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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When the mainstream gives you only ☠️ Doom Loops ☠️, y’all know it’s time for the 🌈Public Banking Loop 🌈. moneyontheleft.org/2026/04/08/t...

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 15/08/2026

Milestone moment: Maine People's Alliance is the first major power-building org to engage @moneyontheleft.bsky.social's radical + potentially transformative approach to public finance. Kudos to @mainepeople.bsky.social for meeting the cutting edge of economic justice; may your 32k members be moved.

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Maine Beacon @mainebeacon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Money on the Left Collective joins the Beacon podcast to rethink how we talk about money and public spending. They dig into public banking, why money doesn’t have to be treated as a scarce resource, and how states like Maine could use public finance to invest in public needs. Listen now!

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What if we rethought money through public banking? - Maine Beacon

The Money on the Left Collective joins the Beacon podcast to rethink how we talk about money and public spending. Will Beaman, Tyler Suksawat and Rob Hawkes of the collective join MPA legislative stra...

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You ever have groundless periods where you’re not sure what you’re doing with your life or what you care about and worry that you’ll never read and write again b/c job and kid and then you see an essay or book and you’re like oh yeah that’s what I used to spend time geeking out about? Yeah, that.

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

✨MotL 91 is live!!!✨ In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) & Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the @publicbanksnow.bsky.social (PBI) about their past & ongoing advocacy for public banking. moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/01/t... Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌 *Transcript forthcoming ...

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I just increasingly want to make this happen

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Ali @meltedliso.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This! This to the power of a bazillion fucks.

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

That BBC Question Time man thinks @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s Greens are to blame for @bankofengland.bsky.social’s plans to redesign our money, while Farage has already predicted the animal to be depicted on the new fiver 🦫 Why are they both so afraid of inclusive and democratic public finance? 💷

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Animal Spirits and Public Promises: Phantom Beavers and the Politics of Monetary Design

By Rob Hawkes There is a spectre haunting Nigel Farage. The spectre of a beaver. On 11 March 2026, the Bank of England announced that, following a public consultation, its next series of banknotes …

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Who wants to make some money with us at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough this weekend? @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social forms.gle/XZpWHrwh5b7Y...

A flyer for ‘Where Credit's Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice -
Reimagining Public Credit and Building
Intersectional Solidarity in Boro’. Workshop 2 at the Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough, on Saturday 7 March 2026, 10.30am-12.30pm. Flyer also reads: ‘Does Middlesbrough and do the people and places of Teesside deserve more credit? Could new ideas about money transform our town? Join us to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit's due.’ Alongside the flyer is a ‘bank note’ which reads ‘I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of 1 Dorman Dollar’ and some pin badges featuring the Where Credit’s Due and Money on the Left logos.

Two colourfully decorated ‘Dorman Dollar’ bank notes.

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Our next workshop at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough, UK, is coming up on Saturday 7 March. Join @robbhawkes.bsky.social and @robynollett.bsky.social to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit’s due! Sign up here: forms.gle/xHALrL6xspdp...

Poster with a rainbow border. Inside the border, the text reads:

Where Credit's Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice

Reimagining Public Credit and Building Intersectional Solidarity in Boro

Workshop 2
The Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough
Saturday 7 March 2026, 10.30am-12.30pm

Does Middlesbrough and do the people and places of Teesside deserve more credit?

Could new ideas about money transform our town?

Join us to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit's due

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

NB: The UK govt owns the Student Loans Company, via which it directly funds most home students’ university places. Framing graduates as indebted to this ‘company’ for the rest of their working lives is an accounting trick that both punishes the pursuit of education and undermines its public value.

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Robyn Ollett @robynollett.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Ah that's nice ☺️ Think it's still half price @waterstones.bsky.social too

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We first published this exactly a year ago and (as our colleagues @qmucu.bsky.social continue to document via their ‘UK HE Shrinking’ page) things have only deteriorated further since. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can redesign public finance tomorrow if we choose.

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UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

✨MotL 86 is live!✨ moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g... In this episode, we discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of NY City. Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

For me, one of the highlights of 2025 was launching @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social with my dear friend @robynollett.bsky.social as part of the #GlobalDonutDays. You can catch a glimpse of our event at 0:52 in this video, which beautifully captures the GDDs’ celebration of #DoughnutEconomics.

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

It has been refreshingly obvious from day one of @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s leadership of @greenparty.org.uk that he rejects the failed economic dogma that has only driven (and can only continue to drive) social and ecological breakdown. The real fantasy is that we can carry on with the status quo.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 30/12/2025

Each time Will Beaman writes a new essay, I somehow always find the time to read it because they're just that good. Here's the premise of this one: Design can either attempt to insinuate the inevitability of a choice or openly invite contestation—and one is certainly more democratic than the other.

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

‘Before we complain that any political agenda might “frighten” the financial markets, we need to recognise that all markets are politically and legally constituted in the first place and that ceding power over our democracy to bond traders is a choice, not a necessity.’ 1/4

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Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance

by Rob Hawkes The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensio…

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

“institutions with the public authority to do so […] continually create new money, which is thus an everyday occurrence […]. The essential question […] is not if money creation occurs but, rather, how and for what purpose.” Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson, “Green-Lighting Gatsby” (forthcoming).

