Yara Rodrigues Fowler
@yararf.bsky.social
Diana fan, scorpio, & very serious leftie novelist. stubborn archivist (2019) & there are more things (2022)🌙 🌎
doing a phd on novels + abolition at Leeds
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https://linktr.ee/yrodriguesfowler
doing a phd on novels + abolition at Leeds
she/they
https://linktr.ee/yrodriguesfowler
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Hello hello, I'm Yara I've written two novels and done some organising. Here is a picture of me on holiday published in a daily mail hit piece to give you an idea xx
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This is a thorough and eye-opening article
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I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
Writers Unbound
As another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza.
tribunemag.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is a thorough and eye-opening article
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"We’re not interested in congratulating Baillie Gifford for profiting less from human rights abuses than other asset managers...We are interested in stopping human rights abuses as urgently as possible...as governments refuse to intervene, investments worth billions become very significant indeed"
I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
Writers Unbound
As another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza.
tribunemag.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"We’re not interested in congratulating Baillie Gifford for profiting less from human rights abuses than other asset managers...We are interested in stopping human rights abuses as urgently as possible...as governments refuse to intervene, investments worth billions become very significant indeed"
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This is a hugely important read, especially if your labour contributes in any way to the books industry
#booksky
#booksky
I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
Writers Unbound
As another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza.
tribunemag.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is a hugely important read, especially if your labour contributes in any way to the books industry
#booksky
#booksky
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Today @tribunemagazine.bsky.social publishes a vitally important, highly personal and urgently necessary piece by Yara Rodrigues Fowler on the history of the FFB campaigning around literary festivals:
I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
Writers Unbound
As another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza.
tribunemag.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Today @tribunemagazine.bsky.social publishes a vitally important, highly personal and urgently necessary piece by Yara Rodrigues Fowler on the history of the FFB campaigning around literary festivals:
I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
Writers Unbound
As another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza.
tribunemag.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
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Tonight in Edinburgh with Camilla Grudova @goldenharebooks.bsky.social! Event is SOLD OUT apparently but always worth getting in touch with the bookshop for returns. goldenharebooks.com/products/fai... @prototypepubs.bsky.social
Fair Event, with Jen Calleja - Tuesday 17th June 2025
Join us in the bookshop to hear Jen Calleja in conversation with Camilla Grudova about Fair: The Life-Art of Translation . 6.30pm on Tuesday 17th June at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5...
goldenharebooks.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Tonight in Edinburgh with Camilla Grudova @goldenharebooks.bsky.social! Event is SOLD OUT apparently but always worth getting in touch with the bookshop for returns. goldenharebooks.com/products/fai... @prototypepubs.bsky.social
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It also touches on the work @fossilfreebooks.org does in solidarity with Palestine and for climate justice: bsky.app/profile/foss...
Every writer against genocide belongs in their union.
The Society of Authors does not stand for a free Palestine. Not yet.
Amid Israel’s destruction of libraries, bookshops, printing presses and publishing houses in Gaza, the SoA’s lack of solidarity is driving members to leave the union. [1]
The Society of Authors does not stand for a free Palestine. Not yet.
Amid Israel’s destruction of libraries, bookshops, printing presses and publishing houses in Gaza, the SoA’s lack of solidarity is driving members to leave the union. [1]
April 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
It also touches on the work @fossilfreebooks.org does in solidarity with Palestine and for climate justice: bsky.app/profile/foss...
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A year has passed since the original publication of my review essay on Isabella Hammmad's Enter Ghost and @yararf.bsky.social's there are more things - very happy to be able to share it in open access now, too: research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/262...
April 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A year has passed since the original publication of my review essay on Isabella Hammmad's Enter Ghost and @yararf.bsky.social's there are more things - very happy to be able to share it in open access now, too: research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/262...
The anti-trans/GC movement is one of the most successful divide & conquer, distraction techniques ever.
It has consumed and divided three generations of feminists while women around the world get poorer, our access to abortion is threatened and it becomes harder to escape domestic violence
It has consumed and divided three generations of feminists while women around the world get poorer, our access to abortion is threatened and it becomes harder to escape domestic violence
April 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The anti-trans/GC movement is one of the most successful divide & conquer, distraction techniques ever.
It has consumed and divided three generations of feminists while women around the world get poorer, our access to abortion is threatened and it becomes harder to escape domestic violence
It has consumed and divided three generations of feminists while women around the world get poorer, our access to abortion is threatened and it becomes harder to escape domestic violence
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📢Event alert! GLASGOW friends, the wonderful @yararf.bsky.social and Xani Byrne will be at Mount Florida Books discussing their contribution to🚴🏼♂️FREEWHEELING: Essays on Cycling🚴🏼♀️Join them!
