Andy Williams

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Welsh; trade union gobshite; #Spycops; interested in journalism; #bi 🩷💜💙+ #pan 🩷💛💙; #BWithTheT; Cardiff UCU media team; resistance is fertile 🌱✊

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Andy Williams@llantwit· 18d

Here’s the full programme of Radical Family Space workshops

Green Gathering
Campaigns Radical
Family Space
Programme 2026
The Radical Family Space in the Green Gathering Campaigns area is a haven for kids and parents. Skill yourself up, play, get creative, & think about how to parent through the madness of late capitalism. Or just drop in, have a chat, use the kids' clothes free shop, read our radical kids' stories, play with the puppets, & have some fun!
Thursday:
12 noons Child-Led Skills Share:
Papercraft and Beyond!
Ipmı Circus Skills for Families!
2pmı Radical Story Time for Kids
3pms Knot Tying for Kids
4-5.30pm Seen/Not Seen:
Crafitivism for self-expression/anti-surveillance face paints
After Dark/late afternoon:
Telescope Time! (see the boards)
Fridays
gamı First Aid for Kids 10am Radical Chess Glub
1lams Protest Song Writing for Kids With Anarcho-Troubadour Cosmo 12 noone Tetrapak Wallet Making
1pmı Circus Skills for Families
2pm Radical Story Time for Kids
3pmı Seen/Not Seen: Crafitivism for self-expression/anti-surveillance face paints
4-6pmı Forest Crafts: Get Creative in this Nature-Based Workshop After Dark/Late Afternoon:
Telescope Time! (see boards)
Saturday:
9amı First Aid for Kids
10amı Radical Chess Club
1amı Protest Song Writing for Kids With Anarcho-Troubadour Cosmo
12 noons Protest Badge-Making
Workshop
Ipme Circus Skills for Families
2pme Radical Story Time for Kids
3pme Seen/Not Seen: Crafitivism for self-expression/anti-surveillance face paints
4-5.30pme DIY, Low-Cost,
Computing & Robotics with the Pocket-Sized BBC Micro:bit.
After Dark & Late Afternoons
Tellescope Time! (see boards)
Sunday:
9amı Radical Chess Club
10ams Protest Badge-Making
Workshop
11ams Protest Song Writing for Kids with Anarcho-Troubadour Cosmo
12 moons Home Education and
Flexischooling (An Open Discussion of Educational Options and
Experiences)
1pmı Circus Skills for Families:
Balancing, Juggling, Hula Hoops and More!
2pmı Radical Story Time for Kids
3-5pm Forest Crafts: Get Creative in this Nature-Based Workshop

Andy Williams@llantwit· 18d

This is my little bit of the Green Gathering festival in Chepstow. The Radical Family Space, in Campaigns, whose mission is to gently indoctrinate children with a full programme of proudly woke workshops and storytelling. 😎🩷🌱✊

A knot-tying workshop inside the Radical Family Space, housed in an old military tent. Dark clouds gather overhead.

Woke children’s and parenting books in the Radical Family Space tent. Anti-racist and queer-affirming books displayed on the wall on the right. On the table are assorted progressive parenting books, and young adult graphic novels/self-help books.

A kids’ free shop, a display of laminated pages from the A-Z of activism, and assorted animal and human puppets.

Woke children’s literature themed under feminism, environmentalism, and resistance to power. My favourites are about animals who go on strike.

Andy Williams@llantwit· 20d

Super moon, Green Gathering, Chepstow, Wales

The moon rises above a diesel vehicle and tents at the Green Gathering Festival, Chepstow, Wales

Andy Williams@llantwit· 25d

Without saying your age, what‘s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18. #18movies

Andy Williams@llantwit· 27d

I just went to a creative writing workshop with one of my favourite writers in the world, Kae Tempest. He was amazing at opening up an inclusive and non-judgemental space for a group of around 20, some of whom do this for a living, some are total beginners (like me). What a treat. Buy his book!

Book cover of Having Spent Life Seeking, Kae Trmpest’s first novel.

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jul 10

“So many of our elders are dead”, write Adam and Tash. But the excellent work they do as historians of queer community I Britain keeps them alive. They are treasures.🩷✊

“So many of our elders are dead” highlighted on a page of The Log Books, by Tash Walker & Adam Zmith. This really is a treasure of a book, and a beautiful queer social history.

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jul 10

Happy birthday to me. Nice lunch break treat. 🩷

A copy of the excellent Log Books book by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith lies on a table in Scaredy Cats cafe in Cardiff next to a Panama hat, my sunglasses, and a delicious espresso ginger beer.

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jul 5

Helpful to the campaigners that the listing specifically mentions the function of the building as a library, too, I’d warrant.

A screenshot of the Cadw website reads:

“A central half turn staircase with semicircle landings between floors is aligned with the main entrance on the west side, floating on the first floor and within a curved brick envelope to the other levels. The elevator is also on this line at the rear northwest corner. Two other half turn staircases in curved brick envelopes at the northeast and southeast corners, adjacent to toilets.
Soundproof panels set on the wider spaces in the glazing grid so that the interior environment has narrow vertical windows allowing even natural light reaching deep into the plan over the course of the day while the sound of the city is muted. U-shaped ceiling panel grid is intended to dampen internal sound and shade the strip lighting running through it. Clear height from floor to the low end of these panels is reportedly 3.1 metres and the light fittings are in the inner recess half a metre deep.
Sun 5 Jul,
+
»
Reason for designation
The Arts and Social Sciences Library is of special interest and Listed at Grade Il for the following principal reasons -
Architectural Interest: A key example of a twentieth century university library in Wales, designed by Harry Faulkner-Brown an influential figure in library design and demonstrating his 'ten commandments' with clarity and finesse in its Brutalist design.
Historic Interest: Illustrates an important aspect of Wales' cultural history as an important university library and the last major building of the postwar expansion in tertiary education in Cardiff commenced before the economic shocks of the 1970s.
Group Value with other listed university buildings in Cardiff.”

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 28

When I was growing up I got my puberty & sex education mainly from books like The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. And maybe also the Kay’s Catalogue. Today, excellent, LGBTQ+ affirming, books like this exist. It’s Totally Normal: An LGBTQIA+ Guide to Puberty & Gender. By Gupta & Mehta. Recommend.

IT'S
TOTALLY NORMAL!
AN LGBTQIA+
GUIDE TO PUBERTY, SEX, AND GENDER
MONICA GUPTA MEHTA AND ASHA LILY MEHTA
ILLUSTRATED BY FOX FISHER

Contents
Introduction
8: "I Love Puberty!" (Said No One, Ever)
2: Sex (Only Your Teachers Call It "Intercourse")
: Yes, Yes, Yes (Understanding Consent)
4: Safer Sex (It Doesn't Kill the Mood)
5: Gender (Hint: There Are More than Two)
6: Sexuality (Born This Way)
7: LGBTQIA+ and Allies (It's Not Just a Phase)
8: Relationships (They Don't Exist Inside a Bubble)

A Letter from Asha

Acknowledgments
Glossary

Resources

Index

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 28

This is an excellent, accessible, short history of sex education and its (many) limitations. Highly recommended. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: Sex Education Transformed By Natalie Fiennes

A yellow book with a striking retro stylised image of a peach, cut with its stone exposed.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: Sex Education Transformed
By