So much excellent work at the @quill.scot #TDoR reading tonight at @argonautbooks.bsky.social but the standout performance for me was @alysdragon.bsky.social's *phenomenal* set.

AOCB - almost off to commence barding. Join me and a host of others at @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith in just under an hour!

Our host for our Trans Day of Remembrance event next Sunday @argonautbooks.bsky.social is JJ Fadaka!

Returning for a second QUILL event this year it's Sol Vardi! Join us @argonautbooks.bsky.social next week - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...

Welcome to the incredible Titilayo Farukuoye! We are so excited to hear them and their wonderful words this Sunday 💖 Get your tickets before they go! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...

Welcoming back the fantastic to our line up of readers on Sunday! Join us @argonautbooks.bsky.social on Sunday evening for our commemoration of #tdor www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...

AW Earl joins us for their QUILL debut this Sunday. Join us tomorrow - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...

Our final reader introduction! Sarah Heitler joins us tomorrow for #tdor. Join us to commemorate - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...

Welcoming back @ambulancebox.bsky.social for our #tdor readings evening @argonautbooks.bsky.social this Sunday!

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants. "What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

I'm just posting this again, because we all need to be completely clear that despite sex differentiation starting at 10 wks gestation, every cell in anyones body is very unlikely to be 100% "male" or 100% "female". Maleeessss and feeemaaalles ❌ We're all a vibrant mix ✔️ phys.org/news/2025-09...

A prayer for the next Archbishop of Canterbury. 🙏

I have a notification from the Costa app telling me it's international coffee day. That's a day I can get behind. I'm off to celebrate it before saying morning prayer ...

It's been some week! Started with an individual retreat at Whitchester house near Hawick & midweek Eucharist at St Cuthbert's Hawick, then on Thurs my licensing as part-time transitional priest-in-charge of Grangemouth and Bo'ness. Now I'm off to the the Edinburgh diocese electoral synod.

It was a real joy to give the reflection at this service for #StirlingPride tonight. #Pride #FaithfullyLGBTQ

I keep seeing reports of non-AI users being told that an AI detector has dubbed their work AI generated, and it makes me insane because: 1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and 2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!

My first appearance on *live* radio for about 25 years: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... We start at about 1 hope and 10 minutes in. Happy listening!

So, here's how I spent my Saturday. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

This auction ends on June 7th at 1am BST. Jsyk.

Me in my Proud Corner Come and hear me read as part of Queer Breakfast Club – Grangemouth's first ever pride celebration, Proud Corners! The event is free but you are welcome to give a donation on the day. QBC is a fantastic local group that, despite only having started in January, is up for two…

House! I invite to unlock the door to The Interpreter's House no. 83. In one corner of this mansion, you will find two short poems of mine, "Of the Wounds" and "The Changes". I have a particular affection for these two wee pieces. They do something I really needed them to do at the time I wrote…

What would the world look like if we all nurtured joybait instead of indulging in ragebait?

It seems a good day to repost this: www.badlilies.uk/amy-jo-philip

We'd urge people not to panic - there will be lots of commentary coming out quickly that is likely to deliberately overstate the impact that this decision is going to have on all trans people's lives. We'll say more as soon as we're able to. Please look out for yourselves and each other today 💗🏳️‍⚧️

FWS have won their case against the Scottish Government. We will be reading the judgement as quickly as possible so we can properly understand what the Court has decided today.

Yesterday was my 1,000th day on HRT so it seems a good time to post this prom, written to mark the 1yr milestone youtu.be/5itO2_PtScQ?...

'Knackered, Babes' by @ambulancebox.bsky.social badlilies.uk/amy-jo-philip

We’re delighted to have @ambulancebox.bsky.social join us to read at our #TDOV Readings Evening event in Edinburgh on Sunday 30th March! 🦋 Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres... Amy Jo is the first out transgender priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Learn more amyjophilip.com

Gripping my Loss Two publications in two days! That must be a record for me, though I'm not sure my record keeping is stringent enough to confirm or contradict that. Still, it's a great way end one month and begin another as, following yesterday's publication in Bad Lilies, my poem “Everything is…

A German word for being embarrassed by the actions of someone else is Fremdscham, or “foreign shame.” A similar word from Icelandic is aulahrollur, which is quite tricky to translate but basically means something along the lines of “cringe quake” or “douchebag chills”

The inaugural Launceston Poetry Festival takes place 30 May – 1 June 2025. Poets and performers include Pascale Petit, Ella Frears, Isabelle Baafi, Nina Mingya Powles, Alycia Pirmohamed, Rachael Mann, Katrina Naomi, Judy O’Kane, Susie Campell and Rose Ferraby.

Delighted to have added "Knackered, Babes" to this delinquent spray. Thanks so much to Kath and Andrew for choosing it.

A Delinquent Spray “Knackered, Babes”, a poem in four sections, was been published yesterday in issue 20 of the excellent Bad Lilies, edited by Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson. This piece is full of allusions and references to, and puns on, 80s and 90s music, hymns, praise songs and liturgy,…

Readers include: Harry Josephine Giles @ambulancebox.bsky.social Éadaoín Lynch Spencer Mason ... and more to come! 🌈

Join us at our first event on 30th March for a cosy evening of powerful readings celebrating Trans Day of Visibility! Get tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres... The event will showcase talented trans and non-binary writers and poets sharing their work in a welcoming and inclusive space.

Excited to be reading at this!

The very talented @spinestoat.bsky.social painted this for my 50th birthday, which was on Wednesday. Isn't it wonderful?

Goodnight and goodbye, my 40s! You were a decade of huge change - scary & exciting, painful & joyful, revelatory & perplexing. A new decade tomorrow. 1/2

We're looking for readers! We're preparing to host an event for Trans Day of Visibility on the 30th March at @argonautbooks.bsky.social (details coming soon). If you're a trans or non-binary published or experienced reader in Scotland we'd love to hear from you. 5-10min readings.

As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.

Juno Dawson is writing for #DoctorWho! We've had #trans characters and actors, and Dawson wrote the wonderful "Doctor Who: Redacted" for BBC Sounds but now she's writing for the main programme. www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

"Music is a way of communication, a way of making people feel. And that is what I find so completely amazing about it.” Remembering Jacquline du Pré, born 80 years ago on 26 January 1945.

i.m. Michael Longley Waiting for the storm, remembering the double breaths the wind threw down the chimney, the uneasy slates shifting, the lights flickering on and out, and a candle on a bottle Mum brings through, just in case. dailies, 24.I.25

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A message for my #trans and #non-binary siblings in the USA: vm.tiktok.com/ZGdArwEHL/

And if you'd like to read the Prettiest Platypus you can read it here at www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/th...

I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital. You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library. You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library. You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library. You want sourced info? Library.

Who else needed to watch an adorable puppy taking a nap with their lamb chop toy? ❤️ 📽️ puppylifeig

This sounds like a must-see! It shouldn't be so notable that a #trans person has been cast as the trans protagonist but I'm glad she has been. Hopefully we'll get a release date soon. www.out.com/gay-entertai...