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@elizabethlovatt.bsky.social

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Author - THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE - Feb 25 (UK) May 25 (US) with Dialogue and Legacy Lit 🌈☎️✨ I like games, books, art & crafts ✨newsletter/blog: the tiny narrative ✨ she/her linktr.ee/elizabethlovatt

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · Feb 6

Happy book publication day to me!! THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE is OUT TODAY in the UK 🩷💚

I’m so excited to see this book in the world.

elizabethlovatt.com for links to order and merch!!

#booksky #2025debut

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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 6d

I hope we all understand this is happening because the services are being made less social. Being social isn't profitable.

Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 6d

This is kinda sad

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · 14d

great news!

Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · 16d

perfect lunchtime reading. you might think, how could a tram driver championship be exciting, well Holly explains how

Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 16d

Okay I wrote up my trip to the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS buttondown.com/holly/archiv...

cannot stress enough how much this newsletter issue is just a list of things that happened at the world tramdriver championships, please use your own judgement regarding whether that is of interest to you

The World Tramdriver Championships

Heya, Whoops, it’s been a while! But how better to start sending these again than to tell you all about the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS in Vienna, which...

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 18d

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 18d

I'm a bit concerned about the use of the word "clash" here, @theguardian.com. Not only does this imply 'two-sideism' (my favourite bit is designation of anti-racist protesters as "hardcore" - turns out the only thing they were 'hardcore' about is techno) but also a physical conflict. Was there one?

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · 20d

My new novel, AS IF, has a cover. Out from Hamish Hamilton on 26th Feb 2026, and later in the year from FSG in the US.

As of now you can preorder via your usual bookshop or your library—thank you! x

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · 22d

you’re so welcome!! you did all the hard work 😅😅😅

Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · 22d

I said what I said!

I loved reading this book earlier this year 💙 and now you can preorder it!!

So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 22d

It's here.

BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25

"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi

Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

Cover of Bad Language by So Mayer: hand-drawn illustration of an illuminated capital B, which is a grey dragon wrapped around a blue tree. The dragon has a red eye and smoke rising from its nostrils. The author's name and book title are written in a simple, non-joined-up cursive, as if on a chalkboard.

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · 27d

come along! no ticket needed! we’ll be chatting horns, lesbians and detective fiction!

Cipher Press @cipherpress.bsky.social · 27d

Brighton tonight! Join us for a fantastic evening discussing all things Bone Horn with Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain and @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social. See you at The Family Store at 6:30pm 📚🕵️

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Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social · 28d

Really enjoyed this afternoon’s @womenshistnet.bsky.social roundtable on “Lesbian Histories & the Long View” with @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @sazwingrove.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social & Lisa Weston! I particularly loved everyone’s joy for research & the rabbit holes you end up going down!

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · Sep 8

one day you wake up post-35 and realise you have become the Lorax and it time to get better tweezers

Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · Sep 7

sadly I think we’ve clouded over here 😭

Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · Sep 7

go go go 🌬️

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Georgeeee @dgy.bsky.social · Sep 4

Some Awesome games in this bundle with all proceeds going to a just cause! Be sure to pick it up 🇵🇸

SE Asian Games for Good @seagamesforgood.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.

Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · Sep 4

did she accept the Clark’s upsell the people need to know

Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Dr. Abigail Desmond @abigaildesmond.bsky.social · Jan 13

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · Sep 4

too many men wearing swede shoes in (rainy) London today

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’ve written about making art when it feels like the world is ending, about living truthfully in a homophobic world, about the Two Roberts in the 1940s. And a lot of it feels very…now.

Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · Aug 31

"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?"

I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.

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‘They had everything, then nothing’: the prodigies the art world forgot

Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thanks Leigh and hi! Mum said what a great time she had at pride, hope to be there next year. Thank you for making her so welcome at Stoneygate, means a lot to her and me ❤️

Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · Aug 28

yeah they seem really great 🩷

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · Aug 28

Stoneygate Baptist Church :)

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · Aug 28

my mum is going to Leicester Pride this year for the first time and with her new church - hoping she snags a zine for me!

St Nicholas Church, Leicester @stnicholasleics.bsky.social · Aug 27

To coincide with Leicester Pride this year we're debuting a new project: 'Communion: A Queer Christian Zine', created with an ethos of grassroots organising and radical sharing, with the finished product being freely available for anyone to print and distribute among their own communities.

The front cover of Communion a queer Christian zine, issue 1

With a painting of a saint walking through the wilderness, and collaged on top a sketch of a nude man from the waist up, reaching out, halo on his head

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · Aug 27

The sign up link for our roundtable 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View', ft. @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social, @norenashopland.bsky.social, @sazwingrove.bsky.social, and Prof Lisa Weston, is now LIVE. Please visit our website to register: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · Aug 26

Is the Magic 8Ball sentient? We asked the Magic 8Ball, the company that are raking it in from the toy & the players who are using it rather than going to therapy.

An LLM is a predictive algorithm that replicates the most common or likely response. It's like asking if a fruit machine is suffering.

Guardian headline:

Can Als suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times.

Image is of a white person's face covered or consumed by a visualisation of a data network.

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Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social · Aug 26

I'm reading Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer (a brilliant book on the gift economy) -it strikes me that the below is in opposition to what she advocates: to see nature as a person (as some Indigenous people do) worthy of empathy & respect as much as you or me, as way to see abundance not scarcity

So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · Aug 26

They want, furthermore, to shift the entire concept of rights eugenically toward a (disembodied) quantifiable concept of "intelligence" (ie, toward their profit) & away from bodies & living beings. This is an extension of corporations being human, not a new kind of consciousness.

Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · Aug 26

I'm suspicious tech companies are pushing the idea of AI suffering because they plan to position it as deserving of rights. How could anyone fight AI if our actions were legally considered abuse? If my suspicions are true, it'd be a brilliant plan but more evil than almost anything I can think of.

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