Good morning to the Cambridge Encampment!

Today it is May Day.

Thinking of how the spirit of “an injury to one is an injury to all” runs through “in our millions, in our billions we are all Palestinians.”

This day, these times, these chants ask us to be the most expansive, empathetic, solidaristic we can be.

A beautiful tribute by Ann Curthoys to her cherished friend Lyndall Ryan, one of Australia's most significant historians who will also be remembered as a generous colleague, teacher & collaborator, and as an inspirational feminist. Vale.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I went to the wonderful Bishopsgate Institute today to use the archives. Really sad to see that the main library is now closed all the time.

That beautiful room empty of readers!

I asked why, was told no funding.

it's such a grind and it just does not have to be like this!

thinking about how space travel enabled global feminist imaginations! 🌏 🌠✨💫

what work is space doing in my fave poster from IWY 1975, and via cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova 👨‍🚀 who rep'd USSR at the UN world conferences on women? Here in 1980, talking with Leila Khaled.

'Olive groves and farms have been reduced to packed earth; soil and groundwater have been contaminated by munitions and toxins; the sea is choked with sewage and waste; the air polluted by smoke and particulate matter.' Ecocide in Gaza on #EarthDay2024 theguardian.com/environment/20…

spritzed this and was transported. Sitting on the hot concrete of my high school playground reading a fresh Dolly mag & sticking my nose in the perfume sample.

One of the sensory delights of the mag along with the sealed section & occasional freebie like blue hair mascara.

loved this piece!
Articulates exactly why housing is a feminist issue.

Landlords blame mothers for mouldy homes, telling them to do their dishes.

But standing together it becomes their shame, not ours.
❤️
London Renters Union, Living Rent Edinburgh

lux-magazine.com/article/tenant…

'Black Women Radicals and Networks of Transnational Resistance in the Twentieth-Century', via Zoom on Thursday 30th May, 5:30-7:00pm delivered by Tionne Alliyah Parris.

Register today to learn more about Tionne's vital research at: history.ac.uk/events/olivett…. (3/3)

Come join this public event to explore the history of anti-fascism in London, from the 1970s until today, on 24 April at Bishopsgate Institute. The program includes personal testimonies by activists and a roundtable on the memorialisation of anti-fascism in London. Please share!

when will the why radiohead is the best band genre of mansplaining end?

found myself longing for a treatise on why hughes better than Plath, Sartre better than de Beauvoir or scene by scene dissection of apocalypse now ANYTHING BUT RADIOHEAD

Elizabeth Arden Green Tea shimmers in the air of the cafe this morning.

You have been underrated since ‘99, on the bottom shelf at Superdrug, but I never stopped loving you.

can you help me, twitter!

I think I read an essay about the general strike as a moment of sadness/melancholy where you realise how different your life might be. have you read this, what is it, who is it by?

I thought this might be from Sorel, but I can't find it. tysm!

I saw my first total solar eclipse today and it was so fucking wonderful, it made me yearn for more wonder. We need wonder. And so I’m launching a new series: The Wonder Chronicles!

My goal: that you are found by wonder.

My wish: that you intensely live feministgiant.com/p/the-wonder-c…

OTD in 1998, Patrick Corporation, the company which ran the operations at the major Australia ports, sacked their entire workforce.

How did personal experience of this strike shape understandings of Solidarity Forever?

Rosa V Campbell, from the archive:
historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-solid…