Deborah Shaw
@devorashawa.bsky.social
Academic who publishes on film and television with a specialism in gender and sexuality and Latin American film
Some of my work can be found here: https://www.deborahshaw.co.uk/
Some of my work can be found here: https://www.deborahshaw.co.uk/
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
making a living vs making a life
here is the best advice I have about making your life in the creative arts. it's advice from my mum. it has made my whole life better and if you want to be an artist I think it'll make yours better too:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...
here is the best advice I have about making your life in the creative arts. it's advice from my mum. it has made my whole life better and if you want to be an artist I think it'll make yours better too:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...
making a living vs making a life
or "can you earn money from your art?" (and is that even the right question?)
naomialderman.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
making a living vs making a life
here is the best advice I have about making your life in the creative arts. it's advice from my mum. it has made my whole life better and if you want to be an artist I think it'll make yours better too:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...
here is the best advice I have about making your life in the creative arts. it's advice from my mum. it has made my whole life better and if you want to be an artist I think it'll make yours better too:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
genuinely can't remember the last time I saw a politician who isn't endlessly blaming my wife and my friends (online and off) for the ills of the nation. and that's why we will both be voting green
October 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
genuinely can't remember the last time I saw a politician who isn't endlessly blaming my wife and my friends (online and off) for the ills of the nation. and that's why we will both be voting green
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
A new Portland character has entered the chat at the ICE facility….meet The Unipiper!
October 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
A new Portland character has entered the chat at the ICE facility….meet The Unipiper!
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
Environmental defenders are being killed for protecting our future – the law needs to catch up
theconversation.com/environmenta...
theconversation.com/environmenta...
October 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Environmental defenders are being killed for protecting our future – the law needs to catch up
theconversation.com/environmenta...
theconversation.com/environmenta...
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
Lavender scare is back.
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter and a dismissal notice reviewed by MSNBC.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...
Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag
The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as President Trump threatened more terminations.
www.msnbc.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Lavender scare is back.
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.”
Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.”
Donald Trump: “My favourite president.”
Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”
Meanwhile... in Argentina
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.”
Donald Trump: “My favourite president.”
Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”
Meanwhile... in Argentina
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty
The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.”
Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.”
Donald Trump: “My favourite president.”
Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”
Meanwhile... in Argentina
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.”
Donald Trump: “My favourite president.”
Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”
Meanwhile... in Argentina
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
👀
Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
heated.world
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 AM
👀
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
"It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people" 🎯
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/donald-trump-us-abyss-nigel-farage-britain
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/donald-trump-us-abyss-nigel-farage-britain
Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Here’s how to stop him | Jonathan Freedland
It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people" 🎯
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/donald-trump-us-abyss-nigel-farage-britain
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/donald-trump-us-abyss-nigel-farage-britain
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
This past weekend once again showed:
Elon Musk is not fit and proper to be given a foothold in our essential services. 🚨 ⚠️
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-minister-block-dangerous-elon-musk-tesla-power-supply-bid-tommy-robinson/
Elon Musk is not fit and proper to be given a foothold in our essential services. 🚨 ⚠️
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-minister-block-dangerous-elon-musk-tesla-power-supply-bid-tommy-robinson/
UK ministers told: Block ‘dangerous’ Elon Musk power supply bid
Musk is “far too dangerous to be trusted with something as important as people’s energy supply,” the Lib Dem opposition said.
www.politico.eu
September 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This past weekend once again showed:
Elon Musk is not fit and proper to be given a foothold in our essential services. 🚨 ⚠️
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-minister-block-dangerous-elon-musk-tesla-power-supply-bid-tommy-robinson/
Elon Musk is not fit and proper to be given a foothold in our essential services. 🚨 ⚠️
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-minister-block-dangerous-elon-musk-tesla-power-supply-bid-tommy-robinson/
Implausible deniability
Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...
Hey Donald, welcome to Windsor Castle
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
www.youtube.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Implausible deniability
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
A Labour government that does not fight back against the far right, racism and extremism fundamentally misunderstands the nature of its electoral support.
September 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A Labour government that does not fight back against the far right, racism and extremism fundamentally misunderstands the nature of its electoral support.
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
Many people are convinced, because of what they’ve seen online, that the know what motivated the accused killer of Charlie Kirk.
The truth is we don’t have a motive and in some ways the picture is murkier than it was this morning.
Powerful people have blamed the “Left” - without evidence…
The truth is we don’t have a motive and in some ways the picture is murkier than it was this morning.
Powerful people have blamed the “Left” - without evidence…
September 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Many people are convinced, because of what they’ve seen online, that the know what motivated the accused killer of Charlie Kirk.
The truth is we don’t have a motive and in some ways the picture is murkier than it was this morning.
Powerful people have blamed the “Left” - without evidence…
The truth is we don’t have a motive and in some ways the picture is murkier than it was this morning.
Powerful people have blamed the “Left” - without evidence…
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
Well, gosh.
EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?
Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Well, gosh.
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... - one of many sources confirming this story.
168 years ago...
168 years ago...
September 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... - one of many sources confirming this story.
168 years ago...
168 years ago...
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
In further news, I’ll be speaking in Vienna at the end of this month, and I’m delighted to learn from them that I’m a philosopher of technology.
www.humanitiesfestival.at/alderman
www.humanitiesfestival.at/alderman
September 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
In further news, I’ll be speaking in Vienna at the end of this month, and I’m delighted to learn from them that I’m a philosopher of technology.
www.humanitiesfestival.at/alderman
www.humanitiesfestival.at/alderman
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
Worried about being criticised, ostracised or blacklisted because you used genAI tools in your writing? Here's a great hack to make sure it never happens to you:
Do the writing yourself, like a grown-up.
Do the writing yourself, like a grown-up.
August 31, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Worried about being criticised, ostracised or blacklisted because you used genAI tools in your writing? Here's a great hack to make sure it never happens to you:
Do the writing yourself, like a grown-up.
Do the writing yourself, like a grown-up.
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives?
Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea'
The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis".
www.bbc.com
August 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives?
Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
Fascinating. Why films made by Netflix are so awful. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?
When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs. But is there a happy ending?
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Fascinating. Why films made by Netflix are so awful. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
“I don’t remember anyone ever saying to us ‘Oh I just don't think we're properly reflecting the Green Party view, or the liberal-left view on this story’,” one former BBC journalist told me.
“It was always just slanted in one direction – which was basically the nativist, authoritarian direction.”
“It was always just slanted in one direction – which was basically the nativist, authoritarian direction.”
The BBC's Plan to Appease Nigel Farage
News that BBC executives plan to alter their programming in order to win over Reform voters is the latest sign of a corporation that has become dangerously cowed by the right
www.adambienkov.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
“I don’t remember anyone ever saying to us ‘Oh I just don't think we're properly reflecting the Green Party view, or the liberal-left view on this story’,” one former BBC journalist told me.
“It was always just slanted in one direction – which was basically the nativist, authoritarian direction.”
“It was always just slanted in one direction – which was basically the nativist, authoritarian direction.”
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action'
Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning
Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning
August 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action'
Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning
Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning
F**k’s sake @bbcnews I really don’t care what Reform’s policies are on asylum seekers or how they want to harm vulnerable people. Why is this the second item on the news? Why don’t you report their policies on the NHS? Or how they want to defund councils. I have had to stop listening to BBC news
August 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
F**k’s sake @bbcnews I really don’t care what Reform’s policies are on asylum seekers or how they want to harm vulnerable people. Why is this the second item on the news? Why don’t you report their policies on the NHS? Or how they want to defund councils. I have had to stop listening to BBC news
we are in a post human rights era. Funny how we don’t press governments to ask the US about human rights www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The cemetery of living men: Trump deportees tell of abuse in secretive mega-jail - BBC News
Venezuelan migrants deported from the US to El Salvador's mega-jail speak of what life was like inside
www.bbc.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
we are in a post human rights era. Funny how we don’t press governments to ask the US about human rights www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
Dolly even helps Scottish kids access books. Those Bookbug bags that tiny munchkins get from nurseries, libraries, and schools? Dolly's Imagination Library is part of that.
Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.
August 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Dolly even helps Scottish kids access books. Those Bookbug bags that tiny munchkins get from nurseries, libraries, and schools? Dolly's Imagination Library is part of that.
Reposted by Deborah Shaw
‘A whole spectrum of hatred’: women face increased violence in Milei’s Argentina as rights are eroded
‘A whole spectrum of hatred’: women face increased violence in Milei’s Argentina as rights are eroded
In a country once lauded as a progressive bastion in Latin America, protections are being dismantled by a populist leader, and gender-based offences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
‘A whole spectrum of hatred’: women face increased violence in Milei’s Argentina as rights are eroded