#Fridayreads A stone cold classic from an era when art deco was current: Loomis' reference on proportion and the human form. Working through has improved my drawing and feels like a conversation with the world of a century ago.

#Fridayreads Halfway in on Kiran Millwood Hargrave's novel, which starts with fireside sewing overlooking a turbulent sea. It weaves a lyrical, darkly dreamy read that hints at Winterson's conceptualisation of the sea as an incubator of stories that outlast the people who tell them. 📚💙 #readinglist

Open call for art exhibit - for artists/mothers on themes of exploitation of gendered women's labour, reproduction, commodification and value. Worldwide submissions welcome for this collaboration between artists and researchers.
1 June deadline Thisisessentialwork.com
#artopencall #artexhibit

#Fridayreads : Loved Damali Peterman's book on negotiation, for those of us presenting without outward power signifiers. Instead of trying to erase the internalised culture from a lifetime inside a marginalised identity, win by using better rules.
#Negotiation #Booksky #readinglist

#Fridayreads In these chaotic political times, there is the challenge of working where we can, yet protecting our sanity. Ali Abdaal's first book focuses on being productive where it aligns with our values. 'If the treatment isn't working, question the diagnosis.' 📚 💙
#wellbeing #readinglist

#Fridayreads Finally (thankfully) read Margaret Atwood HT after decade+ of political comparisons. Surprises: high romantic content ratio, spotlight on 2nd wave feminism, a persistently unsympathetic element of the narrator's view, my nostalgia for an 80s style aca conference of the future. 📚 💙

#Fridayreads David Olusuga's tight work draws in even history idlers like me, positioning "progress" as a BFF to large-scale harms. Left asking (even when fighting far right injustices) how is the current notion of what is politically progressive...not?
Wee🧵👇:
#history #economics #civilisation 📚💙

Malvern Festival of Ideas (made possible by thumb injury that required me to cancel plans for a trip to Portugal at short notice). In true serendipity saw 3 heroes: David Olusuga, Jeremy Corbyn and Natalie Haynes. Huge thanks to all involved. Beautiful minds for sombre times. ✊

#Fridayreads Will now forever see the opening of Eastenders in the context of the 'Aristolean principles of soap opera' and give a little thanks to Hestia with every jammie dodger. @nataliehaynes.bsky.social 's enthusiastic and deeply researched work is a treat.
💙📚 #readinglist #classics

Trust your own palate, slow down and attend to this moment's pleasure. @nigella.bsky.social's affirming and reflective entrée in the Vintage Mini series from
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social has brightened this week like a drizzle of the best gravy.

#cookery #readinglist #booksky

Mispronunciation in your own head can be a shadow side of reading's DIY knowledge magic. Just this week learned that 'anglepoise' is pronounced the English way and 'Foucault' the French.
I am in my 40s. 🙈

So, online dictionaries, you are tonight's #Fridayreads feature.
#booksky

💗 #Fridayreads Sharing a recommendation I haven't quite finished yet. Already this lightly surreal Ali Smith novel, starting in a dead world in fact full of life, investigates the complexity of our closest relationships.
#readinglist #novels #booksky

#Fridayreads Jackie Kay's May Day poetry collection: from near-prose to slivers of such concentrated feeling, a drop recolours your heart. Celebrates her deceased parents, whose devotion to social justice and Scotland informed hers, plus reflects on what family means now.
#readinglist #poetry

#Fridayreads - a chance encounter this week, a hopeful Matt Haig book that feels like a conversation with a close mate. His experience with clinical depression from a young adulthood, implications for his art, how he is thriving now whilst managing the condition.

#readinglist #psychology

#Fridayreads Jeanette Winterson is an all time favourite author, this one pitches interpersonal love against political, environmental and capitalist heartbreak with dazzling writing and a compelling story. New discovery at every re-read.
#readinglist #lgbt #books #booksky #reading

#Fridayreads one that benefits from picking up repeatedly. Putting aside our judgement and getting lost in the magic of this one can shift, open our thinking about creating the next thing.

The Creative Act, Rick Rubin

#booksky #reading #readinglist

#Fridayreads (not on Friday - 1st post forgiveness 😁)
Skin: Dorothy Allison writes sociocultural essays with a raw presence that slices meaning right into you. Her ability to hold, and respect, connection with others in her community with wildly disparate perspectives shines with current relevance.