Ellie Munro

One of the annoying things about being Sick is that when you're better enough to start again, you're too scared to face everything that's backed up over the Sick time, so then you need more Sick time

Got a new article out today in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's about the ways in which the music press constructed race in late 20c Britain. Open access so do share it around!

Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @uniofreading.bsky.social for supporting the research.

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Youth Defence, young people and anti-abortion activism in Ireland, c.1992–97 This article explores the first five years of the Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. Using newspaper articles and archival sources, I illustrate how the group effectively mobil...

I have a new OA article out on the early history of Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. It’s part of a special issue by Agata Ignaciuk and Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska on anti-abortion activism in Europe.Thanks to reviewers and the RSE for funding.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What’s (in) a CBO? Analyzing community representation in the Kenyan aid chain Abstract. Within the field of development research and practice, there is a growing realization that interventions aimed at supporting emancipation struggl

Maaike Matelski & Lise Woensdregt write in our July '25 issue on community-based organisations in Kenya, the highly-varied forms these organisations take, and how communities are represented in Kenyan aid chains #CDJ #Kenya

WEBINAR: Epistemic Injustice, Oppression & Ignorance: An Introduction for Social Researchers - Sign-up Page Expand your conceptual toolkit with our accessible introduction to the concepts every social researcher should know.

Heard of the term 'epistemic injustice' before but not sure what it means? Coined by British philosopher Miranda Fricker in her 2007 book, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Politics of Knowing'.

But as an idea, it has a much longer history than that. Learn more at our webinar next Tuesday at 7pm.

Whittington Estate - four storey stepped maisonette block

Highgate New Town, stage 2: three-storey high-tech design in glass and steel

Dartmouth Park Hill - yellow and redbrick three-storey terrace

Chester-Balmore scheme - passivhaus scheme

Highgate New Town - 'dreams and nightmares': an essay on the architectural fashions that have shaped council housing and the political and social forces which have moulded the lives of its residents.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/highgate-n...

Also: giant ants 🐜 😍 🧪

Products A group of leaders/helpers/members of Girlguiding who disagree with Girlguiding's recent change of policy, which excludes trans-girls. Make a promise, keep a promise.

www.guidersagainsttransexclusion.co.uk/collections/...

Three Guides patches from Guiders Against Trans Exclusion. One has the trans flag and text around reading make a promise keep a promise. The se on has a picture of a warning sign and a clipboard with the text the revolution will be risk assessed. The third says 100 for 100, World Thinking Day and a blue and white shark (like the ikea one) is holding up a sign with the second 100 on it.

Some excellent additions to the campaign badge library

cover of the community development journal

Out now! Issue 60.4 of the Community Development Journal, featuring a special section on "Radical pedagogies for territorial contestations", with lots of exciting articles centred on Latin American community work and activism. academic.oup.com/cdj/issue/60/4

One of the sacked reps from @uniteitf.bsky.social spoke at our victimisation strike rally yesterday. What’s happening to them is another stark example of the union movement’s ‘leadership’ losing its way.

Please join us in sending full solidarity & give them a follow.

#UniteAgainstVictimisation

A week of zero progress on literally anything, plus another lovely bit of institutional violence. Ho hum.

Today's the day! Join us online at 3pm (UK time): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w... with @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social @irrnews.bsky.social @ethnicityuk.bsky.social. Hope to see you there!

Yes it does! Nick will text you!

Yes it's my first one for quite a while! They were a good innovation.

With not one but TWO lovely doggies! We didn't see the second one for a while because they are just a little void.

gravitons independent space for experimental electronic music

Bleeps and bloops - live! stream.gravitons.org

Old Crockern dances on Crockern Tor. A group of performers play instruments beside him.

Absolute Units is back tomorrow! We delve into the world of Old Crockern, the mythical spirit of Dartmoor, with activists @lisaschneidau.bsky.social and Ruth Webb. Learn about Old Crockern's tale, and why he returns today.

Listen to past episodes: merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Claiming space It was a stunning spring morning in Durham. The trees were in bud, the grass was lush from recent rain, and sunlight sparkled off the languid waters of the

Our Co-Editors Ruth Pearce and Kirsty Lohman write in our July '25 Editorial on the claiming of space by community organisations, self-organisations, and how "cracks" can lead to "tiny victories" buff.ly/C5MC4ZS #CDJ #Editorial

Oh I'm so sorry. The downs of it can be so catastrophic, and just come out of nowhere. ❤❤❤

I was so lucky living next to a gynae specialist GP surgery at the time I was asking for a diagnosis, they were like "yep, gold star, smashed it", didn't have to go through the whole battle. Solidarity to your pals.

'Two weeks of each month I enjoy my life - then it all comes crashing down' Katie Cook, 21, was diagnosed with PMDD last January after enduring nearly a decade of 'nightmare' symptoms.

It's hard to remember sometimes that most people are able to fully function for 3, maybe even 4 can you imagine, weeks out of every month. news.stv.tv/west-central...

I keep getting work emails about quants methods from someone called David Byrne and every time my heart does a little flutter

And not even fun snow. Just wet cold horrid snow.

Yeeep and for most of the rest of the week here too

Sun! Blue sky! And suddenly the road has come alive with people meeting like they've not met for 20 years. The Big Rain forgotten. Until tomorrow, when it will wash the joy back into the storm drains again.

This is a thread about UCU & what it has become over the last few years. But the first thing I want to say is I didn’t join a union to stay silent or turn my back on a single parent of three facing dismissal on the basis of their trade union activities. Marie Monaghan is the Unite UCU 1/12

Cuts to disability benefits for those who cannot work ‘is recipe for greater hardship’ and ‘will put lives at risk’ Activists say the government’s decision to slash disabled people’s out-of-work benefits is a “recipe for greater hardship” and will risk claimants’ lives, as ministers this week pushed through cuts…

🗣️“In pursuing arbitrary savings figures, the government risks our lives rather than testing new approaches that benefit disabled people, and the wider economy and society." - DR UK's Mickey Erhardt in Disability News Service's latest piece

Read more 👇
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/cuts-to-disa...

Stacks of books with three pulled out - the anti-social family, the gift relationship, and the local state, all with nice 1970s/80s cover designs.

Some very strong covers from yesterday's book haul.

This is not the first time a retiring community development researcher has let me pillage their collection. Hopefully one day some enthusiastic young thing will take them all off *my* shelves and wonder at the way things were.

Sending much solidarity to the brilliant @uniteucu.bsky.social members! The way you're being treated is unconscionable, and that it's being done by a trade union and in the name of our members defies comprehension.

#handsOffMarie