Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Diana fan, scorpio, & very serious leftie novelist. stubborn archivist (2019) & there are more things (2022)🌙 🌎
doing a phd on novels + abolition at Leeds
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- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerThis is a thorough and eye-opening article 💙📚
- I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues Fowler"We’re not interested in congratulating Baillie Gifford for profiting less from human rights abuses than other asset managers...We are interested in stopping human rights abuses as urgently as possible...as governments refuse to intervene, investments worth billions become very significant indeed"
- I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerThis is a hugely important read, especially if your labour contributes in any way to the books industry #booksky
- I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerToday @tribunemagazine.bsky.social publishes a vitally important, highly personal and urgently necessary piece by Yara Rodrigues Fowler on the history of the FFB campaigning around literary festivals:
- I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
- I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerTonight in Edinburgh with Camilla Grudova @goldenharebooks.bsky.social! Event is SOLD OUT apparently but always worth getting in touch with the bookshop for returns. goldenharebooks.com/products/fai... @prototypepubs.bsky.social
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerIt also touches on the work @fossilfreebooks.org does in solidarity with Palestine and for climate justice: bsky.app/profile/foss...
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerA year has passed since the original publication of my review essay on Isabella Hammmad's Enter Ghost and @yararf.bsky.social's there are more things - very happy to be able to share it in open access now, too: research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/262...
- The anti-trans/GC movement is one of the most successful divide & conquer, distraction techniques ever. It has consumed and divided three generations of feminists while women around the world get poorer, our access to abortion is threatened and it becomes harder to escape domestic violence
- *whatever your definition of woman*, you should not want the state policing this for you & you should not want to strengthen the evangelical anti-abortion movement. Because this only harms cis women. But this what GC lawfare achieves.
- I do not care what jk Rowling thinks a woman is. i do care that she poured £70k into a campaign that harms cis women (as well as trans women) when she could have funded every single abortion the Abortion Support Network did last year.
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View full thread(Hopefully) needless to say also, but the fault here lies with the anti-trans movement, not everyone who fights for trans rights, for us all being divided and consumed by this!
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues Fowler📢Event alert! GLASGOW friends, the wonderful @yararf.bsky.social and Xani Byrne will be at Mount Florida Books discussing their contribution to🚴🏼♂️FREEWHEELING: Essays on Cycling🚴🏼♀️Join them! 📅11 June @ 7:00pm 📍Mount Florida Books, Glasgow mountfloridabooks.com/products/yar...
- 📣PSA: translations, authors, illustrators 📣 Have you joined your union, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Join before weds 30th April to vote in this year's elections. Claim £50 towards membership from @fossilfreebooks.org's mutual aid fund: opencollective.com/fossil-free-...
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerAnnouncing an #IndieBookshopWeek event with Xani Byrne & Yara Rodrigues Fowler! They’ll both be here to discuss the latest @dauntbookspub.bsky.social anthology Freewheeling: Essays on Cycling on Wed 18th June. 🚲 Sign up here (in-person/online): www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/freew...
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues Fowler🎉CAMPAIGN WIN: Sentencing Council announce new Imposition guideline that acknowledges prison is high-risk for pregnant women and tells courts to avoid sending women there! 📣🎉✨ This is so, so hard-won & would never have happened without the power of MOTHERS 🎉💞 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerHow it started How it’s going
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerThe number of pregnant women being held in prison on remand (before trial or sentence) has increased by 36% metro.co.uk/2025/02/22/p...
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- Fighting for materials changes for all women is how we deflate “gender critical” claims to the feminist moral high ground. Eg The GCs say: leave cis women - mostly abuse survivors - in prison - where they are further abused - as long as it’s not with trans women; we say: no women in prison.
- every time trans inclusive feminists win real & universal changes for women, like ££ for domestic violence services, abortion access & prison abolition, we *show* the GCs up on their own terms, which is (ostensibly) rights for cis women
- AND, by comparison, we show that their “wins” are all notional / emotional, not material - often in fact materially damaging for the rights of cos women eg to abortion access by weakening legislative precedent on bodily autonomy
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View full threadWe actually don’t have to convince ppl what a women is or isn’t to take the air out of the trans panic - we just have to show them the two sides, and ask which side they are on.
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerToday’s HMI report is such harrowing reading — and this is just a snapshot of what goes on inside women’s prisons. Prisons inflict violence and trauma on women who have already experienced more than enough violence and trauma in their lives.
