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The online launch for Patient L1 is starting shortly on YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/live/ffZygJi...

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ZOOM TONIGHT Online Launch of Patient L1 Monday 24th Feb –– 7.30 to 8.30pm Readings by Simon Maddrell & Jonathan Blake Q&A with Jonathan Blake Free Zoom Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @polari.press @jonb-2149.bsky.social

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I made a starter pack: a little list of queer bookshops, publishers and events in the UK: go.bsky.app/MCEywfn Think I'm missing one? Let me know in the comments.

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Get your tickets now to the London Launch of Patient L1! Reading by Jonathan Blake with Simon Maddrell. Date and Time: Friday 21st Feb –– 7.30-8.30pm (Doors at 7pm). Location: Positive East Free Entry: All donations in aid of Positive East. Buy tickets here: link.outsavvy.com/patient-l1-l...

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HARSH CRAVINGS now restocked @villageworksnyc.bsky.social @polari.press #queer #queerlit #homo #homoerotic #vintagehomo #queerart #queerartist #queerwriter #supportqueerartists #independentbookstore #indiepublishing #queerpublisher

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In loving memory of the beautiful Brianna Ghey on the second anniversary of her tragic murder. Taken far too soon by the monsters who walked amongst us 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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What a great tool to use to motivate us all to consistently use alt text on photos. (Not only sharing ours because it’s currently 100%) 💁‍♀️

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Patient L1 – The Jonathan Blake verse memoir – is out now with Polari Press polari.press/shop/books/p... www.gscene.com/features/int... @polari.press @jonb-2149.bsky.social

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I'm a small part of the cosmic project IMAGINING WORLDS @barbican.bsky.social on Sun 8 Feb. Ill be reading poems in the Conservatory at 5, and running around to see as many feminist speculative radical events during the day as possible! Lots free! Cu there? www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

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1/🧵 The Cass Review final report was quietly amended in December 2024, just before the permanent ban was announced, and it seems to have gone unnoticed. While most of the changes were minor and clerical, two of them were significant. Both changes relate to informed consent.

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Article in Manx Independent's 'Island Life' section sponsored by Isle of Man Arts Council about the book 'Patient L1' from Polari Press. Check out pre-orders and launch events at linkin.bio/simonmaddrell @polari.press @jonb-2149.bsky.social @thecommonpress.bsky.social @positiveeast.bsky.social

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We are deleting our Twitter. It's not safe there. It's gonna be a total purge of follows, likes, tweets and retweets. Everything must go!

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After fifteen months of outcry from the literary community, the Giller Prize has cut ties with Scotiabank.

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This is what brave queer journalism looks like. Share, support, sign up to their newsletter!

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Celebrating, sharing and being part of #LGBTHistoryMonth #LGBTHM is more important than ever. We’ll be having a range of events launching ‘Patient L1’ featuring conversations, poetry readings and Q&As including with author @simonmaddrell.bsky.social and Jonathan Blake (the patient in question)…

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“On the face of it, this is a story about an incredible survivor… but it’s actually a story about love. And that ‘love is love’ in whatever shape.” www.iomtoday.co.im/news/enterta... @jonb-2149.bsky.social @polari.press

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Launches of Patient L1 from @polaripress Launch Event Tickets: linkin.bio/simonmaddrell Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Photo: Mareike Günsche

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The Smithsonian smithsonianing AGAIN. In 2010, they folded on David Wojnarowicz's A Fire in My Belly after the usual christofascist suspects whined & even a hexing from Diamanda Galas couldn't shame them into rethinking. This is what happens to queer arts in museums bc museums are colonial tombs.

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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Errands aren't bothersome when you're restocking. "Harsh Cravings" now restocked at Quimby's NYC and Spoonbill bookstores in Williamsburg, BK. @polari.press

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Book launch events for 'Patient L1' by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social are now live. Brighton at Lunch Positive on 19 Feb. London at @thecommonpress.bsky.social on 20 Feb. London at @positiveeast.bsky.social on 21 Feb. See our Linktree for the links and full details: linktr.ee/polaripress

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Super helpful thoughts on the Meta-Mess. We’re considering how to move forward without damaging ourselves too much. 🥺

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👉 Check out my Kickstarter (link in bio), explore the project, and help me make it happen! Every bit of support counts. And if you love the story – share it, tell your friends, and maybe even back it! 💖 #LGBTQcomics #queercomics #queerliterature #indiecomics

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Never tire of seeing photos of boxes of our books being opened. 💜💜💜

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Thank you to every single reader who borrowed one of my books from the library! Every loan = a few pence royalty. And those pennies add up! This scheme is called PLR AKA free money for published writers, illustrators, editors, translators & audiobook narrator. Register for PLR here! www.bl.uk/plr/

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Book announcement! ‘Patient L1’ by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social will be released next month for #LGBTHM. A verse memoir speaks in the voice of Jonathan Blake, who was diagnosed so early in the UK AIDS epidemic that he was named Patient L1 at London Middlesex Hospital. polari.press/patient-l1/

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Illustrators! Please fill out this survey by the Association of Illustrators to build their response to the government’s hideous AI consultation.

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Really nice piece by @timeonfeet.bsky.social about volunteering www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Book your next HIV/STI test today! Positive East runs testing 6 days a week across East London and the service is quick, free and confidential! Chat to Pat our sexual health chatbot here www.positiveeast.org.uk/chattopat/ to find the best time for your next test.

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Hello Bluesky! Queer poet here. Pamphlets with @polari.press and @fourteenpoems.bsky.social You can purchase 'Walking Contagions' directly from me as it is out of stock online. 'On This Stretch of Queerland' can be purchased from me or from www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/on-this...

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If you're a bookworker (in any capacity) then you're invited to join our Strategy Day for our pro-climate, pro-Palestine movement! 🍉FFB Strategy Day 📚 @fossilfreebooks.org 📅 Sat 18 Jan, 10-4 🌍 online / Edinburgh / London 🖊️registration: linktr.ee/fossilfreebooks Register by 5pm this Wed 15th.

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New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

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Cool new Queer bookstore, Hive Mind, in Bushwick. They were gracious enough to carry "Harsh Cravings" and I noticed quite a bit of diaristic writing there, a variety of Queer (and some not-so-Queer books) and NYC nightlife and Queer history, too. It was calm and bright inside, a memorable combo.

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TRANS ALLIES ASSEMBLE! We have until the end of today - Friday 3rd January (not Dec as first stated below) to reply to the EHRC consultation. It’s quite involved so grab a cuppa and get to work. ☕️ ✊🏳️‍⚧️

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‘[Patriarchy] is always there in the background, incentivising, rewarding and giving cover to good men who decide, however briefly, not to be.’

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The last post we’ll be doing before Christmas (and until the new year) will be this coming Saturday morning. We’ll send all orders Tracked 24 which should mean they arrive before Christmas. So order by this Friday for UK delivery before Christmas. 📦💜 polari.press

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New for 2025! Announcing our first novel, and it’s also our first translation. 🤩 ‘The Gospel According To…’ by Sergey Khazov-Cassia and translated by @reubenwoolley.bsky.social Full info and to preorder: polari.press/the-gospel-a...

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If you live in the UK, please sign this petition. It’s one simple first step to challenge the dreadful and unscientific policy which singles out and targets trans youth. Our kids need us: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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I do not know if this will have any impact, but I have got to put my anger towards something practical so this is what I have written to my MP Feel free to copy (check alt text) and improve. The list of critiques comes from the @transactualuk.bsky.social transactual.org.uk/advocacy/cri...

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Especially with Christmas hurtling towards us, please buy your books from indie queer bookshops! This starter pack has so many great shops across the country. (…and avoid a certain company that avoids tax, abuses its workers, and provides tech to a genocidal regime.)

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