While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I grew up with Alex Pretti

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

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Happy new year lovelies x

shout out the guardian photo editor one time

#perimenopause #menopause should come with a Lonely Planet guide. Instead, most get a cryptic postcard. If we truly cared about wellbeing, we’d fix the information architecture, not blame the travellers.

Are you here to stand with people through the storm of #perimenopause #menopause, or just selling umbrellas now that the forecast looks profitable?

For Black women in any stage of menopause. 5 star reviews. Join us on our third trip next year. www.menopausewhilstblack.com/about-the-jo...

Menopause Whilst Black – UK Podcast on Menopause and Mental Health for Black Women

Join The Joy Retreat 2025, a transformative menopause retreat for Black women, hosted by Karen Arthur in Barbados. Rest, reflect, and heal in a luxurious Caribbean setting from April 28th to May 5th, ...

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blackwomeninmenopause@blackmenopause.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Joy Retreat For Black women only. A space to exhale. Unapologetic. Details: 10 spaces · 7 days · 4–11 May 2026 If you’re a Black woman navigating any stage of #perimenolause #menopause, this may be the space you crave. Choose you @thekarenarthur.bsky.social

It’s a consequence of my dedicated use of digital calendars that every Tuesday at 7.30pm I get an email saying “You have been invited by Rhodri Marsden to an event entitled Put Bins Out”

Maybe the most radical act isn’t perfecting #perimenopause #menopauseBut refusing to apologise for it. That’s how culture shifts:, one imperfect truth at a time.

#SilentSunday

I see Prince Nonce made the news again

True privilege is thinking “oh if I’m accused of sexual assault I can just change my job title and the fuss goes away”

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 12mo ago

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Prince Andrew to stop using titles and honors, including the Duke of York.

#perimenopause #menopause awareness without inclusion risks creating comfort for some and invisibility for others. True awareness transforms systems, not hashtags.

🕷️ Happy Publication Day! 'BOG PEOPLE - A Working Class Anthology of Folk Horror' out today and in your favourite bookshops now, published with Chatto and Windus and edited by Hollie Starling - my piece is titled I AM HAGSTONE - I love this collection! ✨

There are certain households within a mile radius of where I live that are proudly, unabashedly, Trumpy. Somebody has been leaving antifa chalk art on the sidewalk in front of their houses. I giggle every time the dog and I walk past.

"Adding #alttext only takes a few seconds per image, but it can make all the difference to your content's performance and how accessible the web is to those with visual impairments." 👀 www.howtogeek.com/821673/what-...

What Is Alt Text? Why You Should Use It, and How to Write It

An article about the descriptive text in web content.

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So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language

If you care about the future of books and publishing, I highly recommend you get behind this initiative with your whole hearts - (for what it's worth I think the whole of publishing should do this) www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books

UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.

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Last week we held another People’s Forum in Islington North, this time to discuss the alarming erosion of civil liberties and freedoms. Our community has always stood together against injustice at home and abroad. We will continue to defend the right to protest!

📚❤️ This Thursday 16th October: 6pm - 7pm. Poetry Pharmacy, Oxford Street. Readings and book signings, FREE entry. See you down there! Thank you lovelies @canongate.co.uk Xx www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/with-love-...

With Love, Grief and Fury Paperback Launch

Join award-winning novelist, poet and broadcaster Salena Godden to celebrate her latest collection, now in paperback.

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Nice lil feature in this months #topsanteuk menopause special highlighting the nuances and differences in Black folx menopause experience. Good to see our voices amplified

Yesterdays #SilentSunday

Also Davina McCall described me as ‘a gift’ on her podcast Begin Again in conversation with activist & author Kate Muir. It’s on YouTube. 7 or so mins in. GASSED.

How was my week, you ask? Welllll my debut book Grandmas Locs, illustrated by #CamillaRu , WON Readers choice in the #DiverseBookAwards children’s picture book category! Congratulations to all the nominees and winners! And THANK YOUUUU to all the GORGEOUS readers who voted! 🙌🏾🎉

#perimenopause #menopause isn’t a pop-up shop. Black history isn’t a pop quiz. We’re not a seasonal special, this is our daily reality.

Today three different people said lovely things about my children’s book Grandmas Locs. Today is also my grandsons 6th birthday - the subject of said book. Happy birthday Keiko! 🎉🎉🎉 (here he is at the launch last year looking at himself in his book ☺️)

LinkedIn. Odd place. I don’t wanna but I fear I may need ta. Cover me.

What if I don’t want to find my niche? What if I love experiencing and am excellent at offering many things? What if I am my niche? Asking for a friend…🙃

When #perimenopause # menopause support reflects true diversity, people gain agency to ask for the help that fits their lives.

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

AABB Author Sign-Up Form

Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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