Fady Joudah in Bristol last night. “We know a genocide when we see one. If you don’t, you’re either wicked or you’re not free.”

Greta Thunberg responds to an apparent threat by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, who said the activists sailing to Gaza would need to "swim." "It says a lot about their priorities that, in the face of genocide and systematic starvation of 2 million people, lawmakers … are focusing on mocking people."

@disabilityarts.bsky.social have compiled a list of actions so you can help fight the changes to Access to Work. Read now and help #ProtectAtW: disabilityarts.online/resources/gu...

🔔📢Last orders today for North Bridge: Where We Travelled colour paperback! Going to print tomorrow 🤩 payhip.com/b/BxUCD

Join us on 6th June for an evening of poetry & discussion with poet Fady Joudah and Sabrin Hasbun! Presented in collaboration with Awraq Festival. scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/fady-joudah-... Open to white/non-BPOC as well as BPOC attendees, based anywhere in the world (not limited to Scotland).

Keir Starmer must act to secure the release from prison in Egypt of British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah. #FreeAlaa Time is pressing as his mother, Laila Soueif's health is deteriorating.

We stand in solidarity with our trans siblings and are united in our anger at the Supreme Court ruling & EHRC update. Trans, non-binary and intersex people are facing exclusion from basic aspects of public life. Please read this thread that contains recommendations and calls to action.

My debut novel These Mortal Bodies comes out in July and I'm running a workshop about writing friendship as the light and dark of friendship is at the heart of the book. To join you can just DM or email me with proof of purchase in any form - I'd love to see you there ❤️ #Writing #BookSky

Congratulations dear @andresordorica.com 💜 🦋🦋🦋💜

Join us for our first town hall to hear from us and help shape the network 🎇🎇🎇🎇

Last call! Join us tomorrow in an online workshop led by Lily X, author of the Seventh Star series, where you'll learn how to write a romantasy novel. Get your FREE/PWYC ticket now: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/romantasy-10...

This year, 2025, also marks the 30th anniversary of the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre relocating from London (where it was set up in 1984) to GWL, due to loss of funding and premises. There'll be more to announce on that front soon!

This event is part book launch, and part solidarity night for our friends in Gaza, including Suhail, whose crowdfunder will receive a portion of all profits from the night. You can donate directly here: chuffed.org/project/1131...

Relieved at news of Mahmoud and Ahmad's release, though their house arrest and restrictions are another appalling government over reach: Bookselling is NOT A CRIME! Solidarity continues to be needed as the case continues, and as the bookshop gets back on its feet.

⭐ SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN ⭐ Deadline to send us your work: Tuesday 18 February (11.59pm) Please read the submissions guidelines carefully: https://buff.ly/33ZO731

Really excited about this one @paulaakpan.bsky.social 👑👑👑

Tuesday next week - come along to hear readings from the brilliant @vavapoetry.bsky.social and @smaychel.bsky.social at @lighthousebks.bsky.social. It's gonna be a good one!

Join us at Granite Noir on 20 February, where we'll host a Zoom masterclass led by Katalina Watt on writing the monster. Get your ticket: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/sbwn-at-gran...

We're back at Granite Noir, Aberdeen's Crime Writing festival, with another set of incredible events! You in? Get the full details for our events this year: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/sbwn-at-gran...

Just a few more days until our poetry 2-Day Online Nature Poetry Course! Don't miss out and get your tickets: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/our-time-is-...

🖋️calling all trans/nb folk who enjoy writing 🖋️ With conFAB and LGBT Youth Scotland I’m facilitating 6 *free* intergenerational writing workshops, over 6 weeks, aimed at any trans/nonbinary people in or around Edinburgh. (1/2)

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, government forces and allies defending the city of Goma appear to have collapsed, with rebels backed by neighboring Rwanda claiming they have taken over the city.

Can more people please talk about the fact that the M23 have invaded and claimed Goma?! Free DR Congo, stop the killing 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩

Tremendas imágenes que siguen reflejando la deshumanización hacia la que nos encaminamos 😢 Masiva huida en la ciudad de Goma (República del Congo) ante la invasión de grupos rebeldes y fuerzas ruandesas. El motivo, como siempre, los recursos naturales del Congo para desarrollo tecnológico

. Okay so blueskye is bankrolled by isra🔥🔥🔥 Replacing lemons with lemons is a bad idea Free DR Congo Free Haiti Free Palestine Free Sudan Free Tigray ...

Writers of colour with @hannahlavery.bsky.social is back 💗🥰 In person(Edi) & online - pay what you can 🤗 Definitely one of the best spaces to write and explore poetry in Scotland 😍 @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social

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Join ussss 💥💥🎉🎉 @fossilfreebooks.org

Christmas spirit can be cute if we choose to share it xxxxx

everything Katie Goh writes is wonderful. I loved this new piece on systems and liberation via @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social “Processes can be interrupted, and perhaps it is through the understanding of how something is made that we can learn how something can also be unmade.”

If you haven’t done this yet, do it soon. Cis pals in particular, I’m looking at you. We aren’t the target of this ban, but our voices carry more weight, in greater numbers. Don’t let your trans pals fight this on their own.

Join us for another round of Our Time is a Garden! In this two-day programme, writers will read and discuss nature poetry, participate in workshops, share their writing, and more! Register now: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/our-time-is-...

Proud to have a fun & surrealist poem in this babe amongst so many incredible queer Scottish poets 🥹💕 #fierceSalvage @404ink.bsky.social thank you to the editors ❣️ @ryanvance.bsky.social

gofund.me/83c15652 Support @7amada2.bsky.social family here ❤️

Really enjoyed reading together, learning and taking away an action or two that gets us one step closer to a free Palestine 🇵🇸 Love the SBWN community 💕 @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social

join us at @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social for an hour of reading together online and sharing space during #ReadPalestineWeek 🇵🇸🖤 on 3rd december, we’ll read some of Publishers4Palestine free resources and books + other work register for our solidarity lunch hour here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...