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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Harlinah Teoh, creates botanical ceramic art inspired by walking in the Australian landscape #WomensArt

A group of six vases in different shapes and sizes all ddcorated with flowering plant designs, all on a white surface against a white background

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/09/2026

As the tree regrows, we will work with partners and local communities to celebrate the tree’s legacy but - for now - the stump has grown a thick ring of new shoots which are two to three feet tall, and we're filled with hope by the way nature is taking its course. Photos: Annapurna Mellor

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/09/2026

Today marks three years since the iconic Sycamore Gap tree was illegally felled. We're pleased to bring you new images which reveal how the stump is growing, a sure sign that the tree is in recovery.

The stump is hidden by a thick ring of green shoots

Showing tall shoots, growing above the stump

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) & her sculpture Après la tempête (After the Storm), ca. 1876. As well as sculpting, the artist was also a late 19thc stage actress #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring the upper half of a white woman in 19th century dress with hat and lace top

White sculpture resembling a sitting figure holding a recling limp figure

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a hare standing upright facing left looking right against a pink background with star shapes

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote this 👇 open.substack.com/pub/vicderby...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

'Our life in July' embroidery by Juliana Damian, Llully Cooperative, Puno, Peru - co-op formed to ensure women earn fair wages #womensart

Pictorial textile artwork featuring figures in various activities, such as ploughing and, fishing, as well as aninals such as llamas and sheep in a rural landscape with mountains

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Maija Isola (1927– 2001) Finnish designer of printed textiles who created over 500 patterns, including Unikko ("Poppy") #womensart

Fabric design with repeated simple red and pink flower motifs against a white background

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 19/06/2026

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

A victorious Andy Burnham MP (24,937 votes), as the result of the Makerfield by-election is announced, flanked by defeated candidates Count Binface (a bloke in a vaguely sci-fi costume with a large bin for a helmet; 95 votes) and Robert Pownall (who is in a full body fox costume, holding a sign reading "Protect British Wildlife"; 18 votes). There are some other candidates there just out of shot but that's not important right now.

Photo: Jon Super/AP

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

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Greens suggest they will properly contest byelection in blow to Burnham

Statement follows speculation party would not field candidate in Makerfield or barely fight seat

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Untitled, 1932 By Sophie Taeuber-Arp Avant Garde artist #Womensart

Abstract painting with two triangular forms in red abd blue, four circles and thin black lines all against a white background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

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Chronic Insanity @chronicinsanity.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Free dramaturgy workshops coming up! As part of our 2026 Dramaturgy Department, we have a monthly workshop series exploring all the different facets of dramaturgy for different types of theatre and performance. Supported by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/cc/digital-t...

A pink opalescent background behind the words "Words Without Walls by Katy Naylor"

A pink opalescent background behind the words “Shaping a solo show by Ben Macpherson"

A pink opalescent background behind the words “Making the Story Manifest by Tim Ralphs"

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Please ask your MP to attend the secondary breast cancer debate in parliament this Thursday and speak up for people affected by the disease. You can use this hand link. It only takes a moment 🙏 action.breastcancernow.org/secondary-br...

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Secondary breast cancer debate - ask your MP to be there

On Thursday 5 February, MPs will be holding a debate on incurable secondary breast cancer. It will be a chance for MPs to raise important issues around data collection and access to life-extending tre...

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Independent Theatre Council @itc-arts.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

DCMS has published it's policy paper on the independent review into Arts Council England www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Arts Council England - an independent review by Baroness Margaret Hodge

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

In 2019 a group of Bolivian indigenous women aka the “Climbing Cholitas” summitted Mount Aconcagua, Argentina (highest point - Southern Hemisphere) The women had previously worked for years as cooks for mostly rich male mountaineers. They climbed in traditional dress #WomensArt

Photo of a row of five smiling Bolivian women in colourful tops and skirts holding mountajn climbing equipment while standing on ice with a mountain ridge behind them

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October. - Virginia Woolf #Womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

😭 IG newberlinlibrary

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Young Syrian refugees paint murals at Zataari camp Jordan, to overcome trauma and memories of violence #womensart

Photo of a young smiling girl in an orange top, head and shoulders, standing in front of a pink mural featuring children's drawings of an octopus and fish

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Rachel Heller, UK artist with Down's Syndrome, who creates figurative and abstract works mostly in pastel #WomensArt

Artwork featuring tlbunches of stylised red flowers in two clear glass vases

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Martha Simon @marthasimon13.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

“Are the Tates really that bad, though?” I fucking despair

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

"Here I painted myself, Frida Kahlo, with my reflection in the mirror. I am 37 years old and this is #July, 1947. In Coyoacan, Mexico, the place where I was born". The inscription on Frida's Self Portrait with Loose Hair, 1947 #WomensArt

Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, with long dark hair, wearing a red dress with gold pattern, in front at the bottom is a scroll with handwriting

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

“It’ll take days bedbound to recover, but if we don’t fight our own corner, who will?” I spoke to disabled people fighting the welfare bill - and got their reaction on last night’s chaotic vote. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘This isn’t a U-turn’: disabled people react to passing of watered-down welfare bill

Campaigners call government’s climbdown on personal independence payments ‘desperate’ and vow to fight on

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” - Dorothy Parker, US poet, writer and wit #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting white woman facing left looking outwards wearing a long dress, with hair swept acoss part of her face and hands together neatly at her knees, in an interior dark room

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 05/06/2025

Things which can be true at once: A) It's entertaining B) It's deeply dysfunctional which the Trump court always was/was always going to be C) This happens when a political project is about vibes/personality cults rather than actual convergent beliefs D) It's pathetic E) They could make up

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/06/2025

A plague a’ both houses!

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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Playwrights working in the UK independent theatre sector are to gain new rights for the digital exploitation of their work and a 24% uplift in minimum fees over three years, following a major update to the existing agreement between WGGB + @itc-arts.bsky.social writersguild.org.uk/itc-new-agre...

Red flyer with graphic elements shows main points of the new WGGB and ITC deal
24% uplift in minimum fees over three years
New terms covering recording and digital rights
Terms for playwrights around textual integrity, credits, publicity, rehearsal attendance, casting and more
www.writersguild.org.uk/itc-new-agreement

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Graeae Theatre Company @graeaetheatre.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We have released a statement on the impact of recent proposed policy changes & benefits reform within the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper. graeae.org/resource/gra... Our community cannot & should not take this further assault on civil liberties!

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement: I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings. Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️

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Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973), considered to be one of the leading South American modernist painters #womensart

Stylised painting featuring a village scene with a group of houses in different colours and figures, two adults and three chilsren and a white dog, in the foreground are cacti plants and shrubs

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Martha Simon @marthasimon13.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

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Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts

The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/05/2025

Gaza community kitchens say food is running out after two months of Israeli blockade. “We used to receive more than 100 trucks every week - trucks of food parcels and hygiene kits. Now we don't have anything.” UN warns of starvation if blockade holds. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Gaza kitchens warn food running out after two-months Israeli blockade

Many Palestinians depend on community kitchens, but one says they have only two weeks of supplies left.

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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

📣 Applications are now open for Round 23 of Developing Your Creative Practice! 🌟 Ready to take your practice to the next stage? Start your application 🔗https://buff.ly/hVVi126 🗓️ Deadline for applications 12pm on 22 May 2025! #LetsCreate 📸Howaboutdave Photography

A person dancing out in the open. At the bottom of the image is a text graphic which says GET FUNDING to develop your practice.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

By UK anarcho-craftivist artist Carrie Reichardt #womensart

Photo of a square cream coloured plate with orange decoration in each corner and and orange and black border and with tbe text in caputals 'aways trust your inner witch" in the middle

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

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Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally)

Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I heard a knobhead in the pub saying that maybe he's imagining it, but he feels as if he's in a 70s horror film because of the way people stand and glare at his TESLA when he drives it through the village. He's not imagining it. We've got a WhatsApp group.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Every job you get AI to do is cash taken from working people, usually low earning freelancers. That money is now not in the system. You are not only making the world poorer culturally, you are making the economy poorer. And since there is no workable financial model for AI, not even moving money up.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Saturday night Juke joint, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939 by US photographer Marion Post Wolcott #womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a Black woman and man dancing among other people in an interior space the woman wears a white top dark trousers and boots, the man wears a trilby hat, white shirt and dark suit

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