Listicle of Listicles!
Everything I’ve Loved, Read, Watched, Listened to and Danced with in 2025
📚READ:
ARTICLES:
Women in Workplace Report 2025 from McKinsey is, as ever, a stark report on declining commitment to gender equality - give this to anyone who says ‘but haven’t we gone far enough?’
Representation Matters How Women’s Political Representation Can Accelerate Global Economic Growth there is a business case folks!
Learn about how we can get involved with systems change here
“So much of what I thought was femininity was really just youth.” Annie Mac on ageing
From #SkinnyTok to ‘trad-wives’, is the womanosphere coming for us all? We spoke to the women who are fighting back including Louisa Toxvaerd Munch
BOOKS:
Exploring how we might reimagine economics and how we relate with one another at the micro and macro level with Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher, The Serviceberry an Economy of Abundance - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth, Why Women have Better Sex Under Socialism - Kristen Ghodsee
Re-read Hillary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light alongside watching it via iplayer, so lush
The Book of Non Binary Joy Embracing the Power of You - Ben Pechey, I met Ben at TEDx Teesside and love their work
Black Girl No Magic Kimberly McIntosh I met Kimberly at Anti Racist Cumbria Summit and a joy to facilitate the ARC bookclub unpacking her memoir
Cut From the Same Cloth - Sabina Akhtar also an ARC bookclub fav
Disobedient Bodies - Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty Emma Dabiri
The Boy With The Top Knot - a memoir of love secrets and lies in Wolverhampton - Sathnam Sanghera
🗣️LISTEN:
Bjork’s Sonic Symbolism explores each of her albums from the perspective of art, sound, colour, theme, its a smorgasbord of creative genius here
The Wonder of Stevie each album on his ‘streak’ unpacked in glorious detail here
The Birth Keepers the harm that unfolds as 2 influencers make millions from a ‘wild birthing’ movement, brilliant investigative journalism and storytelling here
You’ll Hear It explores different songs’ origins, roots and legacy here
Song Exploder unpicks 1 song per episode, its mesmeric here
After years of getting my news analysis from Rest is Politics, News Agents, The Story, The Daily …. I’m freshening it up with Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics
Nate Hagens on The Great Simplification exploring the interconnectedness of science, nature, human psychology and building a movement of folks who can reimagine, and start living into, liveable futures here
Sukanya’s podcast building community and solidarity here
PURE JOY and ACTIVISM:
Dancing with Annie Mac’s Before Midnight, Femi Koleoso’s Situation Dance, Gok Wan at Lancaster Town Hall, Fabric, Booming Healthy Raves in Kendal, this playlist from my gorgeous pal Lori, and DJ Flourish mixes here
Art with Misan Harriman The Purpose of Light at Gallery hope 93 and Resistance at Edinburgh’s Gallery of Modern Art
Reimagining life away from big tec broligarchy over at The Portal
Training with 9000 over participants (!) with Organising 4 Power
Marching and protesting with Stand Up to Racism, Women Against the Far Right, Anti Racist Cumbria, Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Now over to you - what have you listened to, watched, read, what’s moved YOU this year? I’d love to hear - Let me know!