Freelance writer & journalist on freedoms, the planet and culture at BBC News, New Internationalist, Resurgence, the Independent, i News, Eurovision & others | Ex-deputy editor @IndexCensorship | She/her
www.katiedancey.co.uk
Katie Dancey-Downs
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“We believe foreign interference is the reason RightsCon 2026 won’t proceed in Zambia or online.” @rightscon.org @accessnow.org
Yep, that’s… that’s pretty bad.
“Historic paintings and sculptures of nudes” are apparently just too much for young people to handle in their art books. Just the latest in the story of what’s happening in some UK school libraries.
Brilliant work from the NEU on the fight against book censorship.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Having been to @rightscon.org in the past (it was brilliant), I’m so devastated for those who thought they’d be uniting in Zambia next week.
The reasons for the cancellation are very concerning, and @accessnow.org have acted admirably in being so transparent.
How will you spend your retirement? Gardening? Travelling? Fighting the fracking industry?
My @conversationalist.org story Meet the Anti-Fracking Nanas has been revived in podcast form, so please do tune in to meet Tina, Dominique and Casey.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Katie Dancey-Downs
Katie Dancey-Downs
Katie Dancey-Downs
In #Hungary, children’s books with LGBTQ+ themes are sealed in plastic. It’s not just writers being targeted, artists are censored too.
Index's @katiedd.bsky.social writes in our latest magazine issue.
Read it now⬇️
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Apparently it’s
International Haiku Day.
I shall ignore it.
Katie Dancey-Downs
I wrote Queerly Autistic as the book I desperately wish I'd had as a young queer autistic person.
I know what it was like trying to figure myself out without access to this sort of information, and how vulnerable that made me.
Knowledge is empowerment - and safety.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Librarians are not the enemy. Great piece on this nightmarish conduct @katiedd.bsky.social. I stocked these books in my school library, issuing them with care/ age restrictions too. The librarian was threatened with disciplinary action, labeled a safeguarding risk & resigned. Follow up below.
“Because once we’ve lost press freedom, it’s only a matter of time before we lose everything it protects.” @katiedd.bsky.social on the growing restrictions of press freedom around the world. This World Press Freedom Day, we're reflecting on what needs happen to uphold journalistic independence.
New podcast alert! 🚨
Journalist @katiedd.bsky.social reads "Meet the Anti-Fracking Nanas", her longform reported piece on why older women around the world are dedicating their golden years to leaving a better world behind.
Listen here ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
