Susannah Walker
Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff.
Rants about stately homes here:
https://susannahwalker.substack.com
Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
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- Reposted by Susannah WalkerCannot tell you how much I adore this clip from 1941 of women from the Western Isles of the Outer Hebrides singing as they work their Harris Tweed. It was shot by the Oscar winning cinematographer JACK CARDIFF.
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- Why planning policy matters: a short cautionary tale. As I keep saying, the new draft National Planning Policy Framework fails to mention safety for women and girls (or indeed to include the word woman at all) Why this is important is explained by the picture below. 🧵
- Reposted by Susannah WalkerIt was the Fuck Around of Times, it was the Find Out of times
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- This is objectively terrible (in Leicester) but the thread is very very funny
- I AM ON FIRE; KEEP CLEAR OF ME like that the flag meaning includes a semicolon, this is also on brand
- My total favourite of these is Robert McFarlane, who just swans out of the house to go for a walk, at a time in his life when I know he had children under 12. Were I to do that, there would be no swanning out, the three days before would be spent writing lists. And that is why I wrote The Hard Way
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- The Guardian has covered the story that there's no mention of women's safety in new planning guidance, despite it being recommended in two major government reports in the last month. But this is what the Dept of Housing, Communities and Local Gov had to say. Where's my pitchfork...
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- Reposted by Susannah Walker“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
- we have a contender for most stupid response by Ministry spokesperson in living memory... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- He is one of my heroes anyway, and all the more so today.
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- Reposted by Susannah WalkerEdwin Morgan's poem 'Grendel', in which he voices the creature from Beowulf, has thrilling opening lines: It is being nearly human gives me this spectacular darkness. The light does not know what to do with me.
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- Reposted by Susannah WalkerThis came up in my old posts today. Don’t know why, but it feels good to know that Andre 3000 specifically is this kind of guy.
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- This is great and proves a couple of things. One is that making things better is not always rocket science, and that there is often no substitute for just going out, taking a look and talking to local people.
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- Reposted by Susannah Walker"We lived happily during the war," Ilya Kaminsky
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- Reposted by Susannah WalkerI’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.
- Reposted by Susannah WalkerWe are Christopher Isherwood, watching the increasingly violent scenes of government thuggery and murder in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
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- Reposted by Susannah WalkerIn solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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- This is a great report, but I think misses one important factor, which is the lack of informal outdoor facilities for girls in parks and recreation grounds. They don't use most current provision - MUGAs, skate parks etc, because these spaces are dominated by boys, feel unsafe... 1/n
- Reposted by Susannah WalkerElon Musk is a white supremacist. Case closed.
- Reposted by Susannah WalkerIn the late 1920s my grandparents would bike to the Isle of Wight from North London after finishing work on a Saturday, and come back for work on Monday morning .
