Happy pride month all, fuck Palantir

The EHRC Guidance on single-sex spaces is unjust and unworkable. That's why UNISON are demanding MPs stand with trans and non-binary workers and oppose the guidance.

Happy Pride. This month we're honoring queer comics pioneers who built the road we walk on. First up: Howard Cruse. He founded Gay Comix in 1980 and created Wendel for The Advocate in 1983. The godfather of queer comics. We exist because he did.

You never see a 'statement from white MPs' when a white person does a crime.

Please do not buy my books from Amazon. If you are outside the UK and cannot find an independent bookshop who stocks them, please purchase them from @blackwells.bsky.social who do free international delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Pride month is great, but publishers must ask harder questions about how queer books are positioned year-round, writes Mo Fanning. 👇

"I and other women in the extended family... began sending her name and photo and the pictures of her killers to media pages and platforms hoping for justice for this child and allow her to at least be buried with dignity." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Bay Area Book Fest! Tatiana Tibuleac will be speaking today with Jeremy Tiang, on a conversation moderated by Rita Bullwinkel. Poster below for details.

Today, ironically, my essay for @grantamag.bsky.social on his Narcissus Complex is out, one month after his death. I was unable to bring myself to change the tenses during the final copy edits. Present still seems right to me. granta.com/the-narcissu...

Gender Plus statement on the evidence, or lack of evidence, for the current block on gender affirming hormones for 16 and 17 year olds in the UK. As usual shows up Streeting, the DHSC and the NHS, as only interested in lying by ommisison to STOP trans+ heatlhcare www.genderplus.com/blog/indepen...

Rowling, Forstater, Davies and your ilk; take a fucking bow you absolute dangers metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/i...

Never. Told. A. Soul.

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social regularly post beautiful pictures of doors – usually rural, almost always weathered, hugely evocative. I was loved photographing doors – these are from all around the world (this once I am not going to provide all text for every one)

Queer NATO? I like it!

"The vast majority of people will never hear the other side of the story, the factually correct side of the story, the morally decent side of the story. The side of the story that was the overwhelming consensus among politicians and the public a mere 6-7 years previously."

Launch events for Guillermo Stitch's colossal novel 'The Coast of Everything' kick off in London on Monday 15th June at The Wheatsheaf pub in Rathbone Place. Joining the author will be myself, Johnny White Really-Really and C. D. Rose. Free, but you need to book: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-coast-...

Now the UK toilet debacle has more clarification, the fair thing is to make all toilets gender neutral. It will stop queues outside women's loos, stop discrimination against trans folk. trans-criticals are obv fine with cis men who commit the vast majority of crime, so let’s make it all unisex.

Exactly

This feels like a good time to say to trans people: I see you, I appreciate you and I will fight for your rights as if they were my own. 💜

Today RTÉ has an excerpt of Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING:

From Mathias Énard and @terribleman.com, a joyful read on death and karmic rebirth. A lustful priest returns as a wild boar, an abusive husband hangs himself into a past warlord. A self-absorbed anthropologist switches careers as an eco-farmer, a once-beautiful region renewed in hands like his.

Very good thread, also will say the obvious that even if it were somehow true that the number of goods under discussion was "small" this would not be an argument against implementing a ban on their import. In fact it would remove the argument that it would be difficult.

This from a man who does everything he possibly can to avoid paying taxes in every jurisdiction in which is companies operate. We are beyond irony

@avecsesdoigts.bsky.social is one of the true, fearless translators from French – from her lollipop many translations of Matias Énard, through Proust, Céline and more. And although, Zone was one of the first titles published by Fitzcarraldo, credit must go to @chadwpost.bsky.social and Open Letter

lighting a candle for all trans people to live fucking long lives and get old as fuck and happy and comfortable and satisfied

Rosalind Harvey will share an excerpt from her work-in-progress, a book exploring translation, therapy & relationships & which uses attachment theory as an imperfect lens to examine our attraction to & conflicts with texts, publishing & creative labour. www.bclt.org.uk/events/resea...

Great to hear Siobhan Cleary's Canto composed in memory of her sister Eilish. At 2:37:10, you’ll hear Hum! — a theatrical collaboration between Siobhán and me: a music-theatre work for two actors recorded at the NCH with RTE NSO. My text uses only the sounds hum and ho. www.nch.ie/events-ticke...

It’s mortifying to be scrambling to fill a bookstore event but that’s the reality. I’m in Scotland and England next week. There are tix left for these events. The London one will be cancelled if I don’t sell some tickets soon so all pre-bookings and help with getting the word out is appreciated.

Jesus fuck this is good @terribleman.com chapeau.

New on my blog - The Last Movement by Robert Seethaler (transl. Charlotte Collins): ‘Everything is either work or destiny’   alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/05/the-... #BookSky

Mythos Ethos Dianoia Lexis Melos Opsis

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

There are only 10 days left (deadline 25th May) to apply for this year's Oxford Translates Literary Translation Summer School. Only a few places on select workshops left! For more information, check out our website and our online (very simple) application form: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtransl...

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I love love love this series!! It’s like CJ Sansom and Karin Slaughter ran away together to 16th century Florence and had a literary love child ❤️ #Booksky

We don't receive any funding as a publisher. Our very existence is based on selling books. Many thanks to all the booksellers and librarians who hand sell and promote our writers. Thank you. Kevin. Hetha. Lin. Leonora. Flora. And Lottie.

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It's PUB DAY for Kate MacNaughton's translation of Herta Müller's THE VILLAGE ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD ( @grantabooks.bsky.social)! Here's Kate reading from the Nobel Prize laureate's memoir about what it was to live and write in Romania during Ceaușescu's regime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOog...

so shines a pink deed in a weary world

At WWB, we believe that human creativity is what gives art meaning. A 2025 study named translators as the profession most threatened by AI. If you believe that the work of human writers and translators has value, donate today to increase our contributors’ pay: wwborders.live/2026SpringFundDrive

“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Happy sixth birthday to @translatorsaloud.bsky.social

#TodayInQueerHistory 30 April (1988) STOP THE CLAUSE A major demonstration took place in London #OTD as activists took to the streets to protest Section 28, which forbade "the promotion of homosexuality.". Over 30,000 people expressed their anger and dismay, calling for the clause to be scrapped.

One by Thom Gunn for the month’s turn.

I’ve been listening to Jordy read the audiobook of to “Night Night fawn” and it is extraordinary – I have had to limit myself several times because it is so intense

Glorious news!