@RuthACAdams

Maker of theatre, art, cartoons, & small bits of furniture. Lover of satire. Associate Lecturer @chiuni. SpLD Coordinator at @ArtsedLondon. She/ Her. Own Views.

Joined June 2018
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#SettleTheDispute @UCEA1 @UCUChichester #FourFights @RKJethwa @chiuni
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@ucu26 Jul 2023
Got this message from Harvey today! Don't forget our students see us and are behind us. Full solidarity. #ucuRISING #SettleTheDispute
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Russell Group, which is made up of 24 leading #universities including Oxford and Cambridge, has announced that students will be allowed to use generative AI. Here's what you need to know 🧵👇 1/ #AIEthics
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More than £50 million invested in facilities over the last decade @chiuni whilst staff pay cut in real terms year after year due to VCs self proclaimed ‘challenging financial situation’. Here’s a suggestion; #peoplenotbuildings
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Jo Grady
@DrJoGrady23 May 2023
🧵 CAN I ASK ALL UCU MEMBERS TO RT THIS IMPORTANT THREAD ON UCEA’S STATEMENT YESTERDAY In short - they’ve got some front. #ucuRISING
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If you believe in women's suffrage, you believe in the right to protest. If you oppose apartheid, you believe in the right to protest. If you think our children deserve a liveable future, you believe in the right to protest. Defend our freedoms. Repeal the Public Order Bill!
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“civic protest is the bedrock of democracy, not an attack on it: an inalienable right that must never be chipped away” from #OnBeingUnreasonable linktr.ee/onbeingunreasonabl…
After all, protest has to be disruptive to someone, in some way, in order to be a protest. Sometimes that means disrupting the comfort of the comfortable through preying on their conscience (in the case of hunger strikes); sometimes it means disrupting the smooth operation of society by withdrawing one's labour, thereby demonstrating the value of one's labour to society (in the case of employment strikes); other times it means physically disrupting something tangible (like traffic, or bulldozers, or the ability of corporations to operate unhindered). Either way, protests have to do something to halt the gears and the workings of an unjust machine - or else they're not protests at all, but just a meaningless charade. In a world that's gone topsy-turvy, what if we could learn to collectively embrace disruption as a necessary way to put everything the right way up again: to see civil disobedience as a net good, and civil obedience as the real social evil?

ALT After all, protest has to be disruptive to someone, in some way, in order to be a protest. Sometimes that means disrupting the comfort of the comfortable through preying on their conscience (in the case of hunger strikes); sometimes it means disrupting the smooth operation of society by withdrawing one's labour, thereby demonstrating the value of one's labour to society (in the case of employment strikes); other times it means physically disrupting something tangible (like traffic, or bulldozers, or the ability of corporations to operate unhindered). Either way, protests have to do something to halt the gears and the workings of an unjust machine - or else they're not protests at all, but just a meaningless charade. In a world that's gone topsy-turvy, what if we could learn to collectively embrace disruption as a necessary way to put everything the right way up again: to see civil disobedience as a net good, and civil obedience as the real social evil?

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Exactly! There’s no justification for this sort of blatant mismanagement of democracy.
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@MonkEmma17 Apr 2023
Ok, I’m applying for a 16-25 railcard for my son. It requires a photo. It requires PROOF OF ID to get one. Tell me again why a 16-25 railcard isn’t valid ID to vote but all of these are?? #voterID #VoterSuppression #ToriesUnfitToGovern
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Intuitive presentations in the Arts For Social Change Showcase held by @CollEnc. Always a joy to see just how much the Arts can help so many people. #Theatre #SocialChange #Education
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Shell just recorded £32 billion in profit. 3,000 people in the UK die every year because they can't afford to heat their homes. There’s nothing pragmatic about letting greed run rampant while the poorest freeze to death. Energy is a public good. It should be in public hands.
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Jo Grady
@DrJoGrady31 Jan 2023
500,000 workers on strike tomorrow. RT if you support every single one of them.
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Insightful lecture series this evening from @TheSTR presented by Jorik Mol on 'Theatre on the Spectrum: Theatre Training & the Neurodivergent'. Great to reflect further on my students' needs as well as my own #neurodivergency. #Theatre #Teaching
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Gina@ginamartinuk31 Dec 2022
When faced with misogyny in the headlines teachers and parents always ask: "How do I talk to the boys in my life about sexual violence?" You don't. You don't start there. If you want to have an actual conversation that works, it has to begin somewhere else. 🧵
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A one-off 1% wealth tax on households with more than £1 million could fund the nurses’ demand for a fair pay rise 162 times over. Don’t ever let anyone tell you we can’t afford to pay workers what they need and deserve. Solidarity with members from @theRCN on strike today.
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Jo Grady
@DrJoGrady7 Dec 2022
RT if you aren’t having MPs who have been given a £20,000 pay increase over the last 12 years telling nurses, rail workers, posties and university workers that they shouldn’t demand better.
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Jo Grady
@DrJoGrady19 Oct 2022
CAN I ASK ALL UCU MEMBERS TO RT THIS FINAL BALLOT THREAD. For £6.85 you can still vote via special delivery. And that’s fitting because this has been a special campaign. Let’s look at some highlights. #ucuRISING
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History 🥳 What a game.
Lionesses
@Lionesses31 Jul 2022
WE HAVE DONE IT
BREAKING: Over 80 LGBT and HIV organisations in the UK have pulled out of the government’s international LGBT conference this summer due to trans conversion therapy being excluded from the ban. Makes the conference essentially pointless. Hugely embarrassing for govt.
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Next month, MPs get a £2,200 pay rise to £84,144 while the country gets a rise in national insurance, energy bills & council tax. We’re already in the top 5% of earners. When I was elected, I pledged to take home £35k and donate the rest to local causes. That won't be changing.
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