Empty plates left outside the local Tory HQ and Con Club after Southend West MP voted against feeding children most at risk of going hungry.
@BorisJohnson
I think BBC should inform everyone Eastenders isn’t factually correct too if we’re going down that route. Working class people haven’t been able to afford to live in a three story London townhouse on a private square for at least 20 years.
I’m voting
@UKLabour
. I’m a working class council kid, born under Thatcher’s reign. I know, first hand, the effects of growing up in poverty. I want us to do better for the next generation - there is another way! How will you be voting on Thursday and why?
He is burning the labour of countless studio assistants, assistants we tried to interview but were prohibited by NDAs. 63 of his staff were reported to be laid off whilst he claimed £15m from the public purse in covid support/loans.
Today my bloke and me went to our adoption panel meeting. We have been recommended as adopters for two children under 3! Big day. Celebrating with chips later.
For those of you who are worried you’re getting fat - don’t worry! You’ll go back to being generic, boring and plain when it’s over. You’re only temporarily interesting, hot and thotty - enjoy it while it lasts.
An image of me and my friends embracing after performing a show in which we reclaim our bodies is being used without permission to advertise a weigh loss clinic in Australia.
@SMExperiences
is the business owner.
Boris Johnson described gay people as "bumboys", compared equal marriage to three men marrying a dog, discussed beating up a journalist with a criminal, called black people "piccaninnies" with "watermelon smiles", and was sacked twice for dishonesty.
Where is the scrutiny?
Publicly subsidised arts jobs to be capped at £100k - the surplus (which for ROH is £650k for just ONE EMPLOYEE) used to radically raise the minimum rate of lowest paid staff, improve commissioning offers to ease demand on project funding as well as enabling lower ticket prices.
One of the many problems of English patriotism is thats it’s always a bit shit, half arsed, shabby. Would it really kill you to meet the edges, have them all going the same way and maybe move the bin out the way for the picture?! These people lack aesthetics.
Just FYI, the Duke of Edinburgh Award is run by 1300 volunteers and fundraised through public and government grants - it wasn’t financially or physically made possible by one man.
My dear Mum was rushed to a resuscitation unit last night and received the best care ever from our NHS. Apparently the nurse who looked after Mum follows me on here - shout out to Neve Taylor Blue! Mum thinks you’re the best ...and we do too 💙
When you’re the fat kid, fat kid mentality sticks. If people make moves I often think they’ve been dared or it’s a prank - it’s hard to always second guess a compliment because people have been dicks in the past. Happy Friday everyone.
Why Jesus is a Mary:
- on Wednesday Jesus spent the night in a cruising ground know to the locals as Gethsemane. He was accompanied by 13 blokes, they ‘slept’ under olive trees. Gay.
- on Thursday when they finished the sesh Jesus wanted to throw a dinner party. Gay.
Worrying about money, lack of sleep, boozing, worrying if there will be work after this, eating peanut butter from the jar at 2am, judging yourself harshly, a few meltdowns, watching everyone else have fun - lockdown is the new Edinburgh Fringe.
The West End is not the extent or breadth of arts and culture in this country - government + broadcasters must do better to recognise this. This constant fascination of West End closures is not only London centric but ignores the majority of the effected workforces across the UK.
There’s an ugly irony government is so concerned with what fat people are eating when it completely ignoress the lack of food the 4 million food bank users in the UK.
Southend West is a Tory strong hold, led for decades by
#SirDavidAimess
- this morning our community sends a clear message that it does not stand with a government willing to starve its children!
This is the estate I grew up on, this isn’t new, it was happening then. This isn’t about ‘better’ policing. Continue to ignore the real issues like child poverty, systemic racism, deprivation, austerity and we’ll continue to see lives lost.
All this chat calling for a ‘moderate left’ and ‘social conservatism’ is coded. If we think anti-austerity and pro-equality are radical left ideologies then we’re more fucked than I thought we were.
So I’m thinking about those thousands of straight couples who’ve been to drag shows with Ru Girls over the past 5 years - and I’m wondering why you all seem to be very quiet right now?
Honesty, all this arts strategy - just let working class folk run the gaffs, hun. We’re way more resourceful, we can get the people in that matter, our stories are worth telling, our people skills are banging and it’ll sort your diversity quota. Ok, solved it - what do I win?!
Bored of folk attempting to deny my working classness cause I’m an artist. I think it reveals their bigotry. They obvs feel the arts are solely for the middle and upper classes, the only way we can be ‘authentic’ and artistic is if we’re a participant, being led by them.
When two fat sweaty friends bored of walking up and down hills in 30° heat cross paths for the first time IRL since 2019 ❤️
@SofieHagen
I properly love you. ❤️
Don’t penialise those poorer than you, don’t be that knobhead. It’s been three months, children have grown, babies have vomited over their rompers and Mum wants 10 minutes to herself. You were all queuing for sourdough in May, don’t forget that.
There’s no parade so no party, no big photo op, no world press ...so where is the corporate sponsorship now? Where you only there for the likes, babes? Have we proven we can do it without them? Did it take a pandemic to clean Pride from dirty money?
Scottish address from
@NicolaSturgeon
came with a live
#BSL
interpreter, absolute laziness and ignorance from
@BorisJohnson
for the UK address to be without access for our d/Deaf citizens.
Me Mum called to say what can she do about the dickheads complaining about gays kissing and creme eggs - she wonders if buying a load of creme eggs and sending them to queers is a good idea. Who wants a creme egg from me Mum?
