Amy SoapBox
@getonthesoapbox
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Founder of getonthesoapbox. Poet, visual artist, zine maker, feminist, and event producer.
East Anglia
Joined March 2009
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” — Maya Angelou. Gisele Pelicot E. Jean Carroll Hannah McLaughlan Amber Heard And yourself to that list.
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Piece with @el_clayton about her new work. #poetry #Feminism #Ipswich. Great launch event via @getonthesoapbox
https://t.co/FM6sHZxlbu
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A new collection of feminist poems explores inequality.
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.@PillowQueens become first band to boycott Latitude 2024 over sponsor Barclays ties to Israel
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Pillow Queens have become the first band to boycott Latitude 2024 over its sponsorship with Barclays and their ties to Israel.
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An amazing time at @getonthesoapbox at the Spread Eagle pub,Ipswich, Hungry husband found himself a chair and enjoyed the whole thing, Some very talented people with some fantastic original written pieces, Johnny was as expected.. mesmerising, Home now and husband fast asleep..😴
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The first 'Soapbox People' members email has now gone out. Check your junk box if you can't see it. xxx
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😶 A company that landed £5.3m of contracts through the Tories’ unlawful VIP lane has gone into liquidation 🗑️ bringing the total spent on unusable PPE which the government is unlikely to ever recover to £338m #TheVIPFiles
https://t.co/Qfbf2XYPlo
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Massively epic day and weekend for #ipswich just good vibes, we found ourselves with me old blue van in middle so what else cha going to do but get on roof😂🌞 to high five @IpswichTown #itfc 🔥⚠️and team playing and singing Whitney ! Perfect. @ITSCofficial
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Chechnya imposes limits on music tempos in a cultural conservative drive https://t.co/93zuWc0rDD via @louderthanwar
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Authorities in Russia’s republic of Chechnya have imposed limits on music tempos to abide by strict cultural norms in the
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📢 Tonight from 6pm @BBCUpload Guest Uploader Billy Herring 🎬 Publishing tips from @RosieSandler Plus, @seomindsetpod with @SulemanTazmin & @SarahMcDUK, comedy from BAM Comedy and poetry from @JanKaneen1 & @getonthesoapbox
https://t.co/n3EZcj3cst
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Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Rob Jelly.
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Coming out of hiding bc this pissed me off so much. Let’s all giggle about how girls don’t understand Roman archaeology teee mf heeee yeah? #DoBetterBritishMuseum
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Johnson compared Muslim women to letterboxes. Anderson made Islamophobic comments. Braverman incited the far right. Truss refused to condemn Tommy Robinson. If Sunak wants to stop ‘poison’ spreading, he should start with the hate-fuelled rhetoric coming out of his party.
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A quarter of a billion in taxpayer cash 💸 A Miami-based Jewellery Designer 🌴 A mysterious middleman 🕵️ And a US legal battle ⚖️ What links them all? @carolvorders reveals... #TheVIPFiles
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There was something very odd in the PM’s speech last night - something which infuses RE in the primary school curriculum too: the idea that everyone in this country is religious in one way or another, when we know from polls that over half the population is not religious. 1/7
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Across February, I wrote seven sonnets as part of the #28sonnetslater project. This year, I wrote about the Magnificent Seven Cemeteries in London. If you missed them, you can now read all seven on one page. Check them out! https://t.co/Ulz8R9UHOx
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Next Thursday 7th @getonthesoapbox hosts another Open Mic night down at the Steamboat, always a delight for fans of spoken word! #poetry #ipswichevents
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