While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
Happy new year lovelies x
shout out the guardian photo editor one time
#perimenopause #menopause should come with a Lonely Planet guide. Instead, most get a cryptic postcard. If we truly cared about wellbeing, we’d fix the information architecture, not blame the travellers.
Are you here to stand with people through the storm of #perimenopause #menopause, or just selling umbrellas now that the forecast looks profitable?
Oof 👌🏾
Thank you Nina x
For Black women in any stage of menopause. 5 star reviews. Join us on our third trip next year.
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It’s a consequence of my dedicated use of digital calendars that every Tuesday at 7.30pm I get an email saying “You have been invited by Rhodri Marsden to an event entitled Put Bins Out”
Maybe the most radical act isn’t perfecting #perimenopause #menopauseBut refusing to apologise for it. That’s how culture shifts:, one imperfect truth at a time.
The ocean at dusk. Rippling waves. Moody grey and blue sky and a glimmer of orange yellow and red sunset on the horizon
I see Prince Nonce made the news again
True privilege is thinking “oh if I’m accused of sexual assault I can just change my job title and the fuss goes away”
#perimenopause #menopause awareness without inclusion risks creating comfort for some and invisibility for others. True awareness transforms systems, not hashtags.
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Book cover for BOG PEOPLE - dark purple cover with horned demon holding pitchfork
A picture of Contents page: Introduction - Hollie Starling The Ossuary - A. K. Blakemore Perpetual Stew - Daniel Draper Carole - Emma Glass Eldritch - Mark Colbourne The Spit in Your Mouth and the Bile in Your Stomach - Mark Stafford Yellowbelly - Hollie Starling The Hanging Stones - Jenn Ashworth The Keepers - Natasha Carthew I Am Hagstone - Salena Godden It Fair Give Me the Spikes -Tom Benn
Picture of book and quotes: 'A masterful collection' MAXINE PEAKE 'Feral and furious' CHARLIE COOPER 'An absolute treat' ADAMS LESLIE You really need to read this' ALAN MOORE BOG PEOPLE A WORKING-CLASS ANTHOLOGY OF FOLK HORROR "Masterful" MAXINE PEAKE 'Astonishing" ALAN MOORE EDITED by HOLLIE STARLING
🕷️ Happy Publication Day!
'BOG PEOPLE - A Working Class Anthology of Folk Horror' out today and in your favourite bookshops now, published with Chatto and Windus and edited by Hollie Starling - my piece is titled I AM HAGSTONE - I love this collection! ✨
There are certain households within a mile radius of where I live that are proudly, unabashedly, Trumpy.
Somebody has been leaving antifa chalk art on the sidewalk in front of their houses.
I giggle every time the dog and I walk past.
"Adding #alttext only takes a few seconds per image, but it can make all the difference to your content's performance and how accessible the web is to those with visual impairments." 👀
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So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language
If you care about the future of books and publishing, I highly recommend you get behind this initiative with your whole hearts - (for what it's worth I think the whole of publishing should do this) www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
Last week we held another People’s Forum in Islington North, this time to discuss the alarming erosion of civil liberties and freedoms.
Our community has always stood together against injustice at home and abroad. We will continue to defend the right to protest!
📚❤️ This Thursday 16th October: 6pm - 7pm. Poetry Pharmacy, Oxford Street. Readings and book signings, FREE entry. See you down there! Thank you lovelies @canongate.co.uk Xx
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But this is good. Keep speaking up. Onwards.
Don’t get me wrong. We’re not singing kumbaya yet as there a lonnng way to go to eradicate the massive health inequities in the uk especially when it comes to race.
Nice lil feature in this months #topsanteuk menopause special highlighting the nuances and differences in Black folx menopause experience. Good to see our voices amplified
A topological photo of a Colourful geometric carpet, orange mug, yellow cardigan, a hand placed on a leopard fur fabric and pink and orange wool on the floor
Yesterdays #SilentSunday
I keep forgetting to add #booksky
Also Davina McCall described me as ‘a gift’ on her podcast Begin Again in conversation with activist & author Kate Muir. It’s on YouTube. 7 or so mins in. GASSED.
You’re not too old and it’s never too late. At 63 years old I didn’t have ‘Award winning author’ on my bingo card! Still buzzing!