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COMING SOON... 💣💥♥️ #TestSignal is avail

COMING SOON... 💣💥♥️
#TestSignal is available to pre-order NOW from yr fave indie bookstore, featuring an absolutely all-star line-up of the best contemporary Northern writers (inc yrs truly). So excited to be part of this project from @deadinkbooks @bloomsburypublishing @cwagencyuk + @nwnnewwritingnorth, and can't wait for all you to get to read my story We're Made of Electricity 💪✨⚡

Morning writing club ✨✒️ Cosmo keeping me co

Morning writing club ✨✒️
Cosmo keeping me company while writing about witches, activists + their natural alliances 👊🔮
(A mate gave me this Radiohead t-shirt to sleep in when I stayed over at theirs at about age 14 -- I never gave it back + it's been PJs ever since 😂)

BISEXUAL AGENDA ✨🎧 Coming atcha in my rainbow

BISEXUAL AGENDA ✨🎧
Coming atcha in my rainbow jumper to tell you I'm on one of my fave podcasts! Buzzing to be a guest on the latest episode of @thebisexualagendapod ➡️
HOT QUEER SUMMER 🔥🎙️☀️
Our convo is out today! It explores concepts like body acceptance + body neutrality, creating pleasure + comfort for yr body, and the strange mix of feelings we might have about our bodies after being mostly inside for over a year. ✨
Also includes gushing about: @bellatookaphoto, @sonyareneetaylor, @kellydiels, @missingwitches, @backxwash + my neverending love for fanfic. 🙌📻
Have a listen by searching 'Bisexual Agenda' on Spotify or yr fave podcast app 🎊
If yr relationship with yr body, food and/or exercise has changed during lockdown, I'd love to know how...
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🐱♥️ Cosmo has been here 5 weeks but tbh it

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Cosmo has been here 5 weeks but tbh it feels like forever (time is a construct tear it apart)

Managed to get my mam in the sea ✨🌊

Managed to get my mam in the sea ✨🌊

IWD ♀️💜🔮 First #internationalwomensday a

IWD ♀️💜🔮
First #internationalwomensday at home in over a decade - not performing, producing, protesting or any of that biz.

And tbh I'm into it. I've talked a lot with mates involved in feminist activism about the fatigue of IWD; the bizarre oversaturation of events that often happens this week so it starts to feel like yr competing with amazing events by amazing people that you'd love to go to if you didn't have like 12 of yr own to be part of. The conflict of feeling proud + empowered to see so many women smashing it but also the awareness that lots of them are straight-up exhausted, burnout, slogging round the clock on their passions + projects and so not always able to get to the joy + celebration bit. The side-eyeing of brands getting on the IWD bandwagon when their biz practices + cultures are still misogynist af. The annual flurry of invites to speak at IWD events with no budget behind them (maaaate if you think asking women to do unpaid labour is a good way to celebrate women, pls think again). The conflict that can come from recognising the effed-up ways I've treated some of the women in my life; the constant trauma healing + untangling of internalised misogyny which is good + needed but wow is it WORK. IDK pals. This year I'm kinda into not performing my feminism/politics/gender. I wish IWD could be more about women having a big rest to power us up for smashing the patriachy, capitalism + all the other oppressive BS every other day of the year. Who's with me? 💤🛏️

📸 Highlights from past IWDs: Last live performance, March 2020 @forbookssake special hosting the absolute legend that is @shirleymay44; headlining the launch of @testifypoetry, 2018; compering the sold-out @forbookssake lit salon at the ROYAL ALBERT HALL, 2018 (a totally magic night made all the more vivid for me that I was DEEP in grief at the time + every single line from our incred performers was like an absolute punch in the gut); being part of @annelouisekershaw's 2015 Feminist Takeover of Manchester Art Gallery (also involved a bin photoshoot with @emmagraygray like all good nights out should); hanging out with @therealmargaretatwood + @alexherod_ TEN ENTIRE YEARS AGO. ✨💜