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yara rodrigues fowler
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abolitionist, novelist, scorpio. there are more things🌙 🌎 @abacusbooks. also an organiser. she/they. queries to @immmy
May 6 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
A more organised thread with some thoughts on Zadie Smith, as someone whose spent a lot of time with her writing.

Zadie Smith has had consistently liberal (not leftist) politics, and has also consistently shown a belief in her own exceptionalism (as have critics at large) She often wrote on British politics while living in New York: condemning Corbyn, bemoaning library closures while repeating the foundational myth of austerity that there was no money left, and speaking for young people when convenient, saying how angry we were about Brexit.
Aug 27, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
To people seeing #LetWomenSwim - trans women have always been allowed at the ladies pond, and the ladies pond has always been safe. this is moral panic and a distraction; the liberation of trans + cis women will always be bound together. Violence against women has devastated so many of us and defined our lives. Emotionally, it would be neater to have a bogeyman, like trans people. But - in terms of facts not feelings, the evidence shows that trans women are not a threat to the safety or rights of cis women.
Sep 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
i came across the story of these two communists while doing book 2 research, it's INCREDIBLE and v tragic 💔 for me, the point of sharing & archiving it is, less to lionise them & more to understand that we are not the first to fight fascist governments. there is a long history of people who had a real chance of power - to the extent they were spied on, persecuted by murdered by govs
Sep 24, 2020 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
So, here's the story of Olga Benário and Luís Carlos Prestes. Luís was secretary general of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) for 50+ years, and, from what i can tell, the most high profile Brazilian communist of the 20th C. (I'll tell u about Olga in a bit!) 1/? ImageImage Born in 1898, Luíz studies engineering in Rio where he's becomes a leader in the 'tenentes' movement, a rebellion led by young army officials who believe in a popular revolution of the masses against the oligarchical ruling classes. In 1924, Luíz flees to the south of Brazil.
Sep 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
its mad how much (more?) i enjoy panels about politics than about literature, and how dull and absurd (and normal) acting like literature isn't about politics is. Like, when we talk about form or writing we are talking abt the politics of narration, language, intelligibility, >> when we talk about 'getting published' we are talking abt what history is silenced and what histories is made accessible to the masses, what other worlds can be imagined collectively.
Jul 24, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"When so many cis women have broken free of men who defined & policed our existence & liberties based on constrictive gender norms, it’s understandable to feel defensive around conversations of gender. "

this article abt transphobia and dv is clear & kind, pls read & share what's really beautiful about what @janeyjstarling and @La_Cowan are doing is hearing and acknowledging the fear and pain of cis women who are scared, while also holding them accountable for the harm they can cause
Jul 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
i used to work for an org that did this kind of thing for companies, & altho sometimes individual ppl had breakthroughs, overall the trainings simply provided companies w cover, reducing racism etc to 1-to-1 interactions. also when a co is paying, how honest can trainings rly be? the org that gave the workshops ended up by firing a bunch of its precarious workers for teaming together & asking for better working conditions.... so go figure 🤷🏼‍♀️
Jul 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I'm a mentor on @TheLitPlatform's FREE, 3 month programme. if you want to be mentored by me or there other mentors, apply here >> theliteraryplatform.com/news/2020/06/l… by *midnight this sunday*

secret writers on the TL, i see you👀👀👀👀👀👀!!! the programme is open to everyone (you can't have an agent or book deal already) but i've asked that applications by people of colour, working class ppl, lgbtqi people and disabled ppl are prioritised for the person i mentor.
Jun 10, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
'Latinx' / 'Latino' is not a race. (Think of Gisele Buchan & Pele, the idea that they share an experience of race is obviously 🥴🥴🥴.)
'Latino/ Black/ White' as three separate different races makes NO SENSE in Latin America (doesn't make much sense in the US either but anyway). Using terminology made for the US context - and assuming all latinx = person of colour - obscures what race IS, what race DOES, and what race HAS DONE in Latin America. Take Brazil as an example, >>
May 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
DEAR SCANTILY CLAD WOMXN OF LONDON

this poem is for you 💦🌈🍉🌞 Image shout out to @janeyjstarling for texting me yday to say, today is the day! everyone looking beaut
Mar 31, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
we've raised almost £500 in a couple of hours - keep sharing and giving us your £££!!!

it's SO important that survivors can access our web chat -when #stayhome means abusers can overhear their conversations and they can't come to in person surgeries @samatlounge would you mind sharing? I know that you're interested and worried about DV atm <3 xxx
Mar 31, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Lockdown has seen domestic violence increase - as women lose work & are stuck at home violent partners.

@LAWALondon's launched an 🚨emergency appeal🚨 to 1) increase opening hours of our ONLINE advice line & 2) help our residents live w dignity

DONATE: uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fund/LAWAEmerg… ways to help:
1) 🛑stop what you're doing now and donate any money u have, literally even £1
2) ✍️post about having done this on your socials and shout out @LAWALondon
3)💌 sent this to 5 people you know with disposable income and ask them to donate
Mar 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
i'm really genuinely interested in good faith takes on how to get 50yo + voters to vote left. (have tried to have this convo with my mum but she just says she's in a bubble w her mates) some of the best radical but pragmatic convincing work i've seen was @SexWorkersOpera where one storyline is a younger sex worker in conversation with her mum, and the audience is given permission to id with the mum's views and change as the performance goes on
Mar 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
👏🏼protect👏🏼pages👏🏼of 👏🏼cheshire👏🏼street👏🏼 @PagesCheshireSt are looking for a new shop cos rents on their brick lane site are too expensive (😤). if you know of anywhere pls get in touch! they sell books by womxn and non binary people only
Mar 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
your mum DEPORTED other women.... ??? feminism =/ civility jesus this has to be a joke... she's upset her mum had to get a train or something? what does 'travelled for free' even mean when you don't need the money
Feb 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
this is really cool. talks both about how graphic depictions can be harmful ('Werther' effect), and sensitive portrayals of survivals can be positive ('Papageno' effect) deeply resisting the urge to @ certain writers and producers who insist on showing suicide in a really graphic way - and think they're heroes. same goes for critics & reviewers who fawn over this cos it makes them ~feel something~
Feb 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
the latin village story is wild - a labour council (@haringeycouncil led by @CllrEjiofor) and labour mayor (@SadiqKhan) refusing to protect the livelihood of local working people & hub of the latin community... to the extent that @DavidLammy condemned them in parliament @haringeycouncil @CllrEjiofor @SadiqKhan @DavidLammy so much of this is wild but why aren't harringey labour & sadiq khan standing up for their people? why are they taking their votes for granted? what is the point, honestly
Feb 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
📣📣🌊🌊paperback stubborn archivist is out later this week!! i'm gonna be writing some bookclub questions for @FleetReads so you guys can get ~intellectual with it🧐 ImageImage i am so grateful to @nikeshshukla @Okwonga Olivia Laing and Claire Louise Bennet, brilliant writers who gave me a quote for the hardback even tho i was a totally unknown writer & they'd never met me - this put SA on the map and meant so much to me
Jan 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
📢📚editors who commission book reviews for ££ - i'm hoping to write more of these, especially for anything around sexuality/formal experimentation/anything by women or latin american writers. HMU 👩‍💻 I've written for White Review, Guardian, Vogue, Electric Literature & New York Times. i'm timely & i know my book shit. also occassionally enjoy a savage take down :p
Dec 12, 2019 • 18 tweets • 12 min read
🚨🚨ITS THE LAST PUSH: yday over 300 people signed up. If we get 1000 today we can send *over 10,000 messages to u35s in marginals. SHARE & SIGN UP HERE: forms.gle/VHupx7gLWDiF4Q… @fckboris ImageImageImage @OwenJones84 @AyoCaesar @ShellyAsquith @PennyRed tinder canvassing trying to send 10,000 messages TODAY please share again ❤️🔥thank you for your support yday
Dec 11, 2019 • 134 tweets • 54 min read
🔥💗UNDER 35s - CANVAS OTHER YOUNG PPL ON TINDER 🔥💗🔥
@fckboris will drop your tinder profile in *a marginal constituency*, swipe and send a anti Tory get the vote out message to ur matches
>> sign up here: forms.gle/VHupx7gLWDiF4Q… ImageImage @bridgetminamore can you RT