sneaking in my 2025 Year in Review on the last day of the year. Here's the things I read, watched, played and listened to that moved me in some way, maybe you'd like them too? elizabethlovatt.com/2025/12/31/f...

spending time with family really makes you realise that the Boomer generation really can’t see someone on TV without telling you if they do/don’t like them and their various arbitrary reasons

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

"When you pass off fiction as nonfiction, it sets an impossible bar for writers of actual nonfiction to follow." Appreciate Maria writing this, as someone still coming to terms with Aviv's piece (and Sacks's confabulations.)

I'm reading a great book at the moment but I cannot for the life of me remember its name so I have to look it up every time. It's An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail by Hélène Giannecchini, trans. by Anna Moschovakis (great title I just have a shit memory) - out next March from Fitzcarraldo!

If you're in London and free Tue 16 Dec for a FREE viewing of Sean Baker's Tangerine at The Castle Cinema in Homerton (Hackney), us good folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social have two tickets that we're giving away for FREE. First come first served, DM me if you're interested. 🍊🎄

I’m contributing to this! As are a bunch of amazing writers and narrative people- I think it’s going to be something really special

okay 2025 is nearly over and I'm stuck on what to read next: what's the BEST book you read in 2025 (not published in 2025) for context mine is either This House of Grief by Helen Garner or Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

last time I got homophobic abuse on the tube it was from a woman so I dunno if this really solves anything tbh

Watching the Beast in Me and it stars a lesbian writer with a dog named a normal man’s name (Steve) v. relatable, I have not won a pulitzer however nor do I have a tragic backstory (Dave for context)

To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories: - Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy - Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever

in other news: water wet (in all honestly unsurprisingly reading but the extent of this is still shocking)

Massive congratulations to @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social! We are so thrilled to announce that the funny and intelligent THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE has been longlisted for the 2026 Gordon Burn Prize!

Stunned to be on this longlist in such incredible company! 🩷🩷 “The Gordon Burn Prize recognises exceptional writing which has an unconventional perspective, style or subject matter and often defies easy categorisation.” @newwritingnorth.bsky.social

I retain the right to oscillate between the two (without downloading new pics what’s it like dating you, or just knowing you tbh)

Winter Burrow was a very sweet survival sim - there’s a gentle story about community wrapped up in an easy, pretty straight forward crafting loop. At six hours it didn’t outstay its welcome and that mouse is so darn adorable. Loved that knitting was a central part of the crafting!

rewatched There Will Be Blood , forgot how everyone is awful in that film (great film)

love having the morning off work - racing through this proof about an unusual court case in the UK that covers queer and online identities, truth and deception as well as some fascinating legal history. very happy to have a new scarf knit on the go as well 🧶❤️

let’s goooo I love a fake found archive !!!

best part of london: random chats with people drunk in soho, worst part: the tube is still rammed when you’re trying to get home

sometimes if I’m really hungry and we have no food in the house for breakfast I’ll eat a biscuit and feel like a 17th century sailor eating hardtack

work sitting time over (in home office) now to begin fun sitting time (in living room)

chose Chernobyl as my Halloween watch cos there’s nothing scarier than a nuclear disaster and a government who lies

I'm rewatching Bones and the most unbelieveable bit of Season One is when her 'Publisher' sends her a car in the hope that she'll write another book 😭

possibly the grimmiest book list I've seen in a while (via my local council library)

I hope we all understand this is happening because the services are being made less social. Being social isn't profitable.

perfect lunchtime reading. you might think, how could a tram driver championship be exciting, well Holly explains how

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

My new novel, AS IF, has a cover. Out from Hamish Hamilton on 26th Feb 2026, and later in the year from FSG in the US. As of now you can preorder via your usual bookshop or your library—thank you! x

I said what I said! I loved reading this book earlier this year 💙 and now you can preorder it!!

come along! no ticket needed! we’ll be chatting horns, lesbians and detective fiction!

Really enjoyed this afternoon’s @womenshistnet.bsky.social roundtable on “Lesbian Histories & the Long View” with @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @sazwingrove.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social & Lisa Weston! I particularly loved everyone’s joy for research & the rabbit holes you end up going down!

one day you wake up post-35 and realise you have become the Lorax and it time to get better tweezers

Some Awesome games in this bundle with all proceeds going to a just cause! Be sure to pick it up 🇵🇸

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

too many men wearing swede shoes in (rainy) London today

I’ve written about making art when it feels like the world is ending, about living truthfully in a homophobic world, about the Two Roberts in the 1940s. And a lot of it feels very…now.

my mum is going to Leicester Pride this year for the first time and with her new church - hoping she snags a zine for me!

The sign up link for our roundtable 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View', ft. @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social, @norenashopland.bsky.social, @sazwingrove.bsky.social, and Prof Lisa Weston, is now LIVE. Please visit our website to register: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

Is the Magic 8Ball sentient? We asked the Magic 8Ball, the company that are raking it in from the toy & the players who are using it rather than going to therapy. An LLM is a predictive algorithm that replicates the most common or likely response. It's like asking if a fruit machine is suffering.

I'm reading Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer (a brilliant book on the gift economy) -it strikes me that the below is in opposition to what she advocates: to see nature as a person (as some Indigenous people do) worthy of empathy & respect as much as you or me, as way to see abundance not scarcity

British Lads Hit Each Other With Chair hats up on my ☕️ There’s a hat + art print deal too 🪑 ko-fi.com/benmc

I am absolutely delighted to be speaking about ways of doing lesbian history alongside @norenashopland.bsky.social, @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social and Professor Lisa Weston next month!

if anything happens to these little weirdos I’m gunna be really really sad #Herdlings @okomotive.ch one of them has a flower crown now 🥺

so far we’ve raised over £1000 for Loneon Friend - the LGBTQ+ charity that house the lesbian telephone helpline I write about in my book! To celebrate there’s 10% off on my online shop with the code DYKEMARKET10 until end of Aug! merch-by-elizabeth.sumupstore.com

If you’d like to buy a copy of my book, which looks at the lives and history of Black gay men in Britain, you can get a copy from a bookshop or any of the retailers on the attached link. And please do buy books from the other withdrawn authors linktr.ee/revolutionaryacts

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

a trans person's right to a safe and good life does not harm my own rights as a cis lesbian. none of us are free until all of us a free!! and using cis women again as a scapegoat to why trans lives don't matter is harmful and illogical.

I think we are very much losing the sight of the fact that it is not the authors we should be mad at. The only person we should be angry with is the organiser who has created this horrific situation for a group of LGBT writers due to their own transphobic ideology.