Amy Jo Philip
@ambulancebox.bsky.social
Poet. Author of “The Ambulance Box” and “The North End of the Possible”. New book coming in 2026. | Priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church Diocese of Edinburgh and member of general synod | she/her 🏳️⚧️ https://linktr.ee/amyjophilp
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NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.
"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
October 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.
"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
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I'm just posting this again, because we all need to be completely clear that despite sex differentiation starting at 10 wks gestation, every cell in anyones body is very unlikely to be 100% "male" or 100% "female".
Maleeessss and feeemaaalles ❌
We're all a vibrant mix ✔️
phys.org/news/2025-09...
Maleeessss and feeemaaalles ❌
We're all a vibrant mix ✔️
phys.org/news/2025-09...
Why our organs cannot simply be classified as male or female
Biological sex is usually described in simple binary terms: male or female. This works well for germ cells (sperm versus eggs), but for other body organs it is of little help.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I'm just posting this again, because we all need to be completely clear that despite sex differentiation starting at 10 wks gestation, every cell in anyones body is very unlikely to be 100% "male" or 100% "female".
Maleeessss and feeemaaalles ❌
We're all a vibrant mix ✔️
phys.org/news/2025-09...
Maleeessss and feeemaaalles ❌
We're all a vibrant mix ✔️
phys.org/news/2025-09...
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A prayer for the next Archbishop of Canterbury. 🙏
October 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A prayer for the next Archbishop of Canterbury. 🙏
I have a notification from the Costa app telling me it's international coffee day. That's a day I can get behind. I'm off to celebrate it before saying morning prayer ...
October 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I have a notification from the Costa app telling me it's international coffee day. That's a day I can get behind. I'm off to celebrate it before saying morning prayer ...
It's been some week! Started with an individual retreat at Whitchester house near Hawick & midweek Eucharist at St Cuthbert's Hawick, then on Thurs my licensing as part-time transitional priest-in-charge of Grangemouth and Bo'ness. Now I'm off to the the Edinburgh diocese electoral synod.
September 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It's been some week! Started with an individual retreat at Whitchester house near Hawick & midweek Eucharist at St Cuthbert's Hawick, then on Thurs my licensing as part-time transitional priest-in-charge of Grangemouth and Bo'ness. Now I'm off to the the Edinburgh diocese electoral synod.
It was a real joy to give the reflection at this service for #StirlingPride tonight. #Pride #FaithfullyLGBTQ
September 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It was a real joy to give the reflection at this service for #StirlingPride tonight. #Pride #FaithfullyLGBTQ
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I keep seeing reports of non-AI users being told that an AI detector has dubbed their work AI generated, and it makes me insane because:
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
June 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I keep seeing reports of non-AI users being told that an AI detector has dubbed their work AI generated, and it makes me insane because:
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
My first appearance on *live* radio for about 25 years: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... We start at about 1 hope and 10 minutes in. Happy listening!
BBC Radio Scotland - Sunday Morning, with Zara Janjua
Two hours of music and stimulating conversation from a faith and ethical perspective.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My first appearance on *live* radio for about 25 years: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... We start at about 1 hope and 10 minutes in. Happy listening!
So, here's how I spent my Saturday. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
June 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
So, here's how I spent my Saturday. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
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This auction ends on June 7th at 1am BST. Jsyk.
As part of this auction for trans rights I'm selling off handwritten copy of my poem Jesus At The Gay Bar.
I promise to use nice paper and a fountain pen and my best handwriting and everything.
www.32auctions.com/organization...
I promise to use nice paper and a fountain pen and my best handwriting and everything.
www.32auctions.com/organization...
Signed & Handwritten Poem, Jesus at the Gay Bar
Auction item 'Signed & Handwritten Poem, Jesus at the Gay Bar' hosted online at 32auctions.
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May 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This auction ends on June 7th at 1am BST. Jsyk.
Me in my Proud Corner
Come and hear me read as part of Queer Breakfast Club – Grangemouth's first ever pride celebration, Proud Corners! The event is free but you are welcome to give a donation on the day. QBC is a fantastic local group that, despite only having started in January, is up for two…
Come and hear me read as part of Queer Breakfast Club – Grangemouth's first ever pride celebration, Proud Corners! The event is free but you are welcome to give a donation on the day. QBC is a fantastic local group that, despite only having started in January, is up for two…
Me in my Proud Corner
Come and hear me read as part of Queer Breakfast Club – Grangemouth's first ever pride celebration, Proud Corners! The event is free but you are welcome to give a donation on the day. QBC is a fantastic local group that, despite only having started in January, is up for two awards: organisation of the year in the CVS Falkirk and District volunteering awards and the charity/group initiative award in this year's Proud Scotland Awards, alongside far more established and better-known groups!
