Jo Gilbert

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.

Jo Gilbert performing poetry at the Blue Lamp.

Mae Diansangu performing poetry at the Blue Lamp.

Oh well. The best way to spend #nationalpoetryday was by watching @mucklewriting.bsky.social and @vavapoetry.bsky.social performing with a jazz trio at the Blue Lamp as part of @waywordabdn.bsky.social. A most nourishing evening.

Wishin aa ma poetry pals a joyous, poem-packed #NationalPoetryDay 😁 Ken I bang on aboot it aa the time, bit Poetry really did an continues tae save ma life. Still in awe o yeez aa an luv yeez hunners. Keep shinin an scrievin ya wee wirdy superstars 🤩😎 💜 XXX

When trans folk say organisations like Sex Matters (which have the ear of govt ministers) want to ‘eliminate trans people’ I know that sounds febrile/alarmist. But the fact is they simply want to make transition illegal/impossible. I would not be alive today if I could not have transitioned.

Naebdy bin raptured yet? Nip on God 🤣

Youtube scientists discovered that there is increased risk of Autism when pregnant from breathing air shared with Antifa and non whites..
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Certainly worth rerereposting.

Finally... keep up the pressure

They’re blood thirsty.

Scotland open mics round-up 2025/26 A non-exhaustive list of Scottish open mics for writers of all kinds

.@naomieah.bsky.social has done a brilliant job compiling a handy list of writing open mics across Scotland! In a quickly-evolving scene, that's no easy feat. Read it (and consider supporting her work) here: thegoodeggproject.substack.com/p/scotland-o...

Tell Reform to stop exploiting women’s safety to fuel attacks on migrants Reform UK is pushing racist claims that migrants are a threat to women’s safety. This toxic narrative paints an entire group of people as inherently dangerous. But there’s no credible evidence to back...

Over 14,000 people have message Reform to tell them: Stop exploiting women’s safety to fuel attacks on migrants

Will you join them?
https://bit.ly/3IhW9NV

Banksy mural now 👇

Do not talk about Gaza.

Do not humanise Palestinians.

Do not make art that exposes war crimes.

Move on.

See it.

Say it.

Censored.

Just so you know:

If you demonstrate outside crap, former hotels, full of scared asylum seekers, to: "save are chidren", you're a thick racist, not a kid's saviour.

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

This is a huge story.

Don't let him get away with it.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump ghost

Hello? What's happening? Am I a star wars?..

Cheers!

Free Palestine

Our mural wall in West Belfast has just been completed, with the top finished by artists Micky Doc and Marty Lyons.

Isreal is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people.

FREE PALESTINE

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

Our contribution to the White House’s new TikTok

New Writing Scotland Submission Manager New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...

#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit

Website is back up and running and I’ve added these Buttery Bags. You can carry anything you like in them.!

The Polari prize first book Longlist with crosses over books by Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire to show they've withdrawn

The polar prize award Longlist with crosses over books by Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth to show they've withdrawn

UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize.

First Book:
Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire

Main award:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth

Judging panel:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

That's a life plan I could really excel at 🤣

Cheers min 😁

Friday!

Queer Folks' Tales | Aberdeen Performing Arts share.google/Mjo6lKnhHKZN...

Aye.

YAAAAS! Well done Mae 👏🎉❤️