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Mar 7 • 8 tweets • 22 min read
This #IWD week @the_female_lead calls for healthier social media. Online abuse & toxic messaging targets women, people of colour, LGBT+. Misinformation is rife. To help #DisruptYourFeed, here's a 🧵of people to follow that I'll keep updating. Please add your own suggestions too Image
Follow @ManduReid @Elif_Safak @KitdeWaal @monisha_rajesh @scribblercat @_EmmaGH @olgatokariuk @rachelcoldicutt @MarianKeyes @carolecadwalla @tweeter_anita @SholaMos1 @nazirafzal @GreatDismal @BernardineEvari @lemnsissay @bbclysedoucet @RosieisaHolt @chrispaouros #DisruptYourFeed
@TabithaMortonWE @athenastevens @athenalamnisos1 @DrHannahBB @queenchristina_ @stellduffy @shelleysilas @ShelaghFogarty @judekellystudio @SophieRunning @timnitGebru @aprilaser @ayeshahazarika @pocobookreader @chrischirp @de_prudhoe #DisruptYourFeed
And here's a bunch of brilliant women inc @MeeraSyal @georgiaEtennant in brilliant @MrsNickyClark's brilliant #DontCastHerOut campaign against ageism Also follow @disabilitydiva @CHIMPSINSOCKS @siobhni @ShobnaGulati @andoh_adjoa #DisruptYourFeed
Also @seyiakiwowo @aimafidon, a quintet of Kates @drkatedevlin @katebevan @KateMaltby @KateWilliamsme @katemosse, @EleanorMills @Joeli_Brearley @MsLisaMilton @lirarandall @sanditoksvig @apolyakova @tmorello @ceriley7 @Joannechocolat @KatyFBrand @tweeter_anita #DisruptYourFeed
Hah. I love @tweeter_anita so much, I listed her twice 😍
@PublicityShona @janesasseen @MonikaRadojevic @ErinLauraManse @nikeshshukla @SamiraAhmedUK @DearbhailDibs @Nadine_Writes @ProfSunnySingh @David_Challen @chimenesuleyman @RahilaG @SusannahFish @mariannaspring #DisruptYourFeed
@DrNighatArif @drmeenalviz @Taffyagent @nadineshah @BridgetChristie @WepChristine @StefanieBolzen @fascinatorfun @RebeccaRideal @DrJaninaRamirez @PippaCrerar @EmilyGorcenski @AngryBlackLady @pussyrrriot @annettedittert @MollyJongFast #DisruptYourFeed

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Sep 9, 2020
#COVID19 arrived in the UK *last year*. The finding by the Kent coroner raises many hard questions swerved in this @TheSun piece. A short, sad thread thesun.co.uk/news/12618638/…
One of the hardest questions for me and for many others is whether #Covid19 killed our loved ones. Here's a blog post I wrote in May about the death of my husband @andygangof4 catherinemayer.co.uk/post/2020-visi…
Since I wrote it, many people have been in touch with their own case histories catherinemayer.co.uk/post/2020-visi… Through @CovidJusticeUk I've heard many more stories of people lost to #Covid19-like illness but never tested and so not included in official tolls
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Jan 9, 2020
As you follow the reporting on #Sussexroyal, think about the absences and why they occur. Here’s a big one. And a short #MeghanAndHarry thread
The UK media is structurally racist and sexist as reflected and reinforced by pay and employment gaps. Misogynoir directed at #MeghanMarkle hasn’t just been constant but systemic. However the problems with celebrity & royal coverage, very different, go much deeper
I don’t expect you to feel sorry for celebrities. It’s hard to empathise with their emotional turbulences when so many people are struggling to eat or live. But dehumanising celebrity coverage damages everyone. I wrote this to explain theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
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Dec 5, 2019
Today's Sun quotes me on the royals. News outlets often quote me; almost as often the quotes are mangled or made-up. I never ask for corrections; the volume is far too great & the damage at face value vanishingly slight. But is it? A few thoughts...
Let's take a look at where the Sun got its quote. It isn't fully fabricated & the Sun isn't the first offender. It comes from an interview I gave to a documentary maker some years back. It's something I said, not something I wrote. It isn't about or in response to current events
Ground zero is probably a piece in the Express that covers the documentary and makes clear this is a discussion about the young Prince Charles. A subsequent chain of articles removes the quote ever further from that original context
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Nov 16, 2019
Kicking myself for a bad decision. I declined invite from @BBCr4today to discuss Prince Andrew’s #Epstein interview before seeing the interview. But there’s so much to say about the culture of impunity Andrew embodies in this clip alone. A few thoughts...
theguardian.com/uk-news/video/…
@BBCr4today The reason I declined, as I say, is that I hadn't seen the interview. The problem with much discussion of the royals is that it takes place in a vacuum. They are protected by layers of secrecy that don't apply to other institutions. They can't be scrutinised or called to account
@BBCr4today Journalism too often responds to this by operating its own culture of impunity, inventing stuff to fill the vacuum, secure in the knowledge--well, at least until Harry and Meghan broke with tradition--that the royals would not take action
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Aug 9, 2019
THIS IS URGENT. We're heading into a snap election and the laws meant to enable fair elections are hopelessly out of date--a fact being ruthlessly exploited bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…
It isn't just about the lack of transparency on who pays for the ads (and whether the financial sources are legitimate) though that's a huge problem. Money doesn't just talk in the UK political system. It SHOUTS. No smaller parties can compete with this bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
It's also about the relentless influence of dark ads that evade electoral scrutiny and because of micro targeting are seen only by those thought susceptible to their messages and not to the people who would push back against them bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…
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Mar 24, 2019
If you want to know how our world became so polarised, look at the competing narratives about the #PutitothePeopleMarch. Critics from left and right denounce the marchers as members of an elite. It's worth acknowledging the extent to which that's true--and also true of Brexiteers
Yesterday's march was huge. As a veteran of marches following precisely that route, it was the largest by far that I've seen. After three hours, my group, nowhere near the back of the march, had been able to move only 0.4 miles, from Hyde Park Corner to the start of St James's St
During that time I spoke to people of different life experiences, backgrounds, socio-economic groups, religions, ethnicities, demographics. Quite a few women had to leave the march because they had caring duties. Others had made arrangements for care cover so they could attend
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