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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 18/08/2026
hi! a dear friend of mine is in need of some help to stabilize immediate needs, including HRT/meds after income loss & other challenges. i'm adopting this need to help maintain their privacy, but will provide updates. thank you 💗 goal: $1k by 9/10 v: allisonannecollage paypal.me/allisonannecollage
Raising aid for a longtime friend who needs some support with medication & HRT costs, housing costs, and lost wages from work - thank you for your care and support!

MUTUAL AID REQUEST:
$1k by September 10th

Venmo: allisonannecollage
Paypal: paypal.me/allisonannecollage
Cashapp or Zelle: DM for info

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Jude Marr PhD (he/him) @judemarr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Delighted to be featured today with one of my favorite poems. Thanks, @leepottspoet.bsky.social
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Spangle @spanglemcqueen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My friend Akorede aka @gorgeousghost.bsky.social Is looking for some financial help with his studies in Nigeria. If anyone can offer some support or share his appeal he would be very grateful. Thank you. Big love. www.oncrowdr.com/explore/c/he...
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Donate to Help Akorede with Schooling Accommodations organised by Taiwo Olanrewaju Akorede
Folks, pls my rent ends by the late days of September and due to some convoluted reasons, which are of utmost significant, have to seek new accomodations. Pls help keep me sheltered and comfortable a...
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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our new web series begins to day & will run through autumn. Check back regularly & check out our website for updates, new books, & a brilliant living archive of 7 years of global contributors from Canada, U.S. UK, Ireland, Ghana, Nigeria, Europe, NZ. Artists on fire. icefloepress.net/2026/09/02/d...
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Dis/enchantments / Anomie /Spectacle
Our new series Dis/enchantments/ Anomie / Spectacle begins Sept. 3rd 2026 and will feature a gathering of international writers, artists and hybrid creators including: Vikki C., Laura Kerr, Stephen…
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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Honoured to lead off @icefloepress.bsky.social's ‘Dis/enchantment/ Anomie /Spectacle’ series with a collaboration FROST Poem & art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social Spoken word, music & production by Vikki C. A joy to create a soundscape for this startling piece 🔥 icefloepress.net/2026/09/03/f...
Collage of new Ice Floe collaboration FROST by Vikki C. and Robert Frede Kenter. The collage shows the webpage of the published work alongside photos of both creators.
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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Carlos Alcaraz’s reaction after beating Safiullin at the U.S. Open. 139 days. That’s how long it’d been since he played a tennis match. Back doing what he loves in the place where he won his 1st Grand Slam. His happiness. 🥹
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Spangle @spanglemcqueen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
Illustration from the endpapers of the revised edition of the book showing a detailed illustration of the dish set against a striking dark pink ground
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🖼️ Mike Hill
Painting of wildlife, birds flying over field, waterside, curlew, egret, kestrel, crows, newt, dragonfly, ferns and flowers.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Prairieland cartoonist/zinester who got 30 years for making a zine. Still short of the goal for funding his fight against this total travesty of justice. A gullible rural jury brainwashed by rightwing media, and the most fascist judge in the country. Donate & push this over the finish line.
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Donate to Help Artist Des Revol and His Family, organized by Jonathan Rochkind
Our friend, Daniel "Des Revol" Sanchez Estrada, has been wrongly arrested and c… Jonathan Rochkind needs your support for Help Artist Des Revol and His Family
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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
only 8 days left to back this beautiful collector’s edition of essays on horror by women in horror, featuring yours truly! tiers to own the limited-run book start at £20 & you’ll also be entered into a draw to win a bundle of goodies - including Awakened! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hol...
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Weird Sisters: Covenant
A beautiful, incisive statement book featuring highly curated essays interrogating the figure of the witch in film and television
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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Artist: Justyna Kopania
Painting of a full moon over water.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Goodnight. The Descent Of Night, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1894.
Purple and green painting.
Description from artchive: ‘Central to the piece is a vertically oriented, human-like figure that appears ethereal and semi-transparent, suggesting a transcendental descent as suggested by the title. Surrounding the central figure, there are elongated, arching shapes that might represent curtains or wings, evoking a sense of otherworldliness and adding to the mystic quality of the composition.’
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I may have mentioned 😊 😉that my PhD students from the relatively recent past and present have just PUBLISHED a book together: Exploring Restorative Intercultural Practices: Fire Stories But then they wrote a blog about it too, after celebrating by 'becoming flame' 🔥 @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social
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Stories from the Firepit
This month we published Exploring Restorative Intercultural Practices edited by Piki Diamond, tawona sitholé and Alison Phipps. In this post Alison explains how the book came about, weaving the voi…
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Spangle @spanglemcqueen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#irisesmakemehappy
Purple and yellow iris flower close up
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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Sorana Cirstea’s reaction after beating Aryna Sabalenka in Rome A 36 year old veteran who has spent 20 years of her life playing pro tennis To get her 1st win over a #1 in her final year on tour is so special Look at that smile… Just priceless 🇷🇴🥹
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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Marta Kostyuk celebrates winning her 1st WTA 1000 title in Madrid by doing a BACKFLIP on court AURA.
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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We haven´t received many submissions yet and would love to read more of your beautiful work! www.sidhe-press.eu/submissions/... Two more weeks to go.
A canopy of green trees, a path through them. Sunlight streaming through the trees.
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The Howard League @thehowardleague.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"There is no ‘equivalence of care’. Like so many things in the prison system, there is a massive disconnect between what is meant to happen, and what actually happens." Our Chief Executive discusses the lack of adequate healthcare in prisons in Inside Time: ow.ly/P6Re50YMHs2
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Equivalence of healthcare in prison: mind the massive gap
When reading the letters I receive from prison – some in response to this column and others from our members – there are a few things that come up again and again. One of those is healthcare.   I s…
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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
After decades of intercultural theorisations on the relationship between the self and the other comes an urgent realisation for this time of "terrifying firsts" to borrow from Craig Mokhiber: there's no self and other anymore
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Peach Blossoms and Forsythia, Alois Lunzer, L. Prang & Co, 1885.
Illustration of peach blossom and forsythia
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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Join us this evening for the online launch event for our March titles! With Lily Blacksell, Rita Ann Higgins & John McCullough. Streamed on YouTube Live at 7pm (and available to watch afterwards): youtube.com/live/p_0hOeo... @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social
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Spangle @spanglemcqueen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy home-office-assigned birthday to all refugees who were disbelieved about their date of birth and un-safeguarded as one of the many experiences of state-sponsored xenophobic cruelty that is the asylum system in the U.K. Let’s keep working for a just, restorative and eminently sensible system.
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
A really good piece on The Year of Mainstreaming Migration Nastiness - and saying here what those of us living with and resisting the calamitous consequences on the most marginalised have been seeing, experiencing and saying for years.
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Steve Brown @steve11brown.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
In light of recent protests trying to prevent local residents from attending ESOL classes in the Glasgow area, an open letter has been published in defence of ESOL. If you work in education and support ESOL provision for local residents, please sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ed...
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EDUCATION FOR ALL - We will not be divided
Join the over 75 educators and educational organisations in signing the open letter below to show that we will not be divided. ✊️ Join us on Monday 8th December for an online public meeting - 'Educat...
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Happy International Human Rights Day 2025 from the @uofgunescorila.bsky.social team @uofgnews.bsky.social where we are celebrating our book on sustainable peace and work for a world free of persecution @pinaraksu.bsky.social
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
My bit on why languages are brilliant and multilingual education is good for all www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
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Alison Phipps: Monolingualism was invented to serve capitalism and colonialism
THE majority of the world’s mother tongue is multilingual. The vast majority of the world’s people are multilingual people. Indeed, the idea of…
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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Carlos Alcaraz finishes the year as World No. 1 🇪🇸
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Book Cover of the Day:
THE BOOK OF HALLOWEEN
Blue cover with black decoration of silhouette of ruins, trees, bats, a yellow full moon.
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Everlasting Peace
Everlasting Peace
Declares The Golfer Known for his lies
Where peace is redefined as Real estate And the insatiable desire
For a prize
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Two Years
Two Years
Bless those who know
It did not begin two years ago:
The activists
The sailors
The bakers
The beaders
The writers
The teachers
The learners
The organisers
The artists
The lawyers
The cooks
The retailers
Bless the bold and the brave Trusting in cumulative action.
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Stopping the Flotilla, for now, does not stop the work of peace, the struggle for justice, the humanitarian surge which is coming from the people of the world. It does not stop the hope or the love for the life of the Palestinian People that can overcome the worst of human crimes. It does not stop.
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Guilt
Genocide:

“I don’t like the G word”
“That’s just your opinion”

Because to admit
to the impunity
and collusion 
and arming
and profiteering
will indeed bring
Court hearings
aplenty, 
in time. 

Guilty.
The G word that will 
bring justice.
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Spangle @spanglemcqueen.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Happy x
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
A new word for The Wicked to deny.
A new word for The Wicked to deny. Official: Famine
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Cat Hughes @celticqueen13.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
#books are awesome.
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My copies arrived plus additional purchases for those folk who supported me in leading underpinning the research with Esa Aldegheri & Dan Fisher @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social @scotnational.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social @uofgvc.bsky.social www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Book Cover of the Day:
FAIRIES I HAVE
MET
Green and yellow cover, green title  in a full moon over watery scene with reeds and fairies.
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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Issue Eleven Day Nineteen featuring the poetry of @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social Saraswati Nagpal open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...
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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Issue Eleven Day Nineteen featuring the poetry of Saraswati Nagpal
A Feast Of Words And Image
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
We believe #gazagenocide We are hell bent
We Believe
We believe every single provably preposterous lie the wicked concoct.
We will not ask to fact check We will not do due diligence.
We are hell bent on ensuring the genocide rages on.
We know how to camouflage and humanitarianise.
And surge urge our "deep concern."
We remain steadfast in our loyalty to the allied goals of The Wicked Afterall, they justify our arms trade with their live-streamed weapons testing on children.
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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
#MythologyMonday In some areas of Japan it is said that if you are unable to sleep at night it is because you are awake and participating in someone else's dream ... 🎨Anonymous Artist - Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Victoria Mboko becomes the youngest Canadian woman in the Open Era to win the Canadian Open. Her moment. Her history. 🇨🇦❤️
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Antonia Kearton @antoniakearton.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I'm really pleased that my poem "What you should do is this" has found a home in Mugwort Magazine, along with an enticing host of other poems by other poets. Do have a look!
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Ben Banyard @benbanyard.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
My poem "Hippy Market", about a visit to Es Cana in Ibiza, has found a lovely home in Mugwort Magazine today. Many thanks to @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social for choosing it.
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Ellen Forkin @ellenforkin.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I have a piece, ‘Snapshot’, in the magical Mugwort Magazine! My haibun is all about the lovely crows of Orkney 🖤 #Writing #Poetry #WritingCommunity #Orkney #LitMag
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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
If you like your poetry a little weird, a little folk-lore based, or nature aware, you will like this magazine. `Thanks to @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social, I have a very mugwort poem in it! mugwortmag.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/s...
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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I've entered! 🎉 Polish your first 1500 words and submit before the end of the month!
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
IF YOU HAVE POWER USE IT
IF YOU HAVE POWER, USE IT.
l use my power to write to my Member of Parliament.
My Member of Parliament, who has power,
tables 3 questions of the Foreign Secretary.
I write to her because I still can, for now.
I write because it's my job as a human.
I write because I need to find words for what is impossible to describe.
"I find the situation impossible to describe."
She writes back..
The mass, deliberate starvation.
The genocide.
The war crime.
This crime against humanity your humanity and mine.
It has to be described for there to be justice.
It has to be described.
So I write of flour and the blood of children.
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Spangle @spanglemcqueen.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I'm very happy to have a poem in Mugwort Magazine. Thank you @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social Lots of great work in this beauty 💚
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