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2 weeks ago | 
publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Sonali Chakravarti |Sophie Lewis |Natasha Lennard
On November 14, 1960, 6-year-old Tessie Prevost woke up and put on one of her prettiest dresses. Like Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Ruby Bridges, Tessie was a very special little girl. Along with hundreds of other Black children, the New Orleans Four, as they would forever be known, had taken a test. The test was devised by the Louisiana Pupil Placement Board after Brown v. Board of Education had declared separate but equal schools unconstitutional.
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2 weeks ago | 
publicseminar.org | Sophie Lewis
Cover of Enemy Feminisms by Haymarket Books (2025)Let’s be brave and swallow our bitter medicine. Feminists across the political spectrum have taken pains to define their troops as chaste and untainted by lust (especially interracial lust); not to mention maternal, i.e., pure, straight, removed from the realm of productive work; and “natural,” that is, not artificial, not “femme,” neither surgically nor chemically enhanced.
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2 weeks ago | 
publicseminar.org | Natasha Lennard |Sophie Lewis
Sub-commandant Mary Allen (center), one of the earliest members of the Women’s Police Service, with four members of her force (1916) | Christina Broom / © National Portrait Gallery, LondonSophie Lewis, feminist scholar and author of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso, 2022), reckons with Western feminism’s problematic history in her new book Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2025).
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2 weeks ago | 
contractorumbrella.com | Sophie Lewis
A new survey has found that over half of people are struggling to find quality roles when job searching. Interestingly, at the same time, UK employers are reporting hiring issues, with 74% saying they’re experiencing a lack of quality candidates, which has progressively worsened over the last three years.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Sophie Lewis
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Sophie Lewis
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Sophie Lewis
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Sophie Lewis
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago | 
portsmouth.co.uk | Sophie Lewis
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowThe police are concerned for the welfare of a 14-year-old who has gone missing. A spokesperson for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said: “We have been carrying out extensive enquiries to try to locate Andrew overnight, but we are concerned for his welfare, and are now turning to you for assistance.”The police believes that Andrew could be in Portsmouth or Havant.
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3 weeks ago | 
thecanary.co | Sophie Lewis
This isn’t about failure. It’s about design. The institutions built to “protect” children have never protected all children. They’ve protected order. They’ve protected structure. They’ve protected the image of safety — not the reality of it. And those of us who grew up inside the lie? We learned early that the moment your truth becomes inconvenient, you’re not just abandoned. You’re actively erased. It was never about not knowingThey knew. They always knew. And not just the perpetrators. The teachers knew.
