Liberal Hollywood is naked and afraid
Cheers may have greeted Stephen Colbert’s win but the awards show bore many reminders of the industry’s fragile state.
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Liberal Hollywood is naked and afraid
Cheers may have greeted Stephen Colbert’s win but the awards show bore many reminders of the industry’s fragile state.
https://bit.ly/48qsj4o
'If 2020 was the year you needed to listen, 2025 is the year you need to actually do something'
New article from me in @glamouruk.bsky.social on things to do to combat the far right and racism right now after the marches on Saturday:
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/far-...
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
12.09.2025 20:42 — 👍 8251 🔁 2389 💬 382 📌 389is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?
01.09.2025 14:18 — 👍 861 🔁 323 💬 36 📌 8For @theobserveruk.bsky.social I report on the Gen Z women of the anti-migration movement here in Britain and Europe their impact online and offline. What is their message? Who supports this? Is this helpful? I spoke to numerous authors and academics to find out more:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
For @theobserveruk.bsky.social I report on the Gen Z women of the anti-migration movement here in Britain and Europe their impact online and offline. What is their message? Who supports this? Is this helpful? I spoke to numerous authors and academics to find out more:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I wrote about not having children and my mother's advice on why you should (or should not) have children either for The Guardian @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Looking for an expert in Scottish law, specifically looking at sexual assault, for a story in Glamour UK #journorequest
31.07.2025 15:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0'Statements of solidarity without meaningful guardrails and a lack of consequence for trolls means the problem will only persist'
words in Marie Claire UK on women's football and racism:
www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/health-...
Being black in the UK feels like an olympic sport at times.
20.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm this month's guest writer in The Logging Club newsletter, discussing the yearning I have for the children to be able to log into child-centric spaces online. So much fun working with @adelewalton.bsky.social - whose book you should read if you have not!!
open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
30.06.2025 14:15 — 👍 7881 🔁 1398 💬 189 📌 108happy pride month. that’s right. july is pride month too. in fact it’s pride year, bitches. the pride will continue until rights improve.
01.07.2025 04:51 — 👍 5493 🔁 1767 💬 9 📌 2Avon & Somerset police tasered its own race relations advisor, harassing him twice. The officer was cleared. You’d think they’d focus on their own racism www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
30.06.2025 16:50 — 👍 318 🔁 144 💬 7 📌 13I am the least cool writer in this series but was so excited to write for The Guardian's Unexpected Pride series. I wrote about the Lumineers, late nights on Tumblr and why fiddles are oddly soothing for a teenage girl:
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I wanted games back just not like this!!
17.06.2025 12:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Recognising that this misogynistic template is what the internet is working with, it is no wonder we are now at the age of AI generated revenge porn because what is it, if not a progression of the entitlement men have felt towards women and the lashing out that occurs when we don't give them that?
12.06.2025 19:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The internet and social media platforms mainly being created ultimately to service creepy men explains so much and really calls back to how misogyny is at the core of everything ffs
12.06.2025 19:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0between that, Google Images being created because of Jennifer Lopez's v revealing green dress and Facebook's prototype being used to rate students' attractiveness, it really is quite striking and grim just how much of the modern internet was created by and for sleazy men
11.06.2025 08:24 — 👍 2169 🔁 573 💬 9 📌 42New from me in @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the need to bring back kid-centric spaces online and the nostalgia I have for my childhood introduction to the internet.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
New column from me in this week's issue of @theneweuropean.bsky.social (Rather The New World) on that attempt at a rally by racists in Birmingham and how racists have evolved! You can see it in print and online:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/michaela-mak...
I wrote about the cozying up the British and American right have been doing with one another and are now emboldened to do last December, so Farage's remarks on family and abortion should not be a surprise.
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/farage-trump...
A grey and light brown bunny wears a white and blue crocheted hat with a red and pink flower, lying on a pink towel.
27.05.2025 15:23 — 👍 2485 🔁 232 💬 26 📌 11Thank you 🥺🥺🥺 that means a lot
23.05.2025 12:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Wait this sounds like I did something illegal, I didn't I'm just depressed.
23.05.2025 11:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I really need to leave the country for a few days omg
23.05.2025 11:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Here is the article!
migrantwomenpress.com/2024/11/27/w...
In print with a really cool illustration of my face! Thank you to Women Migrant Press for giving me the space to write about this:
23.05.2025 11:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I would also like to know because I'd like to visit friends and family without being snatched up
23.05.2025 11:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0it's especially disappointing to see people my age (Gen Z) supporting these people but also demonstrates the information crisis we're in. We have access to so much and yet, there is a lack of moral comprehension (if that is the way to phrase it)
17.05.2025 15:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0