Lest we remember: how Britain buried its history of slavery
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Retired Palliative Care Nurse interested in a fairer world. Love #books, #cats #vegetarian recipes and #health. Labour Party member. #Perfume lover.
Slavery and the Guardian: the ties that bind us
My ancestors worked in the cotton mills of Lancashire, this is my history too..
informative and thought provoking article by historian David Olusoga
Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s ‘immediate justice’ scheme – cartoon
Jan BetaHot take: Stop hating on delivery peeps. They are usually underpaid, overworked and have an incredibly tight schedule. Feel free to criticize the delivery companies for not offering better working conditions or their disorganization, maybe even criticize the sender for not packaging stuff properly. Be kind to the peeps having to do the actual heavy lifting. I worked in "unskilled" logistics for nearly 10 years and those jobs are literally the bottom end of the food chain. Be good. Thanks!
Dr Katie StrangWalking in the footsteps of giant Triassic reptiles at Kildonan 🖤 this trace fossil is known as Chirotherium (meaning hand-beast) and it was made by a huge crocodile-like reptile that once roamed Arran when it was still part of the supercontinent Pangaea 240 million years ago 🖤
The great serotonin debate: do depression treatments work by boosting the happy hormone?
Very interesting article #Depression
Sarah MatthewsRed magazine have done a great summary of the Women’s Prize longlist >
From the 16 on the list I was always going to read the Maggie O’Farrell as she’s one of my all time favourites but along with that I’d like to read Children of Paradise, Trespasses, I’m a Fan and Fire Rush:
CHILDREN OF PARADISE BY CAMILLA GRUDOVA
A surreal, discomforting debut novel that charts the fates of a ragtag group of cinema workers spat out by corporate takeover.
Quote from 2023 judge Irenosen Okojie: "Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova is an immersive, hallucinatory read set in a crumbling old cinema where the real and the imagined collide in fantastical fashion."
TRESPASSES BY LOUISE KENNEDY
Quote from 2023 judge Rachel Joyce: "Trespasses by Louise Kennedy is set during The Troubles, and it's a doomed love story told with absolute truth, conviction and beauty."
I'M A FAN BY SHEENA PATEL
An exhilarating take on obsession, race, gender and power dynamics through the lens of a corrosive relationship.
Quote from 2023 judge Louise Minchin: "I'm A Fan byh Sheena Patel is an extraordinary, strange, dark tale. It's a love story told from only one perspective. It's about social media, obsession, and the strange places that can lead you, and it's totally immersive."
FIRE RUSH BY JACQUELINE CROOKS
AQuote from 2023 judge Louise Minchin: "I love this story. It's a love story. It's about music. It's about passion. It's about your roots. It's told from the point of view of a young British black woman growing up in 1970s London. I could not put it down, and I can't wait for people to read it."
#bookstodon #Reading #fiction @bookstodon
Gemma Clark ✅TikTok have given me a warning for calling out anti abortion protesters and the churches who recruit them 🤦🏼♀️ Think I need to make more of an effort on Mastadon! If you are pro the rights of women and #LGBT people, I want to follow you. And anti racist and anti fascist people too of course! #prochoice #antiracist #antifascist
Foreign mothers, foreign tongues: ‘In another universe, she could have been my friend’
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/mar/09/foreign-mothers-foreign-tongues-in-another-universe-she-could-have-been-my-friend?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Fascinating read #InternationalWomensDay
‘It’s not just about dying’: Uganda’s pioneers of palliative care undaunted by huge challenges