Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerNic the Bookseller @nic-v.bsky.social · 05/09/2025This is a thorough and eye-opening article 💙📚 211
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerNoreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 05/09/2025"We’re not interested in congratulating Baillie Gifford for profiting less from human rights abuses than other asset managers...We are interested in stopping human rights abuses as urgently as possible...as governments refuse to intervene, investments worth billions become very significant indeed" 1124
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerRob Myatt 🍉 @robtranslates.bsky.social · 05/09/2025This is a hugely important read, especially if your labour contributes in any way to the books industry #booksky 094
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerFossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 05/09/2025Today @tribunemagazine.bsky.social publishes a vitally important, highly personal and urgently necessary piece by Yara Rodrigues Fowler on the history of the FFB campaigning around literary festivals: 095
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...tribunemag.co.ukWriters UnboundAs another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza. 13226
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerJen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Tonight in Edinburgh with Camilla Grudova @goldenharebooks.bsky.social! Event is SOLD OUT apparently but always worth getting in touch with the bookshop for returns. goldenharebooks.com/products/fai... @prototypepubs.bsky.socialgoldenharebooks.comFair Event, with Jen Calleja - Tuesday 17th June 2025Join us in the bookshop to hear Jen Calleja in conversation with Camilla Grudova about Fair: The Life-Art of Translation . 6.30pm on Tuesday 17th June at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5... 062
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerLeila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 28/04/2025It also touches on the work @fossilfreebooks.org does in solidarity with Palestine and for climate justice: bsky.app/profile/foss... 021
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerLeila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 28/04/2025A year has passed since the original publication of my review essay on Isabella Hammmad's Enter Ghost and @yararf.bsky.social's there are more things - very happy to be able to share it in open access now, too: research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/262...research-portal.uu.nl 272
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 18/04/2025(Hopefully) needless to say also, but the fault here lies with the anti-trans movement, not everyone who fights for trans rights, for us all being divided and consumed by this! 020
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 18/04/2025GC politics fails on its own terms: it does not materially help cis women. I’ve been reading Marx (yes) & I think this is the argument we need to make, we need to say what is it you want? Is it no poor women? Is it no domestic violence? Because your not fixing that this way; this is a distraction. 160
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 18/04/2025I do not care what jk Rowling thinks a woman is. i do care that she poured £70k into a campaign that harms cis women (as well as trans women) when she could have funded every single abortion the Abortion Support Network did last year. 160
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 18/04/2025*whatever your definition of woman*, you should not want the state policing this for you & you should not want to strengthen the evangelical anti-abortion movement. Because this only harms cis women. But this what GC lawfare achieves. 140
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 18/04/2025The anti-trans/GC movement is one of the most successful divide & conquer, distraction techniques ever. It has consumed and divided three generations of feminists while women around the world get poorer, our access to abortion is threatened and it becomes harder to escape domestic violence 1247
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerJimena Gorráez @jimenagorraez.bsky.social · 15/04/2025📢Event alert! GLASGOW friends, the wonderful @yararf.bsky.social and Xani Byrne will be at Mount Florida Books discussing their contribution to🚴🏼♂️FREEWHEELING: Essays on Cycling🚴🏼♀️Join them! 📅11 June @ 7:00pm 📍Mount Florida Books, Glasgow mountfloridabooks.com/products/yar...mountfloridabooks.comYara Rodrigues Fowler & Xani Byrne | Freewheeling | 11 June @ 7pmJoin authors Yara Rodrigues Fowler and Xani Byrne to discuss their contribution to the cycling memoir anthology Freewheeling. It tells the story of Yara and Xani's two-day tandem bike ride from Edinbu... 001
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 07/04/2025📣PSA: translations, authors, illustrators 📣 Have you joined your union, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Join before weds 30th April to vote in this year's elections. Claim £50 towards membership from @fossilfreebooks.org's mutual aid fund: opencollective.com/fossil-free-... 045
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerThe Portobello Bookshop @portybooks.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Announcing an #IndieBookshopWeek event with Xani Byrne & Yara Rodrigues Fowler! They’ll both be here to discuss the latest @dauntbookspub.bsky.social anthology Freewheeling: Essays on Cycling on Wed 18th June. 🚲 Sign up here (in-person/online): www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/freew... 042
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerJaney Starling @janeystarling.bsky.social · 05/03/2025🎉CAMPAIGN WIN: Sentencing Council announce new Imposition guideline that acknowledges prison is high-risk for pregnant women and tells courts to avoid sending women there! 📣🎉✨ This is so, so hard-won & would never have happened without the power of MOTHERS 🎉💞 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...theguardian.comPregnant offenders in England and Wales could be spared jail under new guidelinesChanges to sentencing guidance will also apply to mothers of children under one year old 0187
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerJaney Starling @janeystarling.bsky.social · 05/03/2025How it started How it’s going 0133
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerJaney Starling @janeystarling.bsky.social · 24/02/2025The number of pregnant women being held in prison on remand (before trial or sentence) has increased by 36% metro.co.uk/2025/02/22/p...metro.co.ukPregnant in prison: 'When I thought my baby had died nobody seemed to care'Pregnant women in prison are seven times more likely to suffer stillbirth and twice as likely to give birth prematurely. 0102
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerCraig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 06/02/2025revistacult.uol.com.br/home/liberda...revistacult.uol.com.brA liberdade é um lugarUma conversa com Ruth wilson Gilmore sobre Du Bois, marxismo negro e capitalismo racial 0114
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025We actually don’t have to convince ppl what a women is or isn’t to take the air out of the trans panic - we just have to show them the two sides, and ask which side they are on. 010
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025There are two sides: one is fighting trans women in women’s prisons; the other is fighting the incarceration of pregnant women, the death of babies born in prison, the rape and abuse of women who are mostly working class, disproportionately woc, and survivors by the state. 110
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025On the left we do a lot of TELLING people why they’re wrong… what’s more effective is SHOWING we are on their side by fighting for improvements in their material conditions (or, in the case of GCs, the ppl they say they care about) 120
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025AND, by comparison, we show that their “wins” are all notional / emotional, not material - often in fact materially damaging for the rights of cos women eg to abortion access by weakening legislative precedent on bodily autonomy 120
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025every time trans inclusive feminists win real & universal changes for women, like ££ for domestic violence services, abortion access & prison abolition, we *show* the GCs up on their own terms, which is (ostensibly) rights for cis women 130
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Fighting for materials changes for all women is how we deflate “gender critical” claims to the feminist moral high ground. Eg The GCs say: leave cis women - mostly abuse survivors - in prison - where they are further abused - as long as it’s not with trans women; we say: no women in prison. 250
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerJaney Starling @janeystarling.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Today’s HMI report is such harrowing reading — and this is just a snapshot of what goes on inside women’s prisons. Prisons inflict violence and trauma on women who have already experienced more than enough violence and trauma in their lives. 022
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025🍉💚Giller Prize drops Scotiabank! 💚🍉 A victory for the Canandian writers, for worker organising and for common sense! Whether it’s Baillie Gifford or Scotiabank, however many op/eds call for nuance for the bomb-makers! most writers want nothing to do with companies involved in genocide. 0194
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I posted this on my Instagram and got about 100 interesting g responses if u wanna take a look www.instagram.com/yararodrigue... 010
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025This year I’m searching for more sublime and unalienated reading experiences. What’s a novel that blew your mind forever so that it was never the same again? Preferably not published in the last 5 years. 230
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerEdinburgh Gay Men's Book Group @egmbg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Thank you to the wonderful @andresordorica.com for braving the January cold to come and chat with us at Wednesday’s meeting about his debut ‘How We Named The Stars’. Our most popular meeting ever! For details of our forthcoming meetings please check out edgaybookgroup.wordpress.com 2132
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerJaney Starling @janeystarling.bsky.social · 22/01/2025“The isolation from your loved ones is one of the hardest parts of prison” A woman in our campaign has written a powerful piece in the Metro on her experiences of pregnancy in prison, and how accurate the EastEnders storyline is metro.co.uk/2025/01/22/l...metro.co.ukLike EastEnders' Sonia, I was in prison while pregnant - it was dehumanising'Prison is no place for pregnant women' 085
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerJaney Starling @janeystarling.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Not Kat Slater complaining about lack of healthcare for pregnant women in prison! Dream campaign spokesperson tbh 093
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerJaney Starling @janeystarling.bsky.social · 21/01/2025A landmark announcement from a prisons minister. Now it’s up to us to give him the political mandate to go even further. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...theguardian.comPrisons minister aims to close one women’s jail in England and WalesExclusive: Timpson says government plans to reverse rise in female inmates and use alternative forms of punishment 0103
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org strategy day last weekend was exciting, collaborative & hopeful. We imagined what a literary industry that we all deserve - from writers & publicists here to Palestinians - wd look like, & how to make it real. To join us email fossilfreebooksuk@gmail.com 191
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerNoreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 16/01/2025hope is the challenging question. the troublesome refusal. the threat to the daily luxuries we enjoy. the inability to ignore what funds them, what lies under them - the demand that you see them too hope is not, and will never be, the charming flourish at the end of a melancholy piece of writing 39321
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerNoreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 16/01/2025one of the weird violences of literary culture - the way we are (a) vilified for doing/writing about the things which might make a broken world better (b) SIMULTANEOUSLY: constantly asked, by the same people, to gesture to/perform hope, in what we write and say 312720
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerLighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 08/01/20252025 is upon us - and for you, dear reader, we have a whole heck of an event lineup to start adding to those crisp new diaries of yours! We've rounded up a first batch of launches - feminist fiction & polemic, Palestine solidarity & queer liberation, resilience & more: x90yz.mjt.lu/nl3/vKo9aR0_... 1235
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerRyan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The reason journalists are furious at Fossil Free Books, and protests against Bailey Gifford's book festival connections, in a way they never came for musicians who protested Barclay's involvement in music festivals, is that journalists don't get invited to play music festivals. 2334
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerAlycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 06/01/2025read this beautiful thread and then come organise with FFB (@fossilfreebooks.org) as we work together on trade union strategies and collective author action 💕 071
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Aw well then it worth it!!! 💪🏼 see you there :) 010
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 06/01/20251000%!!!! also can I be super cheeky and invite you both to FFB’s strategy on 18th jan? It’s online + in person in London and Edinburgh and we’re gonna be planning how to build worker power for authors and other works in the pub industry 🤓 220
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 06/01/2025💚💚💚💚 I feel v annoyed (as a reader) at the thought of all the cool books that aren’t being written!!! 130
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerElizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025for further context my advance was 0.1% of Richard Osman's! (which I was v happy with and I'm sure he sell 1ms more books than mine will but a fun* stat to think about!) (*by fun I mean, think about how many more books we could have alongside the celeb ones if that wealth was spread more evenly) 182
Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerNoreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 06/01/2025why indeed would you blame billionaire monopolies for anything when you could blame a group of underpaid minorities authors. beats me 🤷🏼♀️ 1162