“There is no left wing to fight the right wing”
— Siobhan Donaghy, “Iodine”

Leave trans people alone, FFS.

The outlook for queer people in the UK is looking bleaker by the day. Not the “progressive” country I moved to 23 years ago. “Dispiriting” doesn’t cut it.

🚨 BREAKING: This Government's cruel Rwanda Bill has just passed

Today will forever leave a stain on the UK’s moral reputation.

The UK has an obligation to provide safety to refugees. It's now vital that flights to Rwanda do not leave the tarmac.

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31 years ago today, Black teenager Stephen Lawrence, 18, was murdered in a racist attack in South-East London. He was killed on the streets of Britain for being Black.

This poem by Josephine Corcoran impacted me since I first read it.
RIP #StephenLawrence
#StephenLawrence Day

Gaza 190 Days. Poem read vertically and horizontally and whatever direction you read it. It is Gaza incinerated and reincarnated.

I am truly disgusted.

Reports have emerged today from Gaza about the discovery of a mass grave at Nasser Hospital, where civilians—including doctors, nurses, women, men, and children—were mercilessly killed in cold blood. On the same day, the American ruling class chose to…

Totally impartially, this is the most insane statement I’ve ever heard.

I try not to be angry about this all the time, but 4.5 years ago we had the opportunity to vote for a different reality, where public services were going to be funded better and things were going to be nationalised and affordable and the entire media class destroyed it

UK Writers!!! Are you a member of the Society of Authors? Do you know there are two historic votes coming up at the EGM on May 2?

Please sign up to vote for a union that opposes fossil fuel funding in the book industry, and stands against apartheid and genocide in Palestine!

Ready for GOBS Collective poetry book club! I matched with Anthony Anaxagorou’s brilliant “Heritage Aesthetics” (and the Cyprus flag, I guess).

And it’s one of the hottest R&B songs ever.

It’s the anniversary of Byron’s death — which always reminds me of the reenactment of his funeral procession that I attended in Nottingham back in 2008. So many goths. Good times.

I'm giving a talk to uni students soon about being a writer - the professional side rather than craft. Writers, anything you wish you'd known going in?

Puberty blockers are trending as the right wing press is trying to give support to Lettice Liz's bill. So, a reminder-

Blockers have been used in cis kids for 40+ years, trans kids for 30+ years. In all that time not one study into their use in trans kids shows negative outcomes