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WHEN WE RULED has been selected as part of Waterstones’ pre-order promotion! This weekend only, you can pre-order it online or in-app with a 25% discount. Nab yourself a deal! Get an extra copy for someone you love (or hate, I don’t make the rules)! 💘 www.waterstones.com/book/when-we... #booksky

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We no longer need book burning if the state preemptively bans books that would be burned. Ironically, this is an eg of Arendtian banality of evil. The ppl that are part of the mechanism of book banning do not need to do anything too spectacular. They just need to comply with an order, one by one.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Feel like you know nothing about Sudan? I sat down with the team at Prospect Magazine to talk about the conflict, and why it’s NOT a forgotten war, but an invisibilised one: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Please stop and read my story 🚨 My family of 8 has been living a very harsh life for 16 months due to the war on Gaza. We lost everything—our home and my sick father. Since then, we’ve been living in a tent without basic necessities of food and water. 💔 Please share and DONATE 🙏🫂 gofund.me/7a021cb4

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

I feel disheartened by the lack of attention and support here on Bluesky, even though all I need is a repost or a share to help my message reach those who can assist. Please, if you can't donate, sharing the post could make a huge difference. 🙏❤️ Donate Link ▶ gofund.me/ef19d906

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Is there any clearer example of the commercial property investor class’ grip on the media than constant articles criticising working from home

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

"Even as I write this, the Israeli army is conducting a major demolition operation in the community of Khalet A-Daba, razing homes, toilets, solar panels, and trees."

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

PR👀FS! She’s definitely no longer a word doc! (uk & us pre-order below, you don’t pay until the book is published in May so did you even truly buy it? Exactly) 🇬🇧 geni.us/WhenWeRuled 🇺🇸 www.simonandschuster.com/books/When-W... #blackbooksky #booksky #skystorians

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Now everyone go read the Forde report as well as Starmer's complete disinterest and active sweeping under the rug of racism since time immemorial.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Trump just issued an executive order titled: ADDRESSING EGREGIOUS ACTIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA It says "the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation"

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This is unbelievably horrific Democratic Republic of the Congo: Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/05/democratic-republic-congo-goma-women-raped-burned-death-prison-m23-rebels-rwanda

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

An #Anonymous message to the people of the United States and Trump. #3E (part 1)

submitted 14 days ago • 263 comments

Help my sister to continue her studying in pharmacy🥺🙏 By your help she will be a pharmacist 🤍👩‍⚕️ gofund.me/cf2904d6

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

👑🖤🎉

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My book has a cover and she’s just beautiful Published 8 May in the UK and 3 June in the US 🇬🇧 geni.us/WhenWeRuled 🇺🇸 www.simonandschuster.com/books/When-W...

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“Libya taught me what it means to be dehumanized. Europe teaches me what it means to be erased. The so-called asylum system in Libya and Europe is a failure, but not by accident, it was never meant for the Black African child.” @davidyambio.bsky.social www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/chronic...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Start your new year by organising to create the world as you wish it to be ✨ Join the Fossil Free Books Strategy Day, happening on Saturday 18th January 10am - 4pm GMT in Edinburgh, London and online.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

The reason journalists are furious at Fossil Free Books, and protests against Bailey Gifford's book festival connections, in a way they never came for musicians who protested Barclay's involvement in music festivals, is that journalists don't get invited to play music festivals.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

The Guardian has published another article today about declining author wages (true), this time blaming FFB for this trend (not true). Festivals and authors have both become poorer poorer for the same two reasons: austerity and wealth hoarding by the publishing industry. >

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

In just four days since the start of the new year, Israeli attacks have killed over 400 people in Gaza.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Hello, I am Jamal from Gaza. Unfortunately, everything was destroyed in Gaza. My university, my studies, my beautiful city, my dreams, and everything is beautiful. Our lives are also in danger and the destruction is still continuing. You can help me rebuild my life by leaving gofund.me/2f77e0ba

submitted 109 days ago • 20 comments

in LOVE with this cover for When We Ruled: the rise and fall of twelve African queens and warriors 💙 publishing next year! @paulaakpan.bsky.social

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Imani Perry blurbed my new book #DarkLaboratory and I am beyond honored. 🥰 swoon. Thanks @imaniperry.bsky.social 💙💛💙💛

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. Tell Everyone www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

submitted 92 days ago • 19 comments

Authors, agents, publishers! Final week to submit books to #JhalakPrize25 awards: 1. Jhalak Prose Prize 2. Jhalak Poetry Prize 3. Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize Deadline: 13 December 2024 Send in those fabulous books!

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

British neonazi group Patriotic Alternative are celebrating because Keir Starmer's rhetoric on immigration and asylum has gotten so hawkish they believe it validates their conspiracy theory about White Replacement.

submitted 77 days ago • 13 comments

Supporters of the Kurdish Community Center in London have called for a march tomorrow to protest against state repression. Date: Sunday 1st December Time: 1:30pm Start point: Trafalgar Square #HandsOffKurds

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Why does the @theguardian.com not mention the explicit warning from @amnesty.org to the UK to immediately suspend all arms transfer to Israel? Why does the Guardian say it is a 32 page report when it is 296 pages? (did they only read the executive summary?) www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

Don’t forget Sudan.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

A few thoughts on this: Firstly Solidarity to every person in the US who is having to do this Secondly Every person, the UK, currently accessing a Gender Affirming Healthcare should ALSO plan to start stockpiling their medication Thirdly The Labour government is a danger to Trans+ folk

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

I am sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Saed. Saed is only 27 years old and is trying to support his whole family, including his mother who has an eye condition that if she does not get treatment for will leave her blind. They are displaced from their home and living in a tent.

submitted 82 days ago • 5 comments

Hello, I am Jamal from Gaza. Unfortunately, everything was destroyed in Gaza. My university, my studies, my beautiful city, my dreams, and everything is beautiful. Our lives are also in danger and the destruction is still continuing. You can help me rebuild my life by leaving gofund.me/2f77e0ba

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

I’m sharing this GoFundMe on behalf of a friend! Support a Black queer parent from being separated from their child Please share 🙏🏼 www.gofundme.com/f/renny-and-...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment