🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.
All cis people should read this... the reality of being a trans woman in the UK! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
The UK’s only author-run co-operative publisher Gritstone celebrates its tenth anniversary
By Andrew Bibby
reminder, that if you're marginalized - esp disabled, a person of color, trans - you don't need to be on the frontlines. do what you can to help, but there's a ton of roles behind the scenes.
let people with privilege & safety handle front-lines responses. be as safe as you can be.
Any playwrights on here?
I’m new to it and want to build community in this area in 2026. Any queers on here open to showing me the ropes? Pointing me toward the best resources etc?
I’d like to make significant progress over the next 12 months. Maybe even get it up in the latter part of the year.
A photo of a computer screen with details of payments to the Sameer Project. The first payment from November is for £574.85 and the second payment (from today) is for £148.43.
Just made the second donation to the Sameer Project in Gaza today from sales of my Risograph art print.
The posters are still on sale or give directly. People in Gaza still need us.
Wishing everyone a merry festive season. 💝
On the 15th of December this year, Aotearoa New Zealand passed the 2.5 year mark for Self-ID.
As we always said, there have been zero issues arising from this. Not a single incident recorded formally or informally, not a whisper of a problem.
The anti-trans activists lied to everyone.
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If you're a child or young person and you're struggling, you can find support from:
Mermaids: 0808 801 0400 (1pm-8:30pm, Mon-Fri)
Papyrus: 0800 068 4141 (available 24hrs a day)
Childline: 0800 1111 (available 24hrs a day)
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This time of year can be difficult. If you're struggling, seek support.
Mindline Trans 0300 330 5468 (Fridays 8pm-midnight)
TRUK Listens 0800 009 6640 (8am-midnight daily) truklistens.org
Switchboard 0800 0119 100 (10am-10pm daily) switchboard.lgbt
Samaritans 116123 (24hrs daily)
A social media post recounts a story about helping an older lady with limited English, reflecting on how having pink hair signaled trustworthiness and individuality.
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
The media blackout on the hunger strikers is disgusting.
Nothing but puppets for the worst people in the UK.
I've yet to meet a person in the real world who has heard anything about it.
Over £100 additional purchases of our Gaza fundraiser art prints! Last post before Xmas will be this Fri so there’s still time to buy.
Gaza is currently experiencing very cold weather and flooding, with Israel denying entry to aid. Donations are needed urgently.
polari.press/shop/art-pri...
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
You'd never know it from these headlines that she lost all her claims on the actual substance of the case, claiming that trans people must be banned from bathrooms.
Just checked and it looks like the article was corrected. Or I was reading a different article about it. Or it was early and I was already filled with rage to read clearly.
Anyway the point stands and solidarity with all trans people. 💜
Perhaps much less horrendous than the other phrasing it uses, but that BBC article also says “transwoman” with no space which is incorrect and a red flag.
You write “gay woman” not “gaywoman”; “black woman” not “blackwoman”.
Similarly it should be “trans woman”.
An image of the poster in red. Text reads “THROW SAND IN THE GEARS OF GENOCIDE” overprinted in green on an image of red Palestinian poppies.
Sold over £100 worth of the Gaza fundraiser posters at Queermas yesterday in Deptford. 😍
Only 13 of the red posters left now so buy yours now and we’ll be able to send more money to the Sameer Project before Christmas. polari.press/throw-sand-i...
Any trans people struggling with the news from Girl Guides and Women’s Institute…
Can I send you a @polari.press book to lift your spirits?
DM me and I’ll see what I can do. 💜
Girl Guides and now Women’s Institute bowing to legal threats from transphobes and rescinding membership to trans women is so desperately sad…
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
Should I do an impromptu Black Friday discount? I'm thinking the promo code could be DownWithCapitalism25 …?
1 - My son and I met with Wes Streeting last year with other families. He heard the most horrific stories of children refused blockers and how it impacts them. We begged him not to ban blockers, and he promised to work with us, to have further meetings.
Artwork showing an upside down photo of Margaret Thatcher grinning menacingly at the Tory Party conference. Erasure poem text reads “Children have an inalienable right to be gay” in uppercase letters. The words that make the original statement homophobic have been removed with bright pink strips.
A reminder that children do indeed have an inalienable right to be gay. 🩷
A photo of Peter Collins, arms folded and smiling to camera. He’s standing in front of a wall displaying his artwork.
'Erased was a joyous collaboration between James and me. Now more than ever we need to challenge the erasure of our identities. It's exciting to create a new edition that continues to push back and uses the bigot's words against them.’ Peter Collins
'Erased was a joyous collaboration between James and me. Now more than ever we need to challenge the erasure of our identities. It's exciting to create a new edition that continues to push back and uses the bigot's words against them.’
— Peter Collins
A photo of James McDermott standing in front of a brick wall. They’re a white man with short fair hair and stubbly beard. Photo: Louis Catliff
‘I'm giddy with glee to be working again with Polari Press to reissue the publication and to create a new range of art, helping the poems and the timely message of Erased reach even more readers.’ James McDermott
‘I'm giddy with glee to be working again with Polari Press to reissue the publication and to create a new range of art, helping the poems and the timely message of Erased reach even more readers.’
— James McDermott
Black text on a bright pink background reads: Erased by James McDermott. Reissue. Coming 2026.
💞 News! 💞 To mark the fifth anniversary of ’Erased’ by James McDermott—our first poetry pamphlet—we’ll be releasing a new edition next year, featuring new artwork by @peter.polari.com
Writers including David Nicholls, Katherine Rundell, Katherine Webber and Monisha Rajesh are among those donating pledges for the Creatives4Sudan auction, co-organised by Louie Stowell 👇 #BookSky
Lovely seeing our book with Leilah King on the top of the pile! 💜💚💛
