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Lottie Whalen
@lwhalen.bsky.social
Writer, Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern (2023). Co-founder of arts & craft platform Decorating Dissidence. linktr.ee/lottiewhalen
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Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇
ANNOUNCING: ISSUE NINE!

FICTION
Amy Twigg
Suki Hollywood
Julie Galente
Katie Webster
@spacedolphin93.bsky.social
Vanessa Santos
Beina Xu
@kybettie.bsky.social
Nazaret Ranea
@jacquestsiantar.bsky.social

NONFICTION
@lwhalen.bsky.social
Paul McQuade

Art by: KMG
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The Quick and the Dead by @lwhalen.bsky.social

In her profoundly affecting essay, Lottie writes about her great-grandmother's youth during the blitz, the historical forces shaping reproductive rights and her own experience of giving birth.
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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GLASGOW!

This FRIDAY 13th 👻 join us at Mount Florida Books for our second launch!

Expect fabulous readings from fabulous @lwhalen.bsky.social and Suki Hollywood

Delicious wine from Smith and Gertrude

Please do join us — we are so happy to be back we have to party twice 🥳
June 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇
ANNOUNCING: ISSUE NINE!

FICTION
Amy Twigg
Suki Hollywood
Julie Galente
Katie Webster
@spacedolphin93.bsky.social
Vanessa Santos
Beina Xu
@kybettie.bsky.social
Nazaret Ranea
@jacquestsiantar.bsky.social

NONFICTION
@lwhalen.bsky.social
Paul McQuade

Art by: KMG
May 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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And she’s here!!! Issue Nine is currently winging her way out into the world 🐟 🦷

We are so excited about this issue; not only is it a massive banger but it is so good to be BACK!
May 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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In homage to Audre Lorde, the artist’s exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art explores whether subsistence itself can be a form of resistance artreview.com/diedrick-bra...
Diedrick Brackens: Social Fabric
In homage to Audre Lorde, the artist’s exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art explores whether subsistence itself can be a form of resistance
artreview.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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May 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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‘I love pushing mediums into the monumental and the monstrous’ 🍃

Read our latest interview with artist Jonathan Baldock, who pushes craft to its limits:

decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/myth-and-m...
Myth and making: An interview with Jonathan Baldock
Pushing craft mediums into the monumental and the monstrous...
decoratingdissidence.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle.

Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385...

Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word!

#zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines
May 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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And last but extremely not least: LAUNCHES!

We are very excited to be hosting TWO launches, one in Edinburgh with the fab @portybooks.bsky.social and one in Glasgow, with the equally fab Mount Florida Books!

Please join us in launching Issue 9, and let us celebrate the ET comeback in style 🎉
May 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇
ANNOUNCING: ISSUE NINE!

FICTION
Amy Twigg
Suki Hollywood
Julie Galente
Katie Webster
@spacedolphin93.bsky.social
Vanessa Santos
Beina Xu
@kybettie.bsky.social
Nazaret Ranea
@jacquestsiantar.bsky.social

NONFICTION
@lwhalen.bsky.social
Paul McQuade

Art by: KMG
May 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found.

Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️
May 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Guess it's a good time to let people know that in 1969 Air France commissioned artist Sheila Hicks to create series of unique panels in Chinese silk for business-class sections of their 747 aircraft. Hicks hand-embroidered 19 in all; only remaining one is now at MoMA www.moma.org/collection/w...
May 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side?
Willy Ley Was a Prophet of Space Travel. His Ashes Were Found in a Basement.
During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side?
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Are you working on a piece of writing, unsure of whether it’s ready to send out? Or are you ready but you don’t know where your work might fit? Have you always wondered how the submission process works?
April 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Enchantment by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

poets.org/poem/enchant...

#poetry #dadaism
Enchantment
Here / crawls / moon—
poets.org
April 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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My Fane talk with the brilliant author @sineadgleeson.bsky.social is still available to stream for free until tomorrow eve.

Watch it here for more on art, feminism, communes & community in Sinéad's #novel #hagstone:

www.fane.co.uk/sinead-gleeson
April 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink Moon Over Water, 1924

(Smith College Museum of Art collection)
April 13, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Variant “Adobe: Gray Turns Violet” by Josef Albers, 1958 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137803
April 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Palestinian Scholarship
www.gold.ac.uk
April 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🌳🍃Larkin on a glorious spring day in Glasgow, via @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social 🌳🍃
April 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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"It felt important to honour the fact that motherhood doesn’t finish when you’ve weaned the baby"

Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood comes to @dcadundee.bsky.social this summer – read @lwhalen.bsky.social's interview with curator Hettie Judah
Motherhood in the Art World – The Skinny
This month, Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition, arrives at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA). We talk to curator Hettie Judah on the importance of making space…
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April 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Beatrice Wood (March 3 1893-March 12 1998). A co-conspirator in Duchamp’s Fountain scandal, she became a ceramicist in mid-life after training with Gertrud & Otto Natzler. Alongside luster glazed vessels, she crafted kitsch, playful figurines that channeled the spirit of Dada.
March 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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🩷This is tonight🩷

Book for free & watch online this evening & in the next 2 weeks.

www.fane.co.uk/sophie-haydock
March 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM