Rebecca Took

copywriter + poet | artistic director of Body Electric

[Rebecca Took @rktook]

started a newsletter about life in this city sinking into the sea. more to come – this is the beginning.
https://t.co/Bl7MKc5eos #Amsterdam

[Rebecca Took @rktook]

Man eating a gingerbread man from a paper Greggs’ bag while watching the darts on a tablet screen on the train at Coventry #englandvignettes

[Independent Birmingham @IndependentBham]

Devastated to hear that The Electric is closing its doors for the foreseeable future, and potentially for good. After the budget cut announcement for our city's arts and culture venues, this comes as a further blow for Brum and our city's indie scene 💔

[Lucia Osborne-Crowley @LuciaOC_]

A Met police officer has been convicted of multiple counts of rape. When he was hired — which was AFTER a serving police officer raped and killed Sarah Everard — he had already faced charges of raping a child. Absolutely fuck this.

[Rebecca Took @rktook]

@ellamharold perfect answer, thank you!

[Rebecca Took @rktook]

what's the best book you've read this year?

[Rebecca Took @rktook]

@SFTrilby great knitwear!

[Rebecca Took @rktook]

@RuthKnightPhD @ScottColePsych Interested!

[Rebecca Took @rktook]

@LuciaOC_ Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

[Rebecca Took @rktook]

notes on grief https://t.co/TDEH8PKUdK

[Rebecca Took @rktook]

so if you can't cure yourself and treatment facilities won't help you, the NHS are basically allowing / encouraging anorexic patients to die?

[Janet Eastham @JanetEastham]

🔺EXC: Anorexic woman, 24, who had been "begging" NHS eating disorder units to admit her for weeks & who could die in “days or even hours” can be discharged to "palliative care", a judge has ruled @carolinenokes @danny__kruger @rcpsychEDFac @Capacitylaw
https://t.co/T02OXfI3hU

[Laura McInerney @miss_mcinerney]

My absolute favourite part of the new Network North document - which is almost insulting in the way it tries to convince northerners they haven’t been shafted by HS2 cancellation - is the part where they promise…

To fix potholes in the South of England.

[Mandy McHugh @WriterACMcHugh]

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[Rebecca Took @rktook]

I don't know if this is ignorant, accidental, cruel, or just very Dutch.

[Rebecca Took @rktook]

first week back in the office, HR manager just told me I 'just need to move on.' about the death of my father, six weeks ago.

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.”

— Franz Kafka

[Rebecca Took @rktook]

@WarrenJWells although it's 50% boy protagonists, the Narnia series has great girl characters. then Matilda, Madeline, The Secret Garden, A little Princess, Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children, A series of unfortunate events, alice in wonderland, Heidi, Ballet shoes

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

Sexual assault facts: Most victims don’t report. Most delay disclosing or reporting, or never report. 83% of Australian women assaulted didn’t report their most recent incident of SA to police. 4 in 10 didn’t seek advice or help from others.
https://t.co/e9qTvZjWC6 @AICriminology

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

F* it all the people who are asking why women didn’t come forward sooner. Because girls and women are not believed, called hysterical and because there is so much inherent bias in the way the society ‘judges’ womens’s testimonies about their own bodies.