I was always going to read Seaglass: it starts in the town I grew up, & ends in the region I live now, so the places are all unusually familiar.

Coincidences aside, this is a luminous book, with some lovely meditations on wilderness & descriptions of the Durham coastline.

When I teach professionals, I sometimes put them in groups to discuss and take notes. I specifically name that women are overwhelmingly called upon to serve as recorders, so I ask that every group assign a man to do this. The reactions are *wild*. Regularly, one man makes a 1/x

Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 is home to the second oldest continuous minority ethnic community in the United Kingdom.

Tweets like the ones below are a racist dog whistle that directly insinuate what a Welsh person should or shouldn't look like.

White Britain is obsessed with controlling Welshness

anyway, here’s mary oliver’s “the sun”

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #womensart

Most people who are writing a book have other responsibilities on their plate—work, family obligations, etc. It’s easy for writing to fall to the end of the to-do list, & I totally get why.

But if this is your situation, here’s something to consider (a 🧵):

This is one event that I'm REALLY excited for (and extra nervous about!)
Coming back to Cardiff to talk to the wonderful Jon Gower about Seaglass on 14th May... See you there? 👀💚💙

Planet has played a big role in offering an early platform to Welsh artists & art historians, on our covers and in our pages -everyone from Peter Lord & Osi Rhys Osmond to Shani Rhys James, Sue Williams, Iwan Bala & Rabab Ghazoul. Here's a snapshot of covers from the 1990s. 🧵👇

With the exception of Alun Michael, who was first minister for nine months, and was a regional MS for the Mid and West region whilst representing Cardiff South & Penarth at Westminster, Wales has never had a first minister representing an area north of this line.

Soin credu bod Cymry Cymraeg yn sylweddoli gymaint o big issue yw hi i gael Prif Weinidog sydd heb y gallu i siarad Cymraeg.

Does neb yn siarad am y peth.

Mae wedi digwydd nawr.

Mae’r Gymraeg wedi cael ei israddio heddiw.

I gave my husband the entire update on Kate Middleton including all the conspiracy theories and he listened politely and when I was finished he said, who is Kate Middleton?

“Show me a child who doesn’t want to hear a story and tell it back. We put them through a utility education and say that the arts are a luxury. The arts develop our natural creativity. If creativity is a luxury, then being human is a luxury.”

Jeanette Winterson, being brilliant.

spent my lunch break today coming up with ways that the Kate Middleton story would turn out if it were being investigated by various fictional detectives

'But the world, or more specifically the West, doesn’t do anything. Worse, the liquidation of Gaza, though outlined and broadcast by its perpetrators, is daily obfuscated, if not denied, by the instruments of the West’s military and cultural hegemony: from the US president…

Nothing justifies killing almost 15,000 children in Gaza. Nothing. Not self defense. Not human shields. Not a damn thing.

#WomensHistoryMonth .....

Brilliant. Please support heritage members in Wales by taking a minute to sign and share 👇 #SaveOurHeritage #heritage #library petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/2460…

So excited about this! And extremely happy that New Welsh Review has found a new home 🎉❤️

Mae'r Llyfrgell Genedlaethol, Amgueddfa Genedlaethol a Chomisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru yn wynebu toriadau trychinebus o rhwng 10.5-22%
Helpwch Vaughan Gething 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 a Llywodraeth Cymru i ail-feddwl ac #AchubEinTreftadaeth drwy lofnodi a rhannu👇🏻 #yagym
petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/2460…