Michaela Makusha

Looking for an expert in Scottish law, specifically looking at sexual assault, for a story in Glamour UK #journorequest

The Racial Abuse Aimed At Jess Carter Is Undoubtedly Appalling - and Highlights A Worrying Trend In Women's Sport As the sport has grown, so have the eyes on female footballers - and not all of them are looking on with kindness and excitement.

'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.

Hands up - who misses the old internet? Guest newsletter by Michaela Makusha

I'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!!

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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?

happy pride month. that’s right. july is pride month too. in fact it’s pride year, bitches. the pride will continue until rights improve.

Tasered race relations adviser mistaken by police again for wanted man Judah Adunbi is stopped by police a month after an officer was cleared of assaulting him with a taser.

Avon & 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...

My unexpected Pride icon: they were not cool, but bands like Mumford & Sons eased the turmoil of coming out As a queer, black woman raised on jazz and soul, discovering the genre of indie folk felt like an antidote to the guilt and self-loathing I was battling through

I 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

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I wanted games back just not like this!!

Recognising 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?

The 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

between 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

I am 23. I miss Club Penguin and the safe, old days of th... The Wild West of today’s gaming and social media landscape makes me nostalgic for the halcyon days

New 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...

A newer, cleverer kind of racist A failed far right rally in Birmingham highlights how racist activism has evolved in strategy, becoming more subtle and media-savvy

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...

Farage, Trump and abortion The culture war argument over abortion helped Trump get back into the White House. Now Farage wants to use the same trick – can it work over here?

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.

Thank you 🥺🥺🥺 that means a lot

Wait this sounds like I did something illegal, I didn't I'm just depressed.

I really need to leave the country for a few days omg

Here 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:

I would also like to know because I'd like to visit friends and family without being snatched up

it'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)

People Shouldn't Be Surprised That Britain is Still Very Racist "Within British culture and politics is an entrenched denial of racism."

My debut article for Teen Vogue last year is one of my favourites because it's evergreen for people wondering why the UK is like *gestures vaguely* this:

www.teenvogue.com/story/uk-rac...

Gerard Depardieu, Tory Lanez, DDG, Diddy, and Chris Brown all are experiencing a terrible week but then the abuse defenders pop up, ruining my mood.

Apparently I hate Winston Churchill That’s the view of some people on the British right. But getting emotional over history is a sure sign that you’re abusing it for political ends

Latest column from me reflecting on museums and why a myopic view of history is a bad thing.
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/michaela-mak...

taking marriage offers from eu citizens please and thank you

A year older and still scared of geese

Read Marie's new column!! she's great and funny.