World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. Read our full statement on the loss of our team members here: wck.org/news/gaza-team…

'Peace' by Diane Leonard, contemporary US painter #WomensArt

There was some big news this week which should have been top of the news agenda - the fact that it wasn’t and the story that dominated the public space instead tells a worrying story about the priorities of many in this country 🧵

Remembering the formidable anti-racist campaigner Anwar Ditta on #InternationalWomensDay

A working-class Kashmiri woman from Birmingham, she shared platforms with the likes of Tony Benn and Arthur Scargill and led numerous anti-deportation campaigns. 🧵

Rafah could become the deadliest and most destructive chapter of this conflict yet.

1.3 million people are sheltering here. 610,000 are children.

It is one of the last areas in Gaza where hospitals, water and sanitation facilities, and bakeries are still partially functioning.

today should be a useful reminder to some that “culture wars” are not an abstract political concept separate from people’s actual lives

Setting Sun, (mid 20thC) by English painter Laura Knight #WomensArt

I understand cup hype but I don't understand cup hype over a cup you cannot stow in a totebag without ruining all of your possessions.

Jef Bourgeau- The Narrows, 2023.

My biggest gripe with self-help books is that I think it just fuels individualism.

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The First Snow, 1926 by US Impressionist Lilla Cabot Perry #womensart #Winter

Sally Rooney on Gaza: theguardian.com/books/2023/dec…

Such sad news. Our condolences to all who knew and loved Benjamin Zephaniah.

In one fell swoop Cleverly has declared that you aren't allowed to fall in love with and marry a migrant, and that migrants shouldn't be allowed families, all if they don't earn at least more than double the national minimum wage. That alone should terrify everyone.

key points:
- Ban on care workers bringing in dependents
- Minimum salary for foreign skilled workers hiked to £38.7K
- Shortage occupation list scrapped
- Minimum income to bring in spouse raised to £38,700
- Two year graduate visa reviewed

This was the exact thought in my mind listening to the fireworks tonight. I open the newspaper and there it is on the page.

This poem has been doing the rounds again:

I was saddened by the attack on and killing, injuring and kidnapping of Israeli citizens, including children on 7 October. However, international law clearly prohibits what Israel has since done in retaliation. Israel has killed over 6000 Palestinian civilians, half of which

Living in the north of the UK:

' #SycamoreGap ' by Northumberland printmakrt and artist Rebecca Vincent #WomensArt