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Paul Boakye

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Playwright and author exploring culture, memory and belonging. Making documentary and editorial films using AI-assisted production. Traveller. Occasional shower crooner.

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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 12h
Did you say Q? Sorry, I'm dyslexic youtu.be/7jTegoppcuQ
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Queerdom (1978) | A Body Out of Bounds
YouTube video by QUEER ATLAS
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 03/10/2026
He clearly has a vision, which is a far cry from most, and is halfway to accomplishing his ambition with hard work.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 01/10/2026
I’ve signed you up for this, thank me later! 😊 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/ser...
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Service95 Book Club: Rewriting Male Tenderness | Southbank Centre
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 30/09/2026
First I’ve heard of any plans from Trump to Make Britain Great Again. 🙄
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 27/09/2026
‘Concerned about rising rates of infections and the potential for the epidemic to spread more widely through the Pacific, the Australian government announced a new $48 million funding package in August.’ www.npr.org/2026/09/26/g...
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Why this island paradise has the world's fastest-growing HIV epidemic
In mid-September, Fiji's government declared a national emergency because of a startling rise in HIV infections. The country's crystal meth epidemic is a strong contributing factor.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 26/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks
Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 24/09/2026
Research findings and discussion featured Xu Yu and Yanis Merad at Harvard, alongside Anton Pozniak in the NHS. The film also draws on published research into elite control and the HIV reservoir. @harvardmed.bsky.social @iasociety.bsky.social
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 24/09/2026
What can one hidden HIV reservoir tell us about long-term natural control? 40 Years Undetectable explores elite controllers, intact and defective proviruses, reservoir decay and the search for a functional cure. Watch: youtu.be/C1vTHUw9ldg @iasociety.bsky.social #HIVsky
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What We Can Learn From the 40-Year HIV Elite Controller
YouTube video by QUEER ATLAS
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 23/09/2026
This is much more substantial than most playwriting competitions. The combination of £10,000, a guaranteed production and Methuen publication could relaunch an established playwright as readily as introduce a new one. societyofauthors.org/prizes/exter...
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The Windrush Prize for British Caribbean Playwrights - The Society of Authors
Encouraging the next generation of playwrights from the Caribbean diaspora to tell the stories of their community in their way.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 23/09/2026
Former winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are among the six authors shortlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize, alongside returning nominee Elizabeth Strout and first-time shortlistees M John Harrison, Luke Kennard and Rebecca Perry. 👇
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Booker Prize shortlist 2026 features Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 22/09/2026
Late-night crew — where are you playing this one? Drop your city + who you're slow dancing with. 😉 #loversrock #reggae #loversrockreggae #rocksteady
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 17/09/2026
You know you're getting on when the people you know are frequently leaving out to meet the ancestors. RIP, Bonnie.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 17/09/2026
It wouldn’t be the first time.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 17/09/2026
It was interesting recently when I was doing research using ChatGPT Plus. It told me it had found a hackable site where it could bypass a paywall to get the information I sought. It did and got the intel I needed free of charge. It felt like espionage. Just saying…
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Twainian @twainian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“All good art is political! There is none that isn’t. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo.’ We’ve just dirtied the word ‘politics,’ made it sound like it’s unpatriotic or something.” - Toni Morrison
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 16/09/2026
Is it AI?
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 13/09/2026
Calling all new writers! ✍️ The BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Competition is open. Submit an original script idea for a series, feature or short film. Apply by 16 Sept: bafta.org/programmes Please share with your community. Good luck!
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Programmes - Bafta
Discover how BAFTA plays a major role in supporting the next generation of film, games and TV talent.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'On a research trip to Kingston for his newest novel, ‘The Disappearers,’ Marlon James reflects on how “to live in Jamaica is to confront history, which is all around you”.' www.cntraveler.com/story/how-a-...
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How a Homecoming to Jamaica Helped Author Marlon James Write His Newest, Booker Prize-Nominated Novel
On a research trip to Kingston for his newest novel, ‘The Disappearers,’ Marlon James reflects on how “to live in Jamaica is to confront history, which is all around you.”
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 10/09/2026
Regan was positively scholarly compared to this incompetent incumbent.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 10/09/2026
How is that even legal to contemplate let alone voice?
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 10/09/2026
What the… 🤷🏽‍♂️ They were only supposed to take our jobs.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This dog didn't recognize his owner, who was hospitalized for a long time, until he sniffed him. The owner lost weight and his appearance changed. This shows us how important the sense of smell is for animals in general and dogs in particular. Repost of @archivetw_: Original post
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 08/09/2026
“Those who can’t hear must feel,”my old man used to say.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 08/09/2026
There must be cheaper options.
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Cowboy Pulls Trigger, Fires Pistol
ALT: Cowboy Pulls Trigger, Fires Pistol
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 03/09/2026
Hey, loving you until dawn. RIP. “Let's get together for a midnight thrill, honey And everybody's in the house Nothing can stop us from feeling good tonight We've got a blue light 'til dawn.” youtu.be/NCPV7Boi4MI
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Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light Til Dawn [12-13-94]
YouTube video by What's for afters?
