Freelance journalist + researcher. https://teapawt.org/t.co/HnXI2siJRM ✍️ She/her
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🧵Can history be written with a needle?
I spoke with artists and historians about community embroidery for @BBC_Culture.
Come see the Palestinian History Tapestry, the Keiskamma Tapestry, Quakers sewing the Peterloo Massacre and more…🪡
bbc.com/culture/article/2023…
🚨YOU DID IT!🚨
More than 10,000 people saying NO to earned settlement
Because of your support the government HAS to issue a formal response to a policy it hoped would slip through unnoticed.
🌈 THANK YOU to everyone who signed, shared, and spoke out🌈
act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnh…
Just 80 people to go. Could you be the one to get this over the line?
🚨LAST DAY TO SIGN AGAINST EARNED SETTLEMENT🚨
🧑🧑🧒 Save 90,000 children from poverty
🌈 Protect our NHS and care workers
🏡 Make Burnham’s pledge to end rough sleeping actually possible
✍️ PLEASE SIGN ❤️act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnh…
Sarah_Woolley retweeted
🚨LAST DAY TO SIGN AGAINST EARNED SETTLEMENT🚨
🧑🧑🧒 Save 90,000 children from poverty
🌈 Protect our NHS and care workers
🏡 Make Burnham’s pledge to end rough sleeping actually possible
✍️ PLEASE SIGN ❤️act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnh…
🚨LAST DAY TO SIGN AGAINST EARNED SETTLEMENT🚨
🧑🧑🧒 Save 90,000 children from poverty
🌈 Protect our NHS and care workers
🏡 Make Burnham’s pledge to end rough sleeping actually possible
✍️ PLEASE SIGN ❤️act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnh…
Sarah_Woolley retweeted
Been telling everyone for years - the BBC has an actual ban in place on trans people appearing on Strictly. Confirmed to me years ago by someone who works on the show.
Institutionally transphobic. This is a 260,000 population that really is discriminated against. @bbcstrictly @bbc @bbcpress
Bethany wore a T-Shirt that said ‘Protect the Dolls’ during #Strictly rehearsals.
After posting a video, the BBC quietly replaced it with a new one that doesn’t show her from the front. During the show, they actually blurred out the T-Shirt completely. Absolutely despicable
Sarah_Woolley retweeted
🚨"Hey, do you want to save 90,000 children from poverty?"🚨
✍️ Please stand with families against Earned Settlement before Sunday.
Just 300 signatures to go!!!
act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnh…
🚨"Hey, do you want to save 90,000 children from poverty?"🚨
✍️ Please stand with families against Earned Settlement before Sunday.
Just 300 signatures to go!!!
act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnh…
Sarah_Woolley retweeted
🚨LAST DAY🚨
Just 368 more signatures needed to force a response from the government.
Earned settlement means more rough sleeping and poverty for people who’ve lived and worked here FOR DECADES.
✍️Tell Andy Burnham to BIN earned settlement.
act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnh…
Engagement is impossible on this app these days. Should I start some wild and unfounded rumours I heard about the Queen and David Attenborough to spice it up.?
TELL ANDY BURNHAM TO BIN EARNED SETTLEMENT.
If he doesn’t his pledge to end rough sleeping is a joke.
act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnh…
ALT Bernie Sanders “I am once again asking”
🚨LAST DAY🚨
Just 368 more signatures needed to force a response from the government.
Earned settlement means more rough sleeping and poverty for people who’ve lived and worked here FOR DECADES.
✍️Tell Andy Burnham to BIN earned settlement.
act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnh…
🚨LAST DAY🚨
Just 368 more signatures needed to force a response from the government.
Earned settlement means more rough sleeping and poverty for people who’ve lived and worked here FOR DECADES.
✍️Tell Andy Burnham to BIN earned settlement.
act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnh…
Sarah_Woolley retweeted
Grenfell - 72 died from the fire, at least five died by suicide, 11,000 have PTSD, concerns about long term effects of toxicity on residents, 11 firefighters with terminal cancer - plus £1bn spent and rising.
That's 'nothing' right?
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If you'd like to know how 'normal birth', an anti-medical doctrine, became national policy in UK maternity care, my book is out.
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GPNDVRVT/r…
Sarah_Woolley retweeted
The UK maternity system was effectively taken over by activists and radicals. If you'd like to know how this happened and the impact it has had to the present day, my book is a two year investigation of the topic.
Maternity: An Ongoing British Scandal amzn.eu/d/08kO86We
"Times letters: Dire failings of maternity care in Nottingham"
thetimes.com/article/e4aa730…
ALT Screenshot of James Owen Drife's letter recounting how UK maternity services demedicalised childbirth because of activists like the Association of Radical Midwives who campaigned for it.
ALT Screenshot of James Owen Drife's letter recounting how UK maternity services demedicalised childbirth because of activists like the Association of Radical Midwives who campaigned for it.
Sarah_Woolley retweeted
🚨 Donna Ockenden says midwives should train first as nurses as she warns of concerns across England.
Next week Baroness Amos WILL call for a review of education & a National Maternity Comissioner to oversee a redesign of maternity services
READ:thetimes.com/article/5cf0b30…
Sarah_Woolley retweeted
Nottingham maternity.
These leaders are paid with tax money. They should not be allowed to keep silent. They owe us some explanations.
Of the 14 senior leaders at CCG/ICB level, only 4 agreed to give evidence. Of 66 senior managers at @nottmhospitals only 35 actually engaged with the review just 53%.
This is shocking behaviour by supposed NHS leaders.
Sarah_Woolley retweeted
Huge increase in breastfeeding rates....
No evidence of improved health outcomes as a result
And worse ...
Strong possibility that current infant feeding guidance to delay solids until 6 months and breastfeed exclusively are major factors to increasing rates of serious food allergies and neonatal jaundice.
Is infant feeding policy doing serious harm?
Sarah_Woolley retweeted
The reality is that during the period that exclusive breastfeeding promotion policies and the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initaitive have expanded and bedded in, newborn readmissions to hospital for complications of insufficient intake (inc. jaundice) have been increasing every year!4/4
Sarah_Woolley retweeted
Can we talk about emergency c-sections that are performed too late to save the baby, and thus won't have an impact on stillbirth & neonatal mortality? I know so many of these experiences (including my own - should have been a Cat 1, ended up a perimortem c-section).
One in four births in England is now emergency caesarean, BBC analysis shows bbc.in/4v2IxsU