I met a 14yr old 5 years ago who was shy + gentle - over lunch they came out to me, they also said wanted to be in the army. We encouraged them to be involved in our projects. Their Mum just sent me a pic of them starting uni today to study theatre. I am in floods.
Tonight I would have been opening a three month tour of Class, instead join me in my bedroom press night with a glass oat milk and a house plant bouquet and congratulate me for looking like a sexy Mum.
Pride has to be reimagined and must reengage it’s politic - placing blackness and transness front and centre. You can have your party, floats and corporate responsibility whenever you fancy. Right now, a party on a double decker covered in pink union jacks serves nobody.
If you’re using the flag - give us the coin, we don’t want a percentage - we want it all. Your corporate responsibility needs to stretch beyond the month of June.
Today, World Obesity Federation yet again use 4th March to spread their message - fat people need educating + are a threat to global economy. As a fat, uneducated anti-capitalist it feels only right I should try counter their £2.4m campaign + readdress some of the balance...
This country is focused entirely on getting to Spain by July. Friendly reminder there’s going to be highly traumatised NHS workers in need of respite, those with different/additional needs who haven’t left the house at all, those hungry children you worried about...
This is why we eat hot CROSS buns this weekend - to remind us of torture and murder of a Jewish queer person living under a colonial power, a dictatorship who over the course of 2000 years will successfully rebrand Jesus as one of their own. The End. Happy Easter.
Black folx in the UK are more than twice as likely to die from Covid than white folx - yet this governments response is to focus its energy on the 8% of fat people who were hospitalised from Covid.
This is my Dad. I don’t share the same genes as my old man, this means people often ask me about who my ‘real Dad’ is. A Dad is someone who loves, cares and encourages, with this in mind this is my real Dad! Shout out to all the real Dad’s who stepped up like this one. ❤️
There’s a lot of white frantic energy right now that I think can get in the way. Lets remember there are ways of us doing the work that doesn’t park the labour with our black siblings, doing the most isn’t always doing the best and the unseen work is also valuable.
Today I can taste my depression. Like the start of a cold. Sometimes the warning is more scary than parts of the duration. Here we go again. Anyone else get that?
Academics are LOL (and well meaning, usually). I’m at a gorge conference but they keep saying shit I ain’t gotta clue what it means. Here’s the current list... ❤️
Beyond chuffed to be ending the year on the cover of
@AttitudeMag
!Activists & Allies issue out now and features a gorge 8 page conversation and photo story between me and my fave
@munroebergdorf
❤️
Happy
#WorldTheatreDay
! I’d like to congratulate the majority of sector on still not reaching working class audiences despite 30yrs+ of subsidy. Shout out to the gatekeepers for creating an exclusionary workspace that favours their own. Love you guys. Byeee! ❤️🥳
FYI just cos you’re a gay man it doesn’t mean none of the work is on you. Actually, how you speak about women really has to change, we have been telling you for sometime.
This is my Mum. She's just finished chemo and radiotherapy. On Saturday at HBQ she'll be sat next to
@gemcairn
@GraceFVictory
@louisemcsharry
and
@SofieHagen
cause she's also a star! She just text to say "my first night out - I can't wait!"
ART MANIFESTO IDEA: Royal Family budget is put into the Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Wales and Arts Council of NI funds. Members of the Royal Family have to apply in the same way we do for their social engagement and charitable projects. Whose in?
Queers! A reminder you do not have to like a political leader, its not Deag Race, it’s not their personality you’re voting on babes, it’s their voting history on our equality you should be looking at....
There are
@LNER
employees disinfecting doors, tables, clearing rubbish, cleaning toilets and ensuring distancing every few stops - the least you can do is wear your mask if you’re supposed to.
As corporations upload rainbow logos in their annual display of gay4pay remember who built our equality and community - who did the work and continue to do so. Our freedoms were not advanced by a coffee shop, bank or airline but built on the broken backs of our black elders.
Imagine the arts but like ethical, reasonable working hours, anti-exploitation, generous pay, accessible buildings, accountability, generosity and no one is allowed to be a dick. 🤯
England’s arts sector is at a complete standstill - France, Germany + Ireland have all announced additional, sector specific finance - recognising it as a valuable industry AND health, social and community benefits. Still this government hides behind the job retention scheme...
Hey Gang! So I’ve fucked off Christmas to go interailing around Europe for 13 days, saying hi to the queers and reminding people we meet that not everyone who lives in the UK is trying to divorce them. It’s day
#2
and I’m in Paris! Next stop is Venice! 👋🏻🇪🇺
Ask your queer friends is they are scared. Ask your queer friends if they are planning or contemplating life elsewhere. Ask your queer friends what they are worried about.
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I look forward to seeing your allyship in action as a result of those conversations.
This idea that is fatties are oblivious to their fatness and it’s affects on the body (which some dispute) is hilarious. Let’s call this enforced commentary FATSPLAINING. In the mean time, please enjoy this picture of me promoting an unhealthy lifestyle.
When you’re walking thru an underpass, filled with smoke from joss sticks and weed and someone is beatboxing into a didgeridoo to an audience of like-minded friends you know you’re in Bristol.
Theatres and art spaces are not permitted to open 4th July. Government cannot keep on hiding behind SEISS and HMRC delay pay as “wrapping its arms” around the sector. This is a sector that need specific financial support now or the £10billion it generates will disappear.