Literary londoners! A week tomorrow you could be hearing new writing while drinking negronis! Get ur tickets here! www.thehorsehospital.com/events/reenc...
emma
@emmatranter.bsky.social
Marxist aesthete, bookworker, v into fragrance/film/fashion 🥖🌹 | sometimes i write things @ emmatranter.substack.com
Literary londoners! A week tomorrow you could be hearing new writing while drinking negronis! Get ur tickets here! www.thehorsehospital.com/events/reenc...
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
Sarah Pyke@sarahpyke.bsky.social · 6mo agothe whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about
hey sorry i haven't rsvp'd to your party yet. i was weighing all the other guest's souls against the feather of ma'at before deciding whether or not i wanted to come
It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
I am unspeakably moved by Anna‘s words (as well as her decision) and, because she is being attacked by carceral leftists, it seems important to add that your “justice system“ is a nightmare. Praxis is life. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why I Didn’t Report My Rape
In 2021, six men sexually assaulted me in a Las Vegas hotel room. Something more than abolitionism prevented me from reporting the crime.
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Wrote a v silly rant abt how art thinks about women’s history emmatranter.substack.com/p/is-this-ma...
Is this Margaret Atwood's fault?
Hamnet, The Penelopiad and the business of feminist retellings
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Charmed today by Louise Bourgeois’ rap single (?!), discussed last night by @laurenelkin.bsky.social & Marie-Laure Bernadac at event for the new biography of LB! ramuntcho.bandcamp.com/album/otte
Otte, by Louise Bourgeois
2 track album
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i mean they got fucking w*ll stanc*l out here acting like a fucking Italian autonomist
Goku Missile Crisis@babadooknukem.bsky.social · 7mo agoplease keep doing legitimately heroic shit like this instead of spending all day picking deranged fights with every attractive female communist on this website, thank u and god bless
Does anyone actually know how to synopsise anything well, not to mention their own work lol
Moon, who I now think of as the black cat of Stonehenge. Putting this here as the original post was deleted: www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...
Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe cat’s name is Moon.
Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 8mo ago‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
If the goal is to get more young people passionate about reading, the solution is not to re-label everything that they are already doing as reading, says Kate Bugos in our recent Comment piece 👇
We don't need to redefine literacy
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Not to be all baby’s first unionised job but I’m sooo excited about updates from the union committee on pay negotiations. Appropriately very festive really
I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
Andi Zeisler@andizeisler.bsky.social · 8mo agomen’s loneliness gets “more airtime”? baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years “more airtime” is hilarious
new #substack: on being fundamentally incompatible with your therapist #writersky
where do you feel that in your body? / horchata
the problem, fundamentally, was the maine coon.
ellenmunroedmunds.substack.com
For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence. I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
Harry Stopes | Police Violence in Berlin
In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to the...
lrb.co.uk
A friend of mine is in the West Bank rn & this school for disabled children she’s been working with just opened a new sports centre. - they still desp need funds, please share & donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/build-a-sp...
Donate to Build a Sports Space for Disabled Palestinian Children!, organized by conner reese
Pal-Amal is the premier team representing Palestine at the Englis… conner reese needs your support for Build a Sports Space for Disabled Palestinian Children!
gofundme.com
The exhibition coincides with the release of The Word for World, a book edited by @suchmayer.bsky.social and Sarah Shin, co-published by AA Publications. Use the code LEGUIN for 10% off on our site 💙 www.silverpress.org/collections/...
"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives" “Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”
EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion
After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.
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London literary types, I’d love for you to come along to this event we’re putting on next month! Tickets here - www.thehorsehospital.com/events/reenc...
Hello! Would love it if you could all share this & donate if you have anything to spare - so close to the initial goal! Christine is a dear friend & it is so rough trying to fund postgrad study these days! Even just a fiver would help! www.gofundme.com/f/help-chris...
Donate to Help Christine finish her Master's Degree!, organized by Vera Chapiro
Hi everyone, My name is Christine, a student based in London. I’m fundrais… Vera Chapiro needs your support for Help Christine finish her Master's Degree!
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Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
🪭LINA لينا@agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · last yr.The U.K. is a police state
The first 11 pages are names of babies who are dead under the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children.
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · last yr.The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
