Julia

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." CGJ

[Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney]

Delighted to announce opening of my new practice !

Appointments opening soon - join the wait list!

For too long we have demanded evidence from trials before we act - this is just causing needless delays in ACTIONABLE INSIGHT GENERATION.

Instead we will offer:/

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

This is why many disabled people are rightly concerned about Assisted Dying. If AD is funded and available but a wheelchair ramp isn’t, what does that say about the attitudes towards disabled people?

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #womensart #LandscapeArtWeek

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Detail from the interior of Watts Chapel, Surrey, England (1895-98) by Mary Fraser Tytler, symbolist craftswoman, designer and social reformer #womensart

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba

I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film

As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes

It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.

But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

[SEGM @segm_ebm]

What compelled the Tavistock - home of psychotherapy in the UK - to ignore its roots when it came to gender-questioning children? Former Tavistock GIDS clinician Anastassis Spiliadis reflects on his time working at the world’s largest gender clinic. ⬇️/1

[The English Oak Project @TheKentAcorn]

Five years filling all the gaps by manually sowing English Bluebell seeds, and five years for the seeds to flower

This is the year all that work should start to become visible. Four weeks to go

[Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW]

Today is mother’s day in the Arab World, yet mothers and motherhood have been under relentless assault from every direction and every direction: States, businesses, criminal enterprises, armed groups, partners and former partners.

Thinking of all those robbed of their ability to be mothers, and children robbed of their mothers especially in Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon but also Iran, Mexico, the DRC, Myanmar and every other country on earth.

As im preparing my next report to the Human Rights Council next June, i have been reminded of just how undervalued and undermined motherhood and mothers have become in societies, and the grave implications this carries for our humanity, for our future and for our prosperity.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

"I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper"
- Zaha Hadid (1950-2016), award winning, Iraqi-British architect #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #womensart ##LandscapeArtWeek

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Artwork by Pamela Grace, contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, Scotland #womensart

[Nordic Model Now! @nordicmodelnow]

The Prostitution Industry and the Labour Movement

https://t.co/8iqUxwZKgn

This article is from 2017 but is just as relevant now. In it, Frankie Green argues that by not taking a stand against prostitution, the Labour party leadership, leftwing parties and organisations have alienated and angered people. By condoning prostitution, they send out the message that it is acceptable to purchase women’s bodies, licensing a sexist, predatory masculinity. She argues that the Labour Movement must recognise prostitution as abuse and support the Nordic Model approach.

[The English Oak Project @TheKentAcorn]

Goat willow (Salix caprea)

The transition from silver to gold catkins has long been known as ‘sunshine fire’

Associated with Hecate, goddess of the underworld, & revered by Druids for its vitality, & considered a tree of life

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

We voted to decriminalise abortion. It is the law.
The law should not be broken, especially by the police.
Stop hounding these vulnerable women.

https://t.co/YHgzBAsTMN

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Shirley Baker, UK photographer, best known for her street photography and street portraits in working class areas of Greater Manchester in the 1960s #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

UK sculptor Heather Jansch (1948-2021), known especially for life-size driftwood horse sculptures, #WomensArt

[Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche @PGtzsche1]

Fit for the future is the title of a catastrophical 10-year plan for the National Health Service in England, which is already a catastrophe, with record-high waiting lists, severe staffing shortages, and crumbling infrastructure. The report is written in an alienating bureaucratic and technocratic language. https://t.co/KLL8sdP1OP. The word counts are instructive: “digital” (122), “AI” (107), “genomics” (51), and “genome” (17) versus “poverty” (9), “suffer/ing” (7), “continuity” (4), “violence” (2), “solidarity” (2), “comfort” (1), and “kindness” (0). The conquering rhetoric of risk and prevention far outweighs any exploration of the language of illness and disease, of fear and hope, that is the reality of the consulting room.

The climax of stupidity is the proposal of subjecting all newborns in England to genetic sequencing. Population genetic screening with its many false positives, false negatives, and unpredictable clinical consequences of mutations can generate a lifetime of anxiety for parents and their children. We run the risk of turning future generations into patients from the moment they are born, with immense overdiagnosis and overtreatment. While politicians cannot alter our genetic code they can tackle income inequality. But it is not a political priority to lessen it. In fact, inequality in the UK has increased significantly since the 1980s.

[Nordic Model Now! @nordicmodelnow]

The hypocrisy of condemning Epstein while supporting ‘sex work’

The legacy of socialist feminists such as Alexandra Kollontai challenges us today to confront an uncomfortable truth: framing prostitution as empowerment lets the abusers of the Epstein class off the hook, warns HELEN O’CONNOR

Read more: https://t.co/ZMTwEn51cv

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

'The Working Woman.' (1905) Helene Schjerfbeck is one of many women artists who keep getting rediscovered over and over again. Every decade or so, a curator shines a brief spotlight on Schjerfbeck, before she slips out of sight again.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The work of Caroline Hodgson, aka Indigo Moth, cyanotype artist #WomensArt