A privilege to take part in this @hayfestival.bsky.social book club on The Left Hand of Darkness by @ursulakleguin.com with @antonhur.com and @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social.
@jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.socialLoved it. Great chatting to you and Anton
Jemimah Steinfeld
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CEO @indexoncensorship.org and journalist. Chat mostly human rights, free speech, politics, climate & China. Sometimes in Guardian, BBC, Independent, Prospect, Times, CNN etc. Author of book on sex & youth in China.
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@indexoncensorship.orgReposted by @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.socialReform UK's treatment of local journalists is of real concern. @Derbyshirecc's Reform UK leadership banning LDR Eddie Bisknell is a pathetic attempt to avoid scrutiny, and we have seen stories like this in Nottingham and Suffolk before. Reform has form.
@jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.socialBad move BBC. Defend your journalism don’t dump it. The white supremacist remark was not the journalist’s but someone else’s & several reasons for the trend were listed. People can feel offended (I didn’t) but in taking the article down they’ve removed valid voices & left a terrible message.
@indexoncensorship.orgReposted by @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.socialSketches from That Mitchell and Webb Look were this week removed from iPlayer because they no longer "work today". One sketch showed the comedy duo satirising racism while in blackface.
Do such actions risk infantilising audiences?
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/09/that...
@indexoncensorship.orgReposted by @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.socialCEO @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social is a joint signatory to a letter condemning the exclusion of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.
It is now day 3 of the ban. This cannot continue.
Read the full statement here: newsmediauk.org/blog/2026/09...
@jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.socialTrump said he’d get Jimmy Lai out of prison. If he achieves one thing from his meeting with Xi make it that.
For this incredible man. For his incredible family. For Hong Kong.
@jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social#USA: Hard to underplay the importance of solidarity when it comes to fighting tyranny.
Censorship works through isolation.
All the major US news networks banding together and rallying behind those excluded is exactly what’s needed right now.
@jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.socialBeen a grim week for Turkey’s LGBTQ+ community. But was this just the week those outside Turkey noticed the attacks? Our Turkey correspondent Kaya Genç speaks to some of those impacted and expands on the wider context www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/09/turk...
@jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.socialWonderful Andrei is free! Screw the bankrupt Belarus system that put him in prison in the first place and still remains
@jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.socialMahsa (Jina) Amini murdered four years ago today. And so many others murdered too in the campaign for justice for her and indeed everyone oppressed in Iran. Remember them all but especially Amini today #WomanLifeFreedom
@indexoncensorship.orgReposted by @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.socialLast week, we marked the anniversary of the death of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov by launching a new project tackling transnational repression. (1/2)
@indexoncensorship.orgReposted by @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social#Malta: Today's verdict is utterly devastating for Daphne Caruana Galizia, her family and all of us who believe in freedom of expression, the rule of law and democracy in Malta and beyond 1/2