“Just for the record do your two daughters go to school? Head of Taliban Office in Qatar - Of course they do. This sums it all up. For their own daughters nothing is forbidden while for poor girls living in Afghanistan everything is forbidden.

"You have muted my voice indefinitely and trapped me in my home simply for being a woman." A courageous woman from my country recites from behind the four walls of her home, shrouded in the shadows of oppression. Jahanzeb Wesa

Since the Taliban tried to silence us, we’ve raised our voices in defiance, singing for freedom and equality. We refuse to be erased. I call on all women around the world to stand with us in solidarity. Join us in this fight for freedom, justice.Together we are unstoppable.

Afghanistan’s women are turning to social media to give a bold response to the Taliban after their ban on women’s voices: “No terrorist group can shut us Afghan women up.”

Too little. Too late. The UN was warned shutting women out of the Doha talks at the Taliban's request would be a betrayal and embolden them. And you went ahead and shut them out anyway. 1/2

How many women must be killed by the Taliban for the world to recognize gender apartheid as a crime? Part of my interview with the BBC ! #LetUsExist

My ex wasn’t a cheerleader of mine. He told me regularly my twitter was crap & no one cared. Sorry to ask this but he’s been negging me massively again this week-if you’ve ever seen one of my photos or tweets & it lifted your mood or made you feel a bit less alone,maybe say hi? x

Controversial perhaps, but how about banning the Afghanistan cricket team from international matches? Sorry lads, but time to think of Afghan women and girls. theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov…

“Just as education for girls is banned, questioning it is also banned” —Taliban Minister of Education. Afghanistan is a living dystopia, yet the world turns a blind eye. Girls’ education faces permanent erasure. The world fell for their false promises. It’s time to WAKE UP.

Twitter has marked this video of Feargal Sharkey attacking the Water Companies as 'sensitive'. You know what to do.

The next exhibition at British Library will be Medieval Women: In Their Own Words (October 25th) & YES we will have a beautiful book to accompany it.

Political leaders can match their statements of solidarity by taking specific actions to defend education for Afghan girls, to recognise the Taliban’s crimes against humanity, and to leverage the full weight of the international legal system to stigmatise and penalise the

An adorable little sculpture of a cloaked figure with a big round face, found at the #Roman fort of Birdoswald on #HadriansWall. He may represent a Celtic deity (a Genius Cucullatus, 'hooded spirit), or Telesphorus, a healing god always shown in a hood/cape #RomanFortThursday

'is it time for your nap ?' (recent post). I've tried to engage with this pile in. As anyone who's read what I've written knows, I cherish disagreement & debate. Noone knows that they're right. It'd be great & good to debate without the ageism (crone, witch, coffin dodging). Eh?

History was made today! 🥉 Afghanistan’s Zakia Khudadadi won the first-ever medal for the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Paralympic Team with a bronze in Taekwondo. Our women are capable of anything when they have their freedoms and human rights. Afghanistani women are the future of Afghanistan.

Maram’s stunning piano performance in Kabul. Under the Taliban, music is now illegal. The Afghanistan National Institute of Music empowered talents like her, but one of the Taliban's first moves was to ban the school.

2 pm - Don't miss it!! A huge pleasure to be hosting Shane Ibbs on my weekly Story Hour on Cork City Community Radio in the run up to our joint appearance as part of the Listowel Storytelling Festival 2024 ❤️🔥🙏

In an hilarious turn of events, while I was carrying all my stuff in a tray to a counter at Glasgow Airport security, my trousers fell down and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.

I've been waiting months to say this, but: THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! Please help CumbriaWildlifeTrust with this most brilliant endeavour! wildlifetrusts.org/news/cumbria-w… The Wildlife Trusts