A snippet of my BBC Woman's Hour interview about ‘Underclass’ - this is how I was treated in academia once they knew I was a teen mum from a council estate…

UNDERCLASS is out today! 📚

'It feels like a betrayal.'

Around 5,000 people seeking asylum in the UK have been identified for removal to Rwanda.

One of them is 'Ahmed'. He tells Darshna Soni he is fighting his deportation because, he claims, he worked with RAF forces in Afghanistan.

'People of Pattern' 2016 by Alia Ali, a Yemeni-Bosnian-US multi-media artist who works with ideas of people, place, and the processes which unite and divide #WomensArt

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Maybe when voting for this legislation you considered the interests of disabled people without your resources or social capital?

Thanks to funding from the Government’s Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund, with the National Lottery Community Fund, we have improved our support at the Royal Courts of Justice for people alone in court facing cost of living issues Department for Culture, Media and Sport The National Lottery Community Fund #CostOfLiving

Turns out a job overseas where you can't bring your children with you isn't hugely popular with women.

But that's exactly what the care worker visa changes do. Wonder what this could possibly do to a sector wracked with recruitment & retention issues...

In case you missed it, our Migration Justice Project team has published this important update with advice and practical tips for asylum seekers who are concerned that they could be considered for removal to Rwanda.

Download it here ⬇️

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We need to talk about wealth inequality. But how do we do that?

jrf.org.uk/wealth-funding…

.Women's Consortium research showed how much the #CostOfLivingCrisis impacts on women & families.

That's why along with Inspire & colleagues we've launched #CostofLiving24 a one-stop community resource for information/support.

Visit communitywellbeing.info/cost-of-living or call 0808 189 0036

Sadly more and more people are being driven to use food banks for the first time in NI.

Along with Inspire & colleagues across the sector we have launched #CostofLiving24 a one-stop community resource for information/support. Visit communitywellbeing.info/cost-of-living or call 0808 189 0036.

We addressed Assembly Committee for the Executive Office yesterday on the services we provide, as well as our recommendations for how refugee and asylum communities can be better supported.

You can watch back here.

niassembly.tv/committee-for-…

“The Taliban just passed a law to stone and execute women in public... There is no recourse to justice. They are denying millions of girls an education, an opportunity to work or to travel outside the house. They are trying to eradicate us completely.”

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As legal advice is increasingly delivered remotely, how much do we know about the actual experience of receiving remote advice?

As PLP's Dr Jo Hynes writes in Legal Action Group, concerning data gaps have been identified by Dr Natalie Byrom & Nuffield Foundation ✍️

lag.org.uk/article/215385…

Sounds like these letters should have been set out in simpler language.

County court orders Reading firm to pay costs of hearing sought by former client who feared loss of her home | Law Gazette lawgazette.co.uk/practice/firm-…

🤩 May Bank Holiday weekend incoming
Inns Cross Market Saturday incoming!

A bank holiday weekend calls for simple, fresh, tasty food!

We suggest fish tacos - gathering ingredients made simple with #somethingfishyni & @curious_farmer Spice Blends.

Market opens Sat 10-2.

I love this from Dr Rachel Clarke. @Michaelrosen asks why they held his hand when he was unconscious - to help blood pressure he suggests and - she adds: “because you are a human being & she wanted to be a human being towards you -and that’s the glue that runs through healthcare”

As this Workers Day comes to an end, thinking about all the women in Afghanistan who have been shut at out of paid work by the Taliban, at risk to their independence, dignity, health, safety, and lives. And them and all the women everywhere doing unpaid work.

Fascinating testimony from a Galway courthouse in 1860. Lord Plunket, Protestant Bishop of Tuam, had been insisting that his tenants send their children to a school which taught, among other things, that the local Catholic priest was 'a minister of the Antichrist'. 1/10

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