Laura Barker

Laura Barker is a writer, artist, facilitator, and runs a writers group for queer black writers in London. Her work appears in The Guardian and Apparition Lit

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

@Amtrak I had a happy holiday thanks @amtrak, although I ate too much and have a chest infection. I wonder if the two elderly black ladies you kicked off your train in mid winter had happy holidays?

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

@InoshWrites I didn't read any of the letters in The Colour Purple or any other epistolary novel. If you write more than two words in Italics I skip to the next chapter. Also, Oxford commas are great

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

(video description: colour video of person too gay to handle the cover art covering their eyes,
"It's like staring into the sun," cut to book cover, Luca wearing royal blue suit, manspreading on throne holding walking stick, text reads 'THE' 'FAITHLESS' 'C.L.CLARK')

[C. L. // Cherae @C_L_Clark]

Allow me to present Princess Luca.

Don’t forget to pre-order, and if you haven’t started on The Unbroken, there’s still time. You have until March 7. 😉

(sound on for this one, I made a thing!)

[FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag]

Features include:

A Small Bloody Gift – a short story by @thenaomiday

Tet fe Mal – a short story by @intelligentwat

The Plaster – a short story by @LauraHannahBar

We Grew Tall and Strong by the Water – a novelette by @LeahAndelsmith

[...ongoing... | ON HIATUS @ongoing_space]

"Flutterings" by Catherine Lee is an incredible response to @LauraHannahBar's piece "Bugs". It is an interspecies improvisation with the Bombyz mori (domestic silkworm moth). We recommend listening with headphones for full effect! 🎧

https://t.co/RYbe2fJWZK

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

(image description: colour photo of a purple book propped on white surface with white background, branch with small green leaves and red berries to the left. White on book reads 'Love Letters to Poe' 'Volume II: Houses of Usher', black and white picture of Poe below)

[Renee Cronley @reneecronley]

The Bell by @LauraHannahBar in @LoveLettersPoe Volume II: Houses of Usher is phenomenal! Having a story based on members of ‘The London Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial’ is enough to make anyone want to read it! I’d say more, but I don’t want to spill the tea…

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

@nameshiv Jollof rice and whether it should be made with long grain or basmati. Oh and Marmite

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

@triodosuk I've tried like 25 times to use your face recognition software with 'no face detected'. My lighter skinned partner tried once and was detected instantly. I'm guessing it doesn't recognise black people - is there another way to sign up to a current account?

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

@JaimePrimak When Night Is Falling - one of my favourite bad lesbian films, wonderful as it is, but I would love to see a genuinely good version

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

@HillcrestCardCo @JaimePrimak Don't read books. If you really want ideas, read wax tablets

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

@DHLPaket I got an email saying to change my delivery address because it's incorrect but there's nowhere for me to do that on your website

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

@KalynnBayron $350????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? I'm assuming this lady will feel very humbled when she realises she misspelled haiku

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

The biggest mystery of SATC was how Carrie afforded that apartment on one newspaper column a week. The biggest mystery of #AndJustLikeThat is why so many people of colour are willing to make one of these annoying ladies their white friend

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

@ellle_em My humans didn't clean my litter tray so I shit in their bathtub. Now they say they will always keep water it the bathtub to stop me from doing this because they know I once fell in the bath when it was full and got the shock of my life so won't venture to do this again. AITA?

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

(image description: pink poster, with swirls of yellow and turquoise polka dots, a giant teal comma with black swirls, and a teal half circle with black gingham pattern. Black on pink text reads: 'DEPTFORD LITERATURE FESTIVAL' 'At Home') #ImageDescription

[Spread the Word @STWevents]

Can't get to #DeptfordLitFest this weekend?
We got you.
Ways you can get involved in the festival at home - including fantastic 'workshop at home exercises' written by @EllaFrears @leoneross, @carinyasharples and @LauraHannahBar:
https://t.co/IwH5fbH87M

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

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[Spread the Word @STWevents]

We're so pleased that the fab #TheFoodOnOurTable is part of #DeptfordLitFest
This Saturday 19 March between 9.30am-12.30pm, drop in to @GreenhouseDept to meet @LauraHannahBar & @carinyasharples to share your stories of food, Lewisham & your community: https://t.co/1SrSIczr1l

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.@carinyasharples is part of this year’s #DeptfordLitFest @GreenhouseDept with The Food On Our Table - drop in and join her & @LauraHannahBar to share stories about food and to inspire you to get writing and creative! Sat 19/03 - 9.30 - 12.30.
More info: https://t.co/1SrSIczYQT

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

@witchxcrafter Oops sorry totally replied to the wrong person here! Am not a practiced twitter user can't work out how to delete it

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

@witchxcrafter non-gestational parents can lactate FYI - you don't need to have given birth, a mix of hormones and pumping can do it. I agree women are so often trivialised in society but I think the culprits are the patriarchy, manspreading, and the gender pay gap, not inclusive language

[Laura Barker @LauraHannahBar]

@OyasumiBastet @BenInLDN Abuse already happens sadly. I've been assaulted in female only spaces, as a cis girl child, by cis men. We should do more to prevent abuse. This GRC thing is not going to work - I know so many cis masc women who've had issues in women only spaces, they won't have GRCs