@jomawest.bsky.social
Author | Wild, Face, Twice Lived | (she/they/other) | Sometime actor | https://linktr.ee/jomawest
Happy Non-Binary People’s Day!
If you’re an author under the non-binary umbrella comment with a link to a book you wanna promote & I’ll repost!
To get us started I highly recommend this emotional, conceptual sci fi by my awesome sibling @jomawest.bsky.social
📚💙 📚🏳️🌈 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/twic...
Happy Non-Binary People’s Day to my non-binary pals!
5 BIPOC non-binary books:
Face by @jomawest.bsky.social
In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu
The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xirin Jay Zhao
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
📚💙 📚🏳️🌈 #nonbinaryday
Very excited about the publication of this chapter! rdcu.be/euuAe in The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Insights.
02.07.2025 13:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Final Destination: Bloodlines is such a fun time, my heart really warmed seeing Tony Todd one more time.
25.05.2025 14:05 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I finished my first play through of Disco Elysium today. And then I watched Possession (1981) for the first time. And it felt like a perfect double bill.
22.05.2025 23:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Allow me to bitch about something no one but me & some people watching @netflix.com care about for a second.
I loved THE DEVIL'S PLAN S1. Really difficult gameplay for really smart people & a dog fight of a triumphant finish.
Season 2 is...not that. A fun, smart gameshow has been ruined. How? /1
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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Creatives in the UK deserve strong trade unions that represent their interests and fight for a better creative ecology. We don't have that yet and I know a lot of people have felt let down by the society of authors, but we can change it for the better.
22.04.2025 11:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A bright purple background has text reading "I belong in my union and so do you' in shiny holographic sticker style writing. Below it sits the Fossil Free Books logo and smaller text that reads: "Join the Society of Authors as a Full Member by Wed 30th Apr to vote in this year's Management Committee elections'
The SoA must do more for climate justice – but it won’t without you.
Join the Society of Authors by Wed 30 April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections. [6]
Links for eligibility + help with fees: linktr.ee/fossilfreebo...
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Every climate justice writer belongs in their union.
The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper – it’s about power. In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is… [1]
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The SoA will only stand in solidarity with Palestine if you join and get active.
Join the Society of Authors by Wed 30 April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections. [6]
Need support with joining fees? We can help: linktr.ee/fossilfreebo...
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Every writer against genocide belongs in their union.
The Society of Authors does not stand for a free Palestine. Not yet.
Amid Israel’s destruction of libraries, bookshops, printing presses and publishing houses in Gaza, the SoA’s lack of solidarity is driving members to leave the union. [1]
Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up.
I’ll add more as I find them.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
My pal Dr Christina Neuwirth has today released the results of 7 years of research into gender inequality in Scottish literature. I'm so, so proud of them.
www.quinereport.com
Great thread
07.04.2025 12:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
One by one
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Any UK self published authors in my network? Which printers do you use and why do you like them?
#booksky #ukbooksky
The Trans Rights Readathon starts tomorrow!
I recommend adding Twice Lived to your TBR, by my brilliant non-binary sibling @jomawest.bsky.social
A beautiful, emotional, short sci fi story about two mixed heritage girls sharing one body across parallel worlds 💜
📚💙 📚🏳️⚧️ 📚🏳️🌈
bookshop.org/p/books/twic...
'A mélange of accents and languages enables the simultaneity of worlds, offering a way to exist on cultural crossroads. Most of humanity moves along cultural crossroads.'
www.guernicamag.com/joli-petit-a...
A still from the film Monster (2023). Two boys are running through green foliage and sunflowers. They are wet and muddy and look happy.
I love stories where each new perspective unpeels everything you thought you knew and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster does that masterfully. Such an achingly beautiful film that treats its characters with immense sensitivity.
18.03.2025 18:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Still image from the film Nickel Boys (2024). The image show the two main characters - Elwood and Turner - standing next to each other and looking up at their reflections in a reflective ceiling. The camera stares down at them through the ceiling they are looking at. Elwood is facing on the viewers left and facing towards the viewer. Turner is on the right and his body faces away from the viewer. Elwood's expression is thoughtful and Turner's is more playful.
Watched Nickel Boys at the weekend. It really took my breath away, this is the kind of art that sets me off, beautiful, moving, so damn smart, every second on screen has a thought behind it, nothing is extraneous it's just pure art on every level.
11.03.2025 13:41 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0now making music
(and more music videos)
STANLEY TWOBRICKS - popular music
Book on a coffee table. The book is Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum and translated into English by Shanna Tan.
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop was a bittersweet joy to read. I felt like I could be reading about myself and my friends, the concerns haunting the characters were all too familiar. I wish I had this bookshop in my neighbourhood, seems like a rad place to hang out.
03.03.2025 14:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A series of posts by Twitter person 5 Chinese Crackers. The key points are “The Culture War is a right wing project to attack freedom of speech by demonising and delegitimising left wing ideas disguised as a defence of it” and “For several decades now, this has relied on taking the most extreme thing some random has (or in most cases hasn't) said to paint the left as a bunch of weirdos that will get you arrested for asking for black coffee, instead of people who want to improve society somewhat”.
This was very helpful on the other site, so it’ll be helpful here too.
28.02.2025 10:07 — 👍 550 🔁 200 💬 4 📌 13The UK AI and copyright consultation closes today. It is deliberately long and technical so many of us who will be impacted may feel it isn't for them.
Respond anyway!
Many groups have support materials to answer the questions you care about. Check them out>
🚨 UK #booksky today is the last day to complete the government's AI consultation form. @fossilfreebooks.org has a handy guide on their IG if you're feeling daunted by the task:
www.instagram.com/p/DGQktlEIxd...
A still image from the film Pather Panchali (1955). In black and white, the image shows a little boy having his hair combed by his slightly older sister. Their mother sits beside them and smiles lovingly at them both. They are wearing rural Bengali dress from the time period.
Long overdue, I saw Pather Panchali. What a film! Poetic and intimate. This is the start of Apu's story but it's a film about women. The old woman, the mother, the maid, their small joys are so sweet, but mostly they broke my heart. Such a sensitive portrait of having dreams that feel out of reach.
23.02.2025 16:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A still image from the film Jigarthanda DoubleX (2023). Two men sit across from each other in a courtyard. The man on the left wears dark clothes and sits on a simple wooden chair. The man on the right wears lighter clothes, he is smartly dressed, and he sits on a throne with two elephant tusks decorating the backrest.
A portrait photo of the actress Nimisha Sajayan. She is in costume for the film Jigarthanda DoubleX in which she plays the character Malaiarasi.
I've seen it a few times now and every time Jigarthanda DoubleX just makes me happy. It's such a dense, dynamic, explosion of a film, heaving with villains and bad intentions. A wild ride. (Shout out to my lady Malaiarasi - she's a badass with not enough screen time.)
21.02.2025 11:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors.
I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.
