Print in black and white featuring a standing Black woman, upper half, with headscarf, shirt and apron, holding a broom handle

Survivor, 1983 lino print by US artist Elizabeth Catlett #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Photo featuring a standing woman wearing a cloak with significant symbols and motifs in black yellow and blue

Anna Brown Ehlers, master weaver of the Tlingit tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast #UnravellingWomensArt

Great Britain National Insurance Fund Account for the year ended 31 March 2024

The National Insurance Fund Account has a surplus of £86.4bn.

Plenty of resources to increase pensions, benefits, compensate the 1950s women.

Govts raided it to fund NIC cuts for the rich, NIC holidays in freeports, and general tax cuts for the rich.

Cutting the NHS until it no longer functions well

Move care to private providers to ‘save’ the NHS

Claim the NHS is broken

Cut pay for Doctors & Nurses in the NHS to ‘save costs’

Offer jobs in the private sector without the cost of training

Sell shares in private companies, the rich get richer

7 of the best book festivals around the world From Jamaica to Jaipur, these literary festivals celebrate the power of the written word and offer you a chance to hear from celebrated and up-and-coming authors—as well as fellow bibliophiles.

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The #Calabash Book Festival in Treasure Beach, #Jamaica is named among the seven! This is awesome! Congrats...
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#Books 💙📚
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Writing tip.
Before you start, locate your inner critic. They’re not hard to find. They’re the arsehole sitting on your shoulder saying “nope that’s shit” every time you type the word “the”.
Bind them. Gag them. Chuck them into the linen cupboard, to subsist on crumbs and water.
Now you can begin.

Nothing ventured It takes guts to enter competitions.

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Am thrilled - my new novel won the inaugural CariCon prize for Caribbean Literature..
#CARICON2025
#ReadCaribbean
#grateful
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Moon at sunrise. Dark landscape below, orange sky, pale blue sky turning darker at top, some gray-white thin clouds scattered about, with a sliver of the moon illuminated center right top.

Sliver of moon at sunrise. November 2024. 🧡💙

Vincentian-Canadian writer Chanel Sutherland, winner of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, says stories help acknowledge shared humanity Her winning entry, set in the hold of a slave ship, explores how enslaved Africans – even as they figure out to how survive – reclaim their identity by sharing their stories.

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Her story, set in the hold of a sinking slave ship where kidnapped Africans are wounded, exhausted, in chains, explores how they try to reclaim their identity, sharing their stories as they figure out how to survive.
#Caribbean
#Books 💙📚
#Booksky
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We still have one ticket to give away for The Children’s Media Conference! If you are interested and wish to attend, please DM us today 😄

Painting featuring the head and shoulders of a Black woman facing left with hair tied up, earing and silk-like striped white top

Head of Mrs Eaton, 1861 by painter Joanna Boyce. Subject Frances Eaton (1835-1924) was a Jamaican-born Londoner and artists´ model for the Pre-Raphaelites who moved to England as a child, and appeared in a number of paintings. #womensart

Tiberius—

"There has never been a better time to watch this video"

Survivor, 1983 lino print by African American artist Elizabeth Catlett #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties.

UK sickle cell patients ‘get worse care than sufferers of similar disorders’ Study commissioned by NHS finds that sickle cell disease care lags behind that for conditions such as cystic fibrosis

You have to read to paragraph 10 to find the key sentence: "The disorder primarily affects people from an African-Caribbean background." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Four small figurines of characters from Super Goat Girl. Left to right: Robo Kid, a blue and silver figure with a screen face; Noodle Boy, an orange and green kid with blond hair and one overstreched arm; Super Goat Girl, a blue goat wearing yellow shortalls and a black eye mask; Laser Lass, a Black girl with afro puffs and an all-purple skirt ensemble including eye mask.

A blank Laser Lass figurines in white resin labeled Laser Lass showing a girl with a cape, boots, skirt, and goggles.

Three in-production images of Robo Kid on a black stand in front of a bag of markers of various colors. Two figures have no head. The middle figure is complete.

A photo labeled "The worksop" showing small figures in different stages of production. The figures are from the book Super Goat Girl. From left to right: Super Goat Girl fully painted with blue skin and yellow uniform, Laser Lass in all black resin and no paint, Robo Kid in all black work no paint, Super Goat Girl in all black with no paint, Super Goat Girl fully painted in shortalls, Robo Kid with lower body painted.

Getting ready for the release of #SuperGoatGirl by making figures of the 4 main supers.
Super Goat Girl, Laser Lass, Noodle Boy, and Robo Kid. From designs by @dapsdraws.bsky.social
The book is out 6/15 (US) 6/17 (UK)
Pre-order at your fave bookseller!

#GrandeRiviere
These creatures are huge, and year after year, they find themselves back to our shores, however nature designed it, to propagate the population or to maintain the species. This is a big deal, and we're not making a big enough deal of it 🇹🇹
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt, memorial to celebrate the lives of people who died of AIDS-related causes. Created by/cared for by many, but especially "Mother of the Quilt" Gert McMullin. The largest piece of community folk art in the world, now on show at Tate Modern #GoSeeArt !

My thoughts are with the passengers, crew and families of those onboard Air India flight 171.

British nationals who require UK consular assistance or have concerns about friends or family should call 020 7008 5000.

Families in India seeking more information can call Air India on 1800 5691 444.

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‘When two elephants fight, only the grass gets trampled’

Important thread.

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Deadline today! Apply for a FREE place on our Short Fiction residenital.

Painting by Sylvia Ken, artist from the Amata community in South Australia, relates to the Seven Sisters creation story #WomensArt

Fire stations in England ‘falling apart’ amid £1bn funding cut, chiefs say Exclusive: National Fire Chiefs Council warns of pressures, with callouts up 20% in a decade as firefighter numbers fall

Tory legacy.

Fire stations in England “falling apart”,

Funding down by £1bn, call outs up by a fifth. Firefighter numbers down by a quarter in seven years, 11,000 full-time staff.

Population increased but lack of investment in infrastructure, tax cuts for the rich.

Readying for privatisation?