THE STITCH-UP: HOW MEDICAL MISOGYNY HARMS US ALL published by @ChattoBooks in May ~
Agent John Ash at CAA ~ Szewczak pronounced Shev-chak ~ she/her
Jan 16 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Very specific kind of gentrification(?) in Cambridge, predominately a uni town, where no one who works at the uni can actually afford to live here and so the city is populated by people with money who work in London, want a garden and like how clever living in Cambridge sounds
My partner's colleagues live in the villages surrounding and drive in (huge transport crisis!). My kids go to a school in the city centre which is run by people connected to the uni, v liberal and great staff, but increasingly the other parents are rich, right-wing philistines
Jun 17, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
My kids have started playing out in the street recently and my god the hostility from random passing strangers/neighbours!
50% of people express positivity and the rest say things like "you are terrible parents" "take them to a park" "bloody kids" etc. Everyone has to say something. It's clearly such a divisive thing!
May 3, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
drama in the school whatsapp chat! the PTA invited us all to a coronation party and one of the dads (who's a professor of colonial history) said eat my dick
ok so what actually happened was he replied "I feel uncomfortable with all the compulsory nationalism" and someone else chimed in with "THIS IS A CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL WHAT DID YOU EXPECT" and he full bodied them with ":-)"
Nov 12, 2022 • 33 tweets • 7 min read
a thread of bangers by one of twitter's top ten tweeters: Richard Dawkins
Since I was a 16 year old lesbian discovering Susan Sontag for the first time, I've dreamt of this pilgrimage. Pozorišni Trg Susan Sontag - Susan Sontag Square - in Sarajevo, Bosnia
Susan was extremely vocal during the Bosnian war on the need for global military intervention to curb the fascist Serbian regime. She abhorred the left's unwillingness to engage in a "regional" conflict under the guise of anti-war sentiment. Sound familiar?
Jan 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Fed up with smear test discourse. Attendance is low because the process is bad! Instead of changing it (home testing IS possible) we get coercive campaigns. So much in women’s health is about making us do painful things we don’t want to do rather than making the bad things better
The problem is not the people who don't want to go for testing, the problem is that the testing is not conducive for people to go and get it done.