Joanna Hastings
@joannahastings.bsky.social
Writer, editor, lover of dreams and folktales. BLM. Trans Rights. Women's Rights. Refugee Rights. Human Rights. Green Party member. We're all just walking each other home.
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The Green Party is growing country-wide by leaps and bounds. There's a buzz here in #Sheffield, people spreading the word, helping out, joining in. You can too! Change is on the way! Let's make hope normal in the Outdoor City. 💚
sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/get-involved/ @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social
sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/get-involved/ @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Green Party is growing country-wide by leaps and bounds. There's a buzz here in #Sheffield, people spreading the word, helping out, joining in. You can too! Change is on the way! Let's make hope normal in the Outdoor City. 💚
sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/get-involved/ @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social
sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/get-involved/ @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social
Pure delight.
The latest reprint of:
Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social
Is in the warehouse.
Marvelous.
@booksaremybag.bsky.social
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@waterstonesoxf.bsky.social
@serenitybookshop.bsky.social
Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social
Is in the warehouse.
Marvelous.
@booksaremybag.bsky.social
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@waterstonesoxf.bsky.social
@serenitybookshop.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Pure delight.
Quite a story! 👻
Sir John de Widderington was known as a just lord, but even a good man can make a bad error when troubles pile up. He rode from Barrasford to York to meet Wolsey, & together tackle reivers' lawlessness. And that's when he remembered he had the key to his castle dungeon in his pocket #PhantomsFriday
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Quite a story! 👻
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So many myths about #PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution. It can't really be recycled, only downcycled. Not for a #CircularEconomy.
You can read my complete speech here: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-1...
You can read my complete speech here: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-1...
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
So many myths about #PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution. It can't really be recycled, only downcycled. Not for a #CircularEconomy.
You can read my complete speech here: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-1...
You can read my complete speech here: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-1...
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👇💯 History lesson
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
👇💯 History lesson
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Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames
*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
The expressions on their faces are priceless.
Nick Watt, "Zack Polanski is saying that what is more important is not wealth, it's about creating equality"
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The expressions on their faces are priceless.
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Harming trans kids - using art to capture the impacts of the Sussex ICB investigation on trans adolescents and families.
Please read and share.
The art is not mine - the artist wishes to remain anonymous.
growinguptransgender.com/2025/11/19/h...
Please read and share.
The art is not mine - the artist wishes to remain anonymous.
growinguptransgender.com/2025/11/19/h...
Harming trans kids – Using art to capture the impacts of the Sussex ICB investigation
When puberty blockers were banned in June 2024, the legislation included a clause stating that those currently on blockers would not be medically detransitioned, and could continue care if adopted …
growinguptransgender.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Harming trans kids - using art to capture the impacts of the Sussex ICB investigation on trans adolescents and families.
Please read and share.
The art is not mine - the artist wishes to remain anonymous.
growinguptransgender.com/2025/11/19/h...
Please read and share.
The art is not mine - the artist wishes to remain anonymous.
growinguptransgender.com/2025/11/19/h...
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it would be worth your while—in all different ways—to order a book from Longbarrow (and one from another tiny press while you're at it) longbarrowpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
it would be worth your while—in all different ways—to order a book from Longbarrow (and one from another tiny press while you're at it) longbarrowpress.com
This is why I don't have machines with wifi connection capabilities. They would smell my weakness and troll me for their own twisted amusement.
ME: Bluetooth, connect my Airpods to my Apple Watch.
BLUETOOTH: Who are you?
ME: It’s me, the phone owner. Airpods to Apple Watch.
BLUETOOTH: What is Airpods?
ME: The headphones. Connect them, like usual.
BLUETOOTH: I have connected your Apple Pencil to your refrigerator.
BLUETOOTH: Who are you?
ME: It’s me, the phone owner. Airpods to Apple Watch.
BLUETOOTH: What is Airpods?
ME: The headphones. Connect them, like usual.
BLUETOOTH: I have connected your Apple Pencil to your refrigerator.
If My Bluetooth Could Talk
ME: Bluetooth, are you connected to something right now? BLUETOOTH: Yes! All connections made. ME: What’s connected? BLUETOOTH: Let me do a system ...
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is why I don't have machines with wifi connection capabilities. They would smell my weakness and troll me for their own twisted amusement.
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I went to the doctor after I'd been bleeding heavily for three weeks. My female doctor asked, "what have you done to try to stop it."
???????
???????
The first evidence session in our inquiry into reproductive health conditions among girls and young women is on Wednesday 19 November from 2.20pm.
Joined by representatives from Endometriosis UK | Wellbeing of Women | NHS Race & Health Observatory | Menstrual Health Coalition
Joined by representatives from Endometriosis UK | Wellbeing of Women | NHS Race & Health Observatory | Menstrual Health Coalition
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I went to the doctor after I'd been bleeding heavily for three weeks. My female doctor asked, "what have you done to try to stop it."
???????
???????
Well, this is depressing.
