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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

AND THAT, beautiful creatures is a wrap!

ALL our panel events are HYBRID so do book in to join us from wherever you are, all tickets are sliding scale, and the Book Fair itself is free to browse from 12 on Thurs 6th until 6pm Sun 9th.

Please help us spread the word!

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

AND THAT, beautiful creatures is a wrap!

ALL our panel events are HYBRID so do book in to join us from wherever you are, all tickets are sliding scale, and the Book Fair itself is free to browse from 12 on Thurs 6th until 6pm Sun 9th.

Please help us spread the word!

bsky.app/profile/ligh...

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

Palestine -1: Stories From the Eve of the Nakba
4pm Sun 9th

When the present eludes articulation & the future is still being fought for, this panel with Basma Ghalayini and Mazen Maarouf asks how fiction can help us imagine a time before the ceaseless Nakba.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

Places That Built Us
2.30 Sun 9th

How do we articulate belonging? Dalia Al-Dujaili, Aileen Angsutorn Lees & Jessica Gaitán Johannesson discuss the interweaving threads of place and people, & how our stories & care are central to forging paths forward.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

Community Lunch / Community Stalls
1.30 Sun 9th

Break bread with us! Bring pals, share impressions from panels & take in the atmosphere of the fair with a free lunch & you’ll also be able to chat to local organisers and activists and make new connections.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

Feminism Now!
12 Sun 9th

Bringing forward wisdoms & challenges faced by women of the margins & Global South, our speakers make the case that we must revive an authentic internationalism to carve feminist politics that are fit for present & future generations.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

Everyday Bonds: Solidarities from the Ground Up
11 Sun 9th

Friends to comrades, raves to rallies, everyday bonds are the bedrock of movement building-how do we foster radical friendships & solidarities across divides & interests?
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

And *drum roll please* SUNDAY delights at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair!

The 🧵 continues
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

Aaand BEHOLD, the weekend at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair... A further thread!

Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

Love & Rage: A Literary Cabaret
7.30 Sat 8th

Love and Rage are not just feelings—they are fuel. An all-star line up of writers, poets and performers show us how to use love and rage as catalysts for revolutionary change Hosted by @profsunnysingh.bsky.social

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

21st Century Far Right: New Faces Same Targets
6 Sat 8th

While precarity & inequality are real sources of discontent, migrant, refugee & trans lives have been weaponised to suit reactionary narratives. How do we fight fracturing solidarities and real enemies?
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

Divergent: Weird Pride, Unruliness & Outsider Wisdom
4.30 Sat 8th

Join CJ Debarra, Nish Doshi and frank r jagoe to celebrate and explore neurodiversity and rethink our relationships to nature, gender, capital and each other.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

Reframing Resistance: Strategies for Change
2.30 Sat 8th

@rachelcdailey.bsky.social, Sam Gonçalves and Janet Alder draw on work across disability rights, climate and racial justice as well as state and police accountability to offer insight into what works.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

Backlash: Policing Women & Queer People
12.30 Sat 8th

@cecilesimmons.bsky.social & Keio Yoshida unpack the culture and court cases that inform this political moment, from anti-trans legislation to tradwife tiktok - how do we fight the roll back on progress?

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

Against Literatures : Arts Breaking Free
11am Sat 8th

George Abraham, Nida Sajid and Remi Graves address the use, abuse, purpose and potential of the arts in causing radical change in our polarised world.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 4h

Aaand BEHOLD, the weekend at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair... A further thread!

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 5h

aaaannndd heading into Saturday (deep breath, more to come!)

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 5h

The Myths & Legends Cabaret
7.30 Fri 7th
Join beloved storytellers for a joyful, radical reimagining of the stories that scaffold our world-views & literary [email protected], Mara Gold & Niall Moorjani elevate the true legends in our myths!

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 5h

Cities (re)claimed
5.30 Fri 7th

@profdanhicks.bsky.social, @thelrm.bsky.social & Mason Leaver-Yap unpick the political narratives of our cityscapes-who is welcome, safe, forgotten or hidden? Reclaiming and reshaping our cities to shape our future.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 5h

The Kids Are Alright: Young People Fighting
2.30 Fri 7th

What can we learn from youth activists and activism? What does it mean to mobilise across generations, fostering collaboration over paternalism, solidarity over cynicism? Ft Trans Kids Deserve Better
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 5h

A Full Moon Reading: Sophia Hembeck & Fariha Róisín
12.30 Fri 7th

2 storytellers offer guidance on how to heal in a time of grief & mass delusion, and on how to transcend the veneer of fascism, capitalism and supremacy to make work (and live) with integrity.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 5h

But: Songs & Stories with Boff Whalley
8.30 Thurs 6th
Part reading/gig/conversation, Whalley from anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba & @commonerschoir.bsky.social plays songs from a lifetime writing & music making, unpacking a personal history of creative activism.
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 5h

Music As Life: Politics, Power, Creation
7pm Thurs 6th

Dave Randall @djpaulette.bsky.social & Adèle Oliver unpack music as politics, as a tool for survival, solidarity and community building-joyful, galvanising, subversive, a record of love, loss & resilience.
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 5h

Staged Bodies : The Politics of Sex from Stage to Screen
5.30 Thurs 6th

From tv to burlesque, sex work and more, Xuanlin Tham and Allison Carr discuss what our cultural moment says about the skin we’re in and what it is to transgress expectations.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 5h

Maryville: A Dyke Bar Revival
7pm Weds 5th

Celebrating & examining the scars, hopes, dreams & potentials of the queer underground and dyke counterculture - poetry, performance & discussion with Joelle Taylor.
+ Edinburgh Dyke Bar take-over of Roxy 8.30-10.30pm
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