Owen Blacker
@owenblacker
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🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏴♿⧖ Mainly-gay, mainly-Welsh political geek/civic tech; proud social justice warrior+trans ally. @WikiLGBT @OpenRightsGroup. he/him, cis.
Joined April 2007
Apparently I've just written a thread of 6 tweets with short-fiction recs (almost all queer) off the top of my head. Happy Pride Month! 🖤🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
@redscribe Fireheart Tiger, by @aliettedb is amazing and rightly up for a Hugo atm (CN: abusive relationships, implied assault) To Embody a Wildfire Starting, by @singlecrow will be in my Hugo noms next year (emet), by @RingWrites was up for a Nebula and is a gorgeous tale of resistance
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RT @duncanjdavis: I seem to remember a past Nottingham consultation including items such as "close all of the parks". Meanwhile they actual…
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RT @AlenSeress: "I could've made that" he took some candy and made his lover's name known to millions of people. Made us mourn him without…
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RT @chakrabortty: Labour’s plan for ‘growth’ won’t take off, but it will leave ordinary people behind My column
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RT @devoutposter: And if we’re going to be talking about Felix Gonzalez-Torres we should also be talking about Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Plat…
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RT @MariamBarghouti: The situation in the West Bank is escalating really quickly. Jenin refugee camp has been largely depopulated with the…
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