Eloise Birnam-Wood
@birnamwood.bsky.social
Artist + writer. Poetry! Folklore! Feminism! Medical Humanities! Art! The Gothic! ‘90s Music! Zines! The occult! Collage! Books! Ginger cats! More art! Sylvia Plath! Aesthetics! Tarot! Cake! Bit more art, maybe!
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The horror.
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The horror.
I loved Help The Witch, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. My abiding memory of it is buying it in a bookshop in Edinburgh while up on holiday and then lying on the grass in Prince’s St Gardens to have a little read before my dinner reservation. Perfect.
I've TWO of these beautiful 'Witch & Hare' original linocuts by my mum, Jo, to give away to my Bluesky followers. The print is from my recently republished book, Help The Witch.
All you have to do to enter is repost this story from the book (maybe give it a read too?) www.tom-cox.com/robot-2/
All you have to do to enter is repost this story from the book (maybe give it a read too?) www.tom-cox.com/robot-2/
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I loved Help The Witch, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. My abiding memory of it is buying it in a bookshop in Edinburgh while up on holiday and then lying on the grass in Prince’s St Gardens to have a little read before my dinner reservation. Perfect.
Reposting my Craft tarot, because it’s Halloween and I can.
October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reposting my Craft tarot, because it’s Halloween and I can.
The veil thins; the beloved dead come home.
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The veil thins; the beloved dead come home.
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Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
October 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
Well, since you mentioned it… here’s four I made into tarot cards. Can you believe The Craft turns 30 next year?
October 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Well, since you mentioned it… here’s four I made into tarot cards. Can you believe The Craft turns 30 next year?
The wren is back in my garden! Bit worried the Robin might try to bully it out, so I’ve set up a second feeder as far as I can from the Robin’s Tree. Wish my mum could have seen it.
October 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The wren is back in my garden! Bit worried the Robin might try to bully it out, so I’ve set up a second feeder as far as I can from the Robin’s Tree. Wish my mum could have seen it.
Couldn’t sleep last night, so at 2am I decided to have a go at bookbinding. As you do.
I had a knackered old paperback kicking around, and some fabric and paper and glue and board. It’s not perfect, but for an impromptu first attempt I think it’s pretty good.
I had a knackered old paperback kicking around, and some fabric and paper and glue and board. It’s not perfect, but for an impromptu first attempt I think it’s pretty good.
September 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Couldn’t sleep last night, so at 2am I decided to have a go at bookbinding. As you do.
I had a knackered old paperback kicking around, and some fabric and paper and glue and board. It’s not perfect, but for an impromptu first attempt I think it’s pretty good.
I had a knackered old paperback kicking around, and some fabric and paper and glue and board. It’s not perfect, but for an impromptu first attempt I think it’s pretty good.
Not saying I live in a weird neighbourhood or anything, but a guy has just walked past my open window complaining to himself: “Buncha weirdos. No neck! No NECK!”
September 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Not saying I live in a weird neighbourhood or anything, but a guy has just walked past my open window complaining to himself: “Buncha weirdos. No neck! No NECK!”
I’ve been listening to this song since I was a small girl, per my mum’s music taste — seeing it analysed is another different way to enjoy it.
August 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I’ve been listening to this song since I was a small girl, per my mum’s music taste — seeing it analysed is another different way to enjoy it.
History/genealogy folks — if you can trace an unusual surname to a small town to the point where the records run out, but then you find a separate source that records the same family name in the same small town, ~80 years before the last record, can you reasonably infer that this is the same family?
August 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
History/genealogy folks — if you can trace an unusual surname to a small town to the point where the records run out, but then you find a separate source that records the same family name in the same small town, ~80 years before the last record, can you reasonably infer that this is the same family?
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Have I ever mentioned how much I love the Prodigy? Because I love the Prodigy. I really, really love the Prodigy.
June 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Have I ever mentioned how much I love the Prodigy? Because I love the Prodigy. I really, really love the Prodigy.
Took the cat to the vet for his boosters last week. As I put his carrier into the taxi’s backseat, I jokingly said “put your seatbelt on, there’s a good boy!” in that special talking-to-animals voice.
As I climbed in and shut the door behind me, I noticed the cab driver putting his seatbelt on…
As I climbed in and shut the door behind me, I noticed the cab driver putting his seatbelt on…
June 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Took the cat to the vet for his boosters last week. As I put his carrier into the taxi’s backseat, I jokingly said “put your seatbelt on, there’s a good boy!” in that special talking-to-animals voice.
As I climbed in and shut the door behind me, I noticed the cab driver putting his seatbelt on…
As I climbed in and shut the door behind me, I noticed the cab driver putting his seatbelt on…
Well, I just had a V interesting conversation with 3 Reform candidates.
