I’m so proud to call this woman my friend 💜❤️‍🔥💜

BLAM UK ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE RELEASING A 2 VOLUME BOOK!
Global Black Narratives in the Classroom! 📕📕
Our book is a practical classroom guide keen on ensuring Black history and narratives are centered and included all year!
Tell a teacher to tell a teacher!

INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP WEEK STARTS TOMORROW!

We have free vouchers for you, the opportunity to win some books and events! If you love having a local bookshop, please come and show us some support next week…and if not us, the wonderful other indies of Birmingham!

❗️There will be an Urgent Question in the House of Commons at 10.30am about the 28-month jail sentence handed down to a mother-of-three this week for ending her own pregnancy.

We will be live tweeting this as soon as it starts 🧵

Reading saved my life, I don’t exaggerate when I say this.
I don’t come from a family of readers, so if it wasn’t for libraries and the access they gave me to all kinds of literature, I wouldn’t be who I am today.

It’s TODAY!!! Online tix sold out but there are PLENTY on the door so please come by if you’re looking for some quieter queer space in Birmingham today 🏳️‍⚧️💜🏳️‍🌈

Hi! Hajar Press is currently raising funds to be able to carry on their essential work in giving a platform to marginalised voices. Their crowdfunding ends on 31st May and it would be amazing if you could support in any way you can
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-hajar-p…
Thanks :)

This looks great - this weekend, in #Bham !

Birmingham and all our surrounding communities! Back To Books and the National Trust Back To Backs are creating the Brum Buzzcut for Pride - a mini queer reading festival on Sun 27 May
Tickets here:

nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmingh…

This is really connecting me with Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ alexispauline work - once again - Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals 🖤🐋 📚

Who’s joining us for this weekend’s lovely queer costume making sessions? I’m making a Bi Butterfly 💜💙🩷🦋

Posted a photo story on Birmingham’s protest in Centenary Square over on Insta

instagram.com/stories/backto…

Just ordered mine (and v tentatively back on Twitter) 💜

'A Girlhood - A Letter to My Transgender Daughter'
by Carolyn Hays is out today from Picador Books

available from Blackwell's Gay Pride Shop Waterstones #choosebookshops

read an online sample of this powerful book 📖 here ↘️
jellybooks.com/cloud_reader/e…

Gorgeous little tour of Digbeth with Jessica Rose including our bookery!

I keep thinking of this. I think every woman of colour in Britain knows this expression, the way it is deployed and the racist meangirling that it signifies.

We see it in offices, pubs, nights out, classrooms, academic conferences, department meetings….

Sending power out into the disrupting bookiverse today. We’re here to create change and change is very much here. Keep creating with love, keep challenging the system, keep resting and pouring into yourself 💜