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@emmatranter.bsky.social
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Marxist aesthete, bookworker, v into fragrance/film/fashion 🥖🌹 | sometimes i write things @ emmatranter.substack.com

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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So apt, the way the attitude is if I die, I die, no thought that they might harm anyone else lmao
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I will just add that when I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student, I tried to rescue her class from being lost, as it were. Such as I could. I've taught a lot of what she taught me over the years and most of it has held up.
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Oh we should absolutely have a conversation about the smells of the recent past lmao, I need this for novel research haha
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Literary londoners! A week tomorrow you could be hearing new writing while drinking negronis! Get ur tickets here! www.thehorsehospital.com/events/reenc...
Event poster- Re-Enchantment Readings
March 6th
7.30-10pm
The Horse Hospital, WC1N 1JD

line up: 
Al Anderson / Chi S. Tsu / Isobel Falk / Jake Roberts / Anna Hartigan
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
🫡🫡🫡
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Literary londoners! A week tomorrow you could be hearing new writing while drinking negronis! Get ur tickets here! www.thehorsehospital.com/events/reenc...
Event poster- Re-Enchantment Readings
March 6th
7.30-10pm
The Horse Hospital, WC1N 1JD

line up: 
Al Anderson / Chi S. Tsu / Isobel Falk / Jake Roberts / Anna Hartigan
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Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/02/2026
hey sorry i haven't rsvp'd to your party yet. i was weighing all the other guest's souls against the feather of ma'at before deciding whether or not i wanted to come
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Honestly getting Long Covid meant I learned about so many kinds of quackery dressed up as medicine but I still did not know abt this one!
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Pesky Splintergeist ~👻🌙~ @peskysplinter.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
Dr manhatan from watchmen sitting on a rock
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I am unspeakably moved by Anna‘s words (as well as her decision) and, because she is being attacked by carceral leftists, it seems important to add that your “justice system“ is a nightmare. Praxis is life. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Why I Didn’t Report My Rape
In 2021, six men sexually assaulted me in a Las Vegas hotel room. Something more than abolitionism prevented me from reporting the crime.
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Wrote a v silly rant abt how art thinks about women’s history emmatranter.substack.com/p/is-this-ma...
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Is this Margaret Atwood's fault?
Hamnet, The Penelopiad and the business of feminist retellings
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I was but had to speed away at the end! But def will next time! ❤️
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Charmed today by Louise Bourgeois’ rap single (?!), discussed last night by @laurenelkin.bsky.social & Marie-Laure Bernadac at event for the new biography of LB! ramuntcho.bandcamp.com/album/otte
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Otte, by Louise Bourgeois
2 track album
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
i mean they got fucking w*ll stanc*l out here acting like a fucking Italian autonomist
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Truly transforms me into the stupidest version of myself
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Does anyone actually know how to synopsise anything well, not to mention their own work lol
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Moon, who I now think of as the black cat of Stonehenge. Putting this here as the original post was deleted: www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...
A black cat perches on one of the stones at Stonehenge as the humans go wild with camera phones.
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Every Christmas!!!
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 15/12/2025
If the goal is to get more young people passionate about reading, the solution is not to re-label everything that they are already doing as reading, says Kate Bugos in our recent Comment piece 👇
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We don't need to redefine literacy
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Not to be all baby’s first unionised job but I’m sooo excited about updates from the union committee on pay negotiations. Appropriately very festive really
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
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Ellen @ellenoffrell.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
new #substack: on being fundamentally incompatible with your therapist #writersky
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where do you feel that in your body? / horchata
the problem, fundamentally, was the maine coon.
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Never in my life have I checked the weather forecast like this lol
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I’m learning so much! Lol
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Literally what is happening!!
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A friend of mine is in the West Bank rn & this school for disabled children she’s been working with just opened a new sports centre. - they still desp need funds, please share & donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/build-a-sp...
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Donate to Build a Sports Space for Disabled Palestinian Children!, organized by conner reese
Pal-Amal is the premier team representing Palestine at the Englis… conner reese needs your support for Build a Sports Space for Disabled Palestinian Children!
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Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The exhibition coincides with the release of The Word for World, a book edited by @suchmayer.bsky.social and Sarah Shin, co-published by AA Publications. Use the code LEGUIN for 10% off on our site 💙 www.silverpress.org/collections/...
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/10/2025
"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives" “Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”
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EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion
After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.
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tori.doc 🍉 @forgetfulsurf.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
reading at this in october!! be there or be thought a square xx
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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 22/09/2025
dudes rock
Tumblr post from every-lemon 
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."
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Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Ft @forgetfulsurf.bsky.social among others!
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
London literary types, I’d love for you to come along to this event we’re putting on next month! Tickets here - www.thehorsehospital.com/events/reenc...
Event poster:
Re-enchantment Readings
17th October 
7.30-10pm
The Horse Hospital 
WC1N 1JD

Featuring:
Ebrubaoghene Abel-Unokan
Alexander Orlov
Nadia Awad
Phoebe Stuckes
Tori Mangan

Tickets £4
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Hello! Would love it if you could all share this & donate if you have anything to spare - so close to the initial goal! Christine is a dear friend & it is so rough trying to fund postgrad study these days! Even just a fiver would help! www.gofundme.com/f/help-chris...
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Donate to Help Christine finish her Master's Degree!, organized by Vera Chapiro
Hi everyone, My name is Christine, a student based in London. I’m fundrais… Vera Chapiro needs your support for Help Christine finish her Master's Degree!
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/07/2025
Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
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emma @emmatranter.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I didn’t know this was a thing that could even happen! Outrageous omg
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The first 11 pages are names of babies who are dead under the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.
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tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
defector.com/the-plight-o... “what's really happening is that, in response to historic declines in literature’s value, the industry has itself become a site of more contingent and more precarious work that is more often done by women”
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The Plight Of The White Male Novelist | Defector
In July of 2022, Joyce Carol Oates tweeted that her literary agent friend told her editors are no longer interested in reading first novels by young white male writers, “no matter how good.” She was s...
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Looking across the papers today, anti-trans rights commentators and politicians also seem to be the ones opposing making abortion legal. It shouldn’t be a shock to anyone - they’re against bodily autonomy. For everyone.
Shabana Mahmood is opposed to two amendments to the crime bill on abortion and Wes Streeting may also vote against them

Justice secretary to oppose abortion amendments in crime bill

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Peter Wong @pwongview.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
If you know Nan Goldin fans who want to help the trans community... @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @transgenderreport.com @cherylmorgan.bsky.social hyperallergic.com/1019335/nan-...
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Nan Goldin Sells Prints to Support At-Risk Trans People
All proceeds from the two-week sale will go to Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and the Trans Income Project.
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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The NUJ joins @ifjglobal.bsky.social in condemning the arrest by Israeli authorities of journalists Yanis Mhamdi and Omar Faiad, who were aboard the Madleen ship carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
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NUJ condemns arrest of journalists Yanis Mhamdi and Omar Faiad by Israeli authorities
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 09/06/2025
solidarity with the protesters, solidarity with the flotilla
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/06/2025
organizers from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla has announced those aboard the Madleen have been abducted by the Israeli army, and the aid resources aboard taken
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Arcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Entire Madleen crew representing 7 countries has gone dark and presumed kidnapped by Israel Greta Thunberg Rima Hassan Yasemin Acar Baptiste Andre Thiago Avila Omar Faiad Pascal Maurieras Yanis Mhamdi Suayb Ordu Sergio Toribio Marco van Rennes Reva Viard
Crew of Madleen
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