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‘Passiontide’ - Monique Roffey #sharingmyreading2025

‘Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982’ - Cho Nam-Joo #sharingmyreading2025 #applebooks

‘The Ghostwriter’ - Julie Clark #sharingmyreading2025 #applebooks

‘Determination’ - Tawseef Khan #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

‘The Night Hawks’ - Elly Griffiths #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox

I want to see non-disabled people shouting about the disability benefit cuts. If you spoke out about trans rights, abortion rights, or migrant rights in recent weeks? Good on you! If you aren’t doing the same for disabled people, ask yourself why.

This is a horror story and the press keeps trying to normalise it. Adriana Smith’s body was treated like an incubator while she was brain-dead. They extracted that baby from her in an autopsy, it was not “a delivery via c-section”.

It seems facile to say, but many of us are supportive of trans rights explicitly because of our serious feminist commitments. Trans rights are human rights. Women's rights are human rights. And reproductive rights are a fundamental part of those human rights. These fights are inseparable.

‘The Silence Project’ - Carole Hailey #sharingmyreading2025 #applebooks

As a collective of everyday women we're working toward a kinder world, opposing transphobia. We ask women just like us to read and sign our letter. In just two weeks we reached 30,000+ signatures. You can read the full text here ⬇️ And click on this link to sign. www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

‘The Lantern Men’ - Elly Griffiths #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox

Israeli forces have killed at least 48 people in Gaza today. This is twice the number of Israelis that have been killed in 4 days of bombing by Iran, but on the UK mainstream news today we've had wall to wall coverage about Israelis & almost nothing on Palestinians.

Starmer is showing just how divorced from reality he is. His cuts to PIP will actually prevent more disabled people from working. This is a fundamentally disastrous policy which will harm people. Any decent Labour MP needs to oppose it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘The Ministry of Time’ - Kaliane Bradley #sharingmyreading2025 #essexlibraries

‘The Last Days of Kira Mullan’ - Nicci French #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

🚨 We have less than 24 hours left 🚨 Join over 8,000 people and ask your MP to decriminalise abortion 👇 goodlaw.social/f2eef3

Today we remember the 72 people who burned to death in their own homes in one of the richest areas of one of the richest cities in the world. Solidarity with survivors and the Grenfell community in their ongoing fight for justice 💚 #Justice4Grenfell

It’s time for decriminalisation. 👇 Ask your MP to back @stellacreasy.bsky.social 's amendment to the Policing Bill. goodlaw.social/f2eef3

‘Bella Donna’ - Jill Johnson #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

‘Bella Donna’ - Jill Johnson #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

According to this flat-out terrifying article, 500 million people are using ChatGPT. And it’s in schools now. This is so dangerous, and governments are miles behind on any kind of meaningful regulation. In fact, most of them seem to be in thrall to it.

Meanwhile Israel continues murdering Palestinians in Gaza. So far today its killed more than 30 people, including 11 who were waiting for aid.

‘Hell’s Bells’ - Jill Johnson #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

There's a rare moment - with abortion rights increasingly under attack - to decriminalise abortion. Please use our easy tool to write to your MP asking them to support NC20, Stella Creasy's amendment. Please use and share in your networks. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

‘The Stone Circle’ - Elly Griffiths #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox

‘The Stone Circle’ - Elly Griffiths #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox

‘Devil’s Breath’ - Jill Johnson #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

‘Bring the House Down’ - Charlotte Runcie #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

🚨URGENT: write to your MP - help release the Madleen crew now! Israel has unlawfully hijacked the Madleen, a @GazaFFlotilla boat flying a British flag, and detained the 12 civilians on board. Demand your MP take action to get the crew released now: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/Madleen/

#NION 🎉Today has seen a big surge in signatures. We’ll hit 30k within hours 🎉 Please keep sharing across all your networks. Personally I’d love us to hit 50k by the end of Pride Month. Let’s do it women of Bluesky. #notinourname #transrightsarehumanrights #Reclaimthenarrative #AllWomenWelcome

Live tracker of the Madleen freedom flotilla: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/

‘Burying Jericho’ - William Hussey #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

For the record:

Do you remember that for years every few weeks there would be mainstream articles about how 12 "Gender Critical" people had signed a letter to the government saying trans people shouldn't have freedoms or whatever. Will any of these letters with orders of magnitude get any media at all? Make noise

‘Jericho’s Dead’ - William Hussey #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

‘The Seven O’Clock Club’ - Amelia Ireland #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

‘Killing Jericho’ - William Hussey #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

‘The Shadow Cabinet’ - Juno Dawson #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

And it’s not just down to LGBTQIA to stand up. Straight cis people too should do. Everyone is different. No one should have to die because they are.

Time to clarify something. When authors say “Unbound haven’t paid me” that makes it sound like Unbound had some money, which they used to buy authors’ writing. Unbound had no money. The authors did: we had raised that money. They were holding it in trust. Unbound stole our money.

While we're at it - if you're a cisgender woman please sign this in support of trans, non-binary & gender diverse folks. I am SICK of others telling me what I should feel & how I should react to others just wanting to be themselves... Live and let live, I say. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

‘Her Majesty’s Royal Coven’ - Juno Dawson #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

‘Mrs Sidhu’s Dead and Scone’ - Suk Pannu #sharingmyreading2025 #applebooks

I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment. Have a look at my wares and please repost. gailmyerscough.co.uk Thanks!

‘Displeasure Island’ - Alice Bell #sharingmyreading2025 #essexlibraries

‘How to Solve Your Own Murder’ - Kristen Perrin #sharingmyreading2025 #applebooks

Petition: Immediately stop all arms exports to Israel & seek ceasefire in Gaza We ask you to: • Immediately suspend all arms licences and exports to Israel. • Do everything in your power to seek an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

‘Notes From an Exhibition’ - Patrick Gale #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox