“There will always be something more important than grappling the roots of misogyny – money, power, access, information, a political project, “how the world works”... “The abused women and girls are nothing but a plot device, just like they always were.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My book launch is now SOLD OUT - however, there are two other awesome events I'd love you to come to! More info and tickets available here: linktr.ee/DeborahFinding ❤️🌸 #mymarxistvalentine #poetsonbluesky #blueskypoetry #lovepoems #marxistfeminism #valentinespoem

It’s not even 8am, and it’s already been a ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’ by Fiona Apple kind of morning. what an album though…

Can't wait to teach this workshop in the GORGEOUS Landmark Arts Centre - if you live in or anywhere near Teddington and like poetry, please come along, we'll have a lovely time reading and writing about love in all its forms 💕 www.landmarkartscentre.org/class/write-...

Come along to the launch of my debut collection 'My Marxist Valentine' at the gorgeous @burleyfisher.bsky.social on Fri 6th Feb, if you like quirky love poems, solidarity sonnets, feminist political protest, or me :) Tickets are free but limited so book soon! ❤️🌸 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deborah-fi...

As the festive season draws to a close, the season of me spamming you on here about my new book is about to begin :) Cover reveal, pre-order link and event dates coming soon! #blueskypoetry #poetry #poetsonbluesky #mymarxistvalentine

Even the litter in W4 is middle class

NOT NOW, Mega-Rat and Great Global Rat Crisis www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

feta so obviously the most leftwing cheese

At long last - what happened on that day (and throughout the miners' strike) needs to be known fully and brought to a new generation. It should be added to the curriculum as far as I'm concerned. @orgreavejustice.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

the new Kae Tempest album will save lives 🏳️‍⚧️

Poetry? On a boat? How could you resist? Come to the London launch of The Little Review at the Theatreship next Tuesday eve! (I'll be reading a few poems too) ⚓📚 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guest-even...

My contributor copy of @magmapoetry.bsky.social just arrived and I am SO THRILLED to have two poems from my forthcoming collection ‘My Marxist Valentine’ in there ❤️

my god that Kae Tempest set at Glastonbury was everything - poetry, music, supporting survivors of abuse, trans bodies, trans rights, trans joy - absolutely anthemic. Can't wait for their new album this week. 🔥🏳️‍⚧️

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... ♥️ Kae Tempest RIGHT NOW ♥️

Tonight! I will be reading three little poems in the most esteemed company. Come if you’re in Cambridge!

This is TOMORROW! Get one of the last few tickets and come and transform with @emmaleemoss.bsky.social and I 🌸 in central London's @thesohopoly.bsky.social 💚💐https://sohopoly.co.uk/events/transformations/ #poetry #song #summer

One week until Transformations with @deborahfinding.bsky.social ! We're doing a workshop in the day and will be in conversation and performing in the evening. Very excited to sing! And talk flowers, midsummer, fairytales and creative paths 🌸🌸🌸 go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...

Siri, show me an example of privilege

🚨 ACTION ALERT: The UK MUST protect ‘Madleen’ 🚨 The ‘Madleen’ is a UK-flagged civilian ship sailing to Gaza with life-saving aid as part of the #FreedomFlotilla. The UK has a legal duty to protect its vessel and the civilians aboard from Israeli interference. ..2/

Live tracker of the Madleen freedom flotilla: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/

Cambridge friends! Do come along to Heffers for the launch of the first issue of The Little Review, which is a fabulous little lit mag all about poetry. I will be reading a tiny poem and a little review, and otherwise in Cambridge before that for coffee plans :) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-little...

‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ - a film by and for over-emotional music nerds… as one myself, I couldn’t have loved it more 🌊💙

Don't look away, this is happening on a number of fronts and we need to fight it on every single one.

On 17 June at @thesohopoly.bsky.social the magnificent @emmaleemoss.bsky.social (Emmy The Great) and I are going to be hosting & performing at two events (Transformations I and II) - expect new and old songs, poetry and prose, fairy tales and magic. Book now! 💚💐 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transforma...

This may be the most exciting thing ever - join @emmaleemoss.bsky.social and I for one or both of our 'Transformations' events on June 17 at the @thesohopoly.bsky.social summer festival 💚💐📚 #poetry #songwriting #fairytales #flowers #myths www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transforma...

Beautiful and moving event at the Southbank to launch this vital book of voices and stories from Gaza 🍉

Just want to see Judith Butler on Hot Ones, is that too much to ask?

Just want to see Judith Butler on Chicken Shop Date, is that too much to ask?

I am so thrilled to have TWO poems from my forthcoming collection 'My Marxist Valentine' coming out in the next issue of @magmapoetry.bsky.social - including the book's title poem. Huge thanks to the editors for including my work in the 'Ownership' issue, and I can't wait to read the whole thing! ♥️

If you are also a feminist academic or educator appalled, particularly in the light of the Supreme Court ruling, at what is being done to and said about trans people in the name of feminism and 'protecting women' please sign here. Over 1300 signatures so far 💙 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Incandescent performance from @selfesteem.music-social.com.ap.brid.gy and cast for ‘A Complicated Woman’. RLT is the feminist pop star of our time and god, do I love her 💙

Now and always 🏳️‍⚧️

Put up by Katy Brand today - this is the story over and over again

Poets! Writers! Flower-lovers! Come and do this amazing workshop with us tomorrow!

And what a song it is! 💙 Come and join us on Tuesday at @thesohopoly.bsky.social, it's going to be so wholesome - you can write if you want, collage if you want, help create a song if you want, or just sit around and talk about flowers and spring and hope: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/song-in-yo...

We have this next Tuesday- which will be the best imaginable way to start Spring in earnest! @deborahfinding.bsky.social @guyosborn.bsky.social @emmaleemoss.bsky.social www.sohopoly.co.uk

Flowers! 💐 Poetry! 📚 Song! 🎶 Take a long lunch break on April 1 and come to @thesohopoly.bsky.social to welcome in spring and a new season of creativity with me and @emmaleemoss.bsky.social 💕- no experience of anything needed, just come and play 🌸🌼 Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/song-in-yo...

Please help to get poetry into schools! 🩵📚

If there were a theme poem for our @thesohopoly.bsky.social 'Hope Springs... Flowers, Poetry and Song for a new season, maybe this Ada Limon beauty would be it, @emmaleemoss.bsky.social ? 💛 🌸 Get your tickets to join us here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/song-in-yo...

Just finished the Sarah Wynn Williams expose of Zuckerberg, Sandberg and Facebook, 'Careless People' - which Meta has successfully stopped her promoting. It's simultaneously jaw-dropping and exactly what you expect. Highly recommend. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/sara...

I am wildly excited to be running this @thesohopoly.bsky.social workshop with one of my very favourite songwriters @emmaleemoss.bsky.social 💕 - come and play with flowers, poetry and song, and welcome spring with your creativity and hope for a better world 🌸 🌼 🕊️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/song-in-yo...

So my phone just put this on the lock screen. Is this a poetry prompt, life advice, or what?

Rewatching Pride for no other reason than it's the best film ever

"I am made of equal parts salt and song and calcium carbonate hexagonals and I will survive this" 💜🔥 - from 'Still Life with Eggs, Copper Pot and Earthenware Pan' in this stunning new poetry book from Richard Scott. 🔮💠

Inexplicably very sad about this.

Happy Valentine's Day to the most romantic line I've ever written: "Loving you is like holding ice to the back of my burning neck / like holding hands with a group of women in the public gallery when a rapist gets a guilty verdict" 😀 ♥️ #IYKYK

💙 I saw some absolutely brilliant WIP stand up comedy last night - @samnicoresti.bsky.social and @alexfranklinhallo.bsky.social - highly recommended if you get the chance to see them 🩷

Can we please stop repeating 'proposed resettling' in reports and call it what it is: a proposal for ethnic cleansing.

NOT NOW, 'PERFECT RAT STORM'