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May 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Me in my Proud Corner
Come and hear me read as part of Queer Breakfast Club – Grangemouth's first ever pride celebration, Proud Corners! The event is free but you are welcome to give a donation on the day. QBC is a fantastic local group that, despite only having started in January, is up for two…
Come and hear me read as part of Queer Breakfast Club – Grangemouth's first ever pride celebration, Proud Corners! The event is free but you are welcome to give a donation on the day. QBC is a fantastic local group that, despite only having started in January, is up for two…
House!
I invite to unlock the door to The Interpreter's House no. 83. In one corner of this mansion, you will find two short poems of mine, "Of the Wounds" and "The Changes". I have a particular affection for these two wee pieces. They do something I really needed them to do at the time I wrote…
I invite to unlock the door to The Interpreter's House no. 83. In one corner of this mansion, you will find two short poems of mine, "Of the Wounds" and "The Changes". I have a particular affection for these two wee pieces. They do something I really needed them to do at the time I wrote…
House!
I invite to unlock the door to The Interpreter's House no. 83. In one corner of this mansion, you will find two short poems of mine, "Of the Wounds" and "The Changes". I have a particular affection for these two wee pieces. They do something I really needed them to do at the time I wrote them and still need to them to do.
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May 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
House!
I invite to unlock the door to The Interpreter's House no. 83. In one corner of this mansion, you will find two short poems of mine, "Of the Wounds" and "The Changes". I have a particular affection for these two wee pieces. They do something I really needed them to do at the time I wrote…
I invite to unlock the door to The Interpreter's House no. 83. In one corner of this mansion, you will find two short poems of mine, "Of the Wounds" and "The Changes". I have a particular affection for these two wee pieces. They do something I really needed them to do at the time I wrote…
What would the world look like if we all nurtured joybait instead of indulging in ragebait?
May 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
What would the world look like if we all nurtured joybait instead of indulging in ragebait?
It seems a good day to repost this: www.badlilies.uk/amy-jo-philip
Amy Jo Philip — Bad Lilies
A poem by Amy Jo Philip
www.badlilies.uk
April 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
It seems a good day to repost this: www.badlilies.uk/amy-jo-philip
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We'd urge people not to panic - there will be lots of commentary coming out quickly that is likely to deliberately overstate the impact that this decision is going to have on all trans people's lives. We'll say more as soon as we're able to. Please look out for yourselves and each other today 💗🏳️⚧️
April 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We'd urge people not to panic - there will be lots of commentary coming out quickly that is likely to deliberately overstate the impact that this decision is going to have on all trans people's lives. We'll say more as soon as we're able to. Please look out for yourselves and each other today 💗🏳️⚧️
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FWS have won their case against the Scottish Government. We will be reading the judgement as quickly as possible so we can properly understand what the Court has decided today.
April 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
FWS have won their case against the Scottish Government. We will be reading the judgement as quickly as possible so we can properly understand what the Court has decided today.
Yesterday was my 1,000th day on HRT so it seems a good time to post this prom, written to mark the 1yr milestone youtu.be/5itO2_PtScQ?...
Amy Jo Philip - 14.6 || Live Poetry ||
YouTube video by I Am Loud Productions
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March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Yesterday was my 1,000th day on HRT so it seems a good time to post this prom, written to mark the 1yr milestone youtu.be/5itO2_PtScQ?...
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'Knackered, Babes' by @ambulancebox.bsky.social badlilies.uk/amy-jo-philip
March 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'Knackered, Babes' by @ambulancebox.bsky.social badlilies.uk/amy-jo-philip
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We’re delighted to have @ambulancebox.bsky.social join us to read at our #TDOV Readings Evening event in Edinburgh on Sunday 30th March! 🦋
Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...
Amy Jo is the first out transgender priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Learn more amyjophilip.com
Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...
Amy Jo is the first out transgender priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Learn more amyjophilip.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We’re delighted to have @ambulancebox.bsky.social join us to read at our #TDOV Readings Evening event in Edinburgh on Sunday 30th March! 🦋
Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...
Amy Jo is the first out transgender priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Learn more amyjophilip.com
Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...
