Peter Collins
@peter.polari.com
Founder of @polari.press queer publisher and design studio. Using this as a personal/professional account so let's see how that goes (expect mild chaos). 🏳️🌈☮️🏳️⚧️🍉
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Peter Collins
@peter.polari.com
· Oct 4
After launching them at Queeriosities last weekend, the A3 Risograph posters are now up on our website with all profits going to the Sameer Project in Gaza: polari.press/throw-sand-i...
Got these up on my website finally! I would love them to sell out so I can transfer a bulk of money in one go to the Sameer Project who are providing food to people in Gaza.
The red colourway is so far proving the more popular so get ‘em quick! Limited edition of 50 in each colour. £15 each.
The red colourway is so far proving the more popular so get ‘em quick! Limited edition of 50 in each colour. £15 each.
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Today I opened a box... of me!!!
☠️👽👻👹🧜♂️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Queer As Folklore is back in shops and available online from @manchesterup.bsky.social!
☠️👽👻👹🧜♂️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Queer As Folklore is back in shops and available online from @manchesterup.bsky.social!
December 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Today I opened a box... of me!!!
☠️👽👻👹🧜♂️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Queer As Folklore is back in shops and available online from @manchesterup.bsky.social!
☠️👽👻👹🧜♂️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Queer As Folklore is back in shops and available online from @manchesterup.bsky.social!
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Once a symbol of unity and hope across Europe, the Eurovision Song Contest has been turned into a pink-washing front for war criminals in Israel.
After today's decision, there must be a global boycott of Eurovision.
After today's decision, there must be a global boycott of Eurovision.
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Once a symbol of unity and hope across Europe, the Eurovision Song Contest has been turned into a pink-washing front for war criminals in Israel.
After today's decision, there must be a global boycott of Eurovision.
After today's decision, there must be a global boycott of Eurovision.
A grotesque but unsurprising decision. Eurovision was dead to me in 2024.
How people can sing merrily along to genocidal pop songs used as cultural power by a genocidal, apartheid state is truly beyond me.
To anyone still planning to watch, I say “Good luck you and your family.”
How people can sing merrily along to genocidal pop songs used as cultural power by a genocidal, apartheid state is truly beyond me.
To anyone still planning to watch, I say “Good luck you and your family.”
Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete
Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete
Decision not to hold vote on Israel’s participation comes in spite of several broadcasters calling for its exclusion
Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands will boycott next year’s Eurovision after Israel was given the all-clear to compete in next year’s song contest in spite of several participating broadcasters calling for its exclusion.
At the general assembly of the European Broadcasting Union, the body that organises the hugely popular international annual singing competition, no vote on Israel’s participation was held. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A grotesque but unsurprising decision. Eurovision was dead to me in 2024.
How people can sing merrily along to genocidal pop songs used as cultural power by a genocidal, apartheid state is truly beyond me.
To anyone still planning to watch, I say “Good luck you and your family.”
How people can sing merrily along to genocidal pop songs used as cultural power by a genocidal, apartheid state is truly beyond me.
To anyone still planning to watch, I say “Good luck you and your family.”
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Hounding the Women's Institute because its all-women membership decided to welcome transgender women serves none of the stated goals of "gender critical" activists. A movement that truly cared about women would respect the internal decision-making of one of the oldest women's organisations.
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Hounding the Women's Institute because its all-women membership decided to welcome transgender women serves none of the stated goals of "gender critical" activists. A movement that truly cared about women would respect the internal decision-making of one of the oldest women's organisations.
Any trans people struggling with the news from Girl Guides and Women’s Institute…
Can I send you a @polari.press book to lift your spirits?
DM me and I’ll see what I can do. 💜
Can I send you a @polari.press book to lift your spirits?
DM me and I’ll see what I can do. 💜
December 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Any trans people struggling with the news from Girl Guides and Women’s Institute…
Can I send you a @polari.press book to lift your spirits?
DM me and I’ll see what I can do. 💜
Can I send you a @polari.press book to lift your spirits?
DM me and I’ll see what I can do. 💜
Girl Guides and now Women’s Institute bowing to legal threats from transphobes and rescinding membership to trans women is so desperately sad…
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Girl Guides and now Women’s Institute bowing to legal threats from transphobes and rescinding membership to trans women is so desperately sad…
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Why is anybody, let alone the government still there?
Posts which cross the threshold for criminal conviction don't break the rules on X.
Posts which cross the threshold for criminal conviction don't break the rules on X.
X is an absolute cesspit
David Morgan, a neo-Nazi from Wales, has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for vile racist tweets about black and Jewish people.
Yet X has rejected numerous complaints about the Holocaust-glorifying tweets, which remain visible on the platform.
David Morgan, a neo-Nazi from Wales, has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for vile racist tweets about black and Jewish people.
Yet X has rejected numerous complaints about the Holocaust-glorifying tweets, which remain visible on the platform.
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Why is anybody, let alone the government still there?
Posts which cross the threshold for criminal conviction don't break the rules on X.
Posts which cross the threshold for criminal conviction don't break the rules on X.
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It’s a folksingers job to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. On this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, I urge followers not to look away and to never forget the suffering that the Palestinian people are still experiencing. 🕊️🇵🇸
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It’s a folksingers job to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. On this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, I urge followers not to look away and to never forget the suffering that the Palestinian people are still experiencing. 🕊️🇵🇸
From 2020: ‘Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson.’
