Pip Martin

She/her

[Pip Martin @PipperyM]

Funny sharp writing that is challenging & spot-on. Thankful to @IjeomaOluo for doing the work of writing it out. https://t.co/hhMvLpVDpN

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

"That's what I would like to say to my daughter, my granddaughter, peers of my daughter and my granddaughter: DO NOT BE INDIFFERENT"

Marian Turski, Auschwitz Survivor.

[John Bull @garius]

I think she's wrong. Kindness matters most at the darkest times, but that's when it is hardest to be kind. They did so much at a time when it would have been far easier to just do nothing.

They're both goddamn heroes to me.

[John Bull @garius]

Ida:

"Terrified, agonized need can be ignored if it is attached only to a name on paper.

Change [that] to a human who stammers out a frantic story, weeps difficult tears and asks for nothing but hopes for everything, and show me the ordinary person who can refuse"

[John Bull @garius]

Ida and Louise weren't special. They were normal people and, by Ida's own admission, terrified almost every step of the way.

But once they had their eyes opened to what was happening, they knew they had to help. And Ida worked hard to try and make others see that too.

[John Bull @garius]

By 1937 the situation is dire. Visas are harder to get. People are disappearing or dying. They never stop trying.

Ida:

"We cried, of course. And then we would start again. What else could we do?"

[Pip Martin @PipperyM]

This whole thread...

[John Bull @garius]

Thread time!

Meet Mary Burchell, one of the most successful romance writers EVER. Over 110 Mills & Boons to her name.

Got an image of her in your head now, right? Bin it.

Because Mary is a Righteous Gentile.

She wrote books to fund her efforts to help Jews escape Nazi Germany

[Pip Martin @PipperyM]

@MichaelSzydlo @stavvers @mwalimurural

[Pip Martin @PipperyM]

@Biggreenbooks How much please?

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

As horrific as it is please remember the sharpest end of racism in this country is rarely ever the spectacular denigration of celebrities or well known people. It is more the bureaucratic violence of things like the Gangs Matrix, Prevent and Yarl’s Wood.

[Tara Skurtu @TaraSkurtu]

THE SUN NEVER SAYS

Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,

“You owe
Me.”

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the
Whole
Sky.

—Hafiz, trans. Daniel Ladinsky

[Pip Martin @PipperyM]

@ashesinyourhair @lmartods @MattDrapps 😂

[Pip Martin @PipperyM]

@siantakespics I’m sorry, it’s gone. 💖

[Pip Martin @PipperyM]

Still offering a copy of this if anyone wants it. #buyastrangerabook

[Pip Martin @PipperyM]

@Biggreenbooks Please can I buy one copy of Kajal Odedra’s ‘Do Something: Activism for Everyone’ for me and another for anyone else who wants it?

[Pip Martin @PipperyM]

@_hexbomb @Biggreenbooks Sure, I’ll get this one too. Will PayPal, @Biggreenbooks

[Pip Martin @PipperyM]

@courtneychacha @Biggreenbooks Yes, of course. I’ll PayPal you, @Biggreenbooks

[Pip Martin @PipperyM]

@Biggreenbooks Yes that’s fine. Will PayPal for mine now and DM details. Thanks

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

Dark night Twitter. Wishing you the ‘faith of the tiny lightbulbs from the physics practical that still flicker months later’ There will still be kids and poems. Linnet was 15.