🚨We invite book workers everywhere to join 200+ signatories and sign our open letter renewing our call for Baillie Gifford to divest from the fossil fuel industry and from companies that profit from Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide. fossilfreebooks.org/baillie-giffor…

A real talent and such a kind soul - it was a pleasure to publish her work. Condolences to her family and friends ❤️

are people boring or do you not inspire vulnerability & depth from those you’re engaging with?

community is the root of real liberation.

i don’t know how the pain in her voice doesn’t radicalise some people. free palestine 🤍

We the people won!!! Goldsmiths University will keep our Black British literature course open for now! theguardian.com/education/arti…

Wild how many of you who think you’d have hidden Anne Frank and Harriet Tubman won’t even publicly say the word “ceasefire” 7 months into a genocide of mostly children.

Apartheid began in both South Africa and Palestine in 1948. It officially ended in SA in 1994 and it’s unconscionable, indefensible, that the entire Western elite — and its puppets in our region — is trying to gaslight the world into thinking it’s still justified in Palestine

There’s a common misconception that its only Apple iPhones are exploiting Congo. All smartphones, electric vehicles, computers etc use materials sourced from Congo. What you can do is stop overconsumption of these items & advocate for companies to reevaluate supply standards.

#FreeCongo 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩

Brilliant news! Well done to the students & staff who took part!

I was telling a fellow author today about how, many years ago, an editor in the UK told me not to mention colonialism so much in my writing. And honestly I increasingly feel like this about sums up the attitude of way too many people in the industry.

Thread of UK unis with Gaza Solidarity Encampments 🧵 (LMK if I've missed any and will add)

BREAKING: UCL and King's College London King's College London students have set up their encampment calling for the end of Israel's #genocide in #Gaza and demanding our universities to divest from Israeli institutions and war machine. #CeasefireNOW

The Society of Authors officially opposed a resolution calling for a statement in favour of a permanent ceasefire because they say it's outside their remit to be political? No. Opposing the motion IS political.

We should all feel sick that this resolution didn't pass.

The Congolese struggle is complex because it implicates all of us who are consumers & 'beneficiaries' of global capitalism. It's a direct confrontation to our 'performative activist' sensibilities. We all part of the mess, consentually or not, oblivious or not.

I cannot stop thinking about the choice to point guns at students who spent their entire childhoods training to survive too frequent school shootings and who are out protesting because students half way across the world are being murdered

America hates its kids so fucking much

Self-acceptance is key. Once you embrace and heal every part of yourself, you blossom. Also, being in the right environment. When you’re around people who understand you and reflect you back to you, you’ll be surprised by how open and animated you become

Fascism isn’t coming. It’s here. The so called temples of free speech are revealing themselves as what they are- fortresses of white supremacy