Joey Simons
@JoeySimons8
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At @PlatformGlasgow with Keira Mclean and @JoeySimons8 chatting through our heritage project! The importance of researching, documenting and celebrating our own histories of resistance and survival feels more relevant than ever as Glasgow's working class history and diaspora..
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Great afternoon finding out more about the housing activism archive and collective with a fantastic panel of speakers. One of the key take away as was people archiving their own stories and creating their own histories. Find out more here https://t.co/VQd8E3xLDf
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Really class stuff going on at the Glasgow Housing Struggles Archive -- at the launch event at the Glasgow Women's Library today. Next event on the 19th September. Understanding our history is key to building our future.
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Palestinian poetry is not only poetry for times of crisis. It is poetry for all time. It is another form of injustice to approach it as an extension or symptom of tragedy or even worse as merely a token of sympathy and solidarity https://t.co/eblShGbGXa
asymptotejournal.com
Palestinian poetry is not only poetry for times of crisis. It is not breaking news or soundbites for the media. It is poetry for all time . . .
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From @Kotryna_Ula to @JoeySimons8, we're taking a closer look at all the great artists contributing to @GIfestival, who are returning to Glasgow after a three-year haitus https://t.co/nG08ZFeOq8
theskinny.co.uk
Returning after a three-year hiatus, this year’s Glasgow International is embedded in the city’s communities and distinct history, while also embracing voices and ideas from outside the city.
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Berlin Police provoke Palestinians on the street then brutally attack them for no reason; systematic state violence with impunity, and full green light from the regime of Olaf Scholz @Bundeskanzler.
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You're watching British cops move in to attack residents who've just shut down the ThalesUK arms factory in Glasgow. Protecting the forces of genocide. Attacking the community. We don't want these killers in our city. Solidarity with the people of Glasgow. https://t.co/vNETXOsMUx
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Literary scholar Christopher Law @clawstopher and artist Joey Simons @joeysimons discuss the link between poetry and landscape in the work of Scottish poet David Gray #PBF24
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I'm very happy to announce the publication of my article on R.D. Laing, James Kelman, and disabling states of surveillance in Etudes Eccosiases https://t.co/2A7F3WPXj0 edited by @drgavinmiller and @pennysuperdog , surrounded by great contributions! Give it a read :)
journals.openedition.org
Since the 1980s Scottish literary and cultural studies have expanded beyond a concern with nation to attend to the imagination of gendered, classed and racialized subjects. Disability studies and ...
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I spoke to @libby_brooks on why temporary measures are not enough to undo decades of harm caused by the private rented sector in Scotland. With the housing bill due this summer, @Living_Rent continues to fight for a robust, permanent system of rent controls to bring rents down.
Private tenants in Scotland face ‘big rent rises and mass evictions’ from April
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As well as Friday night's big show, there's another Maclean event at Celtic Connections. Myself and some comrade poets will be chatting about Maclean's life and legacy in poem and song. Come along.
celticconnections.com
Glasgow’s annual folk, roots and world music festival, Celtic Connections celebrates Celtic music and its connections to cultures across the globe.
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Inspired by the John Maclean centenary events? Join the editors of "Now's the Day, Now's the Hour: Poems for John Maclean" for this free creative writing workshop at Pollokshaws Library. Contact us to book your place. Details in link. https://t.co/GGoTdqv5fH
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100 years ago today John Maclean died at his home in Glasgow. Prison and poverty -- two pillars of capitalism -- extinguished the greatest Scottish revolutionary of his day. His last months were spent fighting for safe housing, fair work, and anti-imperialist solidarity.
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