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 01/09/2026
They got so much things to say.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 01/09/2026
Did you say he's dead?
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 01/09/2026
Paul McVeigh West Cork Residency 2027 - Category: Funded writing residency - Deadline: 30 September 2026 - Value: Six-day residency near Glengariff, West Cork. Accommodation, standard travel, most meals. See you there? paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/10/17/t...
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The Paul McVeigh West Cork Residency 2027
This residency will take place near Glengariff, West Cork, from Monday 25th January 2027 until Saturday 30th January 2027. The opportunity is for emerging writers of fiction and non-fiction aged 21…
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/09/2026
Marlon James’s new novel brings gay life and homophobia center stage, with psychological acuity and ragged lyricism. “Life pours from him,” Katy Walman writes, about James. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“The Disappearers” Stages the Pain and Pleasure of Jamaican Gay Life
Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 31/08/2026
Kind of like the 🤡 in the White House, then. But probably much more intelligent.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 31/08/2026
“Money from Gambians abroad is keeping the country afloat. Last year, remittances from the diaspora through formal channels alone came to about €746 million, accounting for more than 30 per cent of the country’s GDP, according to local media.” www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived
A harrowing story of death and survival on the Atlantic migration route from west Africa, ‘the deadliest in the world’
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 29/08/2026
Medical marijuana is legal, is it not?
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Kathryn Delaney @kldelaney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
just an US citizen asking my fellow citizens how much pain from stupid wars, cruel immigration policies, cruel poverty policies, cruel foreign aid policies, acts of betrayal against allies, and stupid economic policies it will take to say “No more” and make it count.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 21/08/2026
“The evidence is overwhelming: [LGBTQ+] criminalisation does not prevent HIV – it fuels it,” Immaculate Owomugisha Bazare, Director of the Centre for Women Justice, Uganda, at the 26th International AIDS Conference held in Rio de Janeiro. www.aidsmap.com/news/aug-202...
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The scourge of LGBTQ criminalisation moving across African countries – and its impact on HIV
“The evidence is overwhelming: criminalisation does not prevent HIV – it fuels it,” Immaculate Owomugisha Bazare, Director of the Centre for Women Justice, Uganda, said in a plenary presentation at the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) held in Rio de Janeiro recently.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 20/08/2026
More than 6,600 Americans applied for British citizenship in the year to March 2025, a roughly 30% increase on the previous year and the highest figure since Home Office records began in 2004. By March 2026, applications had reached 9,300, more than twice the 2022 figure when Biden was president.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 19/08/2026
Sadly, most people repeating offensive takes on Diane Abbott, Meghan Markle, or Jude Bellingham have never read the source article, yet still spread racist views online - Britons aren’t immune. I do hope we tax social media sufficiently and curb media bias and misinformation effectively.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 19/08/2026
The public tends to blame the press, but our media doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's the consumers, too—they lap it up.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 19/08/2026
To see the press coverage of Jason Arday laid out openly is shocking. They probably couldn't produce a similarly detailed examination showing the hounding of Meghan Markle or tracking the lies told by the fantasist in the White House, but this is a stark double standard. newscord.org/editorials/j...
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Jason Arday told the press he was at his limit. It answered with 188 more articles. He is dead at 41.
A full census of the 249 articles fifteen national outlets published about Jason Arday in 22 days, with the last day reconstructed hour by hour. Every article listed and linked.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 16/08/2026
Just like universal healthcare, proportional representation will never be accepted in the United States of America. Call it turkeys voting for Thanksgiving.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There’s an underlying assumption a lot of people are making that if a black guy successfully misleads you, it means you have set your racism levels too low.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 16/08/2026
Imagine having to kill yourself to get good press. “Inglan is a bitch.”
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 15/08/2026
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 15/08/2026
He got the Meghan Markle treatment.
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 15/08/2026
That's all we need. 😳
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 15/08/2026
Compare Professor Jason Arday’s treatment to white academics on Retraction Watch’s UK list: Amatrudo, Holmes, Ruggiero, O’Reilly, etc. Their cases ran in the trade press, then vanished - no accusations followed them to the grave. We don’t have to wonder why. RIP. retractionwatch.com/category/uk-...
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uk retractions – Retraction Watch
Posts about uk retractions written by Ellie Kincaid, Adam Marcus, and Ivan Oransky
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 14/08/2026
Why do people keep stating the obvious? It must be time to do something about it.
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
♥️💐 rest in power & paradise lovely soul 👑♥️💐🕊♥️🌿
Dr Gladys West, has died. She is the mathematician behind the creation of GPS
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 13/08/2026
Where?
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 11/08/2026
Why would any citizen object to universal healthcare unless they are a shareholder of a pharmaceutical company?
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Paul Boakye @paulboakye.net · 10/08/2026
Mississippi Goddam youtu.be/zFdpppjnlWY
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Mississippi Goddam | Nina Simone's Raw, Unfiltered Live Moment in England
YouTube video by QUEER ATLAS
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