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This month is Black History Month, and a time to celebrate all those who champion equity, compassion, and excellence in healthcare. #BlackHistoryMonth

Nineteen must-read books for Black History Month - LSE Review of Books For UK Black History Month, we've compiled a list of 19 books by Black authors and books about Black history, culture and experience, recommended by LSE staff.

NEW✨ October is UK #BlackHistoryMonth @blackhistorymonth.org.uk

To celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of 19 exceptional books by Black authors and books about Black history, culture and experience, recommended by members of staff across LSE.

Read it below!

#BHM #BookRecommendations

This #BlackHistoryMonth @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social honour Black history with a curated collection of #books that include inspiring stories, essential histories and powerful voices from across the UK and beyond.

Take a look: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

International Lesbian Day

Happy #InternationalLesbianDay! Join us in celebrating all the wonderful lesbians in our community! ❤️🧡🤍💗💜

If anyone is making you feel unsafe because of your lesbian identity, Galop is here for you.

We're run by LGBT+ people, for LGBT+ people.

📞 0800 999 5428
📧 help@galop.org.uk
💻 galop.org.uk

The Squidgies are celebrating. And they have a very good reason!

The Squidgies will soon be returning to Outernet screens for #HateCrimeAwarenessWeek, and they can't wait. Stay tuned for more details and more squidginess... 👀

🏳️🌈 Today on #InternationalLesbianDay, we celebrate lesbian visibility, love & resistance — especially for Black & Global Majority lesbians navigating racism, homophobia & erasure.
💜 You are seen. You are powerful. You belong.
#AfricanRainbowFamily #LesbianVisibility

Lesbian Visibility Day: Let the shadow out This Lesbian Visibility Day, read Virginia's story, and her poem, about owning and embracing being a lesbian. #changingLGBTQiLives

It's #InternationalLesbianDay today!

Celebrate lesbians today by reading about Virginia, a #lesbian woman from Kenya who lives in one of Micro Rainbow's safe houses for #LGBTQI people fleeing persecution.

microrainbow.org/lesbian-visi...

Resharing this for #InternationalLesbianDay

Women for Refugee Women : Ange's Story: Support Our Rainbow Sisters Growing up in Cameroon where same-sex activity is illegal and punishable with prison sentences, or worse, Ange found it extremely difficult to understand, accept and celebrate who she is.

To mark #InternationalLesbianDay, we're sharing Ange's story.

Ange is a member of Rainbow Sisters, our solidarity group for LGBTQ+ women and non-binary people seeking safety in the UK.⁣

"I am loud, I am proud, I am lesbian!"
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www.refugeewomen.co.uk/anges-story/

Happy #InternationalLesbianDay to all the lesbians out there! Hope you're having a wonderful day. Here's a thread of a few historic lesbian stories (not necessarily stories about lesbians, but definitely stories that have a place in the history of wlw) to brighten your day. #lesbianhistory

Graphic with photo at the top picturing two women holding a large white banner reading "A dayt without lesbians is like a day without sunshine". The photo is from the Gay Freedom Day Parade, San Francisco, California, June 1979. Copy underneath the photo reads "Interational Lesiban Day - gendered intelligence.

Let's go, lesbians!
Trans lesbians and gender non-conforming lesbians have always existed. Whether butch, femme, stud, or something else, lesbians have been smashing the gender binary since the beginning and we love them for it.
#InternationalLesbianDay #LwiththeT

On #InternationalLesbianDay, we celebrate lesbians’ power, resistance, and joy. In a world that still silences and excludes, we demand safety, freedom, and justice for all lesbians everywhere.

Happy #InternationalLesbianDay! 🏳️‍🌈💖 from this proud queer woman to all my fellow femmes, thems, butches, studs, dykes, queers & women-loving-women

Today we celebrate our rich history, fierce diversity & unbreakable solidarity. You are seen, valid & loved. 💜👭

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #LWithTheT #ILD2025

Collage image of snapshots from 2024's festival. From left to right: Juno and Kuchenga on stage; a panel on writing the night featuring DJ Paulette and Dan Sharp, noah sumptions, AFLO the poet reading on stage, Julia Armfield teaching a workshop; a panel event celebrating James Baldwin with Mendez, Campbell X, Sea Sharp; a shot from a zine making workshop; The Rainbow Chorus on stage singing and drag queen Titi Kaka

🛟We're back in 2025!🛟

We're over the moon to be coming back to ACCA in October with the biggest & brightest festival of LGBTQ+ literature from 9 – 12 October 2025.

Sign up to our newsletter to get updates about the Festival and to find out how you can get involved.

