Elizabeth
@elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
Author - THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE - Feb 25 (UK) May 25 (US) with Dialogue and Legacy Lit
🌈☎️✨ I like games, books, art & crafts ✨newsletter/blog: the tiny narrative ✨ she/her
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🌈☎️✨ I like games, books, art & crafts ✨newsletter/blog: the tiny narrative ✨ she/her
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Happy book publication day to me!! THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE is OUT TODAY in the UK 🩷💚
I’m so excited to see this book in the world.
elizabethlovatt.com for links to order and merch!!
#booksky #2025debut
I’m so excited to see this book in the world.
elizabethlovatt.com for links to order and merch!!
#booksky #2025debut
work sitting time over (in home office) now to begin fun sitting time (in living room)
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
work sitting time over (in home office) now to begin fun sitting time (in living room)
chose Chernobyl as my Halloween watch cos there’s nothing scarier than a nuclear disaster and a government who lies
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
chose Chernobyl as my Halloween watch cos there’s nothing scarier than a nuclear disaster and a government who lies
I'm rewatching Bones and the most unbelieveable bit of Season One is when her 'Publisher' sends her a car in the hope that she'll write another book 😭
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I'm rewatching Bones and the most unbelieveable bit of Season One is when her 'Publisher' sends her a car in the hope that she'll write another book 😭
possibly the grimmiest book list I've seen in a while (via my local council library)
October 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
possibly the grimmiest book list I've seen in a while (via my local council library)
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I hope we all understand this is happening because the services are being made less social. Being social isn't profitable.
October 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I hope we all understand this is happening because the services are being made less social. Being social isn't profitable.
perfect lunchtime reading. you might think, how could a tram driver championship be exciting, well Holly explains how
Okay I wrote up my trip to the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS buttondown.com/holly/archiv...
cannot stress enough how much this newsletter issue is just a list of things that happened at the world tramdriver championships, please use your own judgement regarding whether that is of interest to you
cannot stress enough how much this newsletter issue is just a list of things that happened at the world tramdriver championships, please use your own judgement regarding whether that is of interest to you
The World Tramdriver Championships
Heya, Whoops, it’s been a while! But how better to start sending these again than to tell you all about the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS in Vienna, which...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
perfect lunchtime reading. you might think, how could a tram driver championship be exciting, well Holly explains how
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What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.
I'm a bit concerned about the use of the word "clash" here, @theguardian.com. Not only does this imply 'two-sideism' (my favourite bit is designation of anti-racist protesters as "hardcore" - turns out the only thing they were 'hardcore' about is techno) but also a physical conflict. Was there one?
September 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.
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My new novel, AS IF, has a cover. Out from Hamish Hamilton on 26th Feb 2026, and later in the year from FSG in the US.
As of now you can preorder via your usual bookshop or your library—thank you! x
As of now you can preorder via your usual bookshop or your library—thank you! x
September 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
My new novel, AS IF, has a cover. Out from Hamish Hamilton on 26th Feb 2026, and later in the year from FSG in the US.
As of now you can preorder via your usual bookshop or your library—thank you! x
As of now you can preorder via your usual bookshop or your library—thank you! x
I said what I said!
I loved reading this book earlier this year 💙 and now you can preorder it!!
I loved reading this book earlier this year 💙 and now you can preorder it!!
It's here.
BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25
"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi
Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...
BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25
"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi
Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...
September 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I said what I said!
I loved reading this book earlier this year 💙 and now you can preorder it!!
I loved reading this book earlier this year 💙 and now you can preorder it!!
come along! no ticket needed! we’ll be chatting horns, lesbians and detective fiction!
Brighton tonight! Join us for a fantastic evening discussing all things Bone Horn with Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain and @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social. See you at The Family Store at 6:30pm 📚🕵️
September 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
come along! no ticket needed! we’ll be chatting horns, lesbians and detective fiction!
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Really enjoyed this afternoon’s @womenshistnet.bsky.social roundtable on “Lesbian Histories & the Long View” with @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @sazwingrove.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social & Lisa Weston! I particularly loved everyone’s joy for research & the rabbit holes you end up going down!
September 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Really enjoyed this afternoon’s @womenshistnet.bsky.social roundtable on “Lesbian Histories & the Long View” with @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @sazwingrove.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social & Lisa Weston! I particularly loved everyone’s joy for research & the rabbit holes you end up going down!
one day you wake up post-35 and realise you have become the Lorax and it time to get better tweezers
September 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
one day you wake up post-35 and realise you have become the Lorax and it time to get better tweezers
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Some Awesome games in this bundle with all proceeds going to a just cause! Be sure to pick it up 🇵🇸
The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.
Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.
Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.
September 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Some Awesome games in this bundle with all proceeds going to a just cause! Be sure to pick it up 🇵🇸
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Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
January 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
too many men wearing swede shoes in (rainy) London today
September 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
too many men wearing swede shoes in (rainy) London today
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I’ve written about making art when it feels like the world is ending, about living truthfully in a homophobic world, about the Two Roberts in the 1940s. And a lot of it feels very…now.
"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?"
