Jessica Gaitán Johannesson

Writer and organiser working with uncertainty | 'How We Are Translated', 'The Nerves & Their Endings' | rep: @LisaIndiaBaker | ella/hon/she

[Jessica Gaitán Johannesson @JessJohannesson]

These wee ones were published today. Essays are attempts at asking new questions, I think. Like how do I, where I am, most usefully talk about a heatwave? How does this thing, traded, sit within new visions? How do I change the very system that allowed me to write it? 1/3

[night gardener @uncanny_eli]

In May 2021, an anonymous letter in The Bookseller warned that transphobia was a problem in the publishing industry. 3 years later, a culture of silence and fear has prevented much further public comment.

So I wrote about it. And I named names.

https://t.co/PUsQe8PfIw

[Jessica Gaitán Johannesson @JessJohannesson]

@mailbykite @Lighthousebks @NineArchesPress You were wondrous! 💚

[Red Pepper Media @RedPeppermag]

"Authors, booksellers, publishing staff, illustrators and translators are workers"

@JessJohannesson on @fossilfreebooks campaigning and how workers can transform the publishing industry for the better in the midst of @edbookfest
#divest

https://t.co/T8rZuzfkDt

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

The fact that a senior civil servant who specialised in assessing arms exports to Israel has ended his 18-year career because he thinks the Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes", and not a single national outlet has reported it, is frightening. We have a captive media.

[Jessica Gaitán Johannesson @JessJohannesson]

On @fossilfreebooks , authors as workers and the self-image of the publishing industry in this country - for @RedPeppermag

[Red Pepper Media @RedPeppermag]

"Authors, booksellers, publishing staff, illustrators and translators are workers"

@JessJohannesson on @fossilfreebooks campaigning and how workers can transform the publishing industry for the better in the midst of @edbookfest #divest

https://t.co/Mzf5LmsGVH

[Noreen Masud @NoreenMasud]

“The description of us [as anonymous activists] was deliberate; designed to delegitimise our stake in the industry – and our right to seek to change it.”

🔥Stunning🔥 piece on @fossilfreebooks by @JessJohannesson https://t.co/IRdFGwvR5g

[Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow @commapress]

VOICES OF RESILIENCE @edbookfest
🗓️18 August 📍EFI Spigeltent
🎟️https://t.co/tGMMnGj0Wv

W/ readings from 'Don't Look Left' from actor Firas Ibrahim + poetry and music from Palestinian artists and performers 🎙️

Join us in solidarity with the people & spirit of Palestine 🇵🇸

[Jessica Gaitán Johannesson @JessJohannesson]

Congratulations Alexis Wright!

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

Congratulations to Alexis Wright, who has won a second Miles Franklin Prize for her novel, Praiseworthy (@andothertweets) 💫

Preorder our forthcoming 40th Anniversary Issue to read a deep and wide conversation between Wright and @JessJohannesson:
https://t.co/jpPvfuQ1AL

[Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley]

It was such an honour to be on this panel at @PalFest last night discussing @fossilfreebooks, the divestment movement and Palestinian liberation.

So much love and respect for my fellow organisers @yazzarf and @JessJohannesson - and our amazing host @lolaolufemi_

[Jessica Gaitán Johannesson @JessJohannesson]

Tomorrow we do this!!! Come join us for performances, film, friendship and DANCE to launch the #BookFringe in support of @fossilfreebooks 💚

[Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop @Lighthousebks]

Just a couple weeks til #BookFringe kicks off across Edinburgh with over 40 events hosted by your fave loveable rogue bookshops!

Program launch party is TOMORROW & not only will you get a first look at our lush line up for August, we have some stellar performances, including: 🧵

[And Other Stories @andothertweets]

Pre-order the new issue of @WasafiriMag for a brilliant interview with Alexis Wright by @JessJohannesson – plus new fiction from @PretiTaneja, poetry by Gboyega Odubanjo, and much, much more 💫

[Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop @Lighthousebks]

The ALT Book Fringe is back and we’re launching the program with a party!!

Hosted by @argonaut_books @tweetwronger & Lighthouse #ALTBookFringe runs 9 - 27 Aug.

Come celebrate July 25th at Leith Arches, fundraising for @fossilfreebooks YOU are invited!🥳

https://t.co/ghwp0h6Lce

[Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks]

Our Baillie Gifford boycotts aren’t about tearing down the arts – they’re about building them up.

Sustainable, ethical sources of funding are not an outlandish ask – and possibilities are already emerging.

https://t.co/mB345GMp9e

[Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop @Lighthousebks]

Got plans for July 4th?

How about voting out the Tories, then joining us for a hybrid celebration of epic eco-fiction with the brilliant @halekatie & @JessJohannesson!

Make it a day to champion people & planet, in community-we’ll bring the books & wine!

https://t.co/ZFEC0NBx83

[Oil Change International @PriceofOil]

Huge, groundbreaking court decision in the UK.

Oil and gas projects can no longer get away with counting only a fraction of their real emissions. https://t.co/leXH5yYZbU

[Global Justice Now Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @globaljusticesc]

.@Edinburgh_CC are banning advertising of #fossilfuels, SUVs and airlines, and have given their backing to the #FossilFuelTreaty (a global exit plan from coal, oil and gas) 🥳

Would be great to see more councils across #Scotland and the UK do the same

https://t.co/lzFuxIWQpJ

[Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop @Lighthousebks]

I *despair* of this discourse, a framing set by festivals themselves.

People @fossilfreebooks depend on a thriving literary sector to survive artistically & financially- our colleagues/friends/writers.
We ALL want book festivals to thrive, to grow in dynamic & nourishing ways.🧵

[Jessica Gaitán Johannesson @JessJohannesson]

Continuing to see so many people airing public opinions about FFB and what we've done or haven't done which are misinformed at best.

Many of you know us as colleagues and part of your communities. I've said this since last year: if you're wondering, why not ask.

[thediyora.bluesky.social @thediyora]

I personally think genocides and existential environmental threats are a “contraction of the human experience”… but what do I know!