Leila Billing
@leilabilling
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Rarely on this hellsite these days. Find me on Insta talking about books instead: @theliberatedreader
Cambridge, England
Joined August 2012
š¢ š¢ I wrote a two-parter about non-profits, urgency cultures, toxic productivity and the racial politics of time. With thanks to the 221 people who filled in the survey which informed this article šš¾ PS Share with your funders! https://t.co/R1iL9oGT4n
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Bookings for our online Feminist Leadership programme are officially open! š Join us to build a network of feminist peers, understand the concepts behind feminist leadership, and explore radical approaches to collective care. Register now! https://t.co/fTmZuSjoQi
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Some people still donāt know that Iām standing to be the Independent MP for our community. Please spread the word and share this video to let them know there is a real alternative in Chingford and Woodford Green. We donāt have to accept the broken political system. We can vote
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š Empathy is a much-lauded leadership skill. But does it always deliver what it promises? Can feminists concerned with radical change imagine beyond the versions of empathy that are being sold to us? Yes we can! I wrote about it...
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A couple of days ago it was Toni Morrisonās birthday. So I read Sula in her honour. This is the kind of book I wake up thinking about and going to bed hoping Iāll dream about. Hereās Sula being asked about marriage: 'I donāt want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.ā
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How can we all can reclaim our power to change how we live, work, and play? Join @desireeadaway, @HeatherHiscox1 and I tomorrow to explore what "rest as resistance" really means and how it connects to justice and liberation. Register here: https://t.co/gMZKp5i6wb
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Thank you @conorgearty for this really powerful piece on how various forms of denial have been mobilised to justify the actions of the Israeli state. #CeasefireNOW
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All agree that Israel has a right to defend itself, though there are many differences of opinion among lawyers as to the...
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Register here and please share šš¾
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Join us in the first of We Are Feminist Leaders' series exploring feminist solidarity with Palestine
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When I think about what solidarity can look like, I am reminded of what Vron Ware said: š” "There's a difference between the handwringing produced by guilt, and the handholding that emerges from solidarity" Join us on 15 February. Registration link in comments #CeasefireNOW
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There are some dismal stories of bad firing - remember that dude from P&O Ferries who sacked 800 people on a zoom call? - but Anna Wintour not bothering to take off her sunglasss while firing @pitchfork staff is⦠a look! #leadership
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Allison Hussey said CondƩ Nast's Anna Wintour kept her black sunglasses on while informing Pitchfork staff of job losses following its merger with GQ.
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Kudos to @briticoyemo and Charlie Northcott for some brilliant reporting on the abuse and coercion of TB Joshua's cult in Nigeria in this podcast. This deserved international coverage - but as one interviewee said "It happened in Africa so no-one cares''
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To listen online, visit www.bbcworldservice.com/worldofsecrets
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Since Oct 7th 2023, at least 300 healthcare workers have been killed in Gaza according to the UN. This is more than the *total* number of health worker deaths recorded across *all* countries in conflict last year, & in any single year since 2016. Donāt look away. #ceasefirenow
According to MSFās surgeon in Nasser hospital, last night Israeli forces heavily bombed the area close to the hospital with no prior evacuation order, causing patients and many of the thousands of displaced civilians, who had sought refuge in Nasser, to flee in a panic.
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Brilliant piece on ānice white peopleā and the genocide in Gaza. āYou want to wait until western institutions decree that it was in fact a genocide before you say anything. Your political morality moves at the glacial pace of your own comfortā https://t.co/hCpHoqzK5H
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Iāve been waiting *years* for journalists/commentators to do any intersectional analysis of the Post Office scandal - this has been too little, too late #PostOfficeScandal
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The workers say they believe racism affected the way people were treated in the Horizon scandal
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Thinking a lot about the spaces I donāt engage in and remembering what bell hooks says about the importance of boundary-crossing and reaching the audiences you really need to. I mean, this woman was even prepared to go on the Ricki Lake show! #bellhooks #feminism
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Despite the INGO sectorās fascination with intersectional feminist leadership and decolonisation, its responses to the Gaza crisis remain rooted in a colonial project. To see feminist solidarity in action, many of us look elsewhereā¦ šš¾ https://t.co/mGQuKyq3HQ
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š°š· š°š· Does anyone here have any connections to feminist activists/feminist leaders who are part of women's rights movements in South Korea? In particular I'm looking to speak to people who have been part of #MeToo activism. Feminists will of course be paid for their time!š°š·
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I needed to feel something other than heaviness and Claudette Johnsonās exhibition @TheCourtauld blew me away. Here she is, reclaiming the Black female body, telling those who would deny her: āI have my own business in this skinā. If you are in London this is a must see.
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bell hooks told us āpoetry is a place of transcendenceā. For me, itās also a way of knowing unparallel to any other. I have learned so much from South African poet Koleka Putuma - including from this witty, provocative poem #poetrylovers
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I never take it for granted when people read anything I write. It's such a privilege. Thank you @RaisingVoices and @WW2PreventVAWG
Raising Voices and Samya (@urvashigandhi) are co-leads on the Accountability pillar in the @WW2PreventVAWG consortium. We draw inspiration from @leilabillingās words in our approach to this critical work within the consortium. #ImpactAtScale
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In some cultural contexts, men can intentionally incorporate vulnerable behaviours and be lauded for it in a way that minoritised groups cannot. This shores up, rather than erodes patriarchal power in my view END/
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