Celebrating Lesbian Visibility Week, the Together! Pop-Up Poetry Café for LGBT+ History Month is still available to watch! Produced in association with Regard & featuring @ReannaValPoet, DL Williams, Marcy Rick ✿, Vron McIntyre & Cedar Whelan #LVW24 together2012.org.uk/activities-pro…

In #Bournemouth this coming weekend? I'll be giving a talk about how we can raise our confidence and community as writers and artists, as part of Bournemouth Writing Festival on Saturday at 4pm in The Avenue. Tickets are £8.50 and you can find out more here: pdsw.org.uk/whats-on/a-ris…

I used to be so vocal on this issue & applaud Liz "blue tick" Carr for continuing to battle to get the voices & concerns of many disabled people heard. We're not pro-suffering, we're anti rushing ahead without thinking. How often have you been told you'd be better off dead?

An important petition. The government’s unpleasant, unlawful and unnecessary scheme to treat trans people as pariahs during NHS treatment needs to be defeated. In just two days this modest petition passed 2,000 signatures this evening just before 20:00. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6616…

put a fried egg on my croque monsieur to make it a croque madame and now jk rowling is outside my house yelling

Hope you can join us LGBT Foundation ParaPride Stonewall KENRIC Consortium LGBT Foundation 🏳️‍🌈elop LGBT mental health and wellbeing @lgbtplushistory Regard Vron McIntyre @ReannaValPoet UK BLACK PRIDE @pride Forest Gayte Pride🏳️‍🌈 PrideInLondon

This @SaraNAhmed quote had been in the forefront of my mind over the past several months: 'When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about it or if you went away.'

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Joining @ArachnePress director @CherryJPotts & Joy/Us co-editor HP today from 5pm on the #poetry #podcast for a special 🌈 Pride month episode are Dean Atta JP Seabright 💜 Aoife Mannix @multistable Vron McIntyre Dezziiee & more 🎉🎉🎉 On most podcast platforms 😉

Presales for my new book are now open!! You can find that and details about how you can win a book bundle including a copy of A Holding all in my linktree. Allographic Press #poetrycommunity linktr.ee/PoetryBees

microlabels are good, actually. they're helpful to people with nuanced identities. we shouldn't turn our noses up or make disparaging remarks about microlabels because they help queer and marginalized people express themselves authentically.

""Forgiveness" itself is a word with thorns on it for me." Thank you Cy I go by Cy. for this description which speaks so eloquently to me. Thinking now of other words with thorns on them.

“Survival is a deeply political act Survival is an act of resistance” Liz Carr Liz "blue tick" Carr #BetterOffDead

I'll be attending the amazing 2024 TransPride YOUniting Health & Wellness Conference. Let me know if you're planning to attend so that we can say Hi! 👋 Or register now and join me at the event! whova.com/portal/registr… via #Whova event app whova.com/portal/registr…

🚨DR UK's Statement on Passing of Assisted Dying Bill We stand firmly against a law that risks pressuring Disabled people into decisions driven by lack of options rather than genuine choice. This bill could reinforce the narrative that Disabled people’s lives are less valuable.

White ableds can spare me on their "fears" for "the future" when they've been ignoring the *current eugenics-based reality* for disabled people TBH.