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Amy Jo Philip
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Poet. Author of “The Ambulance Box” and “The North End of the Possible”. New book coming in 2026. | Priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church Diocese of Edinburgh and member of general synod | she/her 🏳️‍⚧️ https://linktr.ee/amyjophilp
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So much excellent work at the @quill.scot #TDoR reading tonight at @argonautbooks.bsky.social but the standout performance for me was @alysdragon.bsky.social's *phenomenal* set.
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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argonautbooks.bsky.social
We have opened up a direct line of communication with James Daunt who has acknowledged our concerns and indicated a willingness to discuss the Newkirkgate Centre issue with us.

We believe it was your strong response which enabled this to happen so swiftly.

We will keep everyone regularly updated.
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
ambulancebox.bsky.social
AOCB - almost off to commence barding.

Join me and a host of others at @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith in just under an hour!
quill.scot Quill Scotland @quill.scot · 20d
Join us @argonautbooks.bsky.social next weekend to commemorate trans day of remembrance with a lineup of fantastic trans and non-binary readers from across Scotland.

#trans #transrights #scottish #scotland #tdor
Trans day of remembrance readings evening, join us for a cosy evening of powerful readings to mark trans day of remembrance, Sunday 23rd November 2025, 7-9pm at Argonaut Books, 15-17 Leith Walk, Edinburgh Readers - Titilayo Farukuoye, Amy Jo Philip, Sarah Heitler, Robyn O'Donnell, Sol Vardi, AW Earl, Lucille Wright, Jude Firesong
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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quill.scot
Our host for our Trans Day of Remembrance event next Sunday @argonautbooks.bsky.social is JJ Fadaka!
JJ Fadaka profile photo Jj Fadaka is a writer, facilitator, and radical based in Edinburgh. Their work explores the possibility of abolition, feminism, and love to create change.
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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quill.scot
Returning for a second QUILL event this year it's Sol Vardi!

Join us @argonautbooks.bsky.social next week - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...
Sol Vardi - TDOR readings evening Sol is a writer and spoken word poet who explored queer and immigrant experiences. Their poetry weaves political issues, humour, and queer joy alongside everyday experiences of life in their acquired home of Edinburgh.
November 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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quill.scot
Welcome to the incredible Titilayo Farukuoye!

We are so excited to hear them and their wonderful words this Sunday 💖

Get your tickets before they go!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...
Titlayo Farukyoye #TDOR Readings Evening Titilayo Farukuoye (they/them) is a writer, educator and organiser based in Glasgow. Their work addresses social justice and community care and is informed by rights and cultural leaders like Assata Shakur, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí and Paulo Freire. Titilayo invites us to dream and use our radical imagination to seek more just realities. Titilayo co-directs the Scottish BPOC Writers Network and is a winner of the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Their poetry pamphlet In Wolf’s Skin is available with Stewed Rhubarb Press and Titilayo’s non-fiction book But We Did: Dismantling colonialist myths towards collective liberation is forthcoming.
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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quill.scot
Welcoming back the fantastic to our line up of readers on Sunday!

Join us @argonautbooks.bsky.social on Sunday evening for our commemoration of #tdor

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...
Jude Firesong #tdor readings evening Jude FireSong – aka Fabulous Phoenix Boy – is a Scottish-by-inclination, non-binary trans, polyamorous queer man and a neurodivergent, mad, disabled survivor. His work explores intersections of identity; love, loss; social alienation, community, found family; storytelling as identity, vocation, and catharsis. Jude’s work has appeared in issue 3 of new words and the Level Centre’s Public Open Exhibition 2024; more is forthcoming in rainy weather days, Hush LGBTQ+ Magazine, and Untold Stories (Bedlam Theatre, April ’25). His hybrid collection Made of Magic – poetry of rage & (be)longing was long-listed in nw{p}’s Chapbook Competition ’24; Jude later brought it to the Edinburgh Fringe as a solo poetry show/art exhibition. Billed performance history includes: Shrub Coop’s Queer Cabaret (Fringe ’23), LGBT Health & Wellbeing’s Pride Breakfast and Winter Celebration ’24, Push the Boat Out ’24, Loud Poets x Stanza Festival Slam Poetry Heat ’25.
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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quill.scot
AW Earl joins us for their QUILL debut this Sunday.

Join us tomorrow - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...
AW Earl - #TDOR Readings Evening A W Earl is a non-binary writer and storyteller whose work is concerned with gender, deviant bodies, and folklore. They studied English Literature and Creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and have performed their own work and traditional folktales across the UK. Their poetry has been published in various venues, and was recently shortlisted in Renard Press’ Interwoven competition, while their non-fiction has appeared in Lighthouse Journal and a collection by Watkins Press. Their debut novel was published in 2018.
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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quill.scot
Our final reader introduction! Sarah Heitler joins us tomorrow for #tdor.

Join us to commemorate - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...
Sarah Heitler - #TDOR Readings Evening Sarah Heitler is a Glasgow based performance poet and award winning flashfiction writer. Her work is slowly gaining recognition in the Scottish queer poetry scene and her poem "Lazarus" was recently accepted for publication in the upcoming Trans Poetica anthology. Sarah's poetry is unashamedly vulnerable, queer and open, and she deeply loves performing her work.
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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quill.scot
Welcoming back @ambulancebox.bsky.social for our #tdor readings evening @argonautbooks.bsky.social this Sunday!
Amy Jo Philip #tdor Readings Evening Amy Jo Philip is the first out transgender priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Prior to transitioning, she published two pamphlets with HappenStance press and two full collections with Salt Publishing under her deadname. She is working on a third collection, to be published by Blue Diode Press in 2026. Her work was featured in ‘Side A/Side B’, February 2025’s issue of @badlilies, a digital journal of poetry. You can read ‘Knackered Babes’ at www.badlilies.uk. Amy Jo’s work has appeared in a number of magazines including Irish Pages, Gutter, Magma, Eemis Stane, and the final edition of Dreich. It has also been included in a number of anthologies, most recently ‘Scottish Religious Poetry: From the Sixth Century to the Present’ (St Andrew’s Press, 2024) and ‘10 Poets Defend their Cities Against Giant, Strange Beasts’ (Sidekick Books, 2024).
November 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer. Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back. One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground. All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb. "I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.
October 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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transiness.bsky.social
I'm just posting this again, because we all need to be completely clear that despite sex differentiation starting at 10 wks gestation, every cell in anyones body is very unlikely to be 100% "male" or 100% "female".

Maleeessss and feeemaaalles ❌
We're all a vibrant mix ✔️

phys.org/news/2025-09...
Why our organs cannot simply be classified as male or female
Biological sex is usually described in simple binary terms: male or female. This works well for germ cells (sperm versus eggs), but for other body organs it is of little help.
phys.org
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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churchofengland.org
A prayer for the next Archbishop of Canterbury. 🙏
Almighty and everlasting God, the only worker of great marvels, send down upon your servant Sarah, called to be Archbishop of Canterbury, and all who are committed to her care, the spirit of your saving grace, and that they may truly please you, pour upon them the continual dew of your blessing. Grant this, O Lord, for the honour of our advocate and mediator, Jesus Christ. Amen.
October 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
ambulancebox.bsky.social
I have a notification from the Costa app telling me it's international coffee day. That's a day I can get behind. I'm off to celebrate it before saying morning prayer ...
October 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
ambulancebox.bsky.social
It's been some week! Started with an individual retreat at Whitchester house near Hawick & midweek Eucharist at St Cuthbert's Hawick, then on Thurs my licensing as part-time transitional priest-in-charge of Grangemouth and Bo'ness. Now I'm off to the the Edinburgh diocese electoral synod.
September 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
ambulancebox.bsky.social
It was a real joy to give the reflection at this service for #StirlingPride tonight. #Pride #FaithfullyLGBTQ
September 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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fozmeadows.bsky.social
I keep seeing reports of non-AI users being told that an AI detector has dubbed their work AI generated, and it makes me insane because:
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
June 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
ambulancebox.bsky.social
My first appearance on *live* radio for about 25 years: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... We start at about 1 hope and 10 minutes in. Happy listening!
BBC Radio Scotland - Sunday Morning, with Zara Janjua
Two hours of music and stimulating conversation from a faith and ethical perspective.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
ambulancebox.bsky.social
So, here's how I spent my Saturday. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
June 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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This auction ends on June 7th at 1am BST. Jsyk.
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · May 5
As part of this auction for trans rights I'm selling off handwritten copy of my poem Jesus At The Gay Bar.

I promise to use nice paper and a fountain pen and my best handwriting and everything.

www.32auctions.com/organization...
Signed & Handwritten Poem, Jesus at the Gay Bar
Auction item 'Signed & Handwritten Poem, Jesus at the Gay Bar' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
ambulancebox.bsky.social
Me in my Proud Corner

Come and hear me read as part of Queer Breakfast Club – Grangemouth's first ever pride celebration, Proud Corners! The event is free but you are welcome to give a donation on the day. QBC is a fantastic local group that, despite only having started in January, is up for two…
Me in my Proud Corner
Come and hear me read as part of Queer Breakfast Club – Grangemouth's first ever pride celebration, Proud Corners! The event is free but you are welcome to give a donation on the day. QBC is a fantastic local group that, despite only having started in January, is up for two awards: organisation of the year in the CVS Falkirk and District volunteering awards and the charity/group initiative award in this year's Proud Scotland Awards, alongside far more established and better-known groups!
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May 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
ambulancebox.bsky.social
House!

I invite to unlock the door to The Interpreter's House no. 83. In one corner of this mansion, you will find two short poems of mine, "Of the Wounds" and "The Changes". I have a particular affection for these two wee pieces. They do something I really needed them to do at the time I wrote…
House!
I invite to unlock the door to The Interpreter's House no. 83. In one corner of this mansion, you will find two short poems of mine, "Of the Wounds" and "The Changes". I have a particular affection for these two wee pieces. They do something I really needed them to do at the time I wrote them and still need to them to do.
amyjophilip.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
ambulancebox.bsky.social
What would the world look like if we all nurtured joybait instead of indulging in ragebait?
May 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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It seems a good day to repost this: www.badlilies.uk/amy-jo-philip
Amy Jo Philip — Bad Lilies
A poem by Amy Jo Philip
www.badlilies.uk
April 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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scottishtrans.bsky.social
We'd urge people not to panic - there will be lots of commentary coming out quickly that is likely to deliberately overstate the impact that this decision is going to have on all trans people's lives. We'll say more as soon as we're able to. Please look out for yourselves and each other today 💗🏳️‍⚧️
April 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM