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Joma West
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Author | Wild, Face, Twice Lived | (she/they/other) | Sometime actor | https://linktr.ee/jomawest
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discobooks.bsky.social
Happy Non-Binary People’s Day!

If you’re an author under the non-binary umbrella comment with a link to a book you wanna promote & I’ll repost!

To get us started I highly recommend this emotional, conceptual sci fi by my awesome sibling @jomawest.bsky.social
📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/twic...
Twice Lived a book by Joma West.
Two Worlds. Two Minds. One Life.There are two Earths. Perfectly ordinary and existing in parallel. There are no doorways between them, no way to cross from one world to another. Unless you’re a shifte...
uk.bookshop.org
July 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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discobooks.bsky.social
Happy Non-Binary People’s Day to my non-binary pals!

5 BIPOC non-binary books:

Face by @jomawest.bsky.social
In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu
The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xirin Jay Zhao
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 #nonbinaryday
July 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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anachapman.bsky.social
Very excited about the publication of this chapter! rdcu.be/euuAe in The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Insights.
Outfacing the “In” Face: The Posthuman Wound and the Defacing of Relationality in Joma West’s Face
rdcu.be
July 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
jomawest.bsky.social
Final Destination: Bloodlines is such a fun time, my heart really warmed seeing Tony Todd one more time.
May 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
jomawest.bsky.social
I finished my first play through of Disco Elysium today. And then I watched Possession (1981) for the first time. And it felt like a perfect double bill.
May 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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rsagarcia.bsky.social
Allow me to bitch about something no one but me & some people watching @netflix.com care about for a second.

I loved THE DEVIL'S PLAN S1. Really difficult gameplay for really smart people & a dog fight of a triumphant finish.

Season 2 is...not that. A fun, smart gameshow has been ruined. How? /1
May 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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mikeachim.bsky.social
OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

1/
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
jomawest.bsky.social
Creatives in the UK deserve strong trade unions that represent their interests and fight for a better creative ecology. We don't have that yet and I know a lot of people have felt let down by the society of authors, but we can change it for the better.
fossilfreebooks.org Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · Apr 4
The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you.

Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections.

Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)
The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you. Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections. Writers, translators and illustrators face huge challenges right now including: falling earnings, the threat of AI, the sector’s complicity in genocide and fossil fuel extraction, challenges to free speech. Can you resist these threats? Yes! But only if you have a member-led union that truly represents you. Fossil Free Books recommends that writers, translators and illustrators join the Society of Authors. With its wealth of resources and powerful industry connections, it has great potential – but without you it can’t channel that potential into meaningful action. Recent successes at the 2024 AGM and EGM have already shown that you have the power to use its existing democratic processes to make it the healthy, bold trade union that you need and deserve. The only way to create a fairer, more sustainable industry is to create it together. Your union won’t change without you – and the first step is to join. If you need support with your union fees, you can claim £50 through our Open Collective fund (link in post).
April 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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fossilfreebooks.org
The SoA must do more for climate justice – but it won’t without you.

Join the Society of Authors by Wed 30 April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections. [6]

Links for eligibility + help with fees: linktr.ee/fossilfreebo...
A bright purple background has text reading "I belong in my union and so do you' in shiny holographic sticker style writing. Below it sits the Fossil Free Books logo and smaller text that reads: "Join the Society of Authors as a Full Member by Wed 30th Apr to vote in this year's Management Committee elections'
April 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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fossilfreebooks.org
Every climate justice writer belongs in their union.

The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper – it’s about power. In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is… [1]
A bright purple background has text reading "Every climate justice writer belongs in their union' in shiny holographic sticker style writing. Below it sits the Fossil Free Books logo and smaller text that reads: "Join the Society of Authors as a Full Member by Wed 30th Apr to vote in this year's Management Committee elections'
April 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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fossilfreebooks.org
The SoA will only stand in solidarity with Palestine if you join and get active.

Join the Society of Authors by Wed 30 April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections. [6]

Need support with joining fees? We can help: linktr.ee/fossilfreebo...
A bright purple background has text reading 'I belong in my union and so do you' in shiny holographic sticker style writing. Below it sits the Fossil Free Books logo and smaller text that reads: 'Join the Society of Authors as a Full Member by Wed 30th Apr to vote in this year's Management Committee elections'
April 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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fossilfreebooks.org
Every writer against genocide belongs in their union.

The Society of Authors does not stand for a free Palestine. Not yet.

Amid Israel’s destruction of libraries, bookshops, printing presses and publishing houses in Gaza, the SoA’s lack of solidarity is driving members to leave the union. [1]
A bright purple background has text reading "Every writer against genocide belongs in their union' in shiny holographic sticker style writing. Below it sits the Fossil Free Books logo and smaller text that reads: "Join the Society of Authors as a Full Member by Wed 30th Apr to vote in this year's Management Committee elections'
April 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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littlemacha.bsky.social
Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up.

I’ll add more as I find them.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
April 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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hjosephinegiles.bsky.social
My pal Dr Christina Neuwirth has today released the results of 7 years of research into gender inequality in Scottish literature. I'm so, so proud of them.

www.quinereport.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
jomawest.bsky.social
Great thread
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · Apr 5
Three headlines for the same story. Here’s how to read them.

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New Gaza medic attack video contradicts Israel military claims Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings Palestinian medical officials say they obtained video footage that refutes Israel's claims about the killing of 15 rescue and aid workers in the southern Gaza Strip last month. Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On
April 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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One by one
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
jomawest.bsky.social
Any UK self published authors in my network? Which printers do you use and why do you like them?

#booksky #ukbooksky
April 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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discobooks.bsky.social
The Trans Rights Readathon starts tomorrow!

I recommend adding Twice Lived to your TBR, by my brilliant non-binary sibling @jomawest.bsky.social

A beautiful, emotional, short sci fi story about two mixed heritage girls sharing one body across parallel worlds 💜
📚💙 📚🏳️‍⚧️ 📚🏳️‍🌈
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Twice Lived
Check out Twice Lived - <p><b>Torn between two families and two lives, a troubled teen must come to terms with losing half their world.<br><br> </b><i>Two Worlds. Two Minds. One Life.<br><br> </i>Ther...
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March 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
jomawest.bsky.social
'A mélange of accents and languages enables the simultaneity of worlds, offering a way to exist on cultural crossroads. Most of humanity moves along cultural crossroads.'

www.guernicamag.com/joli-petit-a...
Joli Petit Accent
“Growing up, moving between the United States and Palestine made me feel as if I shed one self and inhabited another, over and over again.”
www.guernicamag.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
jomawest.bsky.social
I love stories where each new perspective unpeels everything you thought you knew and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster does that masterfully. Such an achingly beautiful film that treats its characters with immense sensitivity.
A still from the film Monster (2023). Two boys are running through green foliage and sunflowers. They are wet and muddy and look happy.
March 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
jomawest.bsky.social
Watched Nickel Boys at the weekend. It really took my breath away, this is the kind of art that sets me off, beautiful, moving, so damn smart, every second on screen has a thought behind it, nothing is extraneous it's just pure art on every level.
Still image from the film Nickel Boys (2024). The image show the two main characters - Elwood and Turner - standing next to each other and looking up at their reflections in a reflective ceiling. The camera stares down at them through the ceiling they are looking at. Elwood is facing on the viewers left and facing towards the viewer. Turner is on the right and his body faces away from the viewer. Elwood's expression is thoughtful and Turner's is more playful.
March 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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factionman.bsky.social
now making music
(and more music videos)

STANLEY TWOBRICKS - popular music
March 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
jomawest.bsky.social
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop was a bittersweet joy to read. I felt like I could be reading about myself and my friends, the concerns haunting the characters were all too familiar. I wish I had this bookshop in my neighbourhood, seems like a rad place to hang out.
Book on a coffee table. The book is Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum and translated into English by Shanna Tan.
March 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
This was very helpful on the other site, so it’ll be helpful here too.
A series of posts by Twitter person 5 Chinese Crackers. The key points are “The Culture War is a right wing project to attack freedom of speech by demonising and delegitimising left wing ideas disguised as a defence of it” and “For several decades now, this has relied on taking the most extreme thing some random has (or in most cases hasn't) said to paint the left as a bunch of weirdos that will get you arrested for asking for black coffee, instead of people who want to improve society somewhat”.
February 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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sarahmay1.bsky.social
The UK AI and copyright consultation closes today. It is deliberately long and technical so many of us who will be impacted may feel it isn't for them.
Respond anyway!
Many groups have support materials to answer the questions you care about. Check them out>
February 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM