Thinking today of this piece by @wedossett.bsky.social www.wedossett.com/post/on-the-...

Some good news. A rare thing! Horrific to think Ellis was hanged, after all she went through. Let’s hope we can roll back the lurch to the right that takes us closer to bringing back the death penalty. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Loved listening to this podcast in which Raw Lit Mag’s EIC @delgeo14.bsky.social explains the process of editing & what ‘fit’ means for this mag. Her values really shine thru & I feel yet more humbled to have had a poem selected. She celebrates the work of her amazing poetry ed. Katrina Moinet. 💜

As Raw Lit's EIC, I was invited by the lovely Rachel Thompson, author, editor, and teacher of creative writing, to a live Q&A. You can listen to the podcast on her site: rachelthompson.co/podcast/ (also available on Spotify & Apple)

Raw Lit _issue 9 rawlit.weebly.com/9_12.html Lighted Eyes - Amy Marques @amymarques.bsky.social & Those Two Fucks - Wendy Dossett @wedossett.bsky.social ‘People say they don’t know what to say. Though actually they do.’

Solidarity with everyone affected at the University of Exeter.

So thrilled to have my poem 'Those Two Fucks' in this wonderful magazine - alongside some truly powerful poems and piece of artwork.

We are live! rawlit.weebly.com/issue9.html Contributors 1/3 Michael Anthony @mj-anthony.bsky.social Linda M Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social Wendy Dossett @wedossett.bsky.social LM Fontanes @lorifontanes.bsky.social Terry Holland @terryholland.bsky.social

Last but not least... coming tomorrow 🥳 - Issue 9 Lighted Eyes - Amy Marques @amymarques.bsky.social & Those Two Fucks - Wendy Dossett @wedossett.bsky.social

Thrilled to be on this list for the forthcoming issue 9 of Raw Lit! Thank you to the editors. It means the world to know this raw poem about grief and friendship will see the light of day.

They took back control. And then handed it to a motley bunch of trillionaires, billionaires and multi-millionaires. Enjoy the pure air of sovereignty app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73830/...

This is brilliant...... “Tommy Robinson’s far right march has unwittingly raised over £100k for refugees. “Over 2,000 of you have chipped in to make tomorrow’s far right march the biggest sponsored walk for refugees EVER.”

The correct answer to the trolley problem is to dismantle the trolley and hunt down whoever keeps tying people to the tracks

It’s the three year anniversary of my heart attack on Monday. I have written about it here. #beatSCAD www.wedossett.com/post/my-brok...

I know I’ve said before but no matter what you do to escape advertising - it is very difficult not to see infuriating bra sellers who refer to breasts as ‘the girls.’ Even if I didn’t see it, it would still be going on. The patriarchy is fine. It really doesn’t need any more help.

Adolf Hitler's rise to power was marked by early warning signs that went ignored. Politicians dismissed the alarm bells and institutions believed the system would restrain what was coming. History shows clearly just how wrong those assumptions were.

Thrilled my poem 'Curlew Writing', trans into Cymraeg by Eurig Salisbury, has been published in @modronmagazine.bsky.social. I'm indebted to @glynedwards.bsky.social who interviewed me about the poem. #birds #curlew #speciesextinction @curlewaction.bsky.social modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-we...

Beautiful song by Ella Speirs. Briget/Brigid is a figure associated with poetry, the arts, fire, smithcraft, and healing. Some crossover with Saraswati. She's pretty damn cool if you ask me. So are Brigid and Saraswati. youtu.be/puyrTlDFHhU?...

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

Some more of my ramblings - this time about mental ill-health and therapy. www.wedossett.com/post/birch In the piece, I talk about Rusalki — the malevolent female spirits of Slavic folklore. And I converse with a tree. #therapy #psychotherapy #birch #birchtree #weepingsilverbirch #rusalka

🗓️ Today marks 5 years since the Treaty on Prohibition Of Nuclear Weapons came into force. Let’s take a look at the treaty and its impact 👉🏼

The brilliant Sophie Calon on what can learned from addiction memoirs. She should know. Her life was shaped by her father’s addiction, as her heartbreaking, yet beautiful, memoir Long Going (Honno 2025) recounts.

“The Free Speech Union’s commitment to free speech would seem to end where transparency about itself begins.” @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @mc00.bsky.social blow the lid off the backers of Toby Young’s outfit: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-the-free-speech-union-toby-young

❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

Interesting little article that could also have mentioned the role of the Temperance Movement in the Women's Movement. It was a crucial training ground in political activism for early feminists.

Temperance is often treated as a footnote, but in Victorian Britain it was a mass movement. Millions pledged abstinence and reshaped London with alcohol-free spaces - a hidden history still standing today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When Duran Duran reads the room better than your average Democrat

Just wow. By Christian he means ‘white’ (supremacist).

Christmas Eve in Eryri. #eryri #cymru #wales

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

Failure of AI #2365346213 - the algorithm imagining I'd respond positively to underwear advertising that refers to breasts as 'the girls.'

I don’t charge rent to lines of poetry that want to live in my head.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

"what has it got in its pocketses" - good question to ask when you're doing the laundry

I won’t be accepting any new invitations to speak at WI meetings while this exclusionary policy is in place. This ruling goes against everything I’ve come to learn about the WI’s commitment to inclusion and community. Bullied by billionaire bigots.

CW - sexual abuse, suicide. I wanted to write a reflection on a couple of books. With the enormous amount currently in the news about the #Epstein case, I wouldn't blame you if you were beyond saturation point. Please do skip on by if this is not for you. www.wedossett.com/post/lasting...

We didn’t get Books Council Wales funding, it would've meant 5 years of stability. It’s a blow, and it means a rockier road ahead, but our commitment to ambitious, inclusive, working-class publishing stays firm. If you want to help: buy a book, spread the word, or donate: ko-fi.com/brokensleepb...

Just heard Sky deputy political editor samcoatessky.bsky.social use the term Panglossian. Wow.

Just discovered this excellent podcaster/blogger. Makes me think of Laurence Fox’s legal action to prevent him being called racist, and his concomitant defence of his ‘right’ to call GNC people paedos. We’re getting nowhere if people don’t understand the relationship between rights & liberties.

Trying not to tax my life with forethought of grief (viz Caerphilly) - but it’s hard.

A reminder. Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas. Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas. Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas. Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.

Issue 12 has landed! Our twelfth step… In this issue: Fallen Angels Dance Theatre @drdavidpatton.bsky.social Speakbeat Collective Sober IS Fun Jem Tovey Ameet Shah New Note Orchestra Daniel Leyton READ HERE: recovery-arts.org/pr-magazine/...

John keeps saying “Listen, Love, You’re trying everso hard.” Just to be funny. I’m feeling very, very, very, very tired. #farage #misogyny #racism

Stunning interview with Annie Farmer. I read parts of her story in Lucia Osborne Crowley’s The Lasting Harm. What strength and dignity in the face of decades of denial, minimisation and corruption.

This is a much better article on James Orr than the superficial one in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social this weekend. It engages with his actual thought. Orr’s work, like Nigel Biggar’s is not widely respected, but the status of his institution lends unwarranted leverage to his ideas.

Very sad. I read Baek Sehee’s book last year. It was was, indeed, frank, but, and this is no shade on the author at all, it was one of those books that makes me extremely concerned about the poor quality of much psychotherapy and about the toxic positivity of ‘wellbeing’ culture.

What a terrific night out! ⬇️

Whatever else you could say about Starmer's speech - forgtting that the women DID bring football home is surely a massive gaff.