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Just going to be reposting memes for the foreseeable tbh.

Currently being torn between wanting to live in the woods and eating nothing but apple crumble and custard and reading Dodie Smith books and wanting to continue working hard to fight systems of oppression that directly impact the children I work for and my community. @allrisecollective comrades, when are we starting the commune where we can do all of the above while providing each other with free childcare?

This weekend has been AUTUMNAL. @allrisecollective hosted our first event today and we are so overwhelmed by the love, support, kindness and generosity of our community who have helped us raise a lot of money which will support displaced Afghan families who have recently arrived in Southend. We also received loads of donations for our winter coat drive and lots of toiletries for the Care Bank too. If you couldn't be there today but want to help support our fund, you can enter our online raffle which is running until midnight on Sunday 31st October 🎃🕸️👻🕷️

Some books that I've recently added to Rudy's book shelf but they will also form part of a small borrowing library I'll be offering as part of my Raising Change workshops too. I'm hoping to get them up and running in the new year and instead of one long workshop, they'll be shorter and more subject specific this time. I hope you can join me! #FeministParenting #ChildrensBooks #RaisingChange

Just so we're all on the same page and teachers know what the (near) future looks like. Jonathan Gullis, a Tory MP and former teacher no less, has stated that teachers who merely utter the words "white privilege" and criticise the Conservatives in a classroom should be reported as extremists and fired. This is a man who TAUGHT CHILDREN in Birmingham, a culturally diverse area with high numbers living in poverty and then argued against feeding these same children (slide 4) when he became an MP. These people do not have the interests of children in mind. They want to protect the white and the wealthy and the systems that have been built to benefit them. Thank you @toomuchmotheringinformation for sharing this story.

This evening, I walked home from the train station as the sun set and I became acutely aware that the skies are darkening earlier. I found myself walking parallel, on either side of the road, with the man who caused me to breakdown and sob behind a wheelie bin down an alleyway as I returned from an aborted vigil for Sarah Everard and all the victims of gender based violence back in March. As I walked home that night, I watched this man exit a takeaway ahead of me. He paused to let a woman walk past but apparently she didnt respond to this magnanimous gesture of chivalry in a way that suitably flattered his ego and he proceeded to verbally abuse her in a way that chilled me to the bone. He started to follow her up the street, physically threatening her and I ran and caught up with her, pit myself between them and asked her where she was going and told her I would take her there. Her partner soon turned up and she returned home safely and I had a big cry behind a bin and went home. This was just a 3 minute walk from my house and a few days later, as I left my house with my child, this man walked past and looked directly at me as if he knew me. I now see him every few weeks walking his little dog around the streets near my house and I wonder how many women he has abused. How many women he has hurt. How many women he has scared. Because we weren't the first women he'd done that to that night and we certainly won't be the last.

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