Our local candidate’s a student nurse.
Farage has come out against abortion rights.
Not one of the 3 could explain why she’d climb into bed with him on that basis. Not even the candidate herself.
Our local candidate’s a student nurse.
Farage has come out against abortion rights.
Not one of the 3 could explain why she’d climb into bed with him on that basis. Not even the candidate herself.
June 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Well, I just had a V interesting conversation with 3 Reform candidates.
Our local candidate’s a student nurse.
Farage has come out against abortion rights.
Not one of the 3 could explain why she’d climb into bed with him on that basis. Not even the candidate herself.
Our local candidate’s a student nurse.
Farage has come out against abortion rights.
Not one of the 3 could explain why she’d climb into bed with him on that basis. Not even the candidate herself.
Reposted by Eloise Birnam-Wood
It’s time to reconsolidate a counterculture and politics against this shit. Science, art, medicine, poetry, philosophy as the beautiful life, the fullness of human civilization, that they want to destroy. Humanism, not cynicism, not slop, not tech “””nerd””” culture
May 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It’s time to reconsolidate a counterculture and politics against this shit. Science, art, medicine, poetry, philosophy as the beautiful life, the fullness of human civilization, that they want to destroy. Humanism, not cynicism, not slop, not tech “””nerd””” culture
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May 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
From Allen Ginsberg’s essay “Demonstration or Spectacle as Example, as Communication or How to Make a March/Spectacle,” some ideas for peaceful protest. This has been credited with the birth of Flower Power. I found it quite difficult to get hold of online, so I’ve never read it before.
![19. Front (or toward front) —toy army in costume, Civil War or Revolutionary War or WW I uniforms and signs:
NO MORE
LEAVE ME ALONE
Addenda: Pre-March Propaganda
1. Muslims, unions etc. all invited to join inside the masses.
2. Leaflets with above instructions to marchers how to channel their anxiety and respond to attack
3. Daily delegations to Hell's Angels to talk to them, pestering them in advance.
4. Petitions and letters and news releases to papers setting tone of march: Petitions to [Gov. ] Brown, open letter to Hell's Angels one news release (We're NOT going to fight); open letters to Young Republicans, Democrats, Birchers, Army, Johnson etc. All the propaganda suggested at Tuesday meeting- conferences with Oakland police to force them to keep peace.
5. Emphasize in propaganda TRUST THE MARCHERS to be hip, calm and tranquil with a sense of humor and not get sidetracked into frustration/ personal violence.
6. Perhaps as propaganda, an imaginary ladies corps to pull down Hell's Angels pants in case of attack, or a (theoretical) corps of trained fairies to seduce them in mid-battle. This is a sort of press release joke to lighten the atmosphere.
WRITTEN: ca. Nov. 1965
FIRST PUBLISHED: Berkeley Barb (Nov. 19, 1965) pp. 1, 4. Reprinted:
Liberation, vol. 10, no. 10 (Jan. 1966); Massimo Teodori, ed., The New Left (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ecocetaqc67mqqwegjzcog2t/bafkreicerif7twedxh4phwjp2tmxllsa6tiuut65n4xyolepohryg4fdha@jpeg)
May 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
From Allen Ginsberg’s essay “Demonstration or Spectacle as Example, as Communication or How to Make a March/Spectacle,” some ideas for peaceful protest. This has been credited with the birth of Flower Power. I found it quite difficult to get hold of online, so I’ve never read it before.
It strikes me that this is definitely the kind of thing you shouldn’t get in trouble for writing. Anywhere.
10Foot, Tox and Fume's art exhibition shut down after 'f**k the King' graffiti buff.ly/da4xYpq
10Foot, Tox and Fume's art exhibition shut down after 'f**k the King' graffiti
An exhibition featuring 10Foot has been shut after someone sprayed anti-King graffiti on the building, which is owned by the Crown Estate.
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April 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It strikes me that this is definitely the kind of thing you shouldn’t get in trouble for writing. Anywhere.
The Apothecary, digital collages. No AI, I find the natural kind sufficient.
April 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The Apothecary, digital collages. No AI, I find the natural kind sufficient.
Made this for an open call kinda near me and then realised that it was in-person drop off and collection and I’d never be able to make it. Boo. Posting it here instead because it’s easier than trying to catch three buses and two trains.
February 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Made this for an open call kinda near me and then realised that it was in-person drop off and collection and I’d never be able to make it. Boo. Posting it here instead because it’s easier than trying to catch three buses and two trains.
I've just seen a wren in my back garden. Never seen one before. Almost perfectly spherical. A delight!
February 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I've just seen a wren in my back garden. Never seen one before. Almost perfectly spherical. A delight!