Dr Hannah Stevens
@drhannahstevens.bsky.social
Writer | Publisher | Editor | Director Wind&Bones Books @windandbones.com | Queer 🌈 | Scotland/Taiwan | She/Her. hannahstevenswriter.com books.windandbones.com
Major Italian internet providers are blocking Women on Web and Women Help Women, two trusted websites offering abortion information and support. A new study exposes the blocks that began in February 2026, and the techniques behind them. (Here's the study: ooni.org/post/2026-it...)
Italy Is Blocking Access to Abortion Information.(Newsletter June 2026)
2026 has already been a busy year for Women on Web's Digital Rights Program as we celebrate our first anniversary!
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Time and again, Rupert Murdoch's TalkTV has attacked and insulted trans people with damaging slurs – clearly breaching their duty under the broadcasting code to uphold accuracy and protect the public from harm and offence 📺 Help us force Ofcom to hold them to account ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/0r9k
NEW: 145 Palantir staff have been given access to NHS systems, exposing the true scale of the tech giant’s increasing takeover Hear the outrageous story of how Palantir wormed into our NHS in our podcast 🎧 👇 https://goodlaw.social/1e69ba
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Anti-trans activists with links to the far right are trying to tell young trans people what to do with their own bodies. They want to shut down a clinical trial into healthcare for trans youth. We're fighting back 💥 goodlawproject.org/petition/tra...
Paul Harris, of course, was the former barrister and chairperson of the Hong Kong Bar Association who was warned by national security police that he could be charged with sedition over books he wrote about the 2019 protests hongkongfp.com/2024/06/28/e...
Lawyer Paul Harris left HK after being warned of sedition charge
The former chair of the Hong Kong Bar Association has said he left the city two years ago after being warned he may be charged with sedition.
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The behaviour of Scotland Yard in relation to this just gets worse and worse. Truly horrifying. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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Mélanie Bourget,contemporary French sculptor known for her quirky figarative ceramic sculptures #WomensArt
Beyond sickening that men like Starmer and now Burnham are dragging the whole of the UK into this and making the world a more dangerous and unjust place. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
UK ‘ready to defend itself’ after Iranian threat over US bases
IRGC claims base in south-west England was used by US to launch bombing missions, making it ‘legitimate target’
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Just sharing this for anyone who might be under the misguided impression that Burnham is a good guy.
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2w agoTomorrow's front page 🗞️ Off limits: Andy Burnham dodges Scottish media on first official visit as Prime Minister
Wildfires sweep Scotland, even the very centre of Edinburgh, yet political debate is dominated by calls for more oil and gas from the North Sea. It’s insanity - because more drilling won’t lower prices. That claim is a lie. We’re like Nero fiddling while Rome burns In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Drill, baby, drill: We’re like Nero fiddling while Arthur’s Seat burns
Wildfires sweep Scotland yet the political debate is all about extracting more oil and gas. It’s a total delusion, and believing it is an act of…
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It would be so easy for the Chinese regime to cease being unhinged and just literally... *stop* their petty and dangerous actions. Bullying does not rewrite a reality: Taiwan is not part of China. It has never been governed by the current regime in China. Taiwan is a democracy.
Min Chao@wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 2w ago🇹🇼🍿🇹🇭 The Thai director of the Taiwan Documentary and Film Festival in Bangkok stated that diplomats from the Chinese Embassy sought to pressure organisers into removing the name and logo of Taiwan's Ministry of Culture from the festival's promotional materials: www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/202...
Delighted that my story collection ON THE BODIES OF STRANGERS has been featured on the University of Leicester’s Centre for New Writing's website! You can have a read here: creativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2026/07/hann... #booksky #tattoo #fiction #stories
Hannah Stevens, "On the Bodies of Strangers"
Congratulations to UoL PhD Creative Writing graduate Hannah Stevens, whose new short story collection, On the Bodies of Strangers , has just...
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Contemporary Cornish artist Liz Cleves (UK), who depicts her local landscapes using both abstract and semi-abstract techniques #womensart #saturday #summer
"No other country in the world created a VIP lane. It was a deliberate and shameful choice. It was a hidden route that gave anybody who knew the right people access to huge amounts of public money... Lives were lost as a result." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘Catastrophic failure’: UK Covid families welcome inquiry findings on PPE
Campaigners feel vindicated by some of report’s conclusions but are unconvinced by its verdict on ‘VIP lane’
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Working at our local Confucius temple today. With our Taiwanese artist friend, Zoina.
Mother Tongue Taiwan Book Tour Ends on a High 📖🤓 Last week we held the final book event for Hilda Hoy’s Mother Tongue summer tour here in Taiwan. It has been a total delight to hold so many well attended, warm and moving events across the country. www.windandbones.com/posts/mother... #booksky
"City relieved" = Burnham's government won't challenge the power of the bankers, or tax their wealth. Who is choosing our politicians - the people or the banking sector?
Meanwhile the British Council has a whole suite of information on its website for British creatives that 'explains the opportunities and challenges of working in one of the world’s most dynamic cultural sectors.' www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP@hongkongfp.com · 3w agoHong Kong police have raided two independent bookstores and arrested five people suspected of committing a sedition offence, local media has reported. Police were seen removing large boxes of materials from Have a Nice Stay, a 4th-floor bookstore in Prince Edward, at around 5.30pm on Wednesday.
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
Dr. Ayo Moiett was advocating for a Palestine hunger striker needing emergency medical care. But the police responded by forcefully arresting him. We're helping Ayo to investigate a claim against the police 👇 goodlaw.social/aiar
Such a lovely review of my collection ON THE BODIES OF STRANGERS 😭❤️ #booksky💙📚
Wind&Bones Books@windandbones.com · 3w agoWe are absolutely delighted to read this thoughtful review of Hannah Stevens,' ON THE BODIES OF STRANGERS by Elizabeth R. Benetto. Thank you, Elizabeth. It’s so wonderful to see these stories connecting with people who love them ❤️ substack.com/home/post/p-...
This is a brilliant essay, which, in my view, accurately describes the predicament of the post-Boomer generations, and the vast infrastructure of lies designed to disguise it. "Degeneracy is a symptom. The disease is rent." 🧵 henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...
Degeneracy is a Symptom
On Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you.
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