Helen Mort

Oct 31, 2024 | ukclimbing.com | Helen Mort

'Nothing that can ever be done in Sheffield or Manchester…..can ever really give what nature, such as exist in The Peak in all its moods, can give.' An extract from Helen Mort's biography Ethel, on the life of environmental campaigner, activist and poet Ethel Haythornthwaite. Kendal Mountain Festival 2024: Helen Mort and Dan Richards - Women Moving Mountains.

Jan 27, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Helen Mort

The living room was dark apart from the pale bluish light from my laptop screen. I sat, islanded in the middle of the sofa, hugging my knees. Everything seemed to contract around me, pulled into the bright pixels of the image I was looking at. A woman’s naked shoulders. A man’s hands tight around her neck, choking her. A face I knew better than any other, grinning from the frame. It was me. It was not me. My hands were trembling. I took a gulp of wine, spilling it on my jeans.

Nov 19, 2023 | polityka.pl | Helen Mort

W sieci wylądowały pornograficzne zdjęcia brytyjskiej pisarki stworzone za pomocą technologii deepfake. Jak możemy się bronić przed takim doświadczeniem? Zdrętwiałam. Nie wiedziałam, co robić. W jaki sposób mój wizerunek stworzony techniką deepfake trafił na stronę pornograficzną? Nie miałam nawet powodu, żeby się zastanawiać, jak zmanipulowane treści mogłyby wpłynąć na moje życie. A pewnego zimowego poranka ktoś niecierpliwie zapukał do moich drzwi...

Oct 28, 2023 | theguardian.com | Helen Mort

There was an insistent knock at the door. This in itself was startling – it was the winter of 2020 and we hadn’t yet returned to socialising indoors after lockdown. I wasn’t expecting visitors. When I answered, I was surprised to see a male acquaintance of mine. He said he needed to speak to me. I knew it was something unprecedented because he asked to come in. He told me to sit down.

Jul 30, 2023 | theguardian.com | Helen Mort

In her assured and perceptive first book essayist and critic Catherine Taylor reminds us that hers is “a typical family and an ordinary story, although neither the story or the family seems commonplace when it is your family and your story” and strikes at the heart of what autobiography does. Though Taylor was born in New Zealand, her life is moulded by South Yorkshire after she moves there as a child.