I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.
tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu
I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.
tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu
‘They had everything, then nothing’: the prodigies the art world forgot
Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?
tinyurl.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I’ve written about making art when it feels like the world is ending, about living truthfully in a homophobic world, about the Two Roberts in the 1940s. And a lot of it feels very…now.
my mum is going to Leicester Pride this year for the first time and with her new church - hoping she snags a zine for me!
To coincide with Leicester Pride this year we're debuting a new project: 'Communion: A Queer Christian Zine', created with an ethos of grassroots organising and radical sharing, with the finished product being freely available for anyone to print and distribute among their own communities.
August 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
my mum is going to Leicester Pride this year for the first time and with her new church - hoping she snags a zine for me!
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The sign up link for our roundtable 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View', ft. @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social, @norenashopland.bsky.social, @sazwingrove.bsky.social, and Prof Lisa Weston, is now LIVE. Please visit our website to register: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
August 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The sign up link for our roundtable 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View', ft. @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social, @norenashopland.bsky.social, @sazwingrove.bsky.social, and Prof Lisa Weston, is now LIVE. Please visit our website to register: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
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Is the Magic 8Ball sentient? We asked the Magic 8Ball, the company that are raking it in from the toy & the players who are using it rather than going to therapy.
An LLM is a predictive algorithm that replicates the most common or likely response. It's like asking if a fruit machine is suffering.
An LLM is a predictive algorithm that replicates the most common or likely response. It's like asking if a fruit machine is suffering.
August 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Is the Magic 8Ball sentient? We asked the Magic 8Ball, the company that are raking it in from the toy & the players who are using it rather than going to therapy.
An LLM is a predictive algorithm that replicates the most common or likely response. It's like asking if a fruit machine is suffering.
An LLM is a predictive algorithm that replicates the most common or likely response. It's like asking if a fruit machine is suffering.
I'm reading Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer (a brilliant book on the gift economy) -it strikes me that the below is in opposition to what she advocates: to see nature as a person (as some Indigenous people do) worthy of empathy & respect as much as you or me, as way to see abundance not scarcity
They want, furthermore, to shift the entire concept of rights eugenically toward a (disembodied) quantifiable concept of "intelligence" (ie, toward their profit) & away from bodies & living beings. This is an extension of corporations being human, not a new kind of consciousness.
I'm suspicious tech companies are pushing the idea of AI suffering because they plan to position it as deserving of rights. How could anyone fight AI if our actions were legally considered abuse? If my suspicions are true, it'd be a brilliant plan but more evil than almost anything I can think of.
August 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I'm reading Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer (a brilliant book on the gift economy) -it strikes me that the below is in opposition to what she advocates: to see nature as a person (as some Indigenous people do) worthy of empathy & respect as much as you or me, as way to see abundance not scarcity
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British Lads Hit Each Other With Chair hats up on my ☕️
There’s a hat + art print deal too 🪑
ko-fi.com/benmc
There’s a hat + art print deal too 🪑
ko-fi.com/benmc
August 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
British Lads Hit Each Other With Chair hats up on my ☕️
There’s a hat + art print deal too 🪑
ko-fi.com/benmc
There’s a hat + art print deal too 🪑
ko-fi.com/benmc
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I am absolutely delighted to be speaking about ways of doing lesbian history alongside @norenashopland.bsky.social, @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social and Professor Lisa Weston next month!
We are thrilled to share the programme for our upcoming seminar series. Please continue to check our socials and our website over the coming weeks as the links to register for each of the seminars are published. We look forward to seeing you all there!
August 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I am absolutely delighted to be speaking about ways of doing lesbian history alongside @norenashopland.bsky.social, @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social and Professor Lisa Weston next month!
if anything happens to these little weirdos I’m gunna be really really sad #Herdlings @okomotive.ch
one of them has a flower crown now 🥺
one of them has a flower crown now 🥺
August 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
if anything happens to these little weirdos I’m gunna be really really sad #Herdlings @okomotive.ch
one of them has a flower crown now 🥺
one of them has a flower crown now 🥺
so far we’ve raised over £1000 for Loneon Friend - the LGBTQ+ charity that house the lesbian telephone helpline I write about in my book!
To celebrate there’s 10% off on my online shop with the code DYKEMARKET10 until end of Aug!
merch-by-elizabeth.sumupstore.com
To celebrate there’s 10% off on my online shop with the code DYKEMARKET10 until end of Aug!
merch-by-elizabeth.sumupstore.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
so far we’ve raised over £1000 for Loneon Friend - the LGBTQ+ charity that house the lesbian telephone helpline I write about in my book!
To celebrate there’s 10% off on my online shop with the code DYKEMARKET10 until end of Aug!
merch-by-elizabeth.sumupstore.com
To celebrate there’s 10% off on my online shop with the code DYKEMARKET10 until end of Aug!
merch-by-elizabeth.sumupstore.com
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If you’d like to buy a copy of my book, which looks at the lives and history of Black gay men in Britain, you can get a copy from a bookshop or any of the retailers on the attached link. And please do buy books from the other withdrawn authors linktr.ee/revolutionaryacts
August 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
If you’d like to buy a copy of my book, which looks at the lives and history of Black gay men in Britain, you can get a copy from a bookshop or any of the retailers on the attached link. And please do buy books from the other withdrawn authors linktr.ee/revolutionaryacts