Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Maedbh Pierce and speaks on how Vaginismus is more than a pelvic tensing

Currently studying an MA in Journalism, Media and Globalisation (Charles University, Prague), Maedbh Pierce (she/her) is an English and Philosophy graduate (UCD, Dublin) and freelance writer. To date, her writing explores and celebrates queer identity, life and culture. Amongst others, her work has been featured in Material Queer, COVEN BERLIN, Unicorn Magazine, Nonchalant London, and The Single Supplement.

What can you do?

• Try a free feelnorma six-part intimate well-being course or book a free online workshop!
• Watch Sex Education, ELITE and Unorthodox — three shows where you’ll find diverse representations of vaginismus.
• Give Gráinne Byrne’s chat with Keelin Moncrieff a listen.
• Check out this podcast and/or Vaginismus Research Ireland to learn more about Dr Maria McEvoy and her research!
• If you’re curious about the cultural dynamics of Catholicism in Ireland mentioned in this article Diarmaid Ferriter’s Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland provides expansive historicising and insight.

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Larissa Kennedy and speaks on how Leah Cowan explores the realities of, and possibilities for, British feminism.

Larissa Kennedy is a writer, movement griot/jali (storyteller), and community organiser from South London with roots in Jamaica, Barbados, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. She has a BA in Politics, International Studies and Hispanic Studies from the University of Warwick, where her research focused on historicising climate justice in the Anglophone and Hispanophone Caribbean. During her time as an undergraduate, Larissa was formerly President of the National Union of Students, and of Students Organising for Sustainability. She also lived and organised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile. For her Master’s degree, Larissa is studying Global Affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing. In her organising, Larissa has been part of challenging structural injustice, and building collective power at all levels - from the grassroots to the UN. Larissa is founding chair of TALAWA, a Black-led collective of racialised students and young people focused on political education and transformative action at the nexus of Black feminism, climate justice and liberated education. At shado, Larissa is a writer, editor, and co-host of the shado-lite podcast which discusses a number of the world’s biggest global injustices, supporting our community to move from apathy and overwhelm to collective action and hopeful pathways forward.

What can you do?

Read:

• Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? By Leah Cowan
• Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie
• Become Ungovernable : An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living by H.L.T. Quan
• Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean
• Abolition Feminism is the only solution for the criminalisation of gender-violence survivors by Marcela Onyango
• What is Abolition? By Sara Bafo

Listen:

• shado-lite podcast episode: How do we make ourselves and our community ungovernable? With guest Dr Aviah Sarah Day
• Surviving Society podcast episode 161: Abolition Feminism with Nikki Godden-Rasul, Tina Sikka & Alison Phipps

Get involved:

• Join an Abolitionist Futures reading group
• Find your local Cop Watch

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi and describes How Khalid Albaih navigates the role of art in political resistance in Sudan

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi (he/him) is a Sociology PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the intersectional politics of queer activism and feminism in Nigeria, along with principles of postcolonial and Black queer feminist theory. He analyses the cultural and socio-political dimensions of various subjects, from mainstream pop-culture, politics, art to academic debates.

• Check out some of Khalid’s works
• Watch Sudan: History of a Broken Land
• Support the Sudan Artist Fund
• Check out the Postcards from Khartoum page (@khartoum.postcards on instagram) started and curated by Ala Kheir and André Lützen

Read:

• The Satir Sisters: two artists inspiring change through illustration
• These Hallowed Halls: Sudanese protest art inside the British Parliament
• #sudanrevolts: contesting power & violence through art
• Find out more about artists on the front lines of a changing Sudan here and here

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Samara Almonte and is an essay On preserving Indigenous identity and cultural survival within diasporic realities.

Samara Almonte is part of the Michoacan diaspora, raised between the lakes and tierra caliente regions of Michoacan and occupied Coast Salish territory or the Pacific Northwest Coast. Samara identifies as a P’urhepecha descendant reconnecting with her ancestors, which has greatly influenced her work as storyteller and urban planner. She grounds her work in a decolonial framework that uplifts Indigenous self-determination. Samara holds a B.A in Urban Planning and Sustainability Development, with a specialization in Environmental Justice and Education, from Western Washington University. Outside of her professional life, Samara is the creator and host of the podcast Raíces Verdes (Green Roots), a platform dedicated to validating, archiving and sharing the experiences of racialized peoples reconnecting with their “green roots”. Green roots are defined as our ancestral connection to the earth that embodies our relationships with all living and spiritual beings. To learn more about the podcast visit nuestrasraicesverdes.com.

Read the following memoirs:

• Life in the City of Dirty Water by Clayton Thomas-Müller
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Read further articles by Samara:

• Indigenising my relationship to the kitchen – Shado Magazine
• How Indigenous land defenders are leading the fight against extraction in Ecuador – Shado Magazine
• A Culture of Sovereignty: Farmers leading the way – Shado Magazine
• I no longer dream of the apocalypse – Shado Magazine

• Follow Angela on Instagram
• Find out about the organisation Wretched of the Earth
• Listen to the podcast Raíces Verdes

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Ella Sinclair and describes the hidden experiences of women of colour who stammer.

Ella is a freelance journalist based in London focusing on race, racism, politics and social justice. She has written for gal-dem, The Lead, The Voice, The Guardian and Cosmopolitan. Find her on Twitter @ella_clair.

• Visit STAMMA for more information
• Read Stammering Pride and Prejudice, the book challenging the stereotype that stammering is inherently negative
• Listen to Stutter Talk
• Learn about health justice in shado’s Knowledge Page

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Tony Cobb, and describes the Extreme heat and human rights violations in Florida’s prisons.

Tony Cobb is an inside prison journalist based in Florida's Everglades Correctional Institution. He reports on prison conditions and writes about prison reform through personal essays. He has written for Prism, Scalawag, and the Prison Journalism Project.

Contact:

• Jeff Brandes, former Senator at The Florida Policy Project.
• Yvonne Hayes Hinson, Democratic house member.
• Connie Edson, Inmate Advocate.
• Support Tony financially and/or contact him: Anthony Cobb, dc#194479, through jpay.com

Watch:

• 13th, a documentary which explains the prison industrial complex.

Read:

• When they call you a terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
• Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell

Articles on the topic of abolition:

• Why police will never be the answer to gendered violence
• Why we need creativity and humanity in our prison food
• ‘Building back differently’: a case for climate justice through abolition
• Don’t let the idea of abolition overwhelm you

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Samara Almonte, and describes her experience of empowerment through reconnecting to the women in her family.

Samara Almonte is part of the Michoacan diaspora, raised between the lakes and tierra caliente regions of Michoacan and occupied Coast Salish territory or the Pacific Northwest Coast. Samara identifies as a P’urhepecha descendant reconnecting with her ancestors, which has greatly influenced her work as storyteller and urban planner. She grounds her work in a decolonial framework that uplifts Indigenous self-determination. Samara holds a B.A in Urban Planning and Sustainability Development, with a specialization in Environmental Justice and Education, from Western Washington University. Outside of her professional life, Samara is the creator and host of the podcast Raíces Verdes (Green Roots), a platform dedicated to validating, archiving and sharing the experiences of racialized peoples reconnecting with their “green roots”. Green roots are defined as our ancestral connection to the earth that embodies our relationships with all living and spiritual beings. To learn more about the podcast visit nuestrasraicesverdes.com

What can you do?

• The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust has a powerful and accessible Rematriation Resource Guide on their website for those wanting to learn more.
• There are several organisations, at least in the United States, that you can support to sustain these efforts. Indigenous Women Rising, Indigenous Women Hike, The Sunlight Media Collective and Native Women’s Wilderness (NWW)
• An intersecting movement that supports the sovereignty of Indigenous women is the Missing Murder Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement across so-called North America, but really it’s a movement across the world.
• NWW published an article about MMIW on their website as a resource for those living in the United States. You can find a local group by searching “MMIW + [city or state you live in]” to find actions taking place near you.

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Welcome back! Today's article in focus is brought to us by Simmone Ahiaku and tells A reality of love, loss and gentrification in Brixton.

Simmone is a climate justice campaigner, writer and educator who has contributed to environmental, social and cultural work in Bristol, London and across the UK. Simmone has worked on air pollution, divestment and direct action campaigns. She currently uses facilitated workshops to explore climate colonialism and examples of climate resistance and movements from the past and present day. Simmone is an astrology enthusiast - she's an aries sun, moon and Scorpio rising. Simmone loves music, hates capitalism and likes looking at the bright side of things!

What can you do?

Simmone has curated an amazing list of resources here so please head over to the online article, and scroll down to the What can you do? section to check that out. It includes articles, films, documentaries, places to visit, songs to listen to, and even her most recommended restaurants in Brixton, for you to save to your maps and take your friends or loved ones to.

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