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Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...communities who are targets of state harassment, including poor and working-class black and minority ethnic, queer, transgender and non-binary groups and sex workers. Negative consequences are amplified. These can include loss of homes, family, friends, jobs – as well as risk of arrest, imprisonment or even deportation if a victim has insecure immigration status. Legal...
Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...communicating a strong sense of triumph and victory to be won! As we started with some historical context let’s remember that the human cost of WW1 was the loss of millions of working class lives. There was a new mood of militancy in Europe reinforced by a revolutionary surge in Russia. Soviet posters depicted toiling masses with outstretched arms being ground down by...
From headlines to hashtags: is the FA doing enough to promote gender equality through social media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

From headlines to hashtags: is the FA doing enough to promote gender equality through social media?

...communication aligns with their values and effectively reflects gender equity. Despite the financial precariousness of women’s football becoming increasingly apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic, throughout a four-week period in July 2022 the Lionesses became the centrepiece of what may become a transition in how women’s football is consumed within sports culture,...
Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?
History & The Arts

Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?

...communal viewing experiences will become the norm again. Although Barbenheimer’s success is an exciting moment in cultural history, it’s unclear as yet what longer-term part it might play in any trends beyond pink and black fashions. Crucially, if Hollywood and other national cinema industries are going to be ‘saved’, funders need to invest in creative talent and...
Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza
Health, Sports & Psychology

Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza

...communities and the push to ‘Love Belfast’ has already taken off with recent top quality music festivals, the MTV Awards, filming for Game of Thrones, and various BBC dramas such as Line of Duty and The Fall. Belfast has definitely attracted the interest of the world for the right reasons. The connection of bicycles to Belfast, however, has been underplayed until now....
Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...community because herd immunity is one of the benefits of widespread vaccination. There is currently no Covid-19 vaccine. The demonstration in Footman 477's video tries to show what the government seems to think it is doing. Footman 477 uses a bucket and a plastic bottle with a hole to explain how allowing a trickle of people to become infected and pass through the health...
A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people
Society, Politics & Law

A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people

...and articulating this particularly human story of language, culture and identity and the histories and geographies that bind them together. It is a tale of a marginalised population clinging, both literally and metaphorically, to the edge of a continent and how strength is gained from small but defiant communities connecting people, and chough, and places together....
OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...communications. I'm a carer for an autistic 25 year old recently diagnosed. I wanted to help understand her and help her understand herself too. You may have saved her life. …I feel empowered to support people more confidently through my work. Before Covid I didn't have the time to do a course this in depth … this course is amazing and I get brownie points at the end...