Prof Caro Bainbridge, PhD, FRSA

Gutted to have missed the Liverpool launch of The Nerve due to celebrating my mother’s birthday - would that I could have made this the party to be at! Can’t wait to get stuck into today’s issue.

I’m still finding my way on here and on Substack, so I’d be very grateful for your thoughts/comments/shares! 🙏

Beyond the Symptom #2: Breaking the Obedience Trap in Leadership Where obedience ends, leadership begins

Beyond the Symptom: Breaking the Obedience Trap in Leadership
From convent walls to corporate corridors, what happens when obedience collapses.

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Rebel Nuns and the Habit of Disobedience Where the habit ends and the self begins

Rebel Nuns and the Habit of Disobedience
On home, selfhood, and the sacred art of refusal - plus a cultural “Shot in the Arm”.
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Culture on the Couch #2: Obedience Quick takes on the news headlines that tell us who we really are

Culture on the Couch #2: Obedience is a habit that can be broken
A hot take on the rebel nuns and the quiet psychology of saying no:
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Three linked essays from The Culture Fix, all free to read:

Back from a Bluesky hiatus with thoughts on obedience, rebellion, and escape. Some habits are hard to keep.

The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams

I’m once again appreciative of @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social today. She stresses the importance of naming what we’re seeing, hearing & experiencing on the world stage & reminds us of the power of social dreaming as a tool to understand the impact of events. We all need to #bemoreZoe
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Holding onto Hope How culture can be your guide rail

The latest edition of The Culture Fix is out now. Enjoy!

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Mechanical bull at Birmingham New Street station

Enormous standard poodle on a train seat

A day full of enormous animals.A giant floof with his fur up on end thanks to upholstery static & the mechanical bull at B’ham New St who needs an engineer to recover. I was meeting the regional director of engineering for Network Rail, so I had a word… The Culture Fix in action 😉 tiny.cc/gmn6001

And it’s out! Ready to read right now - just in time for you to get your weekend leisure lists sorted. Enjoy!

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Logo for a Substack newsletter called The Culture Fix. It shows retro styled images of a cassette player, headphones, a TV set, a book, a portable radio and lots of flowers and leaves. The tagline says ‘dispensing stories to soothe the soul’.

Coming v soon - a Substack called ‘The Culture Fix’ written by me! Please give me a follow if you’re interested in hearing me wax lyrical about how and why culture can give you the shot in the arm that you need to get through whatever’s on your mind 📚 🎥 📺 🎧 🔮

The mournful gaze of cats who are, frankly, *shook* by my decision to have my 8am meeting before serving breakfast #indentured

Late to the party watching #Rivals
Realised just in time for bed that Rupert Campbell-Black/Alex Hassell looks uncommonly like Woody from Toy Story crossed with a Moai. Phew, sleepless night averted 🤣

Call for research proposals for a fully-funded PhD in #Psychoanalysis & Culture @ Ulster University, Belfast

3-year research projects with an emphasis on the object relations tradition of psychoanalysis.

I will supervise the project.

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I’ve decided that I need to get back into my home cocktailing as it’s all about the art of living. Welcome any time!

Doing advent cocktails with a friend. The roll call so far: a gin sour, a mistake in the shape of a shop bought ‘pink ting-a-ling’ 🥴, a last word, and, tonight, a new concoction for me - a tootsie roll. Surprisingly coffee like on the palate. Cracking accompaniment to a mince pie though 😋

As a middle-class woman of a certain age, all I can say is: ‘Thank you, Gregg Wallace’ | Zoe Williams In trying to write his accusers off based on their age, sex and class, the TV presenter has made his disdain for people like me plain to see, writes Zoe Williams

@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social absolutely brilliant here. Her final line is gold.

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💯 What a total 🔧

Feeling really sorry for Gregg Wallace and his fragile masculinity/narcissism this morning #sorrynotsorry Time for us women of a certain age to bring our main character energy - again ✊

‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’

This seems like an appropriate link for my BlueSky debut 😆 Keeping all things crossed that our ‘disenshittification’ era starts right here…

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