@georginaroche.bsky.social
Editor & Translator | Passionate about dismantling systems of oppression in relation to each other and to the earth 🌍 | Social and behaviour change Writing and thinking about #VAWG #ecofeminism #AIethics #neurodiversity. Views are my own.
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
Worth remembering
Let's remind ourselves of what #InternationalWomensDay is really about - solidarity and movement building to fight for fair pay for all women and for our domestic labour to be recognised. If there's one thing you do this #IWD, join a trade union: welevelup.org/blog/its-tim...
The Green surge shows British politics has reached a turning point - and it has surprisingly little to do with Zack Polanski | Aditya Chakrabortty
Content warning: Detailed descriptions of coercive control, physical & emotional abuse.
Respect's Make a Change team worked with delivery partner @covhavenwa.bsky.social & CoventryLive to share survivor Jaime's story and raise awareness of domestic abuse.
www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventr...
So refreshing to see @jessasatomp.bsky.social calling for a cultural shift to address the serious gaps in responding to #DomesticAbuse within the #NHS just weeks into her new role.
With women attending A&E up to 15 times before getting support for domestic abuse, there is much to be done!
If you teach #MediaAndCrime this is a good example of the dangers of #AISlop and how it relates to #AgendaSettingTheory via #Disinformation
The poisoning of our #InfoEcology can have serious consequences for our #criminological understanding of events
#criminology
Yule ≠ Christmas
Yule is one of the oldest winter solstice festivals, with origins among the ancient Norse thousands of years ago.
Although today it’s heavily associated with, and even confused with, Christmas, the celebration existed long before Christianity. 🧵⬇️
Congratulations to @jessasatomp.bsky.social on her appointment as Violence Against Women and Girls Adviser to the Department of Health & Social Care 👏
Reform of the NHS response is urgently needed and we hope this marks the start of much more collaboration between the DHSC and the VAWG sector.
We should all be deeply concerned when the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that young people are experiencing the highest rates of #DomesticAbuse (16-19 and 20-24 YOs). Analysis from Refuge: refuge.org.uk/news/new-ons... #VAWG
‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: #Cop30 avoided total failure with last-ditch deal
- It took some oblique wording, but Saudi Arabia made a vital last-minute concession
Read how it all went down
By Fiona Harvey
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In the last few months, we've seen conversations about #ViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls hijacked by an anti-migrant agenda that spreads myths and harms survivors.
All women and girls deserve for us to confront the reality of VAWG, so we can pave the way in ending it.
#16Days
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
🚨BREAKING -- Five UN special rapporteurs have condemned Britain's proscription of Palestine Action as unnecessary and authoritarian.
"We are concerned at the seemingly unjustified use of counter-terrorism laws against protest activity in a democratic society", they write.
This really isn't the first dodgy @BBC edit but it's certainly the one that counts because delegitimising striking miners in 1984 or undermining Corbyn in 2019 apparently don't matter. Some thoughts for @LRB blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
“You may find it helpful to think that ‘neurodiverse’ includes everybody in the universe. ‘Neurodivergent’ refers to individuals or groups of people whose brains work differently, for example, autistic people or those with ADHD or dyslexia.” @theconversation.com
#ADHD #Dyslexia #ConsciousLanguage
When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
Jaw-dropping stat that the deceptively named 'Rosebank' oil field off the coast of Scotland would produce emissions equal to those from the 28 lowest income countries in the world combined! #StopRosebank #COP30
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻 Real feminism means showing up for everyone harmed by patriarchy and misogyny - no exceptions, no conditions.
And this is exactly why Feminist Greens exists.
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The curious episode of the mass deportation bill that almost nobody noticed offers unflattering insights into our political culture. The Conservatives have had to retreat from an unprecedented approach that owed far too much to the spirit of Idi Amin
www.easterneye.biz/immigration-...
foodaidforgaza.org
Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exciting to see Make a Change in the hourly news today from 6am through to 7pm! Tune in below 👇
www.makeachange.uk.net #Coventry #DomesticAbuse #VAWG
The #ECHR was Britain’s response to WW2 fascist regimes. With authoritarianism on the rise again, we’d be mad to give up the protections it provides. Tell your MP we won’t let that happen! actionstorm.org/petitions/pr...
“If degrowth and the management of our resources continue to be seen as perversions of society, then we are in desperate need for the most perverted, subversive, disruptive and renegade deviants as a matter of urgency. Because these are the only humans who can survive”
Respect stands in solidarity with @lawrsuk.bsky.social @sbsisters.bsky.social, @evawuk.bsky.social and Hibiscus who earlier this week stood in solidarity outside the Home Office in a peaceful demonstration, demanding an end to the Government's Immigration White Paper.
#ScrapTheWhitePaper
On Saturday, a woman of Punjabi heritage was raped in a racist attack in Walsall.
Last month, a Sikh woman was raped in a racist attack in Oldbury.
These horrifying attacks show how racism and misogyny feed each other — fuelled by the rise of fascism and hate.
‘Extinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe.’
Lorraine Daston reads 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥: 𝘈𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯by Sadiah Qureshi.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...