Building Community: Intersections of the ‘Outdoors’ and ‘Belonging’.

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It was interesting to overhear others discussing how much of a community we were. When I looked around me, I noticed the demographic of the room was overwhelmingly white and male. I paused to consider – what is community? Do I really feel included and accepted, or do I mould myself into what I think a “climber” or an “outdoors lover” is? An underlying question arises: who is excluded from accessing the outdoors?

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About the Artist: Yilin Wong

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“My name is Yilin and I am an image-maker based between London and Hong Kong. I began photographing with a toy camera when I was 15, and I kept photographing…

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POETRY FEATURE: Body Buffet by Malaika Kegode

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Malaika Kegode is an award-winning writer, performer and creative producer based in Bristol. Her work is focused on uplifting and celebrating the overlooked and misunderstood. Beginning her arts career as a performance poet in 2014, Malaika has since developed her practice to encompass theatre, radio and film writing.

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Dear past me, the Christmas holidays will not always be so hard.

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“sitting down at the dinner table is like letting go of unexploded ammunition and just waiting for it to go off. It’s painful to hear your parents – the ones supposed to protect you – endorse and exacerbate the very prejudices and misinformation that caused the traumatic injustices that you and your friends have had to experience.”

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About the Artist: Mary Bowen

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Mary Bowen is a 23 year old painter who works with textile, sculpture, ceramic, and installation pieces. There is an underlying mysterious and magical element in her work that comes…

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Get involved with Clitbait!

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Attend our events Become part of our intersectional, feminist community and attend our events in London, Glasgow or Edinburgh. Keep a look out for our current events on our Instagram…

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GOOD NEWS: Cop27, and the Power of the Feminist Voice

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Welcome to our second instalment of good climate news! This time, we wanted to share our reflections following COP27, and some thoughts on intersectional environmentalism more generally. While it’s important to acknowledge the bleakness of the climate crisis we are in, we have drawn on feminist organising to remind ourselves of how important it is to care for one another and share hope…

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Run On…

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Read the wonderful submissions for our free verse poetry callout, “Run On”…

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Submissions Guide

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Do you want to contribute a written piece to Clitbait? Here are some guidelines to make submitting to us easier 🙂 If you have any specific questions, you can reach…

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Women and the Climate Crisis: A More Complex Narrative?

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The last decade has seen an increasing focus on gender equality and the impact of the climate crisis. In 2019, Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine’s woman of the year, and in 2022 women and climate change was named a top priority by the UN for COP27 negotiations in Egypt. However, within the dialogue, there is no room for queerness or indeed for intersectionality, or a womanhood that is not comfortably represented in political agency. Experiences of the world which do not fit neatly into a category aren’t accounted for…

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Conversations on Disability with Jennie Carmichael

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Speaking to Jennie was electric and although she is only in her early twenties, her story demands to be written about. She is an academic, passionate woman who campaigns against ableism on her social media platforms – and I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I loved speaking to her.

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Conversation with Ellie Williamson

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Perhaps it was knowing her mother was living a full life at an older age or just because Ellie has honey-tones in her voice – either way this interview is brimming with positivity and may shift your own perception of MS. 

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Conversations on Disability

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Looking back now, it was steeped in a strange loneliness because although my phone was buzzing with messages of love and care – I was alone. But MS is not unique, in fact around 1 in 500 have MS and there are approximately 7000 new
diagnosis each year in the UK .

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Climate Crisis and The Cost of Living

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Earth, for quite some time now has given us the warning signs that it is under threat. As a result, more and more people globally are experiencing the effects of the climate crisis as second nature. However the climate crisis in the UK is a less tangible issue as we are yet to experience complete devastation of food insecurity or natural hazards that occur within countries located in more unstable climate zones. Therefore, it is useful for us to explore our current cost of living crisis and then its intersections with climate justice.

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