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Katie Crosson

@katiecrosson.bsky.social
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Postdoc @womensscreenwork.bsky.social Exeter Film 🌱 Sentimentalist 🌷 PhD in Play for Today 📺 Feminist Screen Theory; Ideology & Aesthetics; Media Histories & Curation; Realism(s) 🌿 [she/her]

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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
To add my two cents: This isn't the first time Sullivan has been implicated in a case of academics having their work and free speech stifled 😘 www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/anti...
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Trans-inclusive academics say they face abuse and censorship
Students and academics say they are bullied and threatened with legal action for opposing ‘gender critical’ views
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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Play for Today is back. What does that mean? Tom May & I interview Special Measures writer Lee Thompson, Big Winners director Emma Turner and Play for Today exec producer Paul Testar tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/tv-i...
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TV Is the Public Talking to Itself
After a difficult start, could the new revival of the BBC’s often radical 1970s and 80s anthology drama series finally have promise?
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.
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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
happy first play for today in 41 years !
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
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Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Great to get @katiecrosson.bsky.social expert take on what the relaunched #PlayforToday strand could be ⬇️ #televisionhistory #tvdrama #mediahistory
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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Couldn’t agree more with this!
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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Great piece from @katiecrosson.bsky.social on PFT's non-negotiables. theconversation.com/play-for-tod...
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Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original
Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 02/09/2025
Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.
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Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original
Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.
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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Play for Today (2025) could foster solidarity between people facing issues that might not immediately appear connected, through a programme that joins up the dots. Here are 9 ways it can live up to its namesake (me for The Conversation) theconversation.com/play-for-tod...
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Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original
Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.
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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Just under three weeks until the belated launch event for Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene at the Barbican. We'll have copies for sale, and Spencer Banks on the panel. And Cinema 1 is the best possible way of seeing the glorious 2016 remaster. Tickets here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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Penda’s Fen (12*) + ScreenTalk with Spencer Banks, Ian Greaves and Gareth Evans | Barbican
David Rudkin’s mystical TV film on paganism, and a discussion with actor Spencer Banks and writer Ian Greaves, whose new book reveals how the masterpiece was made.
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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This is an important point. The 'general public' are now excluded from WAC facilities following the recent policy changes.
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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
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Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...
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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
!!!!!!! words to come www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
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Channel 5 revives BBC’s Play for Today to ‘help shape future of British drama’
Series aims to follow original in tackling ‘thornier issues’, and to support talent from lower-income backgrounds
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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
okay maybe there is an obvious answer to this question because ??? but: how do adults will full time jobs take driving lessons? everything is booked up and 2 hour sessions mon-fri 9-5 ??? please 🚗 help 🚗
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Wendy Russell @archiveswendy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Our brilliant @womensscreenwork.bsky.social post-doc researcher, Jessica Boyall, wrote an excellent piece on Gurinder Chadha for the Recent BFI Blu-ray release of Bhaji on the Beach. Jessica is working on the Gurinder Chadha Collection for the WSW project.
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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Why Cats Meow sounds like a John Berger book you’d pick up feeling bemused and have a life changing experience 40 pages in
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 11/07/2025
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
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Ghouls @julso.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
@bookhaus.bsky.social is a third of the way to its target with 50 days left. Let's guarantee it gets there: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...
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bookhaus - Bristol's radical home
I have managed bookhaus since the beginning. The owners have decided to retire, and I am raising the funds to buy it and carry on our legacy
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Netpol @netpol.org · 02/07/2025
Because of the impending ban on Palestine Action, it seems very likely "To Kill A War Machine" will no longer be available to download after tomorrow evening so get your copy (and details of the last public screenings nationwide) here tokillawarmachine.com
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To Kill a War Machine
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/07/2025
Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action
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Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action
UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warn that proscribing group would conflate protest and terrorism The home secretary is coming under increasing pressure to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action, as UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warned that proscribing the group would conflate protest and terrorism. In two separate letters to Yvette Cooper, the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) lawyers’ group and the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers said that proscribing the group would set a dangerous precedent. Continue reading...
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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
If you need cheering up, or even if you don't, I strongly recommend CMAT's set from earlier.
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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I don’t know. I love this Joseph Fasano poem and have it pinned on my office door but I don’t know what to actually do about any of this.
FOR A STUDENT WHO USED AI TO WRITE A PAPER
Now I let it fall back in the grasses.
I hear you. I know this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious on this earth.
But what are you trying to be free of?
The living? The miraculous task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.
-Joseph Fasano
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is a brand new letter by “Not in Our Name - Women”, a collective group of cisgender women who support the transgender community and object to the false divide between women’s rights and transgender rights. If you’re a cis woman you can sign your support here ⤵️
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Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
(You also do fundamentally need to understand why students cheat, why they don’t perceive it as cheating, what they think the point of higher ed actually is, what other pressures they’re facing around and on top of their studies… to defeat AI we need a cultural shift in what education is *for*)
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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
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Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I’ve signed this letter. If you teach at a UK uni you come into contact with many trans students; they’re no different, apart from the higher barriers to inclusion they face. If you teach queer history, you know that gender diversity is a simple fact. We have to resist this harmful moral panic.
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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New book announcement! Not many single programmes deserve a big long look, but Penda's Fen does. A *lot* went into this and I'm very happy with how it's turned out. I hope you'll all agree when you see it. Out late June but you can pre-order here: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pend...
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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Tom May & I are delighted to announce publication of our co-authored/edited article ‘Spaces for criticism: the Play for Today Viewing Group on work, gender and the body in The Bevellers (1974) and Not for the Likes of Us (1980)’, Open Access in Critical Studies in Television 📺
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I just find it interesting how many British centrists can see the issue when billionaire Elon Musk uses his money and power to influence American law and Government policy to operate how he wants it to, but don’t see the problem when JK Rowling does the same in Britain.
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Richard Dhillon @drricharddhillon.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Solidarity. Always.
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Feeling utterly enraged for all trans people for whom this will be yet another point of erasure. To all trans people, know that you are seen and loved by many of us, despite the continued institutionalisation of hate
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Thomas Willett @thomaswillett.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Today’s Supreme Court ruling on the For Women Scotland case is a disgraceful attack on trans rights. In a process that excluded trans voices and centred anti-trans groups, this is not justice — it’s erasure. We will never stop fighting for our trans community 🏳️‍⚧️
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Peter Campbell @petersoc.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
As we all are.
"(iii) Living in an acquired gender"
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Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEW! MCCS are awarding a limited no of 100% fee waivers for 2025–26 for students who are the first in their family to attend university on these MAs: • MA Cultural Studies • MA Gender, Media and Culture • MA Race, Media and Social Justice Full details: www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
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The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🎬✨On the final day of women's history month - a taster of the fantastic material we have on the women who shaped cinema. ~ Alice Guy-Blaché banner, by Ruby Wright to promote the film 'Be Natural' EXEBD 71789 ~ Marlene Dietrich’s shoes from 'Knight without Armour' EXEBD 71932 #film #WomenFilmmakers
Banner showing a cut-out of Alice Guy-Blaché with a film camera. A pair of pink satin low-heeled shoes with gold laces.
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Wendy Russell @archiveswendy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
BFI Special Collections have two vacancies for a Curator and Assistant Curator. Come join our lovely team! bfijobsandopportunities.bfi.org.uk
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BFI Jobs and Opportunities
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Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
So excited to announce that in April I’ll join @uniofexetercomms.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Curation on the project ‘Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible’! I’ll be working w/ project lead @helenexeter.bsky.social & a wonderful team; still pinching myself.
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