Author: Jailbirds/Prison Teacher (2019), Living Together (out Nov 22!) Co-founder @REfUSE_cic. Rep’d by @Nelle_Andrew #ElleList2019
Chester-le-Street, England
Joined March 2013
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Coming November 2022!
Living Together is a journey around the U.K. and Europe meeting people living in alternative ways, creating communities that are more connected, greener, fairer and more accessible.
We'll be back at Grange Villa working men's club for carols next Friday if anyone wants to join the joy :):0
What does Christmas look like on a communal farm? @mimskinner shows us the wonky pies, dogs with hats and dinners for 17!
Christmas pressies anyone :):)
Anxious about the state of housing? Bereft of a sense of community? Wishing for something better?
Better living exists – @mimskinner presents 12 radical ways of doing so in Living Together.
Get it now 🔽 footnotepress.com/books/livi…
I'm enormously proud of my chapter in this. It's the first time I've written about the community I lived in during my twenties and it made me realise how much it shaped me.
If you want to dig into a network of people thinking about living communally - this is where to start!
Urban communal living in Britain:
*Co-operatives
*Student Co-ops
*Activist communities
*Community Led Housing
*Urban Rented Communities
*Cohousing
*Coliving
*L'arche UK
diggersanddreamers.org.uk/sh…
Tune in to BBC local radio wherever you are in half an hour to hear me chatting to Jo Good about Communal Living.
(She’s not convinced)
*UNIVERSITY STAFF*
Stop asking us to guest lecture/ run workshops / join seminars for free.
It happens so often. Because the culture is that salaried academics are obligated to add these to their CV, they assume you will.
You can’t pay childcare costs with good feelings 🤷♀️
Interview request 😊😊😊
I’d love to speak to people living
a) with multiple generations in one household
b) with a family who live with additional people or with another family
Would be v grateful if you could share! X
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Revelatory. @MimSkinner gives a timely insight into a women's prison. She is engaging, warm & at times understandably despairing. Cycle of "justice" without restoration/rehabilitation seems utterly pointless. Also parts made me chuckle! Wholeheartedly recommend #walkerbookrv
RT @WeAreFootnote: “You can build the beehive, but in the end, it is the bees that make the honey.”
‘Living Together’ author @MimSkinner w…
Commercial communalism is growing at pace. Is it just what our housing sector needs or has it missed the point?
Does my skepticism stem from being a activist bore who feels resentful that people are buying community? (probs)
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
I LOVED having lunch with Sarah. Her Substack is such a fantastic hive of climate news and initiatives in the North of England. Well worth a read!
And frankly a CLASSIC move from me, organising lunch at my own project so she'd get to see @REfUSE_cic
Never not cheerleading.
Could you live in a communal household? Talking co-housing, intergenerational living and more over lunch with author and social entrepreneur @mimskinner #housing #cohousing #community #countydurham thenortherneco.substack.com/…
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Could you live in a communal household? Talking co-housing, intergenerational living and more over lunch with author and social entrepreneur @mimskinner #housing #cohousing #community #countydurham thenortherneco.substack.com/…
Thanks for having me Woman's Hour!
So much we couldn't fit in! If you want to ask more about the two communities I've been part of, communal family life or any of the communities I've visited for Living Together, I'm doing an Ask Me Anything over on Instagram today.
Would you live communally? It may be a way to share childcare, look after each other in old age, or save the planet.
Listener @nettykanewrites wanted to know how “intentional communities” work.
@MimSkinner & Anne Thorne @CMcohousing join @itsanitarani to answer her questions.
Can't wait to chat about communal housing this morning.
Writing Living Together took me to see communities who were using their collective power to shift inherited value systems, living in more connected, free-er, greener, healthier and fairer ways. Could it be for you?
Would you ever choose to live communally?
It may be a way to share childcare, look after each other in old age, or save the planet.
At 10am, @MimSkinner & Anne Thorne from @CMcohousing join @itsanitarani to answer listener Annette's questions about “intentional communities”.
Tune in to @BBCRadio4 tomorrow morning to hear me on ACTUAL WOMAN'S HOUR 😍 talking about Living Together, intentional communities and co-housing.
*No, I will not manage to be chilled and nonchalant about it. I bloody love @BBCWomansHour
Just in case anyone is nurturing a future world where they might write a novel on maternity leave, let me just put that to bed for you.
Heading back to work next week and it’s unsurprisingly not happened for me 😅.
Slowly emerging from the milky fog of baby-life enough to sort out my chuffing website! The to-do list item I avoid most frequently.
mimskinner.co.uk is now full of my articles, books and even a NEWSLETTER you can sign up to. *takes a bow*
Love this Father's Day piece on the @Plough. What a man!
plough.com/en/topics/justice…