Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

All cis people should read this... the reality of being a trans woman in the UK! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

The UK’s only author-run co-operative publisher Gritstone celebrates its tenth anniversary By Andrew Bibby

reminder, that if you're marginalized - esp disabled, a person of color, trans - you don't need to be on the frontlines. do what you can to help, but there's a ton of roles behind the scenes. let people with privilege & safety handle front-lines responses. be as safe as you can be.

Any playwrights on here? I’m new to it and want to build community in this area in 2026. Any queers on here open to showing me the ropes? Pointing me toward the best resources etc? I’d like to make significant progress over the next 12 months. Maybe even get it up in the latter part of the year.

Just made the second donation to the Sameer Project in Gaza today from sales of my Risograph art print. The posters are still on sale or give directly. People in Gaza still need us. Wishing everyone a merry festive season. 💝

On the 15th of December this year, Aotearoa New Zealand passed the 2.5 year mark for Self-ID. As we always said, there have been zero issues arising from this. Not a single incident recorded formally or informally, not a whisper of a problem. The anti-trans activists lied to everyone.

If you're a child or young person and you're struggling, you can find support from: Mermaids: 0808 801 0400 (1pm-8:30pm, Mon-Fri) Papyrus: 0800 068 4141 (available 24hrs a day) Childline: 0800 1111 (available 24hrs a day)

This time of year can be difficult. If you're struggling, seek support. Mindline Trans 0300 330 5468 (Fridays 8pm-midnight) TRUK Listens 0800 009 6640 (8am-midnight daily) truklistens.org Switchboard 0800 0119 100 (10am-10pm daily) switchboard.lgbt Samaritans 116123 (24hrs daily)

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

The media blackout on the hunger strikers is disgusting. Nothing but puppets for the worst people in the UK. I've yet to meet a person in the real world who has heard anything about it.

Over £100 additional purchases of our Gaza fundraiser art prints! Last post before Xmas will be this Fri so there’s still time to buy. Gaza is currently experiencing very cold weather and flooding, with Israel denying entry to aid. Donations are needed urgently. polari.press/shop/art-pri...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

You'd never know it from these headlines that she lost all her claims on the actual substance of the case, claiming that trans people must be banned from bathrooms.

Perhaps much less horrendous than the other phrasing it uses, but that BBC article also says “transwoman” with no space which is incorrect and a red flag. You write “gay woman” not “gaywoman”; “black woman” not “blackwoman”. Similarly it should be “trans woman”.

Sold over £100 worth of the Gaza fundraiser posters at Queermas yesterday in Deptford. 😍 Only 13 of the red posters left now so buy yours now and we’ll be able to send more money to the Sameer Project before Christmas. polari.press/throw-sand-i...

Any trans people struggling with the news from Girl Guides and Women’s Institute… Can I send you a @polari.press book to lift your spirits? DM me and I’ll see what I can do. 💜

Girl Guides and now Women’s Institute bowing to legal threats from transphobes and rescinding membership to trans women is so desperately sad…

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

She's playing a blinder

Should I do an impromptu Black Friday discount? I'm thinking the promo code could be DownWithCapitalism25 …?

1 - My son and I met with Wes Streeting last year with other families. He heard the most horrific stories of children refused blockers and how it impacts them. We begged him not to ban blockers, and he promised to work with us, to have further meetings.

💞 News! 💞 To mark the fifth anniversary of ’Erased’ by James McDermott—our first poetry pamphlet—we’ll be releasing a new edition next year, featuring new artwork by @peter.polari.com

Writers including David Nicholls, Katherine Rundell, Katherine Webber and Monisha Rajesh are among those donating pledges for the Creatives4Sudan auction, co-organised by Louie Stowell 👇 #BookSky

Lovely seeing our book with Leilah King on the top of the pile! 💜💚💛

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

Are there any decent hybrid / crowdfunding publishing houses in the UK? Been thinking about my OOP second novel lately and don't want to risk an Unbound, or waste my own money.

Made the donation of £574.85 to the Sameer Project from sales of our Throw Sand art print. Thanks to everyone who bought a copy. Keep sharing so we can raise more money: polari.press/throw-sand-i...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

‘Boyfriends leaving the Morton Street Pier, NYC August 1981’ by Stanley Stellar.

🧵, as they say:

Mariella Frostrup: "Explain. I'm a woman in Congo. I'm one of the 80,000 women who has been raped as a result of the conflict going on there. I need to escape. My family has been wiped out. What's my legal way of applying to join my sister who is in the UK?" *Nadine Dorries bites lip*

Lovely to visit @smallpublishers.bsky.social this afternoon at Conway Hall. So much inspiration!

ANYWAY

Print available at @polaripress 'U=U' is inspired by @aa_bronson's 'AIDS'. Effective medications make HIV undetectable, and therefore untransmittable. ‘U=U’ is a confident declaration of a hopeful future. 50 available. 50% of profits donated to Positive East. polari.press/shop/art-pri...

The answer:

What queer theory can tell us about Palestinian statehood 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/what-queer-theory-can-tell-us-about-palestinian-statehood/

Online shop back up and selling now… #JustSaying

Just packaging up the latest orders for the Gaza fundraiser. Angel is always on hand to help. 🐈‍⬛😻 A ceasefire may have been agreed—we hope that it lasts—but this doesn’t stop the campaign to liberate the Palestinian people from occupation and apartheid. The Sameer Project still needs your help.

This is all so cruel and so avoidable.

We’re now over £500 raised. 🤩✊🥹 I’ll be posting out orders tomorrow and also calculating the accurate total so far and making a donation to the Sameer Project (as money is needed on the ground as soon as possible). Buy before noon on Monday to make that postage run!

Fewer than 30 of the red print left. Approx £350 raised so far. ❤️💚

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

After launching them at Queeriosities last weekend, the A3 Risograph posters are now up on our website with all profits going to the Sameer Project in Gaza: polari.press/throw-sand-i...

Lil problem with the online shop so please bear with! The art prints I showcased at Queeriosities will be available to buy soon. 🤞

It’s the last day of Queeriosities at Copeland Park in Peckham and I’m raising money for The Sameer Project who are working on the ground in Gaza. It would mean the world if you’d buy the print. Sales could mean up to £1,400 going to provide vital aid to Palestinians during this genocide.

Still a couple of hours left (and all day tomorrow) to come say hi at Queeriosities art market in Copeland Gallery, Peckham. Until 6pm tonight. 5pm tomorrow. I’m sharing new work including this Risograph of Alan Turing being his cute gay self.

We are supporting the Global Strike for Gaza by pausing online sales every Thursday. These posters are available to download and print out and use free: linktr.ee/polaripress (Commercial distribution not allowed.) #GlobalStrikeForGaza

Anyone eligible to vote in the Society of Authors elections please read the following thread and use your votes!

A great video to shift perspective. The past is really not that far away.