Yara Rodrigues Fowler
@yararf.bsky.social
Diana fan, scorpio, & very serious leftie novelist. stubborn archivist (2019) & there are more things (2022)🌙 🌎 doing a phd on novels + abolition at Leeds she/they https://linktr.ee/yrodriguesfowler
This is a thorough and eye-opening article 💙📚
Yara Rodrigues Fowler@yararf.bsky.social · last yr.I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
"We’re not interested in congratulating Baillie Gifford for profiting less from human rights abuses than other asset managers...We are interested in stopping human rights abuses as urgently as possible...as governments refuse to intervene, investments worth billions become very significant indeed"
Yara Rodrigues Fowler@yararf.bsky.social · last yr.I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
This is a hugely important read, especially if your labour contributes in any way to the books industry #booksky
Yara Rodrigues Fowler@yararf.bsky.social · last yr.I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
Today @tribunemagazine.bsky.social publishes a vitally important, highly personal and urgently necessary piece by Yara Rodrigues Fowler on the history of the FFB campaigning around literary festivals:
Yara Rodrigues Fowler@yararf.bsky.social · last yr.I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
Writers Unbound
As another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza.
tribunemag.co.uk
Tonight in Edinburgh with Camilla Grudova @goldenharebooks.bsky.social! Event is SOLD OUT apparently but always worth getting in touch with the bookshop for returns. goldenharebooks.com/products/fai... @prototypepubs.bsky.social
Fair Event, with Jen Calleja - Tuesday 17th June 2025
Join us in the bookshop to hear Jen Calleja in conversation with Camilla Grudova about Fair: The Life-Art of Translation . 6.30pm on Tuesday 17th June at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5...
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It also touches on the work @fossilfreebooks.org does in solidarity with Palestine and for climate justice: bsky.app/profile/foss...
Fossil Free Books@fossilfreebooks.org · last yr.Every writer against genocide belongs in their union. The Society of Authors does not stand for a free Palestine. Not yet. Amid Israel’s destruction of libraries, bookshops, printing presses and publishing houses in Gaza, the SoA’s lack of solidarity is driving members to leave the union. [1]
A year has passed since the original publication of my review essay on Isabella Hammmad's Enter Ghost and @yararf.bsky.social's there are more things - very happy to be able to share it in open access now, too: research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/262...
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Leila Essa@leilaessai.bsky.social · 2y agoas i’m here, i might as well plug my most recent texts: - research interview with @mithu.bsky.social in “rewriting identities”: openaccess.boydellandbrewercms.com/publications... - review essay on isabella hammad and yara rodrigues fowler for @blnreview.bsky.social: blnreview.de/ausgaben/202...
The anti-trans/GC movement is one of the most successful divide & conquer, distraction techniques ever. It has consumed and divided three generations of feminists while women around the world get poorer, our access to abortion is threatened and it becomes harder to escape domestic violence
📢Event alert! GLASGOW friends, the wonderful @yararf.bsky.social and Xani Byrne will be at Mount Florida Books discussing their contribution to🚴🏼♂️FREEWHEELING: Essays on Cycling🚴🏼♀️Join them! 📅11 June @ 7:00pm 📍Mount Florida Books, Glasgow mountfloridabooks.com/products/yar...
Yara Rodrigues Fowler & Xani Byrne | Freewheeling | 11 June @ 7pm
Join authors Yara Rodrigues Fowler and Xani Byrne to discuss their contribution to the cycling memoir anthology Freewheeling. It tells the story of Yara and Xani's two-day tandem bike ride from Edinbu...
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📣PSA: translations, authors, illustrators 📣 Have you joined your union, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Join before weds 30th April to vote in this year's elections. Claim £50 towards membership from @fossilfreebooks.org's mutual aid fund: opencollective.com/fossil-free-...
Fossil Free Books@fossilfreebooks.org · last yr.The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you. Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections. Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)
Announcing an #IndieBookshopWeek event with Xani Byrne & Yara Rodrigues Fowler! They’ll both be here to discuss the latest @dauntbookspub.bsky.social anthology Freewheeling: Essays on Cycling on Wed 18th June. 🚲 Sign up here (in-person/online): www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/freew...
🎉CAMPAIGN WIN: Sentencing Council announce new Imposition guideline that acknowledges prison is high-risk for pregnant women and tells courts to avoid sending women there! 📣🎉✨ This is so, so hard-won & would never have happened without the power of MOTHERS 🎉💞 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Pregnant offenders in England and Wales could be spared jail under new guidelines
Changes to sentencing guidance will also apply to mothers of children under one year old
theguardian.com
The number of pregnant women being held in prison on remand (before trial or sentence) has increased by 36% metro.co.uk/2025/02/22/p...
Pregnant in prison: 'When I thought my baby had died nobody seemed to care'
Pregnant women in prison are seven times more likely to suffer stillbirth and twice as likely to give birth prematurely.
metro.co.uk
Fighting for materials changes for all women is how we deflate “gender critical” claims to the feminist moral high ground. Eg The GCs say: leave cis women - mostly abuse survivors - in prison - where they are further abused - as long as it’s not with trans women; we say: no women in prison.
Janey Starling@janeystarling.bsky.social · 2y agoToday’s HMI report is such harrowing reading — and this is just a snapshot of what goes on inside women’s prisons. Prisons inflict violence and trauma on women who have already experienced more than enough violence and trauma in their lives.
Today’s HMI report is such harrowing reading — and this is just a snapshot of what goes on inside women’s prisons. Prisons inflict violence and trauma on women who have already experienced more than enough violence and trauma in their lives.
🍉💚Giller Prize drops Scotiabank! 💚🍉 A victory for the Canandian writers, for worker organising and for common sense! Whether it’s Baillie Gifford or Scotiabank, however many op/eds call for nuance for the bomb-makers! most writers want nothing to do with companies involved in genocide.
I posted this on my Instagram and got about 100 interesting g responses if u wanna take a look www.instagram.com/yararodrigue...
Yara Rodrigues Fowler@yararf.bsky.social · 2y agoThis year I’m searching for more sublime and unalienated reading experiences. What’s a novel that blew your mind forever so that it was never the same again? Preferably not published in the last 5 years.
This year I’m searching for more sublime and unalienated reading experiences. What’s a novel that blew your mind forever so that it was never the same again? Preferably not published in the last 5 years.
Thank you to the wonderful @andresordorica.com for braving the January cold to come and chat with us at Wednesday’s meeting about his debut ‘How We Named The Stars’. Our most popular meeting ever! For details of our forthcoming meetings please check out edgaybookgroup.wordpress.com
“The isolation from your loved ones is one of the hardest parts of prison” A woman in our campaign has written a powerful piece in the Metro on her experiences of pregnancy in prison, and how accurate the EastEnders storyline is metro.co.uk/2025/01/22/l...
Like EastEnders' Sonia, I was in prison while pregnant - it was dehumanising
'Prison is no place for pregnant women'
metro.co.uk
Not Kat Slater complaining about lack of healthcare for pregnant women in prison! Dream campaign spokesperson tbh
A landmark announcement from a prisons minister. Now it’s up to us to give him the political mandate to go even further. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Prisons minister aims to close one women’s jail in England and Wales
Exclusive: Timpson says government plans to reverse rise in female inmates and use alternative forms of punishment
theguardian.com
The Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org strategy day last weekend was exciting, collaborative & hopeful. We imagined what a literary industry that we all deserve - from writers & publicists here to Palestinians - wd look like, & how to make it real. To join us email fossilfreebooksuk@gmail.com
hope is the challenging question. the troublesome refusal. the threat to the daily luxuries we enjoy. the inability to ignore what funds them, what lies under them - the demand that you see them too hope is not, and will never be, the charming flourish at the end of a melancholy piece of writing
one of the weird violences of literary culture - the way we are (a) vilified for doing/writing about the things which might make a broken world better (b) SIMULTANEOUSLY: constantly asked, by the same people, to gesture to/perform hope, in what we write and say
2025 is upon us - and for you, dear reader, we have a whole heck of an event lineup to start adding to those crisp new diaries of yours! We've rounded up a first batch of launches - feminist fiction & polemic, Palestine solidarity & queer liberation, resilience & more: x90yz.mjt.lu/nl3/vKo9aR0_...
