Happy publication day to Keeping the House.
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Words on hiding in plain sight, set around and away from the north London heroin trade. Supermarket academics. The way cPTSD can spin time from us. Cabbages.
Grateful. With @andothertweets and shot by Richard Dixon, lostintottenham.
"If I were the minister of culture for the world, I would make every student wiser by requiring them to travel to five continents before the age of 18."
Marjane Satrapi.
💔 "Nobody can take your freedom. I have lived in a dictatorship. There was a ban on everything! Was I less free in my mind? No, I wasn’t. Did I become a stupid person? No, I didn’t. Because no matter how much they looked at me, they could not get into my mind."
~ Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi is such a big loss for Iranian girls everywhere like myself. She was the first person to help me see my own experiences as an Iranian woman through a feminist lens. None of the women in my family thought me what she taught me.
They certainly may have died trying to rescue one another, but given the time, the circumstances, and the environment we now live in, it still doesn’t sit right with me that the bodies of three young women were all found in the early hours of the morning like that.
Why did all three supposedly enter the water fully clothed? Maybe I’d understand two, if they had quickly jumped in to rescue the first, but all three being found drowned fully clothed just seems odd to me.
I hope we’re provided with further information as the case is investigated.
I can't find it now but recently saw someone describe being an interdisciplinary artist as "doing crop rotation on your brain" and I can't think of a better descriptor
I am disgusted to hear that the University of Hertfordshire is closing English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History and Creative Writing undergraduate degrees. 1/5
A former paint maker who lost his 12-year career due to the Windrush scandal & lost his home as a result says after half a decade of fighting for compensation he has been awarded £1,147 for loss of employment by the Home Office scheme.
i just feel like this app isn’t nuanced enough to discuss why a man born in 1914, who was arrested in 1946 for a “homosexual act”, may have advised a fellow actor to stay quiet on gay rights. i think people villainizing him need to get a grip
To be clear, this isn’t a story of Alec Guinness being homophobic. Alec Guinness was bisexual and was arrested for cruising when he was younger. This is a very sad story of how queer people had to hide themselves and assimilate into a deeply homophobic industry.