Queer Coffee Link Ups, Leicester
At Queer Coffee Link Ups, Leicester’s LGBT+ community gets to hear performances from most excellent local poets.
Issues and campaigns: Equalities
Challenging discrimination and fighting for liberation
10 questions for Disability History Month
All4Inclusion asked me ten questions, and posted them and my answers on its website as part of its Disability History Month celebrations Ten questions for Disability History Month 1. Can I start by asking you to tell us a little … Read More
All the Rage: organising at work
Janine will run a workshop on organising at work at All the Rage, an annual socialist feminist one-day event. All the Rage agenda 11:00am – 12:15pm All the Rage Plenary: Feminism and the Rise of the Far Right Speakers: … Read More
Webinar: Ranting, rhyming, revolting – poems and politics for neurodiversity
Janine presents this webinar for Lotus Collaborations. Expect verse for diversity, and demands to challenge discrimination.
Poeting at Shrewsbury Pride
Janine will be performing at Shrewsbury Pride, in the spoken word event at In Good Hands between 2 and 4pm. This is after the main march through Shrewsbury town centre. Expect poems including Stonewall Was a Riot and Pride Is … Read More
Patriotism
a guest poem by Vicky Thomas St George is cross. The soldier saint says He’s at a loss To understand these days. You who take his flag And use his name As some kind of brag – He is ashamed. … Read More
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