Susannah Walker

@susannahwalker.bsky.social

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Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff. Rants about stately homes here: https://susannahwalker.substack.com Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal

Plums on a branch in the sun, still a bit Green
Runner bean plants at the top of their canes against the blue sky. So many flowers. Can I interest any of you in some spare beans? Quite a lot of beans
Screenshot of a web page which lists details of the government's VAWG strategy and then says in a box underneath "This was published under the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government"
An Edwardian poster for Kynoch Cycles, in which a woman is cycling on a lane in open countryside, she is wearing a skirt and floppy hat and has a bunch of flowers on the handlebar
A graphic says that 89% of women feel safe at night
A red metal puma statue sits on a metal plinth outside a red brick town hall with a clock. The puma is roaring.
Station of being experimental bus stop made of wooden pods which are lit up at night in the snow - like a table with insects hibernating beneath
A road crossing sign showing an icon of a woman using the crossing
Vasaplan bus station in Umea which is built out of wood; you can see straight through so it is safe but the wooden roof is also very beautiful
Interior of Ostra station showing that it is very transparent and clear with good sightlines - and that it is also a very well designed space which feels good
Glass exterior frontage of Umeå Ostra station, showing the transparency
Lev underpass in Umeå, showing the sightlines and artwork - and of course because this is Sweden it's for bikes as well as people
Two teenage girls sit on a kind of swing seat in a lit structure like an open flying saucer with stained glass insets overlooking the city at dusk. This is Frizon, which was co-designed by girls and has absolutely worked as an intervention. They love it.
A post it note which reads " "Boys get what they want but girls don't get what they want" and then at the bottom says "mum's life"
A piece of cream paper which says in teenage handwriting "More spaces where male species isn't playing football"
Five glorious rosemary focaccia in a box. There were also ciabatta
A round of herby porky goodness which surprised even me. it sits on a wooden chopping board with a knife beside it.
Back cover of a BBC Schools booklet designed by Barbara Jones. A fantastic illustration in yellow red and black with a cat looking at a mousetrap, an owl looking at a torch and a snail staring at a roller skate
Apparently this is Wiveliscombe court house; it is Tudor but with red brick tiles on its front rather than half timbering and some amazing carved dark wood oriel windows on the first and second floor. Scrubbing up well in the sunshine
A graphic produced to advertised a safety app which will alert someone if you scream or press the power button a lot. It is red and ugly.
A front door of a stone house the door and frame painted black and Waggon and Horses written above
A duvet, hangs on a washing line stretched across a patio. it is drier than the Sahara desert
A garden in driving rain and strong wind
There are no pictures of Hippisley Coxe's cats so have Ottoline (a tabby and white kitten) having no fear while being threatened with a green water pistol. The moment she got the upper hand
Longleat house in the sun, at the end of a long drive. The shadow of a cyclist looms in the foreground
A soft toy Mog sits on an old stone wall by a graveyard
OS map of Roddenbury Hill, wooded with the castle site above.
A LIDAR radar survey of a large hill which has a triangular hill fort on it, and a circular castle site above. Longleat house sits by the water on the right.
A diagram showing boys and girls use of s school playground in Barcelona. Boys dominate the space; girls are literally marginalised
Piece of paper saying More Spaces where male species isn't playing football
A tree which has very clearly been felled by a beaver
A yellow post it note which says "No/lessened sanctions for boys because they are expected to be'difficult' Discussing sexism always makes it worse and mocked more.
a piece of paper on which a teenage girl has written More space where male species isn't playing football
A green post it note with a teenage girls handwriting on it which says "Boys get what they want but girls don't get what they want". Underneath it an adult (possibly, maybe another girl) as written Mums life
Barbara Jones mural which was in her hallway in Hampstead. The walls are yellow and the stairs lead up one side while the front door is on the right. We face a hall stand with umbrellas and a stuffed bear holding a tray stands by the door
A newspaper article about Barbara Jones in her excellent kitchen in Hampstead, with pictures of her laying a table and a separate image of her small dishwasher which she has painted to look like an owl.
A small tabby and white cat sits on a brown sofa. But not the comfy but; she’s on a pile of books and a laptop
A view of the Somerset countryside with ploughed fields, hedges and hills in the distance including the Cley Hill hillfort / earth goddess (if you are Julian Cope) / watcher over ancient trackways
A swedish road crossing sign which has been altered so that the person using the crossing is not a default man but a woman. Trees and flagpoles behind it.
Frodo, a ginger and white cat, stands on a cushion and looks disconsolately out through a window.
A cardboard package with two copies of the book The Hard Way by Susannah Walker sitting on it, with green and blue covers.
A picture of a B1 bomber with the title War is closer and more of it than we think
Matthew Pennycook MP speaking in Westminster Hall with wood panelling behind him
A red and white background with handwritten text over in capitals: I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice, Camus.
A Sister Corita Kent art piece which says Stop the bombing in dark blue over red and white, with light blue handwriting to one side about how frightening it is.
Pop art by sister corita kind which say come alive in big orange lowercase letters on dark yellow with lots of bits of text on the letters, and some back to front blue ones over.
A view along a pedestrian footbridge that is grey and has no visibility, and looks as though it was designed for a prison where they hate people.
A washing basket stands on a stone patio. In it is a tabby and white cat looking thoughtfully into the distance
A sculpture of a giant but very happy lobster looming over the seafront in Barcelona, people walk beneath him and the sky is blue
An illustration from the 1950s of a person made up of London landmarks, standing in front of chalk downland with the London Transport roundel as a chalk figure behind. The text says as a headline, Watch out, you might get what you're after, and below that says News, at last - Recent Acquisitions.
There is a large stone fountain in the middle of a town with cars and shops behind. Inexplicably, there is a large fabric hat in gaudy colours which sits on the top of the fountain. On it are the words PUT ON YOUR KINDNESS HAT.
A tabby and white cat sits on top of a pole which supports the washing line, with a hurdle fence behind her
Hello Kitty is also jaws and about to eat a teddy bear. Apologies this is beyond any rational description
A green advert on London Underground which says "When you've got back home and have to pop out to walk the dog and got back home and have to pop out to pick up the kids and got back home and realise you've ant nothing to pop in the oven for.." with a picture of groceries and advertising Uber Eats and Co-op
A 1950s poster with the text See London and London's Country. A figure - seen from waist up - is looking out. Their body is made up of London landmarks, but they are surrounded by abstract chalk downland, with the London Transport roundel carved in
A promotion for the book The Hard Way by Susannah Walker from Waterstones, offering 25% off with the pre-order code FEB26. Online only.
A person, me, smiling while holding a large black and white cat , Palmerston in the Foreign Office
A climbing frame shelter in wood with pink edges in the shape of a heart. Girls are clambering all over it and having fun.
At dusk, two people sit on a huge bench swing under a vast wooden shelter held up by splayed metal struts, on a boardwalk which overlooks a river
A huge circular swing set with facilities for everyone, seen on a cold sunny day