu, New York based award winning Japanese illustrator #WomensArt

Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...

After breakfast, c.1900 by Finnish painter Elin Danielson-Gambogi Happy Birthday @KathyBurke.bsky.social ! English actress, writer and comedian.

Self-Portrait on the Border Line between Mexico and the United States, 1932, Frida Kahlo #womensart

Incredibly concerned to see the forcible interception of the Madleen in international waters, and thinking of all those who were on board and have been detained. UK must condemn this breach of international law and immediately demand their release.

Gail Brodholt, London Calling, 2023 UK printmaker #WomensArt #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Why would it be the “wrong signal”, @aussenminister.diplo.de? Because it would give starving and maimed children hope? Because it would acknowledge an ethnic group as a people? Never in my lifetime did I expect I’d see Germany backing a govt committing persecution, war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

The Centre for Heterodox Social Science, eh? The one run by Eric Kaufmann, author of Whiteshift and The Third Awokening. Currently on X posting about why there are too many immigrants and LGBTQ people. You can work out what "heterodox" means.

Please contribute to this, London really needs trans people to retain our position in the arts.

Labour politicians calling for their government to be more like Reform in order to beat them is: (A) Depressing (B) Enraging (C) Normalising Reform (D) All of the above* *and also causing actual harm to actual people in the her and now.

"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"

Fiona Watson, visual artist based in Scotland with a diverse body of work including printmaking and digital art... #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Sign the Petition chng.it/qbNTvbSPnt via @ukchange.bsky.social

Your reminder that transphobia is the leading edge of white supremacy. Their approach is basically "all minorities are guilty of sex crimes until proven otherwise".

Sofia Bonati, a self-taught #artist from Argentina, known for her portraits of women against a backdrop of mazes or floral patterns #WomensArt #Saturday

Musician and artist Joni Mitchell, Self-Portrait, 1999 #WomensArt

Cracking article from Adam on the mythologising of McSweeney Todd and blue Labour's vocational interest in crushing the left.

Ok, @gailmyerscough.co.uk maybe my “The Missus Wife”, but she is also a very talented and deeply respected designer. Tough time for creatives so if you could spread the word, that’d be great. Thanks 👍👍

We need full decriminalisation now.

I know that Newcastle had the MOBOs and are getting the Mercury’s but we are getting SUNDERLAND YEAR OF MUSIC. It’s not just for one night or a week, it’s for a whole YEAR! It starts on June 21st (which is World Music Day) and goes on for another 365 days! So let’s see what’s happening on DAY ONE

Celebrated US photographer Vivian Maier (1926-2009) known for her social documentary and candid street portraits #WomensArt

The claim by Yvette Cooper that there is a link between immigration and higher levels of inactivity (related to sickness and disability) has absolutely no basis in evidence or data. Just retrofitting the evidence to the policy...

Angela Harding is a fine art painter and illustrator based in the UK specialising in lino prints #WomensArt

Today has been one of those days where I haven’t sold anything in my online shop. Being a small business is bloody hard work at the moment. Please have a look at my shop and tell all your friends. Thanks. gailmyerscough.co.uk

'The Quilt of Profanity' collaborative textile work by the Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, known for their stitching and swearing #womensart One of the many textile artworks/artists discussed in the 1st womensart book "Unravelling Women's Art" !

UK's first female press photographer Christina Broom, Pageant of Women’s Trades and Professions, Women's Suffrage protest, 1909 #womensart

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921, the painter's connection to the natural world is always apparent in her work #WomensArt

I need you lads to understand that Europe has an average birth rate of about 1.4 No charismatic politician bothered to tell you how fucked that makes us. But as we get older, we need more care, more GP appointments… Without immigration we will have no pensions very quick.

The death cult of extremist tin pot capitalism is upon us - the repeated failure of the mass media to hold these people to account is disastrous and as they destroy the world for the profit of the few they will cause pain and poverty for multitudes

Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

Reform have currently won more seats than all other parties and independents put together - all those people who through complacency or complicity have drawn us closer to being a far right country being run for the benefit of a few super wealthy people should be ashamed - but they won’t care