Stella Duffy

In non absurdly-pointless war news, saw the Tracey Emin exhibition @ Tate Modern today. It was GLORIOUS. Meaningful, deeply feminist, interwoven strands of the effects of racism, classism and sexism, life and death and meaning. Stunning.

3000 Lesbians Go To York + Q&A | Showtimes and Tickets This film tells an extraordinary tale: from 1998-2008 thousands of queer women flocked to York Lesbian Arts Festival for a weekend of books, art, fun – and a legendary disco!  You’re ...

From 1998-2008, thousands of queer women went to York for YLAF - the York Lesbian Arts Festival. It was a glorious annual event & trans-inclusive in its DNA. This great film about YLAF is in York this w/e for #IWM2026 & a lovely full circle moment. www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

Exactly this.

take a shot every time you hear the words "just glad the queen isn't here to see this"

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, BBC understands It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.

It's definitely a start. If you can't get them for the dire atrocities they're (in)famous for, get them for something else. Very Al Capone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a "global criminal enterprise" that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,...

Millions of Epstein files suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says.

Can anyone read this in any other way than that Epstein was using cryptocurrency to fund Bannon's antics with Farage, Johnson, Salvini and Le Pen?

This can be the site for breaking news, if journalists choose to break news on it. It is as simple as that. And that is not utopian. It is precisely what has happened the last week or so. If you weren't on BlueSky, you were late to each development.

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

Brilliant. And isn’t it a joy to bring our old/er knowledge to bear?! Virago is publishing the non-fiction, def non-academic book of my thesis on the embodied (and deeply existential) experience of postmenopause - the vital third act!

(also, now a load of PhD questions - what topic, what methodology, how are you enjoying writing up ETC!!!)

yay for starting to write up your thesis! I'm just at the end of 2nd draft of the not-academic-book-of-my-thesis and NOW all that academic work is coming to fruition, not that I didn't learn loads and not that I'm not loving teaching/supervising but now it's come back to writing, my always love ...

Are you currently writing? If so, then of course you need to do a fiddly time-consuming but ultimately satisfying job.

Godot. Live it’s funny, poignant, awful, beautiful. All the things, often all at once. As text it’s basically “huh?” + WTF? = poetry. Which is fine if the people being taught love poetry. If not, it kills Godot for them and that ought to be a crime.

The costs of living Today is the 9th anniversary of my second cancer diagnosis. This week is also the 23rd anniversary of my first cancer diagnosis. I bloody love being alive. I’m very grateful to the NHS, to my…

On #WorldCancerDay here's an old blog about the cost of cancer. (recently added osteoporosis to my own price list. Our culture expects deep gratitude at every cancer survival, and while these feelings may come (& go) the cost of survival is real and merits attention. stelladuffy.blog/2023/01/10/t...

Yep.

Utterly infuriating.

also though, didn't need that double apostrophe ... I blame the ire.

No More Stiff Upper Lip Don’t suffer in silence. Therapy can change lives. Brought to you by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Aargh! BACP’s ‘because you’re worth it’ LIPSTICK SHADES campaign to encourage 50-something women to therapy! Tone deaf, deeply patronising, & treating over-50s women’s’ lives like a Cosmo quiz from 1975. I’m truly astonished they went with this, however genuine the intent. nomorestiffupperlip.co.uk

It’s tone deaf, sexist, and utterly trivialising. Appalling.

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Just about to leave a ribbon in my hazel tree!

It's weird how after every good thing/gain (even if we don't call it a victory) people circle up to insist we shouldn't celebrate. Celebrating is not how people give up, in my experience; believing we can't win, never win, and have no power is (with a side of joylessness).

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Completely agree.

I don’t think we’re disagreeing particularly, I do however think all therapeutic work needs to take situatedness into consideration - our own and the client’s. And the personal is inevitably political. My whiteness is in the room, especially so with my Black clients for eg.

None of which is to suggest we cannot be aware of our biases, it is however to name that we cannot be aware of all our biases (they wouldn't be biases if we could) AND that psychotherapy has often been used to prop up a white/privileged interpersonal (rather than intrapersonal) perspective.

Social Justice and the Person-Centred Approach: Celebrating, Challenging, Evolving — Mick Cooper Training and Consultancy This edited talk, presented as the 2025 Melissa Harte Memorial Lecture (4th Feb 2025), explores the contribution that person-centred thinking and practice can make to social justice; the limitations o...

on the other hand (and more recently): mick-cooper.squarespace.com/new-blog/202...

I haven’t. Thanks for the rec.