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Jodie Comer is the actress of her generation, pass it on!!! Writing about theatre and accents and Liverpool. Writing about truth and lies and change. You can find the written version of this on The White Pube. Listen til the end for today's emoji + thank you for listening I love you

I got COVID in January 2021 and I spent last year in a pit, stuck at home, no energy, in pain, dealing with the vague endlessness of Long Covid. In the middle of January 2022, I posted a one year update podcast episode where I told you lot how bad Long Covid continued to be. BUT!! At the end of that month, I had an in-person appointment with the Long Covid Clinic in Liverpool where they did a test and told me what brand of Long Covid I actually had. I was amazed. This episode is all about the disability COVID has left me with, POTS. Not to be a beg but please listen to this or read the transcript, because I would love more people to know what this is, how it works, and what people like me need to be comfortable. 

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this week's text is about my favourite painter: Bhupen Khakhar :)

You can read the text version of this here - thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/bhupenkhakhar/ n there are lil pics of the paintings I've described in this text, if you wana see the real things rather than my description hehe

thank you to the patreon gan, as perrrrr - patreon.com/thewhitepube

A review, an emoji, and an update on our writing schedule :o I hope you like cats because this week I talk about the newly released Stray, a game I waited so long for. The written version of this text can be found on our website here. Thank you to our supporters; we have been trying in earnest to get a podcast sponsor all year and I think we are un-sponsorable so if you are a regular listener please consider giving us £1 a month if you're ableeeee ahhhh

This week's text is a guided meditation, a walk through Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art @ York Art Gallery. It's best experienced as audio, but just in case you're looking for it, the text version of this can be found on the White Pube dot com (here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/body-vessel-clay/)

As always, thank you to our patreon friends! You can join the club here: patreon.com/thewhitepube

Another review that's not so much a review and more a reflection on disability. A game about needing things, a text about learning to want more. Survival game as chronic illness simulation. Also an account of my time in London. You can find the written version of this on The White Pube! Thank you to all our supporters, and make sure you listen to the end for today's emoji :-))))) 

This week's text is a review of Sun & Sea, an opera about climate change, at the Albany as part of LIFT. It's also a text about heatwaves and the Second Body.

You can read the text version of this review here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/sun-and-sea/

Thank you, as usual, to our friends on Patreon! 

For the 23rd TWP Writers Grant, we’re excited to announce that July’s recipient is Lottie Walker. Lottie sent us a collection of poems and we were immediately smitten with their cleverness and dexterity. Lottie’s poems had a sharpness, this citrus kick that felt like salt on a wound. They stung us and in the same, offered a full complexity that we could chew on. We’re sharing that collection of Lottie’s poems as well as the first chapter of the novel she’s working on: Wild Garlic. So, with the help of Creative Debuts, we are glad we can support Lottie with this month’s Writers Grant.

If you want to read the text version of Lottie's work, to look back at previous recipients, or to find out more about the grant, you can head here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/writersgrant :)

You can also listen to Beetroot Podcast, a poetry podcast hosted by Lottie & Marta Mcilduff, here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2y3dJQXNRjtXZeJSwkflhJ?si=f42d743214ec40c0

This week I'm thinking about all the identity art that just lets me know people with different identities exist and nothing more. Listen here or find the written version of this on the art section on our website where I have also added a p.s. with some more examples of Level One Identity Art. Wishing you shade and relief in this genuinely terrible heatwave. God help us all. 

Thank you to our Patreon/Kofi/Paypal pals who keep The White Pube's weekly writing going!!!! See you on discord for the post-text debrief!!!

This week's text is about Munch's paintings, a lil walk through of when i went to see the masterpieces from Bergen show at the Courtauld and had a really nice time

read it here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/munch/

and thank you, as usual, to friends on Patreon! 

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