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jenniekermode.bsky.social
Author - http://amzn.to/2kqeKwz - journalist, filmmaker and human rights campaigner. Strategic advisor at Trans Media Watch, commissioning editor at Eye For Film and DEI lead at the Bylines Network. #NUJ #OFCS #CherryPicks #binders #writer #author
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Watching Richard Green's documentary 'I Know Catherine, The Log Lady' tonight (no spoilers; I won't be reviewing for a week), I was reminded of something that I hadn't thought about in years, not even when David Lynch died: the time when his people wanted me to join them in Monaco.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

On April 10, 1925, a young writer published his 3rd novel – a commercial & critical disappointment about a man passing for white 100 years later, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wesley Lowery reveals the secret hidden inside a piece of America's literary canon... And how "The Great Gatsby" became white

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

In my latest piece for Bylines Scotland I look at the shocking waiting list times that drive some trans people to self-medicate, and how a service closure has made it harder for them to minimise risk when doing so bylines.scot/society/self...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

This is what a donation can mean to a family caught up in the chaos in Gaza. Anas wants to be an entrepreneur and his brother wants to be a doctor, but just now everything is about surviving day to day. Please help them if you can.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: The House passed the SAVE Act, which requires Americans to show a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. Over half of all Americans do not have a passport. Millions more do not have access to their birth certificate. 21 MILLION citizens will be impacted.

submitted 2 days ago • 117 comments

The tragedy of working as a critic - at least if one also aims to be a nice person - is that one thinks "I wish I were better known so I could do more to help all these struggling filmmakers," and then one gets to be better known, and then one gets letters from ten struggling filmmakers a day.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Alaa, the first person whose story I covered following the attacks on Gaza, is in desperate need of help. She couldn't get to Egypt and her fundraising account was closed without warning. Many of us can vouch for her. Please help her and her family if you're able to.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Labour's cuts to disability benefits will do serious harm to a lot of people, but among them is one group no-one seems to be talking about: people who are in that position because they have been tortured. My latest for Yorkshire Bylines: yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the... #disability

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Mohammed's home has been destroyed and he has been displaced seven times. Can you help him?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It strikes me that in none of our previous global economic crises have we had to deal with vast numbers of completely uneducated amateur traders trying to take advantage to make a quick buck. I've been watching some making deeply stupid decisions today. It adds significantly to the overall chaos.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Relevant to some of your interests, here's a piece I published yesterday about a new programme aimed at getting more UK women involved in making action films. www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is really bad - women are not safe in a fundamentalist theocratic regime which denies women the right to education & free movement www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

With tens of thousands of homes destroyed in Gaza, many families returned during the cease fire to find that they had nowhere to go. Now, on top of that, they're being bombed again. Please help Yaqoob's children if you can.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

@mommunism.bsky.social Seriously, is anyone hearing our voices? The shells haven't stopped.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments