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Sep 25, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
🧵After a day wearing headphones audio editing yesterday, I’ve only just seen The Lancet’s tweet proudly showing its cover consisting of a quote referring to women as ‘bodies with vaginas’…
It’s a particularly bizarre quote from a medical journal considering, just a few days ago, it recently knew the sex of ‘bodies’ with prostate cancer. So let’s look at where that cover quote is from…
May 14, 2020 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
I’ve not shared this on Twitter yet so here goes.... It’s a tale of art, space and preventing lockdown madness. Because while lucky enough to still have work and health, the pandemic has caused anxiety induced insomnia. I know I’m not alone in that. So... this is my patio wall.
That wall pictured a few days ago is, believe it not, AFTER I’d cleaned it with a long handled brush. I’m not great on household maintenance inside or out. But I did fill in some cracks.... And I had a plan, some string and a pencil.