There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50

Good evening I’m tabling at The Feminist Library winter fair on December 6th, Sumner Rd, SE15. For this event, in recognition of the gender pay gap, this fierce mermaid advocate for trans rights, clean seas and rivers will be on sale for the feminist low price of £5. Look forward to seeing you!

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Today is Thanksgiving in the US, or National Day of Mourning/"Unthanksgiving Day" for some Native Americans. Wampanoag people shared food with pilgrims in 1621 but were repaid with centuries of genocide. More on Indigenous resistance: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Fabulous @tomrasmussen.bsky.social @unionchapeluk.bsky.social last night. Moving, beautiful, uplifting.

Good afternoon. Here’s an intersectional tree of knowledge for Trans Remembrance Day, honouring those we have lost to hatred and violence. My tree also symbolises room for growth and much needed change in the world. Ink drawing from 2022.

🚨 BREAKING: Kent County Council is hurtling towards financial oblivion under Reform. A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

#OtD 23 Oct 1850 the first National Women's Rights Convention in the US took place in Massachusetts, to win equal rights. The speakers included women's rights and anti-slavery activists like Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9601...

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

And International Lesbian Day too! Double the joy! Two of my favourite species!

I grew up in Lozells, just a stone’s throw from Handsworth. Robert Jenrick called it “as close as I’ve come to a slum” and complained he “didn’t see another white face.” This is white-supremacist thinking dressed up as “legitimate concerns”.

My statement on the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks.

I stuck my riso print to cardboard to make a placard for a demo yesterday, protesting all the sewage dumped into our rivers and seas. I didn’t know the demo was cancelled due to the weather. The walk in high winds was bracing and enjoyable anyway!

Farage’s plans to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain would ruin lives and tear families apart. Rather than dismissing Reform’s xenophobic proposals as 'unrealistic' or 'unaffordable', our government should be clear that they are cruel and unjust. We must stand up for migrants' rights.

Good morning. Here’s one of my large platters, with a vital quotation from Bayard Rustin. Part of my collection for The Shop Floor Project. Photograph courtesy of The Shop Floor Project. theshopfloorproject.com/collections/...

Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.

I probably shouldn’t be saying this but I’ve convinced more than 60 German Shepherds to quit the police force

This weekend! I'll be at The Old Waterworks in Southend along with a bunch of amazing zine makers for @grrrlzinefair. RSVP to the fest for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/grrrl-zine...

Check out the link to support Southwark Day Centre For Asylum Seekers and get beautiful rewards for your donations. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-sdcas...

Good morning. Drawing I made on Friday.

Mic drop.

I am on tour right now with a book about two gay working class artists who died long before I was born. I’ve visited bookshops and libraries and galleries. And at every event I’ve been welcomed and there has been warmth and community. Books build empathy. The arts connect us. They just do.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

"Dozens of domestic cats, including nearly 70 this year, have been infected with H5N1, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. Many of the animals became infected after consuming raw milk or raw pet food contaminated with the virus."

Reporting a new Banksy mural which attacks the legal system for criminalizing protests against genocide, the BBC adds "the graffiti has been covered up and guarded". Thanks Dad.

Good morning. If you search on insta for #cartoonistsforg4za you’ll see this drawing of mine, and lots more by brilliant comics people. (Others have fewer spelling mistakes!).

This is the 3rd of my collaborative comics and Tom Wrigley has done an absolutely amazing job illustrating it! I drafted this back in May and the situation has changed since then - the benefits bill passed in a reduced state so I won’t lose as much. But others will. So we continue to fight.

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports. Pandemics don’t start with viruses they start with secrecy. RFK Jr. must resign now!

I don't want Linehan in a cell I want people to acknowledge that if this call to punch trans women was made instead about Rowling or someone who people actually give a shit about the government would have a very different attitude.

Good afternoon. Here’s another drawing from my 2019 zine ‘still bisexual’. I wish I lived in a country where the PM wasn’t a raving transphobe.

It’s Bi Visibility Month, and here’s a page from my 2019 zine, ‘still bisexual’.

#OnThisDay in 1942, Eric Ravilious became the first British war artist to die on active service in WW2, when the aircraft he was in was lost off the coast of Iceland. Frank Delaney re-visits the work of this understated, yet significant figure: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd

#OtD 1 Sept 1949 trans revolutionary Leslie Feinberg was born. Ze worked in factories before writing powerfully about LGBT+ issues and publishing hir first novel, Stone Butch Blues, in 1993. Hir last words: "Remember me as a revolutionary communist" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8159...

#OtD 28 Aug 1955 Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, was kidnapped and murdered after Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, accused him of propositioning her. Despite overwhelming evidence of their guilt, Till's killers were acquitted by an all-white jury stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9983...

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."

We're back with another #CartoonistsforG4za gallery... Cartoonists for Gaza Part 3 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from John Sadler, MariNaomi, Paul Peart-Smith, Tony Thorne and Myfanwy Tristram. www.brokenfrontier.com/cartoonists-...

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

Good afternoon. I’m delighted to have my work included in The Short History of Queer Art by Dawn Hoskin. Whoop!

Good morning. I’ll be tabling at this today and tomorrow, in Weedon. Starts at 11.00am.

Yesterday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described the Israeli government’s plan to “annihilate everything” in Gaza. In 1939, Hitler began threatening the “annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.” We all know what that led to.

Bottom line is that anti trans politics is part of fascist politics and you can’t fight fascism by taking on and surrendering to its ideas

I think it might be easy to overlook @comicnurse.bsky.social's beautiful paean to Lynda Barry, also a brilliant explanation of how comics can help you through difficult times. AND it contains pages by other comics artists too, including @rachaelhouse.bsky.social www.ldcomicsfair.com/product/lb-a...

Today, our capital proudly marks seven years of London Trans+ Pride. As trans rights come under increasing pressure across the UK, this year’s march is a vital reminder: London is a city that stands for equality, dignity and pride - for everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️

We've just made our latest donation to @stonewalluk.bsky.social - £37 - from sales of our 40th Colossive Cartography, You Are Safe Here by @rachaelhouse.bsky.social. Rachael is donating all royalties - that's £1 per copy - to this VERY worthy cause. Grab the zine at bit.ly/colossive40

Good morning. It’s the final weekend of my exhibition, Come As You Are, at Aspex Portsmouth. It’s been a joy to show there, I hope some of you can see it.