The Common Press Bookshop
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London's queer, intersectional bookshop & community hub. Tweets by the bookselling team. Event tickets for sale in link below!👇🏽👇🏾 #ChooseBookshops
118 Bethnal Green Road London
Joined August 2021
We can't lose another queer space in London! Help us save the Common Press by donating at the link below. Led by BIPOC, trans folks, and queer women, we have been ranked as one of London’s top 10 independent bookshops by @thebookseller 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🔥 https://t.co/oyoNm0OC3V
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The Common Press needs support to continue to serve the community.
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First lesbian wedding in the history of the Philippines, in a revolutionary base.
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The Common Press and @guildhallschool are thrilled to present the Trans Music Takeover in celebration of Trans Awareness Week, FREE to attend for all ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️😍 With an incredible line-up of trans talent, this is not one to miss!!! Book here: https://t.co/5tK0qv0bRJ
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The Common Press and Guildhall School are thrilled to present the Trans Music Takeover celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month. Friday 7th February 2025 from 7 pm - 9 pm at Guildhall. This event will...
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Our Stanza group The Queer Poetry Collective's next event looks exciting!
The Queer Poetry Collective is BACK with another @TheCommonPress event! All proceeds go to keeping this space alive💃🏻✨🍂 Following the amazing Shanay Neusum-James and @p_scalpello, we have our first open mic! Excited for this one, reg link below 👇 https://t.co/FYuqkUDDN1
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UPDATE: We have reached £52,945 on our Save the Common Press Crowdfunder 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you to all who have donated so far!! We have extended the Crowdfunder into December, to allow more time to fundraise. Keep donating!!! https://t.co/oyoNm0OC3V
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We're BACK for a night of LGBTQIA+ poetry & community! Join us @TheCommonPress on 26 November — all ticket sales donated to the fundraiser. We'll have readings from @blkdorothy & @p_scalpello & then…OPEN MIC — make sure to bring your beautiful poems. Queer Poetry Collective 💜
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S: Does Ambessa have a moral code?🤨 Me: I wrote the code 😁 … S: is she sympathetic in the book? 🤨🤨🤨 Me: I find her very sympathetic. 😌 S: that’s not reassuring whatsoever. 😑 Anyway, make your own judgements.
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The Common Press is thrilled to present an extremely sexy and spine-chilling Halloween special: Queer Horror & Monstrous Erotica, with The Monstrous Feminine Podcast https://t.co/ZzGcl91RC5 🧟♂️🥩🧌🧙🏽♀️🐙😈
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The Anarchist Bookfair in London is almost here! Please help spread the word, re-post this, share the Radar link about, do some flyering, stick a few posters up (drop us line and we can send you a bunch), chat to your mates, call ya gran! https://t.co/piXCkOnONw
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Still can’t believe this is a thing we are doing @emwrote. Queer poets for queer causes 👊 See you there.
Unreal to announce the Queer Poetry Collective, an initiative @warer and I have launched under @PoetrySociety to bring together #QueerPoetsForQueerCauses Our first event is @TheCommonPress fundraiser on 16 Oct with some truly beautiful voices ❤️ Join us: https://t.co/rHbKrJwPzx
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✨ As always, make sure you also celebrate the translators! Han Kang was crafted into English by @videshi_beti @p_niyahmorris & Emily Yae Won ✨
BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
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Unreal to announce the Queer Poetry Collective, an initiative @warer and I have launched under @PoetrySociety to bring together #QueerPoetsForQueerCauses Our first event is @TheCommonPress fundraiser on 16 Oct with some truly beautiful voices ❤️ Join us: https://t.co/rHbKrJwPzx
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Join our newest Stanza group, the Queer Poetry Collective, for their first event in East London next week, a fundraiser for @TheCommonPress! What a line-up!
Unreal to announce the Queer Poetry Collective, an initiative @warer and I have launched under @PoetrySociety to bring together #QueerPoetsForQueerCauses Our first event is @TheCommonPress fundraiser on 16 Oct with some truly beautiful voices ❤️ Join us: https://t.co/rHbKrJwPzx
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I will be a feature poet at a Dandelions Poetry event at Broadway Cinema Nottingham on the evening of 22 October. Free event and all welcome!
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We're almost halfway there!!! A massive thank you to all who have donated to our Crowdfunder so far ❤️🔥 A reminder to keep donating and sharing, particularly for those with larger accounts ❤️🔥🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Link in b!o^^
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“The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice.” Malcolm X.
Palestinian activist Hamada Shaquora has been nominated as one of TIME's 100 most influential personalities worldwide in 2024. Known as a wartime food blogger, Shaquora creatively crafts recipes from the limited ingredients available through aid packages in Gaza. His videos,
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Just a reminder that you’re one accident or illness away from becoming disabled. No one is immune to disability. We’re all vulnerable.
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If a 21yo rents a single room in London at today's rate, they will have put more than £100,000 into their landlords bank account by the time they reach their 30th birthday. This is why young people don't have mortgage deposits or pension plans. We are other peoples'.
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At last! #mrloverman @PenguinUKBooks is arriving in your living room on October 14 on @BBC 1. You can binge-watch the entire series on #bbciplayer. Starring #lennieJames #ariyonbakare #sharondclarke @fablepicsuk @Sony (Sorry, comments blocked, you know what it's like on here...)
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