Purple and gold embroidered suffrage banner with text including 'Manchester' and 'The fight founded by Mrs Pankhurst 1903'

A sklfully embroidered banner made by UK suffragettes in their workshops was recently found stowed away in a little charity shop in Leeds. The once-forgotten item sold at auction for £13,600 #UnravellingWomensArt

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Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.

But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop

Am standing in for Laura K tomorrow… I’ll be talking to

Energy & Net Zero Sec Ed Miliband
Green leader of Eng & Wales Zack Polanski
Shadow Energy Sec Clare Coutinho
Toby Jones
David Harewood
Former head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg
Emily Maitlis
Adil Ray

See you at 9am, BBC 1

Monochrome photograph featuring a young Black women in an outside space, upper half, holding an umbrella, wearing a checked shirt and apron as well as a small round hat, she looks down to her hands

Dorothea Lange,
Girl with an umbrella,
Louisiana, 1937
#WomensArt

"Unsteady Evening" - my oil painting

7" of Emanuel Rodrigues Ork aka Rico Rodriguez - Rico Special on Island label. It was first released in Jamaica on Randy's label in 1961. The Island 7" was released in 1962. Produced by Randy aka Vincent Chin.

Remembering master trombonist Rico Rodriguez who was born on this day in 1934.

Before moving to London in Dec '61, Rico played on many of Jamaica's big pre-ska tunes. This one for Vincent Chin is a Rico Special...

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#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky #ska #2tone

❤️💜🙌🏾 My next show is in town, ‘With Love, Grief and Fury’ Paperback Launch gig, this Thursday October 16th at the Poetry Pharmacy on Oxford Street join us from 6pm - 7pm! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/with-love-...

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

Monochrome photograph of two Black women walking down a street towards the viewer, the subject to the right looks at the other as if in conversation, while the other looks down as if listening

US activist Angela Davis and novelist Toni Morrison walking together in 1974, by photographer Jill Krementz #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US

Venezuela. That’s why.

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

You might be a bad human when Dr. Jane Goodall calls you out from the grave.

Never let anyone tell you that small acts of resistance don’t matter.

This is a remarkable story of 2 Irish women who stood up against injustice & stood tall. Their courage & defiance, for strangers they would never meet, is a reminder that even the smallest light can burn through the darkest times

When artistry, ingenuity and compassion combine.

Remarkable.

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Prof. Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social has been documenting this administration's authoritarian actions on the Trump Action Tracker: www.trumpactiontracker.info

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A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

One of his greatest poems.

• Seamus Heaney •

Print featuring a vase of large blossoms in purple and red on a patterned covered surface

UK printmaker Vicky Oldfield, Fragile beauties, 2016 #WomensArt

a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you . ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you .

It’s the September round of @alcs.co.uk payments - always a welcome email to get, and enough for a little autumn treat. Authors, I cannot stress how it’s something you should definitely sign up to!

To create potentially profitable private sector opportunities. That’s why they do it. Follow the money.

A bit of James Baldwin today:
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

Print featuring boats with white sails on still blue water with trees in the foreground and buildings in the distance

Sydney Heads (2),
1925, hand coloured woodcut by Margaret Preston, influential Australian printmaker #WomensArt

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

George Frederic Watts, Mammon, 1884-5

Photo of a sculpture in a grassy gield, of a figure facing right created with rust coloured metal parts giving the impression of the subject being blown by a strong wind

Penny Hardy, You Blew Me Away, 2014 #womensart #FridayFeeling

Brian Kilmeade’s “just kill them” comment about homeless people is vile, but the fact that his co-hosts didn’t even blink is equally chilling. It’s a reminder of Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance: if we tolerate the intolerant, we risk letting their toxic views erode the very foundation of society