Victo Ngai, award winning illustrator and artist from Hong Kong

On this Trans Day of Remembrance 🏳️‍⚧️ we share the words of Mark Aguhar.

The trans community needs allies, and we encourage those who are able to donate to trans charities if they can. We'll be donating to The Outside Project's new shelter in Hackney (link below).

#TDOR

The most ridiculous reason to be late for work: someone has nicked the communal door handle and I can’t leave my building

…my unscholarliness,
my rawness, all rise out of the cobbled landscape I was born to. Those of you raised similarly, I want to say: this is not
a detriment and it is not a benefit. It only is…

—Diane Seuss (Modern Poetry) #poetry

A fully grown adult asked what “inclusion and diversity” means during our induction at my new job. Even at a superficial, mandatory training level, she had no clue!!!!! She then went on to say that’s she never been racist. The sigh I sighed

My only commentary on Last Night in Soho is that the girl is not from Redruth

"what if a bowl of instant ramen could have 20 grams of protein" well what if god is dead? what if a rotting corpse sits atop the throne of heaven? what then

Introduce yourself using 3 books you love:

Feminism, Interrupted (Lola Olufemi)

The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro)

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Honorée Fanonne Jeffers)

Sundays are for ramen dinners and I think that should be the law

thinking about him 😔 (Fidèle the labrador who slept on that windowsill facing the Brugge canal)

Capitalism does an incredible job of keeping the most marginalized folks fully in survival mode at all times so they can't organize against the system oppressing (and suppressing) us. It's very intentional.

Reading Clare Shaw’s poetry and it’s meeting me exactly where I am at the moment. “A small patch of dirt in the shape of my mother” keeps floating around in my head