Welp, this is happening. Next week I will be in sunny Trinidad for the amazing Bocas Lit Fest . I will hosting one of the Writers First seminars for new writers, so if you are a new writers and want to talk digital content I'll see you there.

Come have a chat if you see me.

Over 150 calls for submissions of #poetry #fiction #flash #nonfiction #art #photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in March 2024. Best of luck & pls share! #amwriting #callsforsubmissions thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog/w…

True.

If not for Black culture, you’d still be plowing infertile rocksoil in a shithole serfdom rubbing Yorkshire pudding on smallpox sores during your yearly bath.

If not for white culture, Taino, Arawak, native Americans & millions of Africans would all live in a safe country

BLACKOUT NIGHTS

If as a person you don’t have an issue with gay bars, women only gyms or any other space a marginalised person creates for themselves, please know your issue is probably steeped in racial bias and you don’t think Black People are worthy of sacred spaces

It's becoming clear to me how generalised Western Islamophobia has prevented 'us' (media, politicians, public...) from truly understanding the violent, extreme Zionism that rules Israel. For instance:
1⃣ we recognise indoctrination of children by ISIS, but not by Zionist orgs.
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Why is it, when we’re told that we have to prepare children for the ‘real world’ it always means making them do unpleasant things? It means making them get up early every morning, or wear clothes they hate. 1/

Yes, yes, Israel is a beacon of Western values, there’s no denying it.

Those values are settler-colonialism, genocide, fascism, pantomime democracy and state propaganda.

we live in a ghoulish political culture that requires the death of children to be weaponised in order for Palestinians to reach a threshold of innocence that makes their lives worthy of defense.

Since October 7, Israel has killed at least thirteen Palestinian poets and writers in Gaza. This is who they are 👇🏽 lithub.com/these-are-the-…

Any definition of antisemitism that immunes Israel from condemnation & accountability isn’t worth the paper its written on #Gaza_Genocide
#WarCrimesByIsrael #FreePalestine

Remember when Israel and the media spent a week telling the world how they didn’t target that hospital two months ago?

Well they’ve attacked, destroyed, and raided over 22 hospitals since then.

I have two childrens coats that are pretty unworn if anyone in my networks is in need. Green coat is size 13 and Black is size 12. Please share. Based near Highbury and Holloway tube stations. X

It’s impossible to wrap your head around all those videos coming out of Gaza. It’s just death, destruction, collapse. Broken person after broken person. It’s so harrowing. What have Palestinians even got to rebuild ON should this ever end? It’s endless rubble and ruin.

🇵🇸 Sat 16 Dec: National Day of Action for #Palestine 🇵🇸

Find your local Action👇👇

Aberdeen: Barclays Bank, 163 Union Street at 11am. March to Town House for 12.30 am.

Abergavenny: Outside Barclays Bank, Abergavenny, 11am-12.30pm

Barnstaple: Rally and March, assemble High…

pajama butch 🇵🇸 😷 Nikki The fascist ideology behind it was formulated by studying what the U.S. did Black and Native people. Horror and brutality? The Atlantic Slave Trade. Invasion and colonization of the Americas that erased entire ethnic/tribal groups. And it wasn't Germany's first genocide.

After reflecting on it a bit, I realized that my (and other white Jews') gut discomfort with comparing Netanyahu to Hitler isn't about technicalities or antisemitism, but is rooted in white supremacy. The Holocaust was terrible, but in most ways it wasn't unique. 🧵

Jewish ppl taking unequivocal stance against State of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians is courage personified👏🏽 #IStandWithPalestine

Don’t be silenced by fear of being called antisemite while Palestinians are exterminated. Israeli Govt isn’t beyond condemnation for mass murder