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Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Our featured image for this post comes from Chuck Jones' deliciously self-reflexive Merrie Melodies short Duck Amuck (1953). We chose it because it so vividly demonstrates how any act of erasure requires fresh and hence contestable inscriptions.

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Sally Blackburn Daniels @drsallybd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Very excited to be part of the audience for @robbhawkes.bsky.social and Robyn Ollett’s research seminar at #TeessideUniversity

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

On Weds 26 November from 3.30-4.30pm GMT @robynollett.bsky.social and I will be sharing some of our latest research via MS Teams as part of @teessideuni.bsky.social’s English & Creative Writing Research Seminar series. Why not join us online?

Event poster reading:

ENGLISH & CREATIVE WRITING RESEARCH
SEMINAR

Dr Robyn Ollett, 'From Severance to Reparation: Re-reading Contemporary Double Life Narratives'

Dr Rob Hawkes, '"I’ve got an unfortunate talent for figues": Queering Literary and Monetary Genres in The Talented Mr Ripley'

WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2025

3.30-4.30pm GMT

Online via MS Teams

TO REQUEST AN INVITATION LINK
PLEASE EMAIL: J.FORD@TEES.AC.UK

Teesside University

The poster also features publicity images for the Netflix series Ripley and the AppleTV+ series Severance

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Ha. Appreciated guys! 💚

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

We had so much fun issuing ‘Curious Credits’ at the second of our Where Credit's Due project events, a making/queering money workshop at A Curious Night At The Museum. Many thanks to all at Curious Arts and The Dorman Museum for looking after us and for organising such a fabulous night 🦄🌈💸

A ‘Curious Credit’ inscribed with the words ‘in ourselves we trust’ and hanging from a washing line in The Dorman Museum’s Dresser Gallery

A workshop participant paying ‘tax’ by returning their ‘curious credit’ to the issuer - a colourfully decorated bank note being posted into a black box with the word ‘tax’ on the side in rainbow-coloured letters

‘Curious Credit’ bank notes hanging from a washing line in the Dorman Museum’s Dresser Gallery

Where Credit’s Due’s Rob Hawkes and Robyn Ollett with three workshop participants in fancy dress

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Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Thanks so much to @robbhawkes.bsky.social & @robynollett.bsky.social for inviting me to participate (remotely) in their inaugural event. We had a quite meaningful post-film dialog that was also a lot of fun.

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The Where Credit’s Due team will be issuing ‘Curious Credits’ at the Dorman Museum this time tomorrow! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-curious-...

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

As Minsky (almost) said, anyone can create Boro Bucks, the problem is getting them accepted

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It is time to tell new stories about (and with) money, ones that reject exclusionary violence and instead celebrate our collective capacities and creative potential, stories with room for everyone. It is time to give credit where credit’s due.

A poster with a rainbow border and text that reads:

Tell new stories!

The standard (or 'straight') story of money tells us that:
• Money is scarce - there is not enough to go round
• Responsible budgeting means letting marginalised people suffer (sorry)
• An inclusive society is unaffordable - we have to leave some people out

We say a better story is possible:
• Money has limitless creative potential - we can build a society with space for everyone
• Money is queer - we can take all our beautiful difference into account
• Money is credit - let's give credit where credit's due

Underneath the text are logos for WHERE
CREDIT'S DUE, TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY
PROUD, the INSTITUTE FOR COLLECTIVE PLACE LEADERSHIP, and MONEY ON THE LEFT

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

If you want to start telling a different story, join us on 18 October 2025 in Middlesbrough, UK.

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Where Credit's Due

Making Money for Ecosocial Justice

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The UK’s present xenophobic tensions - from flag displays to anti-immigration protests - rely on a logic of scarcity: “there’s not enough to go around.” The same thinking fuels attacks on refugees, disabled people, LGBTQIA+ communities, and benefit claimants. But what if the premise is wrong? 🧵1/6

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Danny Axford @dannyaxford.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Well I take some hope from this good read.

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

For more on the ideas behind Where Credit’s Due, check out this essay by our project organisers @robynollett.bsky.social and @robbhawkes.bsky.social “We hope you will join [... our] movement toward economic systems that recognise the full range of human identities, capacities, and contributions.”

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Why Credit’s Due: Reclaiming Pride in Boro

By Rob Hawkes and Robyn Ollett The summer of 2025, like the summer of 2024 before it, has been one of heightened tensions surrounding the issues of race and immigration in the UK. This year, Union …

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

If you’re keen to think beyond the false opposition between caring for ‘our own people’ and providing basic support to those fleeing war, persecution, and/or starvation overseas, check out this new piece, which I’ve co-written with @robynollett.bsky.social

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Robyn Ollett @robynollett.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

@robbhawkes.bsky.social and I wrote this and we'd like you to read it 🏳️‍🌈

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.

Tarot card image of the empress with a crown of stars. Text reads Weird Modernisms BAMS/ MSA 1- 4 July 2026 Loughborough University, UK

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LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A starter pack of fabulous folk working in LGBTQIA+ screen studies. If you'd like to be added, let us know! go.bsky.app/Asce99Z

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Coming soon to @teessideuni.bsky.social: #FindingtheMoney, the story of an intrepid group of economists on a mission to flip our understanding of money upside down. How could reimagining money transform Middlesbrough and revolutionise our ability to tackle the climate crisis? Find out in October 💷

Finding the Money film title surrounded by red and black lines evoking both the sectoral balances diagram and the US capitol building

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