Victoria RichardsVerified account

@nakedvix

Editor , . Poetry collection July 2022 ; short story collection June 2023 . Agent:

London (east)
independent.co.uk/author/victori…
Joined February 2009
1,060 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @nakedvix

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @nakedvix

  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 1

    Today we’ve launched a petition and fundraiser to help everyone affected by the crisis in . Here is our editorial, which explains what we are demanding from the government - with links you can follow to sign/donate.

    1 reply . 9 retweets 11 likes
    Undo
  2. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    “When the air raid sirens scream I sit in the cold shelter alone & pray. We are a generation of people who lost their childhood. I don’t worry about myself, I worry about my children” Odesa’s Holocaust survivors on Putin’s war &claims to “denazify” Ukraine

    9 replies . 63 retweets 146 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  3. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    Job Alert! Come and work with me (and more importantly - the rest of the great team of editors and reporters at The Independent)

    1 reply . 5 retweets 3 likes
    Undo
  4. Retweeted
    Mar 28

    Jada Pinkett Smith has been forgotten – it’s all about male swagger now |

    1 reply . 9 retweets 17 likes
    Undo
  5. Mar 28

    Everyone's talking about and – but what about Jada? She's been forgotten – it’s all about male swagger, now

    19 replies . 29 retweets 150 likes
    Undo
  6. Retweeted
    Mar 26

    This was a really important and personal issue for me to write about - thank you as always for giving me the platform

    Ireland has embraced Ukrainian refugees — why not do the same for everyone else? |
    5 retweets 13 likes
    Undo
  7. Retweeted
    Mar 25

    Every time there’s a Sylvia Plath book some man pops off about how overexposed she is, but I have borne approximately 377 Batman films in my short lifetime & each one is greeted as if we last saw Batman some time before the Franco-Prussian War

    120 replies . 1,661 retweets 18,705 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  8. Mar 26

    Motion to make a top hat acceptable for the school run

    2 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  9. Mar 25

    Victorian house coat? Check ✅ Edwardian night gown worn as a dress? Also check ✅

    6 replies . 17 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  10. Mar 25

    I’m going to a Bridgerton-themed night out tonight and I haven’t had to question for a second whether I have an outfit. This is literally my pick-something-off-the-rails moment

    3 replies . 26 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  11. Mar 24

    Ooh, my top goth pick of Voices pieces for today is this fascinating, Louis Theroux-esque look at death by : 'I saw the death industry up close – it changed my life'

    4 retweets 9 likes
    Undo
  12. Mar 24

    My reason for being almost-late for work is a magnolia tree that demanded I stand still for a few minutes and worship it

    14 replies . 4 retweets 168 likes
    Undo
  13. Retweeted
    Mar 22

    🧵1/I have done an analysis of those responding to 's interview, specifically focusing on those calling her an 'ungrateful cow' for not showing enough deference or gratitude to the UK government. The Brexit partisanship on the topic is startling. Read on!

    314 replies . 3,038 retweets 6,938 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  14. Retweeted
    Mar 23

    My latest for - thanks so much as ever to for the commission!

    3 retweets 1 like
    Undo
  15. Retweeted
    Mar 22

    Well said ⬇️. Interesting that people with Middle Eastern heritage don't get marked as people of colour that often - except when we are being criticised for 'offence' or for being ungrateful. Is it because we 'pass' until we have opinions?

    The hashtags that are trending to "send back" Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for being "ungrateful" really are the worst of Britain. says it best here: Nazanin doesn’t have to be ‘grateful’ – she deserves an apology
    1 reply . 3 retweets 15 likes
    Undo
  16. Mar 22

    Fascinated by this piece. Made my brain hurt (in a good way) : The mathematical conundrum dividing opinions in Ed Sheeran’s latest court case – how likely is it that two songs sound the same by chance?

    1 reply . 6 retweets 14 likes
    Undo
  17. Mar 22

    The hashtags that are trending to "send back" Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for being "ungrateful" really are the worst of Britain. says it best here: Nazanin doesn’t have to be ‘grateful’ – she deserves an apology

    28 replies . 72 retweets 284 likes
    Undo
  18. Mar 21

    I have a short story collection coming out - June 2023! Very grateful to 🙏

    June 2023. Sylvia Plath Watches Us Sleep But We Don't Mind by
    Show this thread
    12 replies . 6 retweets 81 likes
    Undo
  19. Retweeted
    Mar 21

    It’s World Poetry Day and I am thinking about this poem by Fady Joudah.

    11 replies . 137 retweets 443 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  20. Retweeted
    Mar 21

    Another favourite poem, this time from Mary Oliver.

    3 replies . 100 retweets 346 likes
    Undo
  21. Mar 21

    Powerful, cautionary piece as the goes back for debate: 'I was stuck in the British asylum system for four years. When I became a refugee, I was separated from three of my children for 1,460 days – I counted every single one'

    3 retweets 4 likes
    Undo

@nakedvix hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·