#thecoastisqueer #tciq25

The Coast Is Queer returns to Brighton with Juno Dawson, Damian Barr and Yael Van Der Wouden The UK’s biggest festival of LGBTQ+ literature - The Coast Is Queer - returns to Brighton’s Attenborough Centre from 9 - 12 October. Headline writers include Yael Van Der Wouden, Juno Dawson, Munroe ...

Now in its seventh year, The Coast Is Queer creates a space for queer readers, writers and allies to celebrate the written word.

'Woke' films do not automatically 'go broke' at box office, new study finds A new study has refuted the idea that films which include "woke" themes will automatically "go broke" at the box office.

‘Woke’ films do not automatically ‘go broke’ at box office, new study finds
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/woke-films-box-office-go-woke-go-broke/?utm_content=1759155603&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

We're so excited to help our friends at TransSober spread the word! After a short break, they're reopening and looking for dedicated volunteers to join their team. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference for the Trans+ sober community right here in Brighton.
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"Here to stay, here to fight" - Join us to defeat the far-right - Black Lives Matter Many people are shocked and frightened by the growth of the far right. In London, over 100,000 marched for Tommy Robinson. It was the largest far-right demonstration in British history, backed by Apar...

"Previous generations faced and overcame worse violence and racism...

Each time, our communities came together. Each time, they resisted. Each time, they overcame and won.

This is our heritage, this is our fight." ukblm.org/news/defeat-...

"We are powerful because we have survived"
#AudreLord

#quote #queer #LGBTQ #transrights #lovewins #brighton #sussex #quoteoftheday

A huge thanks to everyone who has contacted Ocado! Let's keep the momentum 💪

One brand at a time, we'll make hate and misinformation unprofitable in print and digital media 💥

Take action and urge #Ocado to #StopFundingHate:
💬 www.facebook.com/ocado
📧 ocadoosp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/req...

Very wise words

Sunset Boulevard

Chicago's LGBTQ+ Windy City Times turns 40 amid shrinking queer media For four decades, Windy City Times has amplified Chicago's LGBTQ+ voices.

Thanks to Axios Chicago for highlighting @windycitytimes.com's 40th anniversary today!

82 First Person Stories from Western Pennsylvania Offer Good Reasons to Affirm and Celebrate our Bisexual Neighbors Some of the contributors to #AMPLIFY whom identify as bisexual In honor of Bisexuality Awareness Day (September 23), I think it is always fitting to get out of the way and allow bisexual folx to ha…

82 First Person Stories from Western Pennsylvania Offer Good Reasons to Affirm and Celebrate our Bisexual Neighbors #biawarenessday www.pghlesbian.com/2025/09/82-f...

"We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise"
#ElliotPage.

#BiVisibilityDay, #InternationalCelebrateBisexualityDay, #September23 #Sussex #Brighton #Hove #Queer #lovewins #quote

How hope-based comms can help in a divisive world | CharityComms We explore what we can learn from charity examples channelling hope-based comms to tackle far-right rhetoric, misinformation and populism.

In a divided world, fear spreads fast, but hope can be just as powerful. 🌍✨ Great piece from Charity Comms on how hope-based comms inspire action, build empathy & create change. Worth a read!

www.charitycomms.org.uk/how-hope-bas...

Seeing our employer fly the bisexual flag from the Town Hall means everything. This visible support shows we're seen and celebrated.
it's a powerful message that bisexual colleagues belong here authentically
#BiVisibilityDay #BisexualVisibility #ChallengeErasure #Brighton #BiFlagUp #Queer

photos of green twisted branches in a wood, a fox looking alert, a bright green lacewing bug against a red background, two oystercatchers, one on a post, one landing, two kingfishers fighting, an ant with some aphids

Photo comp! Send us your entries. The theme is Our Nature Reserves & we're looking for 12 striking images that showcase the wild beauty of our nature reserves.
Here's fab inspiration from previous years from
📷 R French, P Boyland, S Stones, MJ Vickers, A Owen & J Lauper
More here buff.ly/M0y20Fq

Power, Gender and Tyranny in Our Time - Doing Feminist Legal Work While writing my monograph On Tyranny and the Global Legal Order, the frequent appearance of gender struck me. But, more startling, how little remarked upon

"It is not that Trans people lost rights but that their rights need ‘correcting’... This is starkly reminiscent of the argument that rights did not stretch to gay people in the first Trump administration": dflw.ie/power-gender...

At a time when some use the language of feminism to attack trans rights, it’s vital to see feminist activists and scholars counteract such attacks. Feminist Legal Studies is inviting papers for a special issue that will explore how feminist goals and trans liberation are connected. Check it out.

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