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We’ve decided to shift our socials energy into FB & Instagram after a wee break in May. You can find out more about our work including our wonderful Rebellious Sounds Archive collection of women and non-binary people’s stories of activism. Search for Dreadnought South West.

Among all the nurdles and microplastics on the strandline, a tiny red Lego flower, one of 161,264 red Lego flowers lost overboard from the Tokio Express back in 1997. These originally came in sets of four, all attached to a central sprue (or doodah as beachcombers call them) but it's rare to find a complete set these days. Mostly beachcombers just find the individual flowers. Still turning up, 28 years on.

Head on down to @GWRHelp's Exeter St David's train station to see the #WorldPoetryDay themed selection's we've got in our @PenguinUKBooks Vending Machine! 🐧 This month's selection features writers from Exeter and Prague #CityofLiterature!

Women celebrate living by the sea for International Women’s Day - part of Occupy the Airwaves 2025 - Sat 8th March on ⁦@phonicfm⁩ this programme will be broadcast between 10-11am! Thanks to ⁦@PRSD⁩ for sharing! ⁦ theprsd.co.uk/2025/03/05/wom…

Less than 2 weeks to go before we Occupy the Airwaves on @phonicfm on Saturday 8th March - International Women’s Day 2025! You can tune in on Phonic FM 106.8 We will be broadcasting from 8am until Midnight. Starting with our Breakfast show 8am until 9am kicking off the day!

The gale force winds and high spring tides of recent weeks seem to have brought quite a bit of Lego from the 1997 cargo spill to the surface. This haul was found by Liutauras and his family while picking up plastic from Whitsand Bay in Cornwall over the weekend. These pieces have probably been buried in sand for decades rather than being adrift in the ocean all that time, giving an insight into how long plastic survives in the coastal environment. Many thanks to Liutauras and his family for giving us permission to share this photo.

It’s almost a month until we Occupy the Airwaves once more on International Women’s Day - Saturday 8th March. 8am until Midnight on @phonicfm 106.8

‘See her when she is free…’ Celebrating Joan Eardley for @LGBTHM by Kirsten MacQuarrie #LGBTHM womenshistorynetwork.org/see-her-when-s… #LGBTQ #LGBTHM25

Another day, a different beach and a beautiful ammonite.

📣 To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay2025, we've teamed up with the @WomensPrize Trust to donate 10% of every book sale to their important work in improving access to books and creating equity within writing communities 📚 uk.bookshop.org/lists/women-s-…

Booking for Women and the Sea is now live: eventbrite.co.uk/e/east-devon-w…

New Project for a New Year! Women & the Sea in East Devon. Are you a wild swimmer or a climate activist? Get in touch or come along to our drop in on Sunday 19th ⁦@SideshoreEx⁩ 12-3pm to find out more!

The things we find. #beachcombing #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene

These Lego flowers, still attached to their central sprue or 'doodah' as beachcombers call them, were found just before Christmas by ninibythesea at Saunton Sands in North Devon. There were 16,000 sets of yellow Lego flowers in the container that fell overboard from the Tokio Express in 1997 but it's rare to find them intact these days. Usually beachcombers just find the single flowers, or the sprues. Many thanks to ninibythesea for giving us permission to share her pictures. You can see more of her images over on instagram and Facebook. www.instagram/ninibythesea Picture credit: Ninibythesea/Janine Bannister

Suffragette Christmas card designed by artists of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909 #Womensart

'We believe in the importance of heritage and its ability to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to the past.' - Eilish McGuinness marks the end of 2024. ✨ 🔗Full blog: ow.ly/ONGk50UrC2y

Our exhibition Change Through Art closes tomorrow! We're open 11am-5pm today and tomorrow. Pop in and see us, and find out how Cornwall is local campaign groups are bringing about change.

Voices from the Deep is now stocked in our Women in Word bookshop on Chapel Street in Penzance. Pop in Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-3pm to browse this and many other wonderful titles all written by or about women. 📷: Abbey Rumbellow

Back in the Frame - The first Annual Maud Sulter Lecture presented by @JackieKayPoet A fascinating, emotional & engaging presentation on the friendship & artistic synergy between Jackie & Maud. Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=yE1PyV…