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/let...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/let...
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
From 2020: ‘Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson.’
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/let...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/let...
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The diversity we desired in government in the 80s has been a colossal failure. As Audre Lorde said “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”. The tools here is the system where marginalised people can only personally prosper if they throw their own community to the wolves
the darvo government
'im abusing immigrants; criticise me you are racist' - mahmood
'im killing trans ppl; criticise me you are homophobic' - streeting
'im murdering disabled ppl; criticise me you are mansplaining' - reeves
'im segregating trans ppl; criticise me you are misogynist' - phillipson
'im abusing immigrants; criticise me you are racist' - mahmood
'im killing trans ppl; criticise me you are homophobic' - streeting
'im murdering disabled ppl; criticise me you are mansplaining' - reeves
'im segregating trans ppl; criticise me you are misogynist' - phillipson
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The diversity we desired in government in the 80s has been a colossal failure. As Audre Lorde said “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”. The tools here is the system where marginalised people can only personally prosper if they throw their own community to the wolves
Christmas is coming up. #JustSaying tenderbooks.co.uk/products/art...
Art in Transit - Keith Haring & Tseng Kwong Chi
HARING, Keith & Tseng Kwong Chi. Art in Transit. First edition. Quarto. 134pp. Colour plates throughout. Printed wraps with photographic dust jacket. New York: Harmony Books, 1984. A fine copy. Ts...
tenderbooks.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Christmas is coming up. #JustSaying tenderbooks.co.uk/products/art...
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Actual analysis of the BBC’s coverage of Gaza is devastating for Prescott and the right wing attacks on the BBC. Ratio of Israeli-Palestinian deaths: 1 /34. Ratio of coverage of those deaths: 19 / 1.
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
BBC On Gaza-Israel: One Story, Double Standards - Centre For Media Monitoring
cfmm.org.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Actual analysis of the BBC’s coverage of Gaza is devastating for Prescott and the right wing attacks on the BBC. Ratio of Israeli-Palestinian deaths: 1 /34. Ratio of coverage of those deaths: 19 / 1.
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
New Polari Press work coming next year!
💞 News! 💞 To mark the fifth anniversary of ’Erased’ by James McDermott—our first poetry pamphlet—we’ll be releasing a new edition next year, featuring new artwork by @peter.polari.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New Polari Press work coming next year!
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In response to the laughable fiction presented in the letter sent by Sex Matters to BBC Board members, we have sent a rebuttal letter to clarify the real facts, rather than their Orwellian tale.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
In response to the laughable fiction presented in the letter sent by Sex Matters to BBC Board members, we have sent a rebuttal letter to clarify the real facts, rather than their Orwellian tale.
Call me radical but I think people who kill tens of thousands of people should face consequences and justice.
Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Call me radical but I think people who kill tens of thousands of people should face consequences and justice.
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It is difficult to put into words how this headline makes me feel. Especially the framing of “the mother says…” as if there is any doubt. The cruelty is the point.
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It is difficult to put into words how this headline makes me feel. Especially the framing of “the mother says…” as if there is any doubt. The cruelty is the point.
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Sharing this again as today's news programmes seem yet again full of those pushing the obscene suggestion of us leaving the #ECHR
Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?
YouTube video by The Guardian
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Sharing this again as today's news programmes seem yet again full of those pushing the obscene suggestion of us leaving the #ECHR
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"A five-year-old girl must keep the surname of the father who raped her mother, after a High Court judge upheld a ruling that it formed a key part of the child’s identity and heritage." [Times]
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"A five-year-old girl must keep the surname of the father who raped her mother, after a High Court judge upheld a ruling that it formed a key part of the child’s identity and heritage." [Times]
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Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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I’d be very keen to de-Google but so far the alternatives are from pro-genocide companies so I’m not sure what to do. Any suggestions welcome.
De-Google your shit www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I’d be very keen to de-Google but so far the alternatives are from pro-genocide companies so I’m not sure what to do. Any suggestions welcome.
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As of 5 November, less than a year into Trump’s Presidency, it is estimated that his dismantling of USAID has caused the deaths of 600,000 people, 2/3 of them children.
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
As of 5 November, less than a year into Trump’s Presidency, it is estimated that his dismantling of USAID has caused the deaths of 600,000 people, 2/3 of them children.
BBC News just referred to the victims of Epstein as "young women". I think the word they're looking for is "girls". 😕
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
BBC News just referred to the victims of Epstein as "young women". I think the word they're looking for is "girls". 😕
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👉NEW -- British military made at least 49 trips to Israel during Gaza war
by @iainoverton.bsky.social
Frequency of visits is four times higher than previously reported.
www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
by @iainoverton.bsky.social
Frequency of visits is four times higher than previously reported.
www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
British military made at least 49 trips to Israel during Gaza war
Frequency of visits is four times higher than previously reported.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
👉NEW -- British military made at least 49 trips to Israel during Gaza war
by @iainoverton.bsky.social
Frequency of visits is four times higher than previously reported.
www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
by @iainoverton.bsky.social
Frequency of visits is four times higher than previously reported.
www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...