Does no-one understand what’s happening here? Why d’yall think Dalio has been talking about a crash for the past 2 years? THEY WANT IT! You have to see the pattern to recognise the game. From the 1980s onwards, the US has not allowed crashes to re-organise its economy …
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Well, this is depressing.
Sadly, not even funny. This is happening right now in the US. ICE doesn't care if people were born there or if they're citizens. Don't match a fascist's idea of what looks right? Out you go.
November 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Sadly, not even funny. This is happening right now in the US. ICE doesn't care if people were born there or if they're citizens. Don't match a fascist's idea of what looks right? Out you go.
I love this.
Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I love this.
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“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.”
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.”
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
May you find yourself, one day, staggering half-drowned from the surf, Shabana Mahmood, and may a stranger reach out a hand to help. May love break you open.
Extract from September 1, 1939, by W.H. Auden.
Extract from September 1, 1939, by W.H. Auden.
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
May you find yourself, one day, staggering half-drowned from the surf, Shabana Mahmood, and may a stranger reach out a hand to help. May love break you open.
Extract from September 1, 1939, by W.H. Auden.
Extract from September 1, 1939, by W.H. Auden.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you @stellacreasy.bsky.social for speaking up for decency and compassion.
(A rare thing in politics these days- so double thanks).
I wasn’t expecting anything good today, but this Home Secretary has appalled me - and everyone I know - to the absolute core
Thank you @stellacreasy.bsky.social for speaking up for decency and compassion.
(A rare thing in politics these days- so double thanks).
I wasn’t expecting anything good today, but this Home Secretary has appalled me - and everyone I know - to the absolute core
ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy
If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you @stellacreasy.bsky.social for speaking up for decency and compassion.
(A rare thing in politics these days- so double thanks).
I wasn’t expecting anything good today, but this Home Secretary has appalled me - and everyone I know - to the absolute core
Thank you @stellacreasy.bsky.social for speaking up for decency and compassion.
(A rare thing in politics these days- so double thanks).
I wasn’t expecting anything good today, but this Home Secretary has appalled me - and everyone I know - to the absolute core
This has been on my mind so much recently - and then to see it written so lucidly. Any of us could - and many of us will - need help. We're all just walking each other home.
We are all one war, one hurricane, one military coup, one wildfire, one drought, one economic collapse away from becoming an "asylum seeker".
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This has been on my mind so much recently - and then to see it written so lucidly. Any of us could - and many of us will - need help. We're all just walking each other home.
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Ready for another #WomenWritersNet #Skychat? We’ll be talking about #WomenWriters & the Writing Year in Review on Thurs, 20 November at 6pm GMT. Do join us!
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@luluallison.bsky.social
@djmartinauthor.bsky.social
@joannahastings.bsky.social
@inkandimagination.bsky.social
@soulscratches.bsky.social
@luluallison.bsky.social
@djmartinauthor.bsky.social
@joannahastings.bsky.social
@inkandimagination.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Ready for another #WomenWritersNet #Skychat? We’ll be talking about #WomenWriters & the Writing Year in Review on Thurs, 20 November at 6pm GMT. Do join us!
@soulscratches.bsky.social
@luluallison.bsky.social
@djmartinauthor.bsky.social
@joannahastings.bsky.social
@inkandimagination.bsky.social
@soulscratches.bsky.social
@luluallison.bsky.social
@djmartinauthor.bsky.social
@joannahastings.bsky.social
@inkandimagination.bsky.social
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@fallenlights.net was kind enough to share this with me, and thus, I spread the wealth.
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
@fallenlights.net was kind enough to share this with me, and thus, I spread the wealth.
I've been thinking about how people promote their work here –what resonates and what doesn't. I understand and respect the need to share what you've done in hope that others respond/buy/read/review your brilliance. I also really enjoy buying art, books, etc from people I feel connected with. 🧵
November 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I've been thinking about how people promote their work here –what resonates and what doesn't. I understand and respect the need to share what you've done in hope that others respond/buy/read/review your brilliance. I also really enjoy buying art, books, etc from people I feel connected with. 🧵
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'obviously sad'
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
'obviously sad'
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My party.
The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My party.
This. Labour are slashing and burning for no good reason, to enable their vile greedy lobbyists and corrupt vested interests. Horrifying stuff. This is our land, our country, they are supposed to protect it. The wildlife and green spaces are irreplaceable and valuable beyond anything money can buy.
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This. Labour are slashing and burning for no good reason, to enable their vile greedy lobbyists and corrupt vested interests. Horrifying stuff. This is our land, our country, they are supposed to protect it. The wildlife and green spaces are irreplaceable and valuable beyond anything money can buy.
I absolutely love this poet and this book in particular is exquisite. And she's from #Sheffield - it's amazing to me how many brilliant poets (and authors) live in this city. If you have poetry lovers on your Christmas/birthday present/any other kind of gift list, you can't do better.
To both possess and be possessed by what has been forbidden.
Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work
of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work
of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I absolutely love this poet and this book in particular is exquisite. And she's from #Sheffield - it's amazing to me how many brilliant poets (and authors) live in this city. If you have poetry lovers on your Christmas/birthday present/any other kind of gift list, you can't do better.