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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Jul 10

These are appalling stats that demonstrate how current UK policy is failing women and families.

#womenshealth #policy #inequality

thenewfeminist.co.uk/2025/07/uk-d...

UK drops to 41st in global women’s health index - The New Feminist

British women now rank 41st out of 142 countries in the Hologic Global Women’s Health Index, slipping from 30th just two years ago.

thenewfeminist.co.uk

Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · May 12

She Didn't "Pick Wrong". Society Failed By Creating Millions of Abusive Men.
open.substack.com/pub/dremmaka...

She Didn't "Pick Wrong". Society Failed By Creating Millions of Abusive Men.

The scale of the risk means we need to stop blaming women for "ignoring red flags" when men turn out to be controlling and abusive partners

open.substack.com

Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Apr 5

Delighted that one of my paintings is featured in the iJADE conference call for abstracts.

Thank you @nsead.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Mar 8

GBV / VAWG in all its forms is an epidemic globally. Nothing changes because the patriarchy actively resists; it is not getting better. I’m so tired of this shit. I do no feel like celebrating IWD today as a result.

This sums it up for me ⬇️

@thenewfeminist.bsky.social

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Mar 2

Thanks for sharing!

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Mar 1

BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves has signed a £2.26 billion loan agreement with Ukraine to strengthen its defence capabilities, to be repaid using profits from frozen Russian assets 👏

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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · Feb 28

Friends, abstracts are now due for the 2025 Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference. Please see our website for details and we look forward to welcoming you to Oxford in September.
#AcademicSky
#HigherEducation

ethnographyandeducation.org/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers – Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference

ethnographyandeducation.org

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Feb 8

@throctukes.bsky.social - there is growing resistance.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Feb 7

Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.

The #Resistance Lives. It Just Looks Different This Time.

Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.

newrepublic.com

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Feb 7

This is a long but important read about the evisceration of collective memory in US education: Erasing History, Erasing Democracy: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Education truthout.org/articles/era...

Erasing History, Erasing Democracy: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Education

Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history.

truthout.org

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jan 24

Marco Rubio's anti-DEI memo is aligned: note that it's hostile to "the national plan to end gender-based violence."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent this internal memo to diplomats about Trump’s executive orders seeking to end DEI [lists a bunch of terms and actual executive orders they're against]

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Jan 24

This is so awesome

How we uncovered the UK’s biggest site of dinosaur tracks in a quarry in Oxfordshire theconversation.com/how-we-uncov...

How we uncovered the UK’s biggest site of dinosaur tracks in a quarry in Oxfordshire

The footprints were uncovered at a large quarry in Oxfordshire.

theconversation.com

Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Jan 22

“Trans-hostile actors generally view the concept of ‘gender’ as dangerous because it challenges traditional social structures, consequently promoting the binary, male-headed nuclear family as the only valid or moral way to live”.

This is an important document to help counter trans hostility

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TransLucent @translucent.org.uk · Jan 22

In recent years, trans-hostile actors and right-wing members of the Conservative Party have introduced into discourse the phrase “Gender Ideology” or occasionally “Trans Ideology”.

translucent.org.uk/gender-ideol...

#GenderIdeology #Transphobia #ConservativeParty #Evangelicals #HeritageFoundation

Gender Ideology the definition Briefing Notes

Gender Ideology, the definition. Briefing Notes for MPs and Journalists.

translucent.org.uk

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Jan 18

It was a joy to lead this ‘in conversation’ piece with @mollyhankinson.bsky.social for @nsead.bsky.social AD Magazine. Molly’s work against gender based violence is fantastic.

#vawg #endgbv #nsead #murals #arteducation

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Jan 8

How else to address GBV? To disrupt cultures of victim blaming in our institutions by developing a deeper understanding of who a survivor / victim can be.

The Pelicot rape case revealed not a group of monsters but a culture that enables the abuse of women theconversation.com/the-pelicot-...

The Pelicot rape case revealed not a group of monsters but a culture that enables the abuse of women

To truly learn from this case, we must accept that the crimes of Dominique Pelicot were not committed in a vacuum.

theconversation.com

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Dec 7

Final proof read on our big study of arts rich primary schools in England. Done soon but official launch early next year.

Report cover for Researching Arts in Primary Schools project with child abstract art

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Dec 5

There’s still time to sign up to our amazing event tomorrow evening
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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Nov 29

Oxford Brookes' 16 Days of Activism live panel event:
‘Let's talk about Gender-based Violence in the current climate’

6 Dec, 17:30-18:45pm (GMT)

See link below for more information and to register:

sites.google.com/brookes.ac.u...

#VAWG #endGBV #whiteribbon #16daysofactivism

'Violence Against Women and Girls' - Interprofessional student conference 2024 - 16 days of Activism

‘We can prevent violence against women and girls. It starts with me. It starts with men.’ End violence against women and girls The Global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an an...

sites.google.com

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Dec 1

Delighted to have sold this beauty ‘David’s Smallholding in August’ to David!

#painter #landscapes #colour

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Nov 29

Oxford Brookes' 16 Days of Activism live panel event:
‘Let's talk about Gender-based Violence in the current climate’

6 Dec, 17:30-18:45pm (GMT)

See link below for more information and to register:

sites.google.com/brookes.ac.u...

#VAWG #endGBV #whiteribbon #16daysofactivism

'Violence Against Women and Girls' - Interprofessional student conference 2024 - 16 days of Activism

‘We can prevent violence against women and girls. It starts with me. It starts with men.’ End violence against women and girls The Global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an an...

sites.google.com

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Professor EJ Renold @ejrenold.bsky.social · Nov 25

Join us next May 2025 for the International Gender and Education Association Conference 🦋
www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...

Re-Routing and Re-Imagining Gender and Education conference

The 21st Gender in Education Association conference. Discover the themes being discussed, key dates and how to get involved.

www.mmu.ac.uk

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Nov 22

Autumn, North Aston - work in progress

#cotswoldartist #painter #autumn

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Nov 19

Our Violence Against Women and Girls Conference is open to HE students and staff.

It takes place online on Friday 22nd November. Registration is open via the QR code in the flier.

We will be joined by organisations which include Thames Valley Police, White Ribbon and survivors.

#VAWG

Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hello lovely NSEAD. So proud to be a past president, member and fellow. The best organisation for advocating for art, craft and design in education.

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Nov 17

Wheatfield at the Height of Summer is an absolutely beaut. It sold a year ago but I still think about it.

The relationship between the orange, yellows and blues make it feel like the scorching hot day it is based on.

#westoxarts
#cotswolds
#cotswoldsartist
#mixedmedia
#landscape
#landscapepaint

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Rachel Payne @drrachpayne.bsky.social · Nov 17

Looking forward to connecting with fellow arty education based academics, and those who work to counter gender based violence in higher education.

Here's artworks from my artist teacher workshop yesterday with my amazing MA students

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