“There’s not a lot of us. But what I always try to think about, and what my passion is, is spreading more poppies in a field of daffodils, so to have more Black and brown dancers.” Trailblazing ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince dies at 29 www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/s...

Trailblazing ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince dies at 29

Sierra Leone-born DePrince, who moved to US as a child, danced with Boston Ballet and performed with Beyoncé

I’m excited and honoured to have been elected as the new Chair of Labour Women’s Network yesterday - a fantastic organisation which has helped, trained, mentored and encouraged on the way to being elected and supporting others to election as councillors, mayors, MPs. Thanks for all support!

TDthangamdebbonaire.bsky.socialSep 7, 2024 8:30am

Women of the Labour Women’s Network have four more days to vote for volunteers to serve on the executive committee. I’ve put myself forward for Chair. More information on my website: www.debbonaire.co.uk/campaign-home/

Campaign home - Thangam Debbonaire

Last full day of voting for Labour Women’s Network executive committee and chair - more information about why I’m standing for election as chair in the link below.

TDthangamdebbonaire.bsky.socialSep 7, 2024 8:30am

Women of the Labour Women’s Network have four more days to vote for volunteers to serve on the executive committee. I’ve put myself forward for Chair. More information on my website: www.debbonaire.co.uk/campaign-home/

Campaign home - Thangam Debbonaire

2024 brings three new Debbonaires, one today. Here’s me in Parliament on climate change in 2019,about to meet first Debbonaire to whom I am Graunty (great-aunty) Thangam. As I said then, we owe it to this generation to get to net zero rapidly. This Lab govt is. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019...

Transition Towns and Fossil Fuels - Hansard - UK Parliament

Hansard record of the item : ' Transition Towns and Fossil Fuels' on Monday 18 March 2019.

No I post there every day! I’ve been experimenting with posting same on here and there. That’s why it’s odd- been non stop racist responses and horrible ratios to anything I post on refugees or migration, day after day. I break up the hate with posts about music or books and they aren’t interested.

It’s just quiet on there today… or maybe I’m on a different algorithm that keeps me hidden… or maybe everyone nice has left… or something…

Dunno if there has been a memo or the algorithm has died or the racists are all slumbering but I posted on The Other Place about migration and India and about me being on the radio talking about migration hours ago and there is no racist pile on. At all. This is weird.

No - thanks for recs!

I’ll be on Times Radio today Sunday at 10.45 ish talking about migration policy.

This year’s Hay book buying theme was ‘gaps’. After this gap filled I’ll finally have read every Willa Cather novel, some many times (O Pioneers!; My Ántonia; Shadows on the Rock; Death Comes for the Archbishop). Bookmark is the menu my lovely god-daughter made for afternoon tea.