Queer books in my library. An occasional series. Might do reviews. Possibly some overlap with the esoteric books thing from last year. Paul Baker and Jo Stanley's "Hello Sailor: The Hidden History of Gay Life at Sea". #Queer #QueerReading

This is incredible, it sounds like the inside of my head

This is suuuuch a good review of 'Orlando' and really gets it!

Wooly Willie!

Can't believe this needs to be said but: when queer scholars describe queer people as "other" to or "deviant" from straight society, we are not engaging in "othering" - we are stating a systemic reality that's the fundamental starting point for our analysis.

Moments from Dolls (1987). Listen to our episode with @brightlightx2.bsky.social - linktr.ee/onceuponavhs #dolls #horror #stuartgordon #charlesband #dolls1987

Issue #58 our newsletter is now live, ft: The Amusing Brothers, Ani.Mystic, Blue Jeans, GI Joe, scenes from Charlie Kaufman, Stanley Kubrick, Trap Dickey, and oh so much more!

Scotland's arts scene needs to wise the fuck up with what it considers an opportunity. Not being paid, to teach art school students, while also paying for materials used? I get the "experience" of working within academic settings is rare as hen's teeth, but this has exploitation written all over it.

🦝🐦SEEKING POSTER DESIGNER FOR THE EDINBURGH RADICAL BOOK FAIR 2026!🐦🦝 This year's fair will take place at the Roxy Assembly 5th-8th November. We’re on the lookout for a new poster designer - is this you? Find out more here: lighthousebookshop.com/posts/seekin...

This time next week, I’ll be setting up for my first Glasgow Zine Fest in… over a decade?! Where did that time go?! Extremely excited to be tabling with @wraithlands.bsky.social - and next door to the one and only @omipalonepress.bsky.social too!

As @404ink.bsky.social closes it's doors this Summer, you have until the end of the month to get We Were Always Here/Fierce Salvage as an ebook, and only a couple of months to buy them in print www.404ink.com/store/p/we-w...

To echo Michael, these anthologies - and Queer Words Project Scotland as a whole! - have been *the* highlight of the last decade, for me. Getting to read, publish, meet & support so many phenomenal writers has been a privilege, and being supported in turn by @404ink.bsky.social has been a dream!

Next stop 21st May for SMOKE in Manchester. Surveillance culture, social media and a gay man grieving for his boyfriend. Dark camp humour with pathos from influencer loneliness. SMOKE is written and performed by Alexis Gregory and directed by Campbell X. www.thelowry.com/whats-on/smo...

I've joined over 300 artists, arts organisations, academics, think tanks and campaigners who have signed this open letter. Add your name. Tell Scotland's political parties and cultural institutions to deliver a basic income for artists: actionnetwork.org/forms/an-ope...

This is fine, I'm sure

Also, the "comic" in question is pure dross

Our comics theory heavy chat is coming up in just a few weeks, so mark your calendar if you haven't already! nif.cartoonist.coop/event/the-st...

In the 1980's the UK government introduced Section 28 to prevent Mac McCulloch, lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen awakening young mens gay, bisexual and queerness. His dressing as Dorothy in the 1989 Christmas edition of the NME slipped through the censors and made both men and women go wobbly.

I mean, I came to Bluesky to talk to my friends and avoid aggressive bigots, and I'm glad it's bad on video because I like text better. Not everything's gotta change the world.

A man, who builds his platform on calling queer people an “abomination”, aims to sell hatred by weaponising his position. And every politician standing beside him launders that hatred into public life. Disgusting and dangerous. Typical Faragian world. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I am "very dangerous". That's according to Morgan McSweeney - Starmer's former chief of staff. That's one of the things I learned from my Subject Access Request... www.owenjones.news/p/i-am-very-...

I saw this in Glasgow and it was lovely and life-affirming and funny.

In light of Panantir being given UNLIMITED access to our NHS data, here's a piece I wrote and illustrated about Palantir, Thiel, data exploitation, surveillance, and the 1992 film Sneakers: grave-offerings.ghost.io/no-more-secr...

I see we've got another mysterious new "grassroots" "free speech" organisation which is laser-focused on promoting transphobia and has the ear of a friendly press. Alumni of Edinburgh Uni, this time, the "Alumni For Free Speech" affs.uk/the-problem-...

Lol.

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I just backed The Threshold Tarot by @margravelucian.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

Trans people have a right to the same healthcare we all need goodlawproject.org/s/ec0359

Issue #57 of our newsletter is out now, ft. the key to Being John Malkovich, Epoch: The Esotericon, the free energy hypothesis of consciousness, Andrew and Steven at the races, Slayer/Slayr/Slayyyter and much much more!

Nothing like a bit of folk horror on a dreary Sunday. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asa...

Not following this up in every interview ever with him from here on out would be a huge journalistic failure.

So glad everyone in the media and Labour spent the past week attacking the Greens and not Reform. Refusing to focus on policies and ideas and how we make our lives better. Really good for the country that was. Real nuanced, enlightened debate.

I presume everyone has seen this extraordinary piece of choreography. youtube.com/watch?v=x6_m...

In 2016, I kept my lips pursed (but eyebrows raised) when people tried to make me "understand" the "disenfranchised" voters who voted for Brexit out of xenophobia. In 2026: no, sorry, we ain't doing that again. Britain, acknowledge your bigots and deal with them.

Starmer exhibits all the energy and enthusiasm of a deputy headteacher who, due to staff shortages, has had to teach the rowdiest Year 9 class for one lesson and wants to make sure everyone left in the staff room knows he deeply resents the inconvenience.

The Comics Cultural Impact 2025 census is out. This graphic says a lot. Graphic novels are a booming, expanding industry. 1/5 creators say they earn the majority of their income from comics. 89% say they earn less than the minimum wage. More here: ukcomicscreators.org.uk

toot toot new wire! from moi: an interview with EGG MEAT about melding music and poetry; reviews of new releases from LINTD and devin townsend; reviews of reissues from scritti politti (one of my all time fav albums) and brion gysin (not good sorry king). buy a magazine!!!!!!

So he did Glee Club when he was a Lib Dem? Sacrilege!

The Golders Green alleged assailant would have had zero to do with, and quite possibly no knowledge of 'woke on campus'. This is simply absurd authoritarianism.

Cannot stress enough to anyone outside the UK that the Greens are the only ones with a Jewish leader and Reform are literal Nazis.

Speechless.

I don’t think there are many things you could say to make yourself sound less like a “Glasgow boy” than saying, you’ll be happy if either one of the “Glasgow clubs” wins the SPL title lmao

Haha www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Extremely interesting read from both an oral history perspective but also in light of one of my most cursed bits of Glaswegiana - a Britoil-produced guidebook

I knew perspective would save us all in the end

This is shit. Absolutely shit. However, lots of people are commenting "just delete Chrome" and sadly it's not as simple as that. I use Firefox 99.9% of the time but there are times when things need to open in Chrome and only Chrome will do.

Hey, psssst, you like fonts like *I* like fonts? Then don't miss out on the @hawtpixel.bsky.social firesale, peeps... 650 fonts (!!) for $19. That's 34.2 fonts per $. Go pick this up! Now, I'm off to Scrooge McDuck-style swim in my fonts hawtpixel.itch.io/hawtpixel-fo...

That is not what doomscrolling means 😭

The UK Government's consultation on a Digital ID system closes tomorrow (5 May) and anti-trans campaign group Sex Matters is pushing for the system to include a voluntary sex field, which would capture data about 'biological sex' 🪪 sex-matters.org/campaigns/di...

Vote Reform. Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you. It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.