Best thing about The Gilded Age is watching Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon squabbling

Stores can provide important access to health resources and community—but queerness demands that we dream bigger

Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.

For the second time this year I've been confused with the award-winning queer Irish director Aisling Walsh (as opposed to moi, the queer Irish would-be writer)... still hoping this confusion will, somehow, benefit my literary career 🙈

This goes for the so-called "human rights" lawyers too, and I'm saying this as someone with 15+ years experience in the human rights world 😒

It is a truth universally acknowledged that lawyers are the absolute worst...

Wondering how much more fiendish the evil 😺😺😺 will have become for Season 5 of Stranger Things 🧐 electricliterature.com/malevolent-v...

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That thing in period dramas where we'll get a woman pregnant "out of wedlock" to create drama, but then we'll make her miscarry or kill off her child to take care of the "mess" and so she can carry on being single and interesting for the sake of the plot 🤷🏼‍♀️

Classic!

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Accounting kitty 😻 I can forgive her for messing up the receipts I spent the last hour organising ( 😭 ) because she's just so cute 😻😻😻

This open-access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities & rationales of key leaders in their own words. Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Not that it did him any good 🤣

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

Tonight! Please give generously and share widely. PS: poetry is good for your soul. Come join us. #WeKeepTelling #MawasiProject

Funny how a country that colonised and wreaked ecological destruction on a significant portion of the world has a poor connection with "nature"... it's almost like those two things might be connected 🤔

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Honestly carved turnips look way creepier than carved pumkins, fair play to anyone who risked losing a finger by carving a turnip!

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Closing for subs tomorrow at midnight. Get your submissions in! Www.frazzledlit.com

Everytime I see a headline like this I fall into an anxiety spiral, worrying about the already hostile environment for families like mine and how much worse it's going to get 😔

The ADHD tax strikes again: €30 on a train ticket for today (day my flight leaves Guatemala) instead of tomorrow (day my flight arrives in Ireland) 😭 It's been a long few weeks 🫠🫠🫠

📢 New research: how Autism charities talk about Autistic people. TLDR: they say we're a problem. Summary in The Conversation: theconversation.com/autism-chari... Full text: https://doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0335132 @helenabnett.bsky.social @kat-williams.bsky.social @willowholloway.bsky.social

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The trend in Irish politics since I can remember is great President, terrible Taoiseach... would be nice to see a great President, great Taoiseach for a change 🧐

Some positive news for a change!! www.rte.ie/news/preside...

I wasn't able to vote in the Irish presidential elections because of a trip away planned months ago (and timings made a postal vote impossible) but across the ocean anxiously waiting for news that Catherine Conolly will be our next president 🤞🤞🤞

Yes, the final book! Thanks for this wonderful essay. #hisdarkmaterials

The whole Róisín Murphy fiasco hits hard... she's a second cousin, my Mother's god child and I used to idolise her BUT none of that matters in light of her persistent delusions and hate targeted at the trans community and so-called "trans ideology"

"Throughout these adventures, Pullman assembles a motley crew of characters who not only challenge power, but the rigid social and gendered expectations imposed on them by those powers." #TheRoseField is out today, I'm so excited!! @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/why-philip-p...

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I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Doaa and her three children have just been displaced to the south. As the situation grows more desperate each day any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏 @mommunism.bsky.social

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I think a lot about the horrific abuses of mother and baby homes in Ireland, and all the other countries where this happened/is happening and we don't hear about it.

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@aislingwalsh.bsky.social an excellent read before the release of @philippullman.bsky.social ‘s #TheRoseField “Pullman understands that true evil is never about the distorted cravings of a single person. Evil is aided and abetted by the banality of institutions and their functionaries.”

I'm sorry, but if you're regularly, and unashamedly sharing articles from Spiked media, then you should probably stop pretending to be a liberal and just admit you're a right-wing reactionary so we can all move on 👀

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Want to make myself a very special t-shirt but caught between my two favourite quotes from an ex and an ex-friend: 1) "Man-hating feminist, blinded by my own radicalism" or 2) "Beligerent and Punitive" Votes below 👇

As someone who researches and writes in this space it really bothers me that this continues to be THE go to for trauma and healing, while more recent and more relevant (better practice/research/movement based) books don't get more attention, eg. Prentis Hemphill, Stacey Haines or Judith Hermann

Toni Morrison:

So grateful to @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for giving me the chance to write about one of my favourite literary series, His Dark Materials, and so excited to read the final installment, The Rose Field, when it comes out next week! 🥳

@aislingwalsh.bsky.social on the 30-year legacy of His Dark Materials and why Philip Pullman understands that “true evil is never about the distorted cravings of a single person.”

A round-up of my favourite neurodivergent fiction from the last couple of years, featuring @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social @elspethwrites.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @riverssolomon.bsky.social & @naoisedolan.bsky.social ! open.substack.com/pub/autcasts...

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/