Rachel Payne

UK drops to 41st in global women’s health index - The New Feminist British women now rank 41st out of 142 countries in the Hologic Global Women’s Health Index, slipping from 30th just two years ago.

These are appalling stats that demonstrate how current UK policy is failing women and families.

#womenshealth #policy #inequality

thenewfeminist.co.uk/2025/07/uk-d...

She Didn't "Pick Wrong". Society Failed By Creating Millions of Abusive Men. The scale of the risk means we need to stop blaming women for "ignoring red flags" when men turn out to be controlling and abusive partners

She Didn't "Pick Wrong". Society Failed By Creating Millions of Abusive Men.
open.substack.com/pub/dremmaka...

Delighted that one of my paintings is featured in the iJADE conference call for abstracts.

Thank you @nsead.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

GBV / VAWG in all its forms is an epidemic globally. Nothing changes because the patriarchy actively resists; it is not getting better. I’m so tired of this shit. I do no feel like celebrating IWD today as a result.

This sums it up for me ⬇️

@thenewfeminist.bsky.social

Thanks for sharing!

BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves has signed a £2.26 billion loan agreement with Ukraine to strengthen its defence capabilities, to be repaid using profits from frozen Russian assets 👏

Friends, abstracts are now due for the 2025 Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference. Please see our website for details and we look forward to welcoming you to Oxford in September.
#AcademicSky
#HigherEducation

ethnographyandeducation.org/call-for-pap...

@throctukes.bsky.social - there is growing resistance.

Erasing History, Erasing Democracy: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Education Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history.

This is a long but important read about the evisceration of collective memory in US education: Erasing History, Erasing Democracy: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Education truthout.org/articles/era...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent this internal memo to diplomats about Trump’s executive orders seeking to end DEI [lists a bunch of terms and actual executive orders they're against]

Marco Rubio's anti-DEI memo is aligned: note that it's hostile to "the national plan to end gender-based violence."

How we uncovered the UK’s biggest site of dinosaur tracks in a quarry in Oxfordshire The footprints were uncovered at a large quarry in Oxfordshire.

This is so awesome

How we uncovered the UK’s biggest site of dinosaur tracks in a quarry in Oxfordshire theconversation.com/how-we-uncov...

“Trans-hostile actors generally view the concept of ‘gender’ as dangerous because it challenges traditional social structures, consequently promoting the binary, male-headed nuclear family as the only valid or moral way to live”.

This is an important document to help counter trans hostility

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It was a joy to lead this ‘in conversation’ piece with @mollyhankinson.bsky.social for @nsead.bsky.social AD Magazine. Molly’s work against gender based violence is fantastic.

#vawg #endgbv #nsead #murals #arteducation

The Pelicot rape case revealed not a group of monsters but a culture that enables the abuse of women To truly learn from this case, we must accept that the crimes of Dominique Pelicot were not committed in a vacuum.

How else to address GBV? To disrupt cultures of victim blaming in our institutions by developing a deeper understanding of who a survivor / victim can be.

The Pelicot rape case revealed not a group of monsters but a culture that enables the abuse of women theconversation.com/the-pelicot-...

Report cover for Researching Arts in Primary Schools project with child abstract art

Final proof read on our big study of arts rich primary schools in England. Done soon but official launch early next year.

There’s still time to sign up to our amazing event tomorrow evening
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Delighted to have sold this beauty ‘David’s Smallholding in August’ to David!

#painter #landscapes #colour

Oxford Brookes' 16 Days of Activism live panel event:
‘Let's talk about Gender-based Violence in the current climate’

6 Dec, 17:30-18:45pm (GMT)

See link below for more information and to register:

sites.google.com/brookes.ac.u...

#VAWG #endGBV #whiteribbon #16daysofactivism

Re-Routing and Re-Imagining Gender and Education conference The 21st Gender in Education Association conference. Discover the themes being discussed, key dates and how to get involved.

Join us next May 2025 for the International Gender and Education Association Conference 🦋
www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...

Autumn, North Aston - work in progress

#cotswoldartist #painter #autumn

Our Violence Against Women and Girls Conference is open to HE students and staff.

It takes place online on Friday 22nd November. Registration is open via the QR code in the flier.

We will be joined by organisations which include Thames Valley Police, White Ribbon and survivors.

#VAWG

Hello lovely NSEAD. So proud to be a past president, member and fellow. The best organisation for advocating for art, craft and design in education.

Wheatfield at the Height of Summer is an absolutely beaut. It sold a year ago but I still think about it.

The relationship between the orange, yellows and blues make it feel like the scorching hot day it is based on.

#westoxarts
#cotswolds
#cotswoldsartist
#mixedmedia
#landscape
#landscapepaint

Looking forward to connecting with fellow arty education based academics, and those who work to counter gender based violence in higher education.

Here's artworks from my artist teacher workshop yesterday with my amazing MA students