Lyndsey Stonebridge
British literary scholar and historian of ideas; professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham and author of We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience.
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Their wordsI would also like accurate data on: 50+ female unemployment rates; number of 65+ single women on/below poverty line; percentage of 50+ women unpaid carers; impact of austerity on all the above. And for that data to be headline news.
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Their wordsI'm not sure yet another mandatory on-line training course eating up valuable time and emotional energy is the answer to increasing levels of stress experienced by HE colleagues
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Creative language is something people need to survive, and the human imagination is now imperilled.
Their wordsnever before have I felt so keenly the generative qualities of creative language - how much we need it to survive, how imperilled the whole project of human imagination currently is, & how much we have to fight for.
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Their wordsHeat is a feminist issue.
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Old women who act politically are patronised as if being old and doing politics were incompatible.
Their wordsnot sure how many 80-y-o women affirming their right-to-have-rights as citizens and totally grown up functioning political agents it's going to take before they stop being patronised as 80-y-o women.
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Their wordsThe Epstein files are not a scandal. They're proof of the violent misogynist contempt that structures wealth and power.
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Their wordsbooks targeting older women conspicuously treat us as though we're stupid, as though our biological and social lives are all we have.* As though we have neither history or interiority.
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Their wordsDudes, death & decay are the human condition.