Bella Heesom

Writer/actor. Writing on Sex Education S4 baby! Playtexts: Lit rep: @ITG_Ltd

[Bella Heesom @BellaHeesom]

I’m SO HAPPY to be writing on one of my fave shows, #sexeducation season 4 with this wonderful group of people 🤩🥳🥰

[Bella Heesom @BellaHeesom]

@JanelleMonae @KimNicky @GeorgeRiley__ Can’t wait! ❤️‍🔥 What are the set times for the show please? 🙏🏽

[Bella Heesom @BellaHeesom]

@realrossnoble I’m at your show right now and the woman in the zebra jumper is SALLY PHILLIPS OF SMACK THE PONY!!! 😆 @sallyephillips

[༺ 𐂂 ༻ @touchmoonflower]

A bright and shining example of the suicidal absurdity of technocapitalist society occurs every year at this time, all across the country.
1/n

[Bella Heesom @BellaHeesom]

@floschechter No it’s good!

[Bella Heesom @BellaHeesom]

@Sally_writes 🥲

[Eleven @ElevenFilm]

Big congrats to the @SexEducation team! 🥳 Number 1 globally and in 51 countries on @Netflix this week #SexEducation

[T🧚🏾‍♀️ @tharapop]

S4 writing team reunited at last 💛

[Bella Heesom @BellaHeesom]

@ethanharv 🥰❤️

[Netflix UK & Ireland @NetflixUK]

It's time to finish.

Sex Education. The final season. Coming 21 September. 💦

[Bella Heesom @BellaHeesom]

Dear white Britain: we hate to say we told you so about Boris Johnson – but we told you so | Nels Abbey | The Guardian https://t.co/Ba8FyQ9H7V

[Bella Heesom @BellaHeesom]

If you ignore the sarcasm, this is spot on. Except for the hidden assumption that if a trans woman uses a women’s bathroom, it’s the cis women who are most likely to be at risk. In fact, trans ppl are often unsafe in women’s bathrooms because cis ppl attack them for being there.

[Omid Scobie @scobie]

The continued fascination some people have with my first job is bizarre. I worked at Heat magazine for 11 months after university (20 years ago!) and I quickly grew to hate it. My immediate boss there—now a columnist at a newspaper—would call me Paki as a "joke", repeatedly used racist slurs about others (e.g. calling TV personality June Sarpong, "C**n Sarpong", or referring to Alison Hammond on Big Brother as "that Black"), curated a pinboard of "funny" photos of disabled adults and children above their desk titled "Disabled Corner", and not one person there, including the publisher's HR department, gave a damn. "That's just [their] humour," I was told by one superior at the time. It was a toxic workplace that, even many years after I left, was still getting pulled into employment tribunal cases for racism.

Despite people's intentions, I'm not ashamed of that job. At 21-years-old, it was a blast covering red carpets every day and doing celebrity interviews. It just says a lot about certain sections of this industry that outlets would rather (repeatedly) put energy into trying to define someone by a job from two decades ago instead of focusing on the bigger, more newsworthy issues that have long plagued publishers and newsrooms such as that place.

[Bella Heesom @BellaHeesom]

Charging sick people for being sick would end the NHS as we know it. Don't accept paying for your right to healthcare. Sign the petition here #DontYouDare https://t.co/mIcCf6Z6qx

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

The oppressive policing of the coronation is still being justified on the grounds that 3 people were arrested in the early hours for possession of rape alarms: "They might have been used to frighten the horses".
So who were these people and why were they carrying rape alarms? 🧵

[Bella Heesom @BellaHeesom]

Fossil fuel companies are driving the climate crisis - causing death, destruction and displacement around the world. People that have done the least to cause the climate crisis are paying the highest price. Please sign this urgent petition. https://t.co/0BJw1tAU0w

[Rich Felgate @richfelgate]

Yesterday I got arrested whilst filming a @JustStop_Oil supporter holding a banner on the pavement near the coronation route. I'm a filmmaker and had my @BECTU press accreditation visible around my neck.

Police deemed this to be "conspiracy to commit a public nuisance".

[Republic @RepublicStaff]

Abolish the monarchy, not the right to protest

As we speak the whole core team of Republic is still being detained. We are not given a reason. They will probably be released when the whole monarchy pr-show is over.

#NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

[Bella Heesom @BellaHeesom]

@naomialderman I’m sorry you had to read this. It made me feel tense and sad and it’s not even aimed at me. I love your book ♥️📕 ♥️

[Bella Heesom @BellaHeesom]

OBVIOUSLY we should do this. It’s WATER. we need it to survive! Renationalise the Water Industry - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/kzKbdzsKQN via @UKChange

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

I mean I really shouldn't have to retweet this, but clearly I do. https://t.co/vVzoRyeT6A