Rosa Campbell

Sexual violence has been both endemic and normalised within many British police forces — and sexual violence against girls from working class backgrounds has long been ignored by the wider British state. Sometimes the obvious answer is, in fact, the correct answer. Nobody cared about these girls.

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK!

A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.

But ‘all the feminist strength in American cannot compare with the powerful tool of thousands of Chrisitian women praying and fasting, calling on God to heal our land (II Chronicles 7:14) and to defeat the ERA.'

Thanks for your work!

also reminded of how much women of the New Right helped to build this myth from late 1970s on. Beverley LaHaye wrote to her 100s of 1000s of "concerned" women to pray against the ERA & elite 'feminists with their high-powered media support, millions of dollars, and backing by ex-Presidents.’

M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).

excited to read this!

I love Anthea Taylor's work and this one chimes with my own project on Shere Hite, especially making sense of reader letters. 💌 Clever, clever cover too!

It’s our movements that did it. For tenants rights, for Palestine and yes, the me too movement!

People left and right love to hate on #metoo but without a mass movement against sexual violence Mamdani would never have been able to call Cuomo a sexual predator & have it stick!

❤️ zohran mamdani ❤️

Sometimes in life money is not enough

omg if you had been accused of countless charges of sexual harassment would you really go after the endorsement from BILL CLINTON???????

Thinking of u NYC!🗽

Got my community organiser fingers crossed for Zohran Mamdani.

We are all worth more than Cuomo with the pre- #MeToo politics, the bullshit flyers, the racism, the same old yakety yak.

fabulous! and thank you @sandyosullivan.bsky.social

wow! amazing to hear that story, Cristy. Thank you.

‘We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’: a role for historians in these genocidal times Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)

well done @zorasimic.bsky.social, Jordy and Ben Silverstein.

this is one of those articles that opens things up and makes it possible for others to say things too.

So, let's say it together: Free, free Palestine.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

and a great reminder of the power & promise of the international community in standing up to apartheid. then. now.

loved this!

and lots of surprises...

"Amandla initially performed American songs...replicating voices such as Barry White, performing for audiences in Angola who were fond of American music until...one of the ANC leaders instructed them to sing South African songs instead."

wow! I'm writing a book about sex, feminism and the culture war of the 80s through Shere Hite and her book The Hite Report.

would LOVE to connect with other writers in London working on creative non-fiction projects! drop me a line 💌
reposts welcome!

https://owlsintowels.org/

Omg, 😍.

“This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.”

owlsintowels.org

The fascist win if you lose your compassion for other people. That's part of the war. You have to keep compassion.

A book is held up amid a surge of green. Sadiah Qureshi, Vanished: An Unnatural history of extinction' the cover reads. A historical image of a wooly mammoth skeleton, alongside a living elephant with some people nearby, is the cover image.

A dedication in Urdu and English, which reads 'Reader, let us create worthwhile futures. Amid vanishing possibilities, we can still choose redress, reciprocity, and renewal.

There is no better place to open this beautiful book by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social than on my sittin' log by my little patch of brookside in the birdwood. It is a place where imagining worthwhile futures feels small but possible.

honestly, if you're blowing that dog whistle so hard so the right -wing press will be ~intrigued about whether or not you quoted enoch powell & knock farage off the front page for one day you have lost.

if starmer was serious about tackling 'a nation of strangers' he would bring in rent controls today.

since moving to London in 2013, I've moved 11 times. of course my neighbours and I were "strangers." Now, I have housing that's a little more secure, I looked after my neighbour's baby yesterday.

Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake This cake. It confounds me. It delights me. I never ever thought I would be in raptures about the joyfulness of a — yes — vegan chocolate cake. I now make this as my chocolate cake of choice for peop...

Just finished making this great vegan chocolate cake to fuel the London Renters Union branch meeting tomorrow.

Thanks @nigella.bsky.social for ur sumptuous cake and sumptuous politics 🌹🧁

www.nigella.com/recipes/dark...

*IYKYK emojis

The Routledge Handbook of the Global 1980s The 1980s was a decade of enormous global change. Upheaval from the top of governments to the bottom of societies saw a new world order begin to emerge. A new form of capitalism redefined global econo...

Pleased to have an essay coming out on global women's peace camps of the 1980s here.

I loved thinking about women's visits to Greenham Common including Nawal El Saadawi 🕷️🕸️ 🌎 💜 ☮️*

& alongside such an all-star cast of great historians!

www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

there is also just so much body hair in this book! you can see her hairy underarm in the image above. But the cookbook metaphor makes me think of hair in the dinner, the soup, the icing, the SEPARATED MAYO omg.

I think @vittles.bsky.social might find this funny and curious too.

I find it so funny that 'the joy of sex' is modeled on 'the joy of cooking'. A 'cordon bleu guide to lovemaking.'

"A cookbook tells a novice how to tackle a live lobster, what to do when the mayonnaise separates" so this book covers "human heterosexuality…fantasies and staple diet."

Thinking of all my honeys running the #Londonmarathon today in these warm conditions.

You all got me round my 10k this morning.

What a beautiful sport. It has utterly changed my life 👟💕

We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.

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