stephiec.bsky.social
Twitter escapee (@eseesea). Social change leadership, connect, collaborate @ywccommunity @socialleadersne @theRSAorg fellow. Feminist. Gone not forgotten Sharing Learning Doing, Good Space/Broadacre House [UK]
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Yep. I quite like a good swear most days and don’t feel especially precious about children hearing the odd swear word but it’s quite another to swear at a child and in such an aggressive manor. I thought of that little boy when I saw the headline.
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Yes, I was shocked to overhear a dad in a car park shouting at his son: ‘Just get in fucking the car, you thick fuck’. I’m terrible at aging children but the little boy looked maybe five or six. I wish I had the courage to say something but the man was very scary-looking.
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(I'm still genuinely interested about why we talk about trans rights but not women's roights, and women's views but not men's views. It seems like women strobe in and out of importance as convenient.)
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Yes, it feels so special to have them. I need to scan the letters and the envelopes, catalogue them in some way, and photograph the other items in the box (mementos, trinkets, small items). And decide if it’s too personal to create a website to share and preserve.
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The Charity Commission doesn’t help as records are lost each year. At least Companies House (appears to) keeps records permanently.
Thanks for another thought provoking weeknote Tom!
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1) a box of letters my grandparents sent to each during the war, amazing!
2) all the files from Broadacre House and Good Space from the Northern Creative Solutions charity we had to close during lockdown (v pleased to give £13k to the Community Foundation!), in zipped folders in Dropbox.
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floppy disks, 3.5 inch disks? Not to mention earlier file formats for digital video and audio files. Will we always be able to open PDFs? Paper feels fragile but I wonder if it’ll end up being more robust in the future. I’m sat on two ‘archives’ I’m not currently doing much with.
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unearthed later where they’d be more valued. Now with the shift to digital from paper, things feel easier to keep and archive but at the same time easier to delete, permanently. I also wonder about formats and future ability to retrieve & use files. How long will we be able to watch video cassettes
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has ramped up. For some groups it was stacks of brilliant posters and newsletters documenting social change through the 70s and 80s, real social history that local archives were unable to take. I often hoped some of this valuable history would be packed up and stored in lofts only to be
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Thanks for sharing the Exit To Open article, which fits my long standing interest in endings, legacy and archive. In my previous role I helped a few organisations to close and worried about how we preserve records and stories of social action. I think a lot about this now as the rate of closures
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What?! Pierce Bronson is playing RON?! Is this the worst miscasting we’ve ever seen?