Mae Diansangu
@vavapoetry.bsky.social
Day job☀️ ASN classroom assistant
Creative practice✍🏾 Poet [Scots + English]
Drag alter ego🕺🏾👑 Uncle Tony
vavapoetry@gmail.com
Creative practice✍🏾 Poet [Scots + English]
Drag alter ego🕺🏾👑 Uncle Tony
vavapoetry@gmail.com
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Mae Diansangu
@vavapoetry.bsky.social
· Nov 15
BUY MY BLOODY BOOK. Shifting between English and North-East Scots, BLOODSONGS, is an ode to matters of the blood: queer carnality; black rage; the crude power of myth and how history is felt in the body🩸 www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/bloo...
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It's the anniversary of Section 28's demise. By me: "Section 28 was largely a creation of the right-wing press, and many of the people, publications and proprietors who contributed to the anti-gay panic back then are at the forefront of the anti-trans panic today."
Twenty-Eight – Reconnecting Rainbows Press
reconnectingrainbows.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It's the anniversary of Section 28's demise. By me: "Section 28 was largely a creation of the right-wing press, and many of the people, publications and proprietors who contributed to the anti-gay panic back then are at the forefront of the anti-trans panic today."
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We’re going to need a bigger little treat
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We’re going to need a bigger little treat
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Excited about the return of Aye Write Book Festival to Glasgow & delighted to be taking part in Who Will Be Remembered Here - Queer Spaces in Scotland: Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, Lewis Hetherington with Carrie Marshall - Glasgow Life share.google/lBEUQpOp8y1Q...
Who Will Be Remembered Here - Queer Spaces in Scotland: Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, Lewis Hetherington with Carrie Marshall - Glasgow Life
Aye Write 2025 presents Women Who Dared - From the Infamous to the Forgotten: Jo Shaw, Dr Chisomo Kalinga, Dr Ioulia Kolovou, Margot McCuaig
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October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Excited about the return of Aye Write Book Festival to Glasgow & delighted to be taking part in Who Will Be Remembered Here - Queer Spaces in Scotland: Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, Lewis Hetherington with Carrie Marshall - Glasgow Life share.google/lBEUQpOp8y1Q...
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Remember the veil between the dead and the living is at its thinnest tonight so it’s your perfect opportunity to call Cilla Black a cunt.
October 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Remember the veil between the dead and the living is at its thinnest tonight so it’s your perfect opportunity to call Cilla Black a cunt.
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This is a wonderful book that’s full of surprises, a real inhale-in-one-go collection (I’m not just saying this because I’m hosting three of the brilliant contributors at Aye Write next weekend. That’s just a bonus). Powerful, resonant, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.
October 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This is a wonderful book that’s full of surprises, a real inhale-in-one-go collection (I’m not just saying this because I’m hosting three of the brilliant contributors at Aye Write next weekend. That’s just a bonus). Powerful, resonant, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.
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Writer pals! just a wee reminder to join ALCS if you haven't already, and to make sure they have details of your print publications by the end of november - 30/11 is the cut-off for the next royalty payments in March.
www.alcs.co.uk
www.alcs.co.uk
ALCS
www.alcs.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Writer pals! just a wee reminder to join ALCS if you haven't already, and to make sure they have details of your print publications by the end of november - 30/11 is the cut-off for the next royalty payments in March.
www.alcs.co.uk
www.alcs.co.uk
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Proud book mama stylee! 😁🥹 Three sleeps to launch! Come and meet our amazing contributors on Saturday, and hear poems, real-life and invented stories, a script and a game.
🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
October 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Proud book mama stylee! 😁🥹 Three sleeps to launch! Come and meet our amazing contributors on Saturday, and hear poems, real-life and invented stories, a script and a game.
🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
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Bring your vuvuzelas!
Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Saturday 25 October, 4pm, Patio Hotel, 213 Links Road, AB24 5EF (also called Doubletree Hotel, off Beach Blvd).
Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Saturday 25 October, 4pm, Patio Hotel, 213 Links Road, AB24 5EF (also called Doubletree Hotel, off Beach Blvd).
October 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Bring your vuvuzelas!
Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Saturday 25 October, 4pm, Patio Hotel, 213 Links Road, AB24 5EF (also called Doubletree Hotel, off Beach Blvd).
Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Saturday 25 October, 4pm, Patio Hotel, 213 Links Road, AB24 5EF (also called Doubletree Hotel, off Beach Blvd).
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Glasgow people! I am running a second Queer Sex and Kink-themed writing workshop at Burning House Books in November! ⛓️💦
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1841349789...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1841349789...
Writing Queer Sex and Kink
Explore the queer possibilities of sex and kink in writing
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Glasgow people! I am running a second Queer Sex and Kink-themed writing workshop at Burning House Books in November! ⛓️💦
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1841349789...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1841349789...
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picture of a drill that says THIS IS NOT A DRILL! NEW MAGRITTE EXHIBIT OPENING!
October 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
picture of a drill that says THIS IS NOT A DRILL! NEW MAGRITTE EXHIBIT OPENING!
Which type of gay are you? Lady Marmalade, Cell Block Tango or Read U Wrote U?
October 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Which type of gay are you? Lady Marmalade, Cell Block Tango or Read U Wrote U?
It really is such a treat when I get to take part in very cool bookish events with very cool bookish people 💜
Another bit of Aye Write! excitement: I'll be chatting with Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh and Lewis Hetherington on Saturday 8 November about Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces in Scotland.
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/who-...
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/who-...
October 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It really is such a treat when I get to take part in very cool bookish events with very cool bookish people 💜
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All the plants I have half-grown by Linden K McMahon (Stewed Rhubarb, 2024)
From the inevitable anxiety of ecological crisis, the ecopoems in All the plants I have half-grown follow the strange, uncomfortable, glorious, glittering threads that link us to our ecologies, …
From the inevitable anxiety of ecological crisis, the ecopoems in All the plants I have half-grown follow the strange, uncomfortable, glorious, glittering threads that link us to our ecologies, …
September 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
All the plants I have half-grown by Linden K McMahon (Stewed Rhubarb, 2024)
From the inevitable anxiety of ecological crisis, the ecopoems in All the plants I have half-grown follow the strange, uncomfortable, glorious, glittering threads that link us to our ecologies, …
From the inevitable anxiety of ecological crisis, the ecopoems in All the plants I have half-grown follow the strange, uncomfortable, glorious, glittering threads that link us to our ecologies, …
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If you're looking for a good deed to do today, maybe spare some pennies here if you can:
www.gofundme.com/f/my-fathers...
www.gofundme.com/f/my-fathers...
Donate to My Father's Fight Against Stage 4 Cancer, organized by Sonali Misra
Hi, my name is Sonali, a resident of the UK, and I'm fundraising for my father's… Sonali Misra needs your support for My Father's Fight Against Stage 4 Cancer
www.gofundme.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If you're looking for a good deed to do today, maybe spare some pennies here if you can:
www.gofundme.com/f/my-fathers...
www.gofundme.com/f/my-fathers...
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Publicity shot for a stage production of 'The Wizard of Oz', 1902. Arthur Hill as the Lion and Anna Laughlin as Dorothy
September 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Publicity shot for a stage production of 'The Wizard of Oz', 1902. Arthur Hill as the Lion and Anna Laughlin as Dorothy
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I've put together a pack of ghostly, biological, ecological & geological grain textures for use in any art/design projects you might have. 25 files, 300dpi, free for download via Dropbox - if you find them useful, show your appreciation via Ko-fi!
www.ryanvance.co.uk/resources
www.ryanvance.co.uk/resources
September 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I've put together a pack of ghostly, biological, ecological & geological grain textures for use in any art/design projects you might have. 25 files, 300dpi, free for download via Dropbox - if you find them useful, show your appreciation via Ko-fi!
www.ryanvance.co.uk/resources
www.ryanvance.co.uk/resources
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Big & joyous news: Mae Diansangu's Bloodsongs has been longlisted for the Poetry Debut prize in the Saltires, Scotland’s National Book Awards! 🏴 🎉
Congratulations, Mae! 👏
@vavapoetry.bsky.social
We're so happy to see this incredible book continuing to get the recognition it deserves! 🥹
🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥
Congratulations, Mae! 👏
@vavapoetry.bsky.social
We're so happy to see this incredible book continuing to get the recognition it deserves! 🥹
🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥
September 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Big & joyous news: Mae Diansangu's Bloodsongs has been longlisted for the Poetry Debut prize in the Saltires, Scotland’s National Book Awards! 🏴 🎉
Congratulations, Mae! 👏
@vavapoetry.bsky.social
We're so happy to see this incredible book continuing to get the recognition it deserves! 🥹
🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥
Congratulations, Mae! 👏
@vavapoetry.bsky.social
We're so happy to see this incredible book continuing to get the recognition it deserves! 🥹
🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥
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🚨 BREAKING!
The Scottish Government has announced that it will back our bill to ban greyhound racing!
This cruel sport resulted in the deaths of hundreds of dogs in the UK last year.
It's time to end it in Scotland for good.
The Scottish Government has announced that it will back our bill to ban greyhound racing!
This cruel sport resulted in the deaths of hundreds of dogs in the UK last year.
It's time to end it in Scotland for good.
September 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🚨 BREAKING!
The Scottish Government has announced that it will back our bill to ban greyhound racing!
This cruel sport resulted in the deaths of hundreds of dogs in the UK last year.
It's time to end it in Scotland for good.
The Scottish Government has announced that it will back our bill to ban greyhound racing!
This cruel sport resulted in the deaths of hundreds of dogs in the UK last year.
It's time to end it in Scotland for good.
Love this. LOVE. THIS.
If you hate ai, congrats you now understand racists. The parallels are deep. "But AI isn't human; alive; doesn't have a soul" Yeah, that's what people have been saying about other races since the beginning of time.
September 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Love this. LOVE. THIS.
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Love & Other Cancers by Olivia Thomakos. Deeply personal—yet universally resonant—this book deftly exploring the struggles of life journeys as we discover ourselves & navigate familial, friendly, & romantic relationships through seasons of illness, loss, & change.
stewedrhubarb.org/product/love...
stewedrhubarb.org/product/love...
September 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Love & Other Cancers by Olivia Thomakos. Deeply personal—yet universally resonant—this book deftly exploring the struggles of life journeys as we discover ourselves & navigate familial, friendly, & romantic relationships through seasons of illness, loss, & change.
stewedrhubarb.org/product/love...
stewedrhubarb.org/product/love...
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Titular poem from Shane Strachan’s 2024 collection Dwams.
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In a spectrum of voices across Scots and English, the poems in DWAMS concern themselves with the climate emergency and just transition, rising xenophobia, and with queer romance and sex, in a groundbreaking debut collection…
🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
In a spectrum of voices across Scots and English, the poems in DWAMS concern themselves with the climate emergency and just transition, rising xenophobia, and with queer romance and sex, in a groundbreaking debut collection…
August 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Titular poem from Shane Strachan’s 2024 collection Dwams.
🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
In a spectrum of voices across Scots and English, the poems in DWAMS concern themselves with the climate emergency and just transition, rising xenophobia, and with queer romance and sex, in a groundbreaking debut collection…
🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
In a spectrum of voices across Scots and English, the poems in DWAMS concern themselves with the climate emergency and just transition, rising xenophobia, and with queer romance and sex, in a groundbreaking debut collection…
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They’re right, you couldn’t make Life of Brian today; the director would be thrown in jail for setting a scene in Palestine and shouting “action!”
Old entertainers need to stop saying this shit. Firstly it's boring grumpiness. Two, It's not true and thirdly, if it's true it also doesn't make sense. How do you "not make" something that already exists
August 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
They’re right, you couldn’t make Life of Brian today; the director would be thrown in jail for setting a scene in Palestine and shouting “action!”
Infinitely grateful to have lived in the same universe as James Baldwin.
August 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Infinitely grateful to have lived in the same universe as James Baldwin.
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In episode 10 of In My Good Books I spoke to 4 writers who withdrew their nomination from this year’s Polari Prize. They are @vavapoetry.bsky.social @sachacoward.bsky.social Rhian Elizabeth and Robert Hamberger.
Then in episode 11 I caught up with @kingsley-pearson.bsky.social author of Flat 401.
Then in episode 11 I caught up with @kingsley-pearson.bsky.social author of Flat 401.
August 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
In episode 10 of In My Good Books I spoke to 4 writers who withdrew their nomination from this year’s Polari Prize. They are @vavapoetry.bsky.social @sachacoward.bsky.social Rhian Elizabeth and Robert Hamberger.
Then in episode 11 I caught up with @kingsley-pearson.bsky.social author of Flat 401.
Then in episode 11 I caught up with @kingsley-pearson.bsky.social author of Flat 401.
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FINE social is a relaxed evening with no set agenda. Take along games, cards, or creative prompts to share – or just go for a chat with other freelancers.
Back on Wednesday at the Arts Centre Cafe Bar, it’s free and open to all, no booking required.
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Back on Wednesday at the Arts Centre Cafe Bar, it’s free and open to all, no booking required.
More 👇🏼
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August 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
FINE social is a relaxed evening with no set agenda. Take along games, cards, or creative prompts to share – or just go for a chat with other freelancers.
Back on Wednesday at the Arts Centre Cafe Bar, it’s free and open to all, no booking required.
More 👇🏼
buff.ly/lXQcJtO
Back on Wednesday at the Arts Centre Cafe Bar, it’s free and open to all, no booking required.
More 👇🏼
buff.ly/lXQcJtO