📅11 June @ 7:00pm
📍Mount Florida Books, Glasgow
mountfloridabooks.com/products/yar...
📅11 June @ 7:00pm
📍Mount Florida Books, Glasgow
mountfloridabooks.com/products/yar...
Yara Rodrigues Fowler & Xani Byrne | Freewheeling | 11 June @ 7pm
Join authors Yara Rodrigues Fowler and Xani Byrne to discuss their contribution to the cycling memoir anthology Freewheeling. It tells the story of Yara and Xani's two-day tandem bike ride from Edinbu...
mountfloridabooks.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
📢Event alert! GLASGOW friends, the wonderful @yararf.bsky.social and Xani Byrne will be at Mount Florida Books discussing their contribution to🚴🏼♂️FREEWHEELING: Essays on Cycling🚴🏼♀️Join them!
📅11 June @ 7:00pm
📍Mount Florida Books, Glasgow
mountfloridabooks.com/products/yar...
📅11 June @ 7:00pm
📍Mount Florida Books, Glasgow
mountfloridabooks.com/products/yar...
📣PSA: translations, authors, illustrators 📣
Have you joined your union, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Join before weds 30th April to vote in this year's elections.
Claim £50 towards membership from @fossilfreebooks.org's mutual aid fund: opencollective.com/fossil-free-...
Have you joined your union, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Join before weds 30th April to vote in this year's elections.
Claim £50 towards membership from @fossilfreebooks.org's mutual aid fund: opencollective.com/fossil-free-...
The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you.
Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections.
Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)
Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections.
Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)
April 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
📣PSA: translations, authors, illustrators 📣
Have you joined your union, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Join before weds 30th April to vote in this year's elections.
Claim £50 towards membership from @fossilfreebooks.org's mutual aid fund: opencollective.com/fossil-free-...
Have you joined your union, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Join before weds 30th April to vote in this year's elections.
Claim £50 towards membership from @fossilfreebooks.org's mutual aid fund: opencollective.com/fossil-free-...
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Announcing an #IndieBookshopWeek event with Xani Byrne & Yara Rodrigues Fowler! They’ll both be here to discuss the latest @dauntbookspub.bsky.social anthology Freewheeling: Essays on Cycling on Wed 18th June. 🚲
Sign up here (in-person/online): www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/freew...
Sign up here (in-person/online): www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/freew...
March 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Announcing an #IndieBookshopWeek event with Xani Byrne & Yara Rodrigues Fowler! They’ll both be here to discuss the latest @dauntbookspub.bsky.social anthology Freewheeling: Essays on Cycling on Wed 18th June. 🚲
Sign up here (in-person/online): www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/freew...
Sign up here (in-person/online): www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/freew...
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🎉CAMPAIGN WIN: Sentencing Council announce new Imposition guideline that acknowledges prison is high-risk for pregnant women and tells courts to avoid sending women there! 📣🎉✨
This is so, so hard-won & would never have happened without the power of MOTHERS 🎉💞
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This is so, so hard-won & would never have happened without the power of MOTHERS 🎉💞
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Pregnant offenders in England and Wales could be spared jail under new guidelines
Changes to sentencing guidance will also apply to mothers of children under one year old
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🎉CAMPAIGN WIN: Sentencing Council announce new Imposition guideline that acknowledges prison is high-risk for pregnant women and tells courts to avoid sending women there! 📣🎉✨
This is so, so hard-won & would never have happened without the power of MOTHERS 🎉💞
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This is so, so hard-won & would never have happened without the power of MOTHERS 🎉💞
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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How it started How it’s going
March 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
How it started How it’s going
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The number of pregnant women being held in prison on remand (before trial or sentence) has increased by 36%
metro.co.uk/2025/02/22/p...
metro.co.uk/2025/02/22/p...
Pregnant in prison: 'When I thought my baby had died nobody seemed to care'
Pregnant women in prison are seven times more likely to suffer stillbirth and twice as likely to give birth prematurely.
metro.co.uk
February 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The number of pregnant women being held in prison on remand (before trial or sentence) has increased by 36%
metro.co.uk/2025/02/22/p...
metro.co.uk/2025/02/22/p...
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Fighting for materials changes for all women is how we deflate “gender critical” claims to the feminist moral high ground.
Eg The GCs say: leave cis women - mostly abuse survivors - in prison - where they are further abused - as long as it’s not with trans women; we say: no women in prison.
Eg The GCs say: leave cis women - mostly abuse survivors - in prison - where they are further abused - as long as it’s not with trans women; we say: no women in prison.
Today’s HMI report is such harrowing reading — and this is just a snapshot of what goes on inside women’s prisons.
Prisons inflict violence and trauma on women who have already experienced more than enough violence and trauma in their lives.
Prisons inflict violence and trauma on women who have already experienced more than enough violence and trauma in their lives.
February 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Fighting for materials changes for all women is how we deflate “gender critical” claims to the feminist moral high ground.
Eg The GCs say: leave cis women - mostly abuse survivors - in prison - where they are further abused - as long as it’s not with trans women; we say: no women in prison.
Eg The GCs say: leave cis women - mostly abuse survivors - in prison - where they are further abused - as long as it’s not with trans women; we say: no women in prison.
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Today’s HMI report is such harrowing reading — and this is just a snapshot of what goes on inside women’s prisons.
Prisons inflict violence and trauma on women who have already experienced more than enough violence and trauma in their lives.
Prisons inflict violence and trauma on women who have already experienced more than enough violence and trauma in their lives.
February 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Today’s HMI report is such harrowing reading — and this is just a snapshot of what goes on inside women’s prisons.
Prisons inflict violence and trauma on women who have already experienced more than enough violence and trauma in their lives.
Prisons inflict violence and trauma on women who have already experienced more than enough violence and trauma in their lives.
🍉💚Giller Prize drops Scotiabank! 💚🍉
A victory for the Canandian writers, for worker organising and for common sense!
Whether it’s Baillie Gifford or Scotiabank, however many op/eds call for nuance for the bomb-makers! most writers want nothing to do with companies involved in genocide.
A victory for the Canandian writers, for worker organising and for common sense!
Whether it’s Baillie Gifford or Scotiabank, however many op/eds call for nuance for the bomb-makers! most writers want nothing to do with companies involved in genocide.
February 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🍉💚Giller Prize drops Scotiabank! 💚🍉
A victory for the Canandian writers, for worker organising and for common sense!
Whether it’s Baillie Gifford or Scotiabank, however many op/eds call for nuance for the bomb-makers! most writers want nothing to do with companies involved in genocide.
A victory for the Canandian writers, for worker organising and for common sense!
Whether it’s Baillie Gifford or Scotiabank, however many op/eds call for nuance for the bomb-makers! most writers want nothing to do with companies involved in genocide.
I posted this on my Instagram and got about 100 interesting g responses if u wanna take a look www.instagram.com/yararodrigue...
This year I’m searching for more sublime and unalienated reading experiences.
What’s a novel that blew your mind forever so that it was never the same again? Preferably not published in the last 5 years.
What’s a novel that blew your mind forever so that it was never the same again? Preferably not published in the last 5 years.
January 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I posted this on my Instagram and got about 100 interesting g responses if u wanna take a look www.instagram.com/yararodrigue...
This year I’m searching for more sublime and unalienated reading experiences.
What’s a novel that blew your mind forever so that it was never the same again? Preferably not published in the last 5 years.
What’s a novel that blew your mind forever so that it was never the same again? Preferably not published in the last 5 years.
January 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This year I’m searching for more sublime and unalienated reading experiences.
What’s a novel that blew your mind forever so that it was never the same again? Preferably not published in the last 5 years.
What’s a novel that blew your mind forever so that it was never the same again? Preferably not published in the last 5 years.
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Thank you to the wonderful @andresordorica.com for braving the January cold to come and chat with us at Wednesday’s meeting about his debut ‘How We Named The Stars’. Our most popular meeting ever! For details of our forthcoming meetings please check out edgaybookgroup.wordpress.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Thank you to the wonderful @andresordorica.com for braving the January cold to come and chat with us at Wednesday’s meeting about his debut ‘How We Named The Stars’. Our most popular meeting ever! For details of our forthcoming meetings please check out edgaybookgroup.wordpress.com
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“The isolation from your loved ones is one of the hardest parts of prison”
A woman in our campaign has written a powerful piece in the Metro on her experiences of pregnancy in prison, and how accurate the EastEnders storyline is
metro.co.uk/2025/01/22/l...
A woman in our campaign has written a powerful piece in the Metro on her experiences of pregnancy in prison, and how accurate the EastEnders storyline is
metro.co.uk/2025/01/22/l...
Like EastEnders' Sonia, I was in prison while pregnant - it was dehumanising
'Prison is no place for pregnant women'
metro.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“The isolation from your loved ones is one of the hardest parts of prison”
A woman in our campaign has written a powerful piece in the Metro on her experiences of pregnancy in prison, and how accurate the EastEnders storyline is
metro.co.uk/2025/01/22/l...
A woman in our campaign has written a powerful piece in the Metro on her experiences of pregnancy in prison, and how accurate the EastEnders storyline is
metro.co.uk/2025/01/22/l...
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Not Kat Slater complaining about lack of healthcare for pregnant women in prison! Dream campaign spokesperson tbh
January 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Not Kat Slater complaining about lack of healthcare for pregnant women in prison! Dream campaign spokesperson tbh