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Joined January 2016
Tory MP Danny Kruger says he doesn’t agree that “women have an absolute right to bodily autonomy".
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Essential reading: literary voices respond to the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.
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As you might have heard, on Friday, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, eliminating Americans’ constitutional right to an abortion and dragging the countr…
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LGBTQ romance novels have been around for decades, but they have been a quiet presence, almost entirely self-published or put out by small presses. Now sales have surged with help from the biggest publishers and mainstream retailers.
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Sales of queer romance novels have surged, with books coming from the biggest publishers and prominently displayed at mainstream retailers.
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How to fix a world – a poignant poem by a 4-year-old child, animated by a Ukrainian artist https://t.co/krXxL2vsxf
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Bookstores are helping in the fight for reproductive justice.
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As per usual, indie bookstores remain a beacon of hope in this country. After Friday’s devastating decision overturning Roe v. Wade, many feminist/social-justice-oriented bookshops became a s…
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Word of the Day: AUNTY-PRAUNTY (Shropshire) — high-spirited, proud.
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I always advise people never to give advice. P.G. WODEHOUSE
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The earliest recorded use of the term ‘Wild West’, to mean the American frontier, was by Charlotte Brontë.
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I like how ‘persevere’ wears its heart on its sleeve. It’s made up of ‘per’, meaning ‘through’, and ‘severe’, ‘grave’ - persevering means staying the course through hard times.
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He looked up at his clock, which had stopped at five minutes to eleven some weeks ago. “Nearly eleven o'clock,” said Pooh happily. “You're just in time for a little smackerel of something,” and he put his head into the cupboard. ~A.A.Milne #MondayMotivation #elevenses
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Rebecca Solnit on writing, gardening, and the life of the mind
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“As a writer, you withdraw and disconnect yourself from the world in order to connect to it in the far-reaching way that is other people elsewhere reading the words that came together in this…
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“We can join together to effect a future the world has not yet conceived, let alone seen.”
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New York City, 1985. The high sign that rules this summer is increasing fragmentation. I am filled with a sense of urgency and dread: dread at the apparently random waves of assaults against people…
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Don't write because you think one day it's going to make you rich. Write because you feel something; because you care about something; because your story needs to be told. Most of all, write because life is short, and death is long, and dreams have more power than money. #writing
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“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.” Pearl S. Buck * June 26, 1892
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Pearl S. Buck – the youngest woman to receive the Nobel Prize – was born 130 years ago today. Her magnificent Nobel acceptance speech about creativity:
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“The creative instinct is … an enormous extra vitality, a super-energy, born inexplicably in an individual… — an energy which no single life can consume.”
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#MeetTheWriters - an extraordinary story of hope & compassion #afghanistan #refugees #ariantelemedicine
Meet the Writers: @DrWaheedArian tells @georginagodwin about his book ‘In the Wars: From Afghanistan to the UK and Beyond – a Refugee’s Story of Survival and Saving Lives’
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