Eurovision Song Contest Oliver Alexander

With a week to go until Eurovision, some timely resources have popped up around London providing some useful info for the public.

It’s been so amazing to hear how people have responded to this story. A little empathy and kindness can go a long way 🐻🎷🕺🪩💕🌿

There's still time to sign up for Take Your Place, a 3-day camp for working-class 14-18-year-olds

💫 Learn practical & creative skills for self-development

💫Public speaking, Art & Activism, active listening & more

Get paid £15 per day
Deadline 5th May
tinyurl.com/43vvjacs

Hello from Northern Ireland, where the Brits loved to use rubber bullets! Rubber bullets kill. This is what rubber bullets look like. Now imagine that fired at you from a gun -

I'm really enjoying the celebration of Disintegration by The Cure on Lauren Laverne 's show. I am imagining Lloyd from Neon Roses listening over breakfast and boring his kids about his first girlfriend.

Our photo contest is now live!

This is our photo competition of images of City Road, Cardiff. All entries must be sent to [email protected] along with your full name and telephone number.
The deadline is 31st May 2024, and it is one entry per person.

✨callout to (esp British) queer activists, allies and historians✨
Some of you know I'm working on a history of trans family at the moment. This means I've been talking to people opposing the use of 'family values' rhetoric to oppress queer rights - inc Jinsiangu in Kenya 🧵

Fab way to spend International Workers' Day - starting my new job with a political, radical theatre company. So excited to learn loads and get creative. Will be working two days so 🤞more time for writing and freelance work too. Thank you for a great first day!

drawing in my sketchbook. Hind Rajab was a 5 year old girl in Gaza who was killed while she hid alone in a car, along with the paramedics who tried to rescue her. Yesterday students at Columbia seized the administration building and renamed it in her honor.

On Friday June 14, Polari will be at Pyle Library Awen Libraries #Bridgend with Rachel Dr Emily Garside David Síôn Llewellyn and Paul Burston 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚡️🏳️‍🌈

To book a place, call the library on 01656 754850.

Another busy, buzzy couple of days at #LBF2024 - incl so much insight into the interplay between the current publishing, cultural and political landscapes.

I also really loved hearing my fellow panellists’ top tips for author mental health resilience earlier today at Author HQ.

Loved writing this letter for Nation.Cymru about returning to my hometown & seeing it through new eyes ❤️

Yemeni printers work fast.

‘Affecting and poetic… Portero’s book — like the best books that feature trans characters — shows us that a “trans novel” can actually be anything it wants to be’

BAD HABIT by Alana S. Portero, transl by Mara Faye Lethem in New York Times Books!

4th Estate Books
nytimes.com/2024/04/24/boo…

Cardiff! We are looking for a Community Promoter for The Posh Club.

💫 Are you a people person?
💫Want to go the extra mile for the elders of St Mellons & Trowbridge?
💫 love dancing & spoiling people?

Freelance June-Dec
Fee: £3,000 (£150 per day)

tinyurl.com/ms7eb73h

Happy birthday fellow lesbians! 💓 🧡💖 my wife found this vintage Songbirds clipping in her desk today!

From the Asian Youth Movements sending minibuses up to Orgreave to the Indian Workers' Associations organising street collections, South Asian solidarity was prominent during the miners' strike.

I have a long read in this issue, detailing many of these stories for the first time

Luckily this month's book club read, Neon Roses by Rachel is a cracker so I might actually finish it in time. Recommend highly 💜

Customs&Excise raided London’s Gay's The Word bookshop 40 years ago in a major censorship campaign. More about the story is now coming out. Join Graham McKerrow 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🚩, Sarah Pyke and Sigrid Nielsen tomorrow at 7pm for a free online event: lavendermenace.org.uk/event/indecent…