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LGBT+ liberation
Women’s liberation
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Socialist feminism
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Love Music Hate Racism, Worthing

Janine contributes half an hour of poetry to this evening of anti-racist entertainment. Love Music Hate Racism

Middle-aged Kicks live in Portslade

Middle-aged Kicks live in Portslade At Railway Roots in Portslade, West Sussex, Janine and Robb Johnson will deliver a one-off performance of their acclaimed collaboration on Middle-aged Kicks. Expect some poetry too. You can download the track here for a … Read more

If You Should Win

If you get your wayIf the foreigners are kept at bayIf we wind the drawbridge and mine the beachesReach a state of monocultureCreate an all-white social structure Would your wages rise? Or would you find to your surprise your payslip doesn’t grow … Read more

Debating neurodiversity

Janine Booth replies to John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone’s post, Neurodiversity – what exactly does it mean?, on Mad in the UK’s website. Throwing the neurodivergent baby out with the bathwater John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone have contributed an interesting … Read more

Disabled people: Labour manifesto offers little

Labour’s general election manifesto offers little more than vague mentions to disabled people, and drops many of the party’s specific pledges.

Oswestry Pride 2024 Variety Show

Dungeons & Drag Kings Founder Jenn Deere will be hosting the Oswestry Pride Variety Show at Attfield Theatre, featuring performances from Chester’s drag king Mr Brake Down, poet Janine Booth, drag queen Coco Canal, and more!

Neurodiversity in Rail conference 2024

Janine will be a keynote speaker at this year’s Neurodiversity in Rail conference. Here is some information from the organisers of the Neurodiversity in Rail conference, the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Excellence … About the Neurodiversity in Rail … Read more

Video: GMB Midlands Neurodiversity training

GMB Midlands members are invited to a training course about neurodiversity at work.

Video: Neurodiversity – a left-wing perspective

Neurodiversity – a left-wing perspective On Monday 25 March, Janine spoke at an online open meeting hosted by Lewes Labour party members, setting out a left-wing perspective on neurodiversity. You can watch a video of the talk, and the ensuing … Read more

Guest poem: This is Me

I am loud, I am chatty
I am exhausting, Impulsive and batty

Pride Is

Pride is this:
the counter-march to prejudice

There’s a reason it was named:
Pride is refusal to feel ashamed.

Witney Pride fundraiser: Do You Remember The Verse Time?

For poetry lovers, for poetry sceptics, for those who never appreciated the full force of verse until it’s been heard, this is the event for you. Join us for a special edition of Witney’s best and only spoken word night. … Read more

Speaking about Neurodiversity at Lewes Labour online open meeting

Janine will be speaking about neurodiversity at March’s ‘open meeting’ organised by Lewes Labour activists. ‘Different people have different brain wiring. Those with a minority brain wiring – such as dyslexic, autistic and dyspraxic people – face discrimination at work … Read more

Poke Your Woke

If your Daily Mail goes up in smoke
Then that’s because the world’s gone woke

Guest poem: FFS

A guest poem by Josey Robinson

LGBT+ Educators hold largest-ever union conference

Report from National Education Union LGBT+ Educators Conference by Janine Booth, delegate Published in Solidarity 698 Last weekend (2-4 February), 350 lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and other non-straight education workers gathered in Birmingham for the National Education Union’s largest ever … Read more

Work and menopause

Menopause at work hit the headlines on 22 February as the Equality and Human Rights Commission issued new guidance on the issue. However, the guidance only affirmed what the law has been for the last fourteen years, and the fact that news coverage trumpeted it as a breakthrough can only mean that employers have not been following the law.