Amy Jo is the first out transgender priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Learn more amyjophilip.com
Gripping my Loss
Two publications in two days! That must be a record for me, though I'm not sure my record keeping is stringent enough to confirm or contradict that. Still, it's a great way end one month and begin another as, following yesterday's publication in Bad Lilies, my poem “Everything is…
Two publications in two days! That must be a record for me, though I'm not sure my record keeping is stringent enough to confirm or contradict that. Still, it's a great way end one month and begin another as, following yesterday's publication in Bad Lilies, my poem “Everything is…
Gripping my Loss
Two publications in two days! That must be a record for me, though I'm not sure my record keeping is stringent enough to confirm or contradict that. Still, it's a great way end one month and begin another as, following yesterday's publication in Bad Lilies, my poem “Everything is running out at once:” is published today in…
amyjophilip.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Gripping my Loss
Two publications in two days! That must be a record for me, though I'm not sure my record keeping is stringent enough to confirm or contradict that. Still, it's a great way end one month and begin another as, following yesterday's publication in Bad Lilies, my poem “Everything is…
Two publications in two days! That must be a record for me, though I'm not sure my record keeping is stringent enough to confirm or contradict that. Still, it's a great way end one month and begin another as, following yesterday's publication in Bad Lilies, my poem “Everything is…
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A German word for being embarrassed by the actions of someone else is Fremdscham, or “foreign shame.” A similar word from Icelandic is aulahrollur, which is quite tricky to translate but basically means something along the lines of “cringe quake” or “douchebag chills”
March 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A German word for being embarrassed by the actions of someone else is Fremdscham, or “foreign shame.” A similar word from Icelandic is aulahrollur, which is quite tricky to translate but basically means something along the lines of “cringe quake” or “douchebag chills”
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The inaugural Launceston Poetry Festival takes place 30 May – 1 June 2025. Poets and performers include Pascale Petit, Ella Frears, Isabelle Baafi, Nina Mingya Powles, Alycia Pirmohamed, Rachael Mann, Katrina Naomi, Judy O’Kane, Susie Campell and Rose Ferraby.
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February 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The inaugural Launceston Poetry Festival takes place 30 May – 1 June 2025. Poets and performers include Pascale Petit, Ella Frears, Isabelle Baafi, Nina Mingya Powles, Alycia Pirmohamed, Rachael Mann, Katrina Naomi, Judy O’Kane, Susie Campell and Rose Ferraby.
Delighted to have added "Knackered, Babes" to this delinquent spray. Thanks so much to Kath and Andrew for choosing it.
Issue twenty: 'Side A/Side B'. OUT NOW at badlilies.uk
Bad Lilies
Bad Lilies is a digital poetry journal, publishing the finest of contemporary poetry in English.
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March 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Delighted to have added "Knackered, Babes" to this delinquent spray. Thanks so much to Kath and Andrew for choosing it.
A Delinquent Spray
“Knackered, Babes”, a poem in four sections, was been published yesterday in issue 20 of the excellent Bad Lilies, edited by Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson. This piece is full of allusions and references to, and puns on, 80s and 90s music, hymns, praise songs and liturgy,…
“Knackered, Babes”, a poem in four sections, was been published yesterday in issue 20 of the excellent Bad Lilies, edited by Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson. This piece is full of allusions and references to, and puns on, 80s and 90s music, hymns, praise songs and liturgy,…
A Delinquent Spray
“Knackered, Babes”, a poem in four sections, was been published yesterday in issue 20 of the excellent Bad Lilies, edited by Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson. This piece is full of allusions and references to, and puns on, 80s and 90s music, hymns, praise songs and liturgy, sci-fi, literture and politics, as well as the natural world near my home.
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March 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A Delinquent Spray
“Knackered, Babes”, a poem in four sections, was been published yesterday in issue 20 of the excellent Bad Lilies, edited by Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson. This piece is full of allusions and references to, and puns on, 80s and 90s music, hymns, praise songs and liturgy,…
“Knackered, Babes”, a poem in four sections, was been published yesterday in issue 20 of the excellent Bad Lilies, edited by Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson. This piece is full of allusions and references to, and puns on, 80s and 90s music, hymns, praise songs and liturgy,…
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Readers include:
Harry Josephine Giles
@ambulancebox.bsky.social
Éadaoín Lynch
Spencer Mason
... and more to come! 🌈
Harry Josephine Giles
@ambulancebox.bsky.social
Éadaoín Lynch
Spencer Mason
... and more to come! 🌈
February 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Readers include:
Harry Josephine Giles
@ambulancebox.bsky.social
Éadaoín Lynch
Spencer Mason
... and more to come! 🌈
Harry Josephine Giles
@ambulancebox.bsky.social
Éadaoín Lynch
Spencer Mason
... and more to come! 🌈