- 🍉💚Giller Prize drops Scotiabank! 💚🍉 A victory for the Canandian writers, for worker organising and for common sense! Whether it’s Baillie Gifford or Scotiabank, however many op/eds call for nuance for the bomb-makers! most writers want nothing to do with companies involved in genocide.
- I posted this on my Instagram and got about 100 interesting g responses if u wanna take a look www.instagram.com/yararodrigue...
- This year I’m searching for more sublime and unalienated reading experiences. What’s a novel that blew your mind forever so that it was never the same again? Preferably not published in the last 5 years.
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerThank you to the wonderful @andresordorica.com for braving the January cold to come and chat with us at Wednesday’s meeting about his debut ‘How We Named The Stars’. Our most popular meeting ever! For details of our forthcoming meetings please check out edgaybookgroup.wordpress.com
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues Fowler“The isolation from your loved ones is one of the hardest parts of prison” A woman in our campaign has written a powerful piece in the Metro on her experiences of pregnancy in prison, and how accurate the EastEnders storyline is metro.co.uk/2025/01/22/l...
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerNot Kat Slater complaining about lack of healthcare for pregnant women in prison! Dream campaign spokesperson tbh
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerA landmark announcement from a prisons minister. Now it’s up to us to give him the political mandate to go even further. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- The Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org strategy day last weekend was exciting, collaborative & hopeful. We imagined what a literary industry that we all deserve - from writers & publicists here to Palestinians - wd look like, & how to make it real. To join us email fossilfreebooksuk@gmail.com
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues Fowlerhope is the challenging question. the troublesome refusal. the threat to the daily luxuries we enjoy. the inability to ignore what funds them, what lies under them - the demand that you see them too hope is not, and will never be, the charming flourish at the end of a melancholy piece of writing
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues Fowlerone of the weird violences of literary culture - the way we are (a) vilified for doing/writing about the things which might make a broken world better (b) SIMULTANEOUSLY: constantly asked, by the same people, to gesture to/perform hope, in what we write and say
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues Fowler2025 is upon us - and for you, dear reader, we have a whole heck of an event lineup to start adding to those crisp new diaries of yours! We've rounded up a first batch of launches - feminist fiction & polemic, Palestine solidarity & queer liberation, resilience & more: x90yz.mjt.lu/nl3/vKo9aR0_...
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerThe reason journalists are furious at Fossil Free Books, and protests against Bailey Gifford's book festival connections, in a way they never came for musicians who protested Barclay's involvement in music festivals, is that journalists don't get invited to play music festivals.
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues Fowlerread this beautiful thread and then come organise with FFB (@fossilfreebooks.org) as we work together on trade union strategies and collective author action 💕
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues Fowlerfor further context my advance was 0.1% of Richard Osman's! (which I was v happy with and I'm sure he sell 1ms more books than mine will but a fun* stat to think about!) (*by fun I mean, think about how many more books we could have alongside the celeb ones if that wealth was spread more evenly)
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues Fowler1 - literary festivals contribute fuck all to author incomes 2 - fans? What happened to critically engaged readers 3 - books expand yr inner life but do not apply to real world situs eg fossil fuels/ gaza ?! 4 - ‘we need books to propagate & pay for the empire’ = creative economy discour$e 😷
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues Fowlerwhy indeed would you blame billionaire monopolies for anything when you could blame a group of underpaid minorities authors. beats me 🤷🏼♀️
- 📣 In 2022, the UK publishing industry made RECORD revenues of £7bn+ 📣 Richard Osman’s last advance was £10m, enough to fund all 9 BG festivals for a DECADE 📣 BG are investing in arms companies supplying Israel 📣 FFB are not the reason writers are poor!
- The Guardian has published another article today about declining author wages (true), this time blaming FFB for this trend (not true). Festivals and authors have both become poorer poorer for the same two reasons: austerity and wealth hoarding by the publishing industry. >
- Cuts to local government budgets devastated festival grants as well as social services like housing benefit, making it harder to write & driving festivals into the arms of funders they didn’t want to scruntinise (Eg BG Prizes’s 2nd sponsor is run by a dude currently under sanction by Ukraine) >
- Meanwhile the publishing industry makes record breaking revenues, paying the lions share of advances to a tiny minority of (often celebrity) authors, while cutting average writer by half in real terms.
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View full threadRe the “the market decides” argument of author earnings. We don’t live in a perfect free market of books, where every book is given an equal chance of success via equal distribution, marketing and so on. A book w a £2m adv and one w a £2k adavance do not have an equal shot at readers.
- Happy 2025 💖 If your resolution was to get involved w organising, & you do work that is in anyway book related, get yourself to… 🍉FFB Strategy Day 📚 @fossilfreebooks.org 📅 Sat 18 Jan, 10-4 🌍 online / Edinburgh / London 🖊️registration: linktr.ee/fossilfreebooks
- This event is for everyone in the books world who is interested in all and any of: divestment from fossil fuels, reversing the decline in pay for authors, translators, publishing staff and more, cultural boycott of cultural institutions complicit in Israeli apartheid and genocide and more
- And coming doesn’t = commitment to spending hours organising in the future. Our idea is that everyone gives what they can when they can, meaning that everyone can dip in and out of organising according to what they have going on. Strategy day will be a good time to get in the loop and have a say :)
- So proud of my wonderful friend Andrés! I How We Named the Stars is such a brilliant novel 🥰🫶🏼
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerWe’ll be in touch with further details soon, but for now head to the link below and register your interest for one of the three events today! Any questions, leave a comment below or drop us a DM. In solidarity, Fossil Free Books! actionnetwork.org/groups/fossi...
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerAll book workers are welcome - whether or not you’ve organised with us in the past. We want to hear as many voices, and bring as many people into this movement, as possible. The more of us there are, the safer and more sustainable it is for everyone. ❤️
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerThis will be an opportunity for us to reflect on our organising this year and to forge paths forward, considering how we can continue to use our power as workers to help create a books industry that is free from fossil fuel funding and ties to Israeli genocide, occupation and apartheid.
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerStart your new year by organising to create the world as you wish it to be ✨ Join the Fossil Free Books Strategy Day, happening on Saturday 18th January 10am - 4pm GMT in Edinburgh, London and online.
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues Fowlerkeep an eye on @fossilfreebooks.org in the next few weeks, especially if you’re interested in getting involved with union organising as a writer/book worker 🥰
- <3 <3 <3 Fossil Free Books is on bluesky
- Me & @andresnordorica.bsky.social are teaching a 6-week online course next year on *writing as political resistance* at Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre in Wales. We'll cover fiction, non-fic & poetry, & how to engage with historical material + ongoing political struggle tynewydd.wales/course/writi...
- It's a wee bit spenny at £175, so maybe a good one to ask santa for, or to treat yourself to for the new year if you want to work on your writing. I think it'll be a good one. I love @andresnordorica.bsky.social work very much & Lola Olufemi is a guest reader so it'll be the real good stuff 🤌🤌🤌
- (I don't know if there's a bursary, but looking on the website you don't need to pay the £175 in one go; can just be a £50 booking deposit for now)
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerBREAKING On the day the UK government announces a permanent puberty blocker ban I learn: ALICE’S DATA WAS NOT INCLUDED in data sent to Appleby to assess for his rushed DHSC report, that dismissed whistleblower claims of increased suicides in trans youth since Bell. The report is a proven sham.
- my wonderful friend @peter.polari.press won a prize and I'm very proud!! <3
- Congratulations to Peter Collins from Polari Press for winning the The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 'Best Illustrated Pamphlet' with 'a finger in derek jarman's mouth' @polari.press #jarman
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- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerCongratulations to Peter Collins from Polari Press for winning the The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 'Best Illustrated Pamphlet' with 'a finger in derek jarman's mouth' @polari.press #jarman
- "I have been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery, but when that dream meets life it is shut down... I want the institution to understand that if you want us inside, you have to listen to us outside” 💗 UK literary institutions, I hope you are listening... 💗
- while searching for the @fossilfreebooks.org account on here, I stumbled across a literary critic har-har-ing at FFB's invitation to festivals to sit down together & think about the future. But it really is as simple as Kaur says: they're programming us to talk on stage about freedom & politics >
- so it is perfectly reasonable to expect those institutions to be up for a conversation about how what we have to say about freedom and politics applies to them.
- not the mention that they we're their labour force, but that is another conversation 😇
- Reposted by Yara Rodrigues FowlerToday Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com JOIN US - there's cake!
