“The swelling has moved past the wrist into the arm, the whole limb red and spongy. ‘You need steroids,’ R. says. But I am curious. I want to let it play out.”
A piece by Morgan Thomas. buff.ly/4e3wQck
"The pro-natalist goal, after all, is not to make mothers happier. It is merely to make them more numerous."
An excellent clear-sighted review from @MoiraDonegan in @bookforum
In the new @bookforum, I wrote about pro-natalism, the liberals who love it, and the rise of the childless woman as a symbol of decadence & object of contempt that stands in for a meaningful reckoning with motherhood's contradictions. bookforum.com/print/3102/bab…
💫Black History Month Zine Commission💫
We're looking to support the production of 1 new zine by a Black zine-maker, in celebration of Black History Month. Find out more here: glasgowzinelibrary.com/bhm-z…
Thanks to @heritagefunduk & NL players for making this possible!
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As part of our Made to Last: Connecting Communities Through Collections programme, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Glasgow Zine Library is commissioning a new zine/DIY publication.
We are looking to support the production of one new zine by a Black zine-maker, in celebration of Black History Month. The zine can be about anything that is meaningful to you and it doesn’t have to be in the English language - all proposals are welcome!
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If selected, you will get:
- £450 for you to use to cover any production costs, including your time
- Induction into the Glasgow Zine Library catalogue and facilities
- Ongoing access to Glasgow Zine Library throughout the research and making period, and support from the team
- Induction into the Publication Studio at Centre for Contemporary Arts and one days access
- Free tickets to any relevant event programmed by Glasgow Zine Library
- Zine launch event
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We will be looking for a creative and imaginative idea which will be produced by February 2025. Applications will not be judged on previous zine-making experience.
DEADLINE: 1st November 2024, 5pm
How to apply:
Visit glasgowzinelibrary.com/bhm-zine to submit your proposal and learn more about proposal formats.
If you have any questions please email us at glasgowzinelibrary@gmail.com
This short story by Hilary Mantel originally appeared in the April / May 1986 edition of The London Magazine. We publish it today, two years on from Mantel's passing in 2022.
Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/archiv…
thank you for all the 2.6 million times you viewed this tweet. for each new view, we release a new pig into the woods to feast on the acorns of our social media KPIs
Radiophrenia will be returning to the airwaves in March, 2025.
Our Open Call for Sound & Radio Works is now live. Deadline – 20th October.
More details here: radiophrenia.scot
Today’s newsletter by @_her_moth_ is on the use of starvation as a tool in the Gazan genocide, the Gaza diet, and the long-standing denial of Palestinian food sovereignty
vittlesmagazine.com/p/stone-…
Ernest Cole produced 40,000 images while in political exile from his native South Africa.
His photographs document New York City during the height of the civil rights movement in America.
On display for the first time @AutographABP until 12 Oct: shorturl.at/PNq4K
"I always know what I want to say but fashioning it into a string of words that I can type out with my fingers and see with my eyes – that is where the work of writing lies, the torture and the rapture." —Sara Baume for @tolkajournaltolkajournal.org/read-online…
I was delighted to be able to speak with @Tate 's new Curator of Photography Charmaine Toh for the latest issue of Source Magazine, speaking research, institutional collecting, and her upcoming (2025!) show
CALLING ALL @mountain_goats FANS
Next April, The Sunset Tree tuns 20. To celebrate, we're publishing a special edition devoted to John Darnielle's masterpiece.
One piece per track. $100 per piece.
Pitch deadline: July 19.
Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Friendship, loneliness, #grwm videos and the work of Juno Calypso -- such a dream to write this piece on the lost art of getting ready for @offchancemag
off-chance.com/blog/get-read…
Lush to be featured in the latest @SeasideGothic , writing through otherness and distance in my essay The Jellyfish.
Seb signs off his letter beautifully...and I borrow it here...
Yours from the water's edge, E
Emil Carr-Ross became the first woman to finish the 2023 L’Esperit de Girona race in Spain yesterday, finishing the 800-kilometer route in 8 days, 11 hours, 10 minutes. Learn more about her ride here…
bikepacking.com/news/emil-ca…