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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 20h

Good to see: a much needed statement

Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Amazing poem by William E Stafford: calming and grounding. A counterpoint to this one www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52955/... and to my work on memory and memorials. Thanks for posting/re=posting @rajoyce.bsky.social @cjfrieman.bsky.social. Second stanza in thread and here tinyurl.com/3vk6zapc

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The End and the Beginning

Someone has to push the rubble to the side of the road, so the corpse-filled wagons can pass. Someone has to get mired in scum and ashes, sofa springs,…

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reading this story devastated me in the way only the best writing can. It is personal and specific, but also national and even global in scope. It's about one family's deciisons, but also about the loss we're all feeling, seeing our hopeful strivings for justice pushed back.

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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Powerful statements here, especially on allyship. Thank you.

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Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Really excellent piece on what the hell is going on with public inquiries. On all the ways they wear families out, and reinstate legal authority. And all the beautiful moments that kin create in their struggle to reclaim life and love

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 11/09/2026

OPINION: "Scholars of collective memory, also called public memory, have long argued that societies do not remember the past simply by preserving it," Stephanie A. Martin writes. buff.ly/ukGgvL3

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Opinion | What We Forget When We Remember 9/11

Stephanie A. Martin writes about how public memory affects how we collectively remember the attacks on September 11, 2001.

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Read the piece below by Anil Dash about what '9/11' was actually like for New Yorkers. But also read this year's piece: www.anildash.com/2026/09/11/2...

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At 25, we are all New Yorkers, again - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We don't need to play by Elon Musk's rules. In the Commons yesterday, I commended Lisa Nandy on her decision to leave X and take DCMS off the platform. I left more than a year ago, for reasons that will be familiar to people on BlueSky. I would like to see the whole government follow her lead.

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Should be very much worth attending if you can:

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"If the Arday affair is to mean something more than his individual downfall, it should have those of us involved in the university confront once and for all the inequitable foundation of the university as an institution and its unequal distribution of resources."

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Love and catastrophe are not opposed but entwined." This looks very much like a must read to me. Open Access too.

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Human being versus AI: “our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies” Sheila Hayman

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Please join us for the @leverhulmecal.bsky.social inaugural annual lecture with the incomparable Prof. N. Katherine Hayles. Kate’s work is foundational (& not in a foundation model kind of way…) #LLMs #AI #fiction

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Two days ago, and a week after Arday resigned, The Guardian published this article. It betrays a shameful lack of research. You can sing a jingle or crack a joke and still be 'non-verbal'. It's called echolalia. Are your other articles on Arday any more credible? I'm not convinced after this one.

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‘Always cracking jokes’: questions raised over Jason Arday’s claim he was non-verbal as a child

Fellow pupils at his primary school have challenged Cambridge academic’s story, though others support it

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Thread with extensive summaries of the report.

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We should be remembering this. How easy it is to forget. #Hiroshima

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Joe Okonkwo @joeokonkwo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal." — James Baldwin, born on this day in 1924 #AmWriting

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A Bed for the Night: Bertolt Brecht

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Golwg360 @golwg.360.cymru · 21/07/2026

‘Y rhyw anghywir a’r lle anghywir’ – dathlu chwe degawd o waith Mary Lloyd Jones Arddangosfa newydd yn dathlu chwe degawd o waith un o artistiaid pwysicaf Cymru. ✍️ Guto Ynyr Elis

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‘Y rhyw anghywir a’r lle anghywir’ – dathlu chwe degawd o waith Mary Lloyd Jones

Arddangosfa newydd yn dathlu chwe degawd o waith un o artistiaid pwysicaf Cymru.

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"It is yet another foreclosure of the paths of unanticipated writing and creativity. Books torn to scanned pages, & pages to tokens" Thread.

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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

An excellent and very well articulated video on the rise of transphobia (US centric), but as valid in the UK as in the USA and globally… Possibly the best and most succinct video out there without the usual Youtube BS that content creators include. Just straight to camera. youtu.be/Vt1S0p15afQ?...

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The Real Trans Tipping Point

YouTube video by The View From Her Side

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The EHRC’s bathroom ban is set to pass its parliamentary stage today, despite widespread opposition. It doesn’t take effect straight away, that is through a process called ‘commencement’ before it comes into force. Read more, and our joint response: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/post/joint-s...

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Joint statement: EHRC Code of Practice passes Parliamentary stage

Joint statement from Scottish Trans, Trans+ Solidarity Alliance and TransActual: Today marks the end of the 40-day Parliamentary stage of the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice, with the government refusin...

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is amazing; 40 women’s organizations standing in support of trans people’s human rights against this government’s targeting of trans people against the EHRC transphobic code. Trans people and cis women’s rights are not in opposition.

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Women’s organisations speak up against the EHRC's Code - LIVE

I’m Women’s organisations speak up against the EHRC's updated Code of Practice We are a collection of women's organisations, networks and community groups that work with and support women across th...

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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

THIS DESERVES REPOSTING… This was posted online quite a while ago, but the message remains powerful…

Written by a cisgender woman and ally in response to a cisgender man's hateful
comment on a transgender woman's post. "Transgender women existing makes me proud to be a woman. Because it means that being a woman must be something very special if someone born with all the privileges and supposed advantages of being male is not only willing to give that up, but go through so much pain and anguish, emotionally and physically, to achieve what some of us are born
with and take for granted every day."

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Brilliant and inspiring from Stuart Hall. His thinking is vital and important now as it always was. I was so privileged to be taught by him at the Open University. More extracts from the same amazing lecture to be found here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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STUART HALL: THROUGH THE PRISM OF AN INTELLECTUAL LIFE - YouTube

A newly discovered recording of a seminal lecture now available for viewing.

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Archaeologists have an ethical and scholarly responsibility to disrupt transphobic rhetoric, practices and interpretive frameworks in our discipline. We must ... center the social and historical variation of gender and embodiment beyond biologically essentialist and imperial binaries"

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Excellent by @mukulika.bsky.social. Shame that the ability to book seats has disrupted sociality on railway trains...

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thread and links well worth reading

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Starmer is refusing to allow debate time for the Early Day Motion about the EHRC ‘guidance’, despite it being signed by over 140 MPs. If we get 100,000 signatures on this petition we can force a debate.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

Refugees

They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way

(now read from bottom to top)

Brian Bilston

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"The code is a labyrinth of nonsense...Think of it like a choose-your-own-adventure story from hell."

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Watch this clip of Mr Justice Bright's remarks. Not claimants, victims or survivors, but heroes.

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

"Retrieval...re-enters the past to reclaim suppressed histories, materialities and political possibilities that continue to animate subaltern life-worlds and subaltern political demands."

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

"I felt as if I had joined an underground network"

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Jenny Edkins @jennyedkins.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

An absolute must read. 'Our sudden reversal on trans rights is a massive red flag for our political and social system...You know the...poem that starts “first they came for”? ... We are our first minority in, and the majority of us have done nothing.' Trans people should not have to fight this alone

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