Jody Day (Gateway Women)

Who's going to be there for me when I'm old? Introducing Alterkin (Alternative Kinship Circles)

With 100+ comments, my essay on what a small group of us in a rural Irish location are doing to support each other as people ageing without children is getting a LOT of attention! jodyday.substack.com/p/whos-going...

Leaving nothing behind The liberation of no legacy

What is your relationship to the concept of 'legacy' as someone without children? Mine is complex, and it's changed RADICALLY over time. Free to read: jodyday.substack.com/p/leaving-no...

Square image with text 'The So Now What Podcast: Episode 169. With Lana Manikowski and Jody Day'. Photo of Lana Manikowski standing wearing red top and jeans. Inset photo of Jody Day with long silver hair and black and white top.

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This podcast interview with me dropped today. I listened to it in the bath this morning- it's a goodie!

An advert for a Gateway Women event entitled ‘Eldering in a time of collapse’ this Saturday.

‘Eldering in a Time of Collapse’, Sat 29 March 2025, 8pm GMT (Free, live & recorded). Looking forward to this conversation very much this Saturday - thx for inviting me back @gatewaywomen.bsky.social More info and registration below:

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Eldering is a verb Surviving your own bullshit

"As our world's natural and social structures continue to unravel, steady hearts, minds and souls will be needed to hold us. This has always been one of the roles of Elders. But in a society that lionises youth and demonises aging, what does it mean...?"
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Don't Hesitate, by Mary Oliver. If You suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. It. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

My wife shared this today. She is the best.

#poetry

In movies, a superhero arrives around now. In the absence of that happening, I am willing to coordinate a global army of middle aged women to sort everything out. We have a lot of rage. And also combat trousers from the 90s.

Winston Churchill visiting the White House in 1942. Not wearing a suit. #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

Will review for you! I know how much of a difference they make x

Did my bit. Lovely mental & emotional holiday, thank you. Great characters and cracking plot .

In praise of complexity and beauty and all the times they're the same thing.

Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...

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I COULD get in the top ten... if a few more people bought my lovely escapist book for 99p...That would be your good deed for the day, AND you'll get a really good read!
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Don't think single people get enough credit for doing life alone. Rent/mortgage is double, household responsibility and life admin is down to one person, you're your own emotional support, holidays are more expensive, you've to trap and transport human sacrifices for the solstice bonfire solo, etc.

Is it time we cancelled Valentine’s Day? Consider how you can celebrate love in more authentic and inclusive ways.

A considered piece by Yuthika Girme at Simon Frazer University, Canada.

Left - female Asian elephant. Right - Jody Day, author of the piece is stroking the elephant's mouth under her trunk. In the background are the mountains of northern Thailand. Photo taken at Doilim Elephant Sanctuary. Overlaid with the tittle of Substack essay "Let's flood the zone with love: liberate your heart this Valentine's Day" and the URL jodyday.substack.com

For Valentine's Day, let's remember that LOVE is a liberatory energy. "Let’s liberate love, and each other, any and every way we can." Free to read at jodyday.substack.com/p/lets-flood...

So looking forward to my hard copy arriving in a few weeks. So much of this book has stayed with me, like a soft moss growing on my heart!

Indeed! Ireland can be a very tough crowd for single (and non-mother) women!

I'm away from Ireland right now, but would love to have heard the jaws dropping the floor for this segment!

Ye Gods! Get well soon xxx

This is good.

An opportunity to participate in research about how coaching can help individuals with concealable stigmatised identities navigate inclusivity issues in the workplace. “Concealable stigmatised identity” (CSI) is a term used in literature to describe a part of a person' s identity which can be kept hidden from others, and which is socially stigmatized, devalued and negatively stereotyped. Examples include sexual orientation, illness, disability, neurodiversity, hidden ethnicity, class, parental status, gender identity, religion. The research will use the term ‘CSI’ because it is used in the literature, it is not intended to label individuals. Concealing information to avoid stigma can interfere with a person’s ability to authentically be themselves, contrasting with rhetoric about bringing one’s whole self to work. Coaching for diversity has focused on visible characteristics, and the aim of this research is to explore how coaching can help people with CSIs navigate inclusivity challenges they may face in the workplace. This research hopes to add to professional practice by providing coaches and coach educators with insights, in this under-researched area, on how to work with individuals with CSIs in the workplace, and on a broader level potentially contribute to workplace inclusivity. You may be internal or external to the organisation. The coaching did not have to be specifically for an individual’s CSI, but your coachee would have discussed their CSI and its workplace impact with you. What does taking part involve? Taking part involves participating in a 60-90 minute interview by Zoom with Sophia Andeh between January and September 2024. All information shared within this research will be kept strictly confidential (subject to legal limitations). If you have any questions, or to obtain a participant information sheet, please email Sophia at 18024638@brookes.ac.uk

Have you had coaching at work around a 'CSI' - 'concealable stigmatised identity' such as sexual orientation, illness, disability, neurodiversity, hidden ethnicity, class, parental status, gender identity, religion, etc?

Interviewees needed for PhD research.

Email Sophia 18024638@brookes.ac.uk

What a lovely surprise to see my book popping up here! You have cheered me no end!

In honor of black inventors.

#BlackHistoryMonth

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!

#litmags #writer #writingcommunity

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Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies
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attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

We Are Not Who They Think We Are: How Human Nature Matters In This Emergency Rebecca Solnit 04 Feb 2025 — 10 min read Welcome to the emergency--or rather Meditations in an Emergency, this newsletter, not the national emergency, which is of course very unwelcome. What's striking to me about all the things our morally and imaginatively impoverished billionaires, notably Musk and Trump, right now is: they do not expect or imagine or understand consequences. Any of them– their theory of change seems to be that they are going to do stuff and then it will be done. Like they're moving furniture around, like you and I and the trans and immigrant communities and federal workers and Canada and Mexico are just so many sofas and chairs that are going to sit where they place us. Like we're inanimate objects. Maybe everything is dead in the sad lonely worldview inside their head. Which would also explain their recalcitrance about climate and nature: if you see it as a collection of inert objects rather than an intricate living system in which what you do to any one part may affect the whole, you grant yourself more license to meddle. But today I'm here to talk about the human--and human nature, and how they misunderstand that too.

from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...

Goodness! The memories! Thank you xxx