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𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯: 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 & 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 by @lauracforster.bsky.social & @joeljoel.bsky.social out June 2025 linktr.ee/friendsincommon

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
HAPPY MAY DAY✊🟥 For Radical May, 'Friends in Common' is half price! Treat yourself! It's a book about friendship & radical struggle, historically & today. It argues that friendship has revolutionary potential in the face of a profoundly anti-social capitalist system (1/8)
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Friends in Common - Pluto Press
Friendship is potent and full of possibilities for social change
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
'...a lively, scholarly account, full of bold personalities and surprising connections' Thanks to Neal Ascherson for this generous review of 'The Paris Commune in Britain' in the @lrb.co.uk today Particularly pleased to read that the book took Neal to the Newman Arms in search of the Communards 🍻
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Some end of year thoughts on friendship & Friends in Common! 💕 friendsincommon.substack.com/p/end-of-yea...
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End of Year Reflections
A round up of podcasts, events & other bits!
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Lieke Smits @elckerlieke.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
In the midst of political pessimism, this episode on friendship as transformative power gave me some hope.
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship. History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊ academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Joel & I talking to Chris Browne about friendship, reimagining the world, & fighting the far right Radicals in Conversation 📻 open.spotify.com/episode/1gNi...
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Explore the revolutionary potential resting in our relationships. Friends in Common: Radical Friendships and Everyday Solidarities is OUT NOW! www.plutobooks.com/978074535058...
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
“Friendship’s political power is made evident by the way in which capitalism attempts to co-opt it” @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak with @theskinnymag.bsky.social about Friends in Common: www.theskinny.co.uk/books/featur...
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The Paris Commune in Britain reviewed in the TLS by the wonderful @mauricejcasey.com
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
“A thoughtful, collaborative mediation on the often-thorny ways that friendship intersects with the political” @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak with @theskinnymag.bsky.social about Friends in Common: www.theskinny.co.uk/books/featur...
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Laura C. Forster and Joel White on new book Friends in Common: The Skinny
We chat with Laura C. Forster and Joel White about their book Friends in Common, the intersection between friendship and organising, and why our intimate lives are political.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
⚡️TODAY⚡️ @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak at Lighthouse for @edfringe.bsky.social 2025! 🗓️Wed, Aug 13 ⏰1 pm 📍@Lighthousebks lighthousebookshop.com/events/frien...
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Lighthouse | Friends In Common: Forster & White on Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
⚡️READING ROOM EVENT⚡️ Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social, authors of Friend in Common, for an evening of discussion, workshops and food with @leftbookclub.bsky.social 🗓️ Thurs, July 31 ⏰ 6 pm 📍The New Bridge Project thenewbridgeproject.com/events/frien...
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
substack.com/home/post/p-... Friends in Common on tour! Thanks so much to the Lubberfiend, @thebookishtype.bsky.social, the CCA, @housmansbookshop.bsky.social, @1in12club.bsky.social, Nan Moor's, @junobooks.bsky.social & East Bristol Books for having us!
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Notes from the road
A book tour, some songs, some lists.
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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Laura C. Forster and Joel White on new book Friends in Common: The Skinny
We chat with Laura C. Forster and Joel White about their book Friends in Common, the intersection between friendship and organising, and why our intimate lives are political.
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thanks for having us @housmansbookshop.bsky.social 💕✊
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
📚TODAY📚 Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for the Leeds launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities 🗓️Thurs, June 26 ⏰7 pm 📍The Bookish Type thebookishtype.co.uk/collections/...
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Friends in Common - Book Talk + 'Friendship Speed Dating'
As part of Queer History Club we are super excited to bring you a conversation, reading, and fun bonding activity with queer writers Laura C. Forster & Joel White! Friendship is full of revolutionary…
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
📚TOMORROW📚 Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for the Leeds launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities 🗓️Thurs, June 26 ⏰7 pm 📍The Bookish Type thebookishtype.co.uk/collections/...
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Friends in Common - Book Talk + 'Friendship Speed Dating'
As part of Queer History Club we are super excited to bring you a conversation, reading, and fun bonding activity with queer writers Laura C. Forster & Joel White! Friendship is full of revolutionary…
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
TONIGHT!
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Bristol mates! Come and see us on Monday 30th June 🫂 *date in original Pluto post is wrong - it's the 30th!*
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
💥BOOK EVENT💥 East Bristol Books will host @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social, presenting and discussing their new book Friends in Common 🗓️Fri, June 20 ⏰7 pm 📍East Bristol Books www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Todmorden friends! Come and see us on Wednesday 25th June at Nan Moor's! Expect a bit of reading, chat, and pints - followed by the regular folk club 🤘 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friends-in... @plutopress.bsky.social
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Friends In Common Todmorden Book Launch - Laura C. Forster & Joel White
Join Laura and Joel for the Launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities.
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We're going to Leeds!
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
📚BOOK EVENT📚 Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for the Leeds launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities 🗓️Thurs, June 26 ⏰7 pm 📍The Bookish Type thebookishtype.co.uk/collections/...
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Sheffield mates - come and see us on the 24th @junobooks.bsky.social!
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
⚡️BOOK EVENT⚡️ Friendship is full of revolutionary potential in the face of a profoundly anti-social capitalist system. Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for this book event! 🗓️Tues, June 24 ⏰6:30 pm 📍Juno Books
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Friends in Common - Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities Tickets - Sheffield - OutSavvy
Friendship is potent and full of possibilities for social change. Friendship is full of revolutionary potential in the face of a profoundly anti-social capitalist system. Friends in Common explores…
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
💥BOOK EVENT💥 Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for the Glasgow Launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities 🗓️Fri, June 20 ⏰7 pm 📍Aye Aye Books www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/fr...
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Friends In Common Glasgow Book Launch - Laura C. Forster & Joel White
CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow’s hub for the arts, hosting exhibitions, films, music, literature, workshops, festivals and performances.
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
New Friends in Common post is up! I'm in conversation with my friend Evelina Gambino - talking about friendship, solidarity, and the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway. Have a look! We've also finalised all the dates & details for our upcoming book tour 🤘
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
New blog post is up! Laura talks to the brilliant Evelina Gambino about Georgia, trains, and 'infrastructures of friendship' 🚂✊ friendsincommon.substack.com/p/infrastruc...
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Infrastructures of friendship
Book launch tour news & a conversation with Evelina Gambino
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
You wait 10 years and then 2 come along at once 🚌
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New blog post! On Strangers: Bradford, archives, & Starmer's Powellist turn.
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On Strangers
Bradford, archives, & Starmer's Powellist turn.
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
📣The Paris Commune in Britain: radicals, refugees, and revolutionaries after 1871 is out now! (well, digitally at least - real life books coming at the end of the month) academic.oup.com/book/59963
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The Paris Commune in Britain: Radicals, Refugees, and Revolutionaries after 1871
Abstract. The Paris Commune in Britain is a book about radical ideas, and the people and places that make them. It is about how ideas are forged, propagate
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In 1925, Berta Lask wrote a play to mark the 400th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War. In it, she imagines Thomas Müntzer waking up every hundred years to address the contemporary political situation. Sam Dolbear has translated it - happy May Day 🌈🌈🌈 www.rabrab.net/titles/muntzer
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Berta Lask - Thomas Müntzer — Rab-Rab Press
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The UK Supreme Court’s transphobic ruling on the definition of woman last week is a defeat for all women—even, ultimately, the self-described feminists celebrating it, and the women who will gain in the short term from their alliance with the carceral state. my latest for @thenation.com
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The UK's Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court's attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"It's not just about doing political work with people that we're not friends with, it's also about doing political work for or in solidarity with people that we're not actually that keen on." The brilliant @graciemaybe.bsky.social interviewed in our latest blog post: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Angels, fellow travellers, & friendship on the move
An interview with Gracie Mae Bradley
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
glasgow, i'll be in conversation at @thecommonguild.bsky.social on 24th April with Hannah Proctor, thinking in response to Steve McQueen's 'Grenfell' on the role art can play in memorialisation: thecommonguild.org.uk/programme/li...
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Library Session / Gracie Mae Bradley and Hannah Proctor — THE COMMON GUILD
Following the recent screening of Steve McQueen’s ‘Grenfell’ in Glasgow, this session brings together perspectives on how art can act as a memorial, support visibility, and make demands for justice. S...
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In case you missed it, our inaugral Friends in Common Blog friendsincommon.substack.com/p/welcome-fr... included a call out for questions & testomines about 'The Friendlord': Have you rented off a friend? Perhaps even one you lived with too? How did it affect your relationship?
Picture of a black t-shirt with two teddy bears (one on the other's shoulders) holding a pencil having written the phrase 'Your Landlord Is Not Your Friend'
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Welcome, friends! Come learn about our book and sign up for some exerpts, interviews and fun extras in the run up to its release: friendsincommon.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...
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Welcome, friends!
An introduction to our new friends in common blog.
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