Louisa

she/her • non-fiction commissioning editor 📚 • publishing wellness, cookery and MBS • former co-host (the monstrous feminine podcast)🎙️🏳️‍🌈

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

there it is.

[walo ⦮ ⦯ @pechupoplover]

whenever i see straight people im like omg just like in love island

[Prince Charles Cinema @ThePCCLondon]

#SaveThePCC

Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.

For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; https://t.co/AEWMVUwQYZ

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people.

This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history.

https://t.co/SGewfi4DYn

[Louisa @LouisaaaJo]

@daisychandley Yay! Congrats :)

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The world could have stopped the genocide in Gaza.

Instead, our political leaders allowed Israel to act with total impunity.

That is why they are now murdering hundreds of civilians in Lebanon, putting millions more lives across the region at risk.

When will our government wake up to the horrors they have normalised? When will they call out this reckless aggression? Or do Arab lives not matter?

We need a full arms embargo to Israel and economic sanctions, now. Our common humanity demands nothing less.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The government could choose to reverse the cut to Winter Fuel Payments, scrap the two-child benefit cap and still have £6 billion left to improve people’s lives.

Austerity is — and always has been — a political choice, not an economic necessity.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Lebanese people are fearful of texting their loved ones in case their phones explode.

Our government’s cowardly failure to call out this latest war crime is shameful.

There is only one reasonable response: end all arms sales to Israel, now.

[Scot @scotwithat]

After all the transphobia, witch-hunting, and the despicable and unsportsmanlike disrespect shown by a handful of athletes - let THIS image be the one that stays with you:

After Imane Khelif won her gold medal bout her opponent, Yang Liu of China, embraced her with a smile.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Every single day that a full arms embargo isn’t in place, the UK government is complicit in the war crimes committed against the Palestinian people.

[Charlotte England @CharlottEngland]

Enormous crowds of anti-racist demonstrators in Walthamstow.

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

“Swarms”
“Invasion”
“Hurricane”

For years, rightwing politicians and sections of the media have scapegoated migrants and asylum seekers, demonised Muslims, and emboldened racists.

Far-right violence doesn’t come out of nowhere. Those who stir up hate must be held accountable.

[Chanté @ChantayyJayy]

Groups of racists are attempting to tear down mosques while worshippers are inside and broadcasters are being asking “why do we need to mention Islamophobia?” Respectfully, are you stupid or are you actively ignoring this because the implications are messy?

[shauna ミ☆ @uptonjareau]

what’s currently happening in the UK: a non-exhaustive thread

[Kat Tenbarge is on Bluesky @kattenbarge]

Trans people and their advocates have been saying for years that transphobia will easily be weaponized against cis and intersex women who don't conform to trad femininity, threatening all women in the process. And that's exactly what is happening

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Waking up to Corbyn, Abbot, five pro-Palestine indies and four Greens winning their seats is more positive news than I expected from this desperate little shitshow

The seeds of change that Corbyn helped plant continue to grow in spite of it all, but there’s still much work to do

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Labour didn’t win on merit, that’s abundantly clear. They won because the Tories collapsed and someone had to be crowned.

Fewer people voted for Starmer’s right-wing Labour than Corbyn’s left-wing Labour, and that will remain a reminder every day of people’s appetite for change.

[Mikaela Loach - It’s Not That Radical 📖🇵🇸 @mikaelaloach]

Jeremy Corbyn winning his seat again as an Independent in Islington, Carla Denyer winning Bristol for the Greens, Grant Shapps losing his seat, pro Palestine Independent Shockat Adam winning in Leicester - so far I’m actually getting a lot of joy from this election!

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Labour loses in Chingford and Woodford Green to Tory Ian Duncan Smith. And they did it to themselves.

Deselecting their candidate Faiza Shaheen who was in tears on news night and parachuting in right-winger Shama Tatler who never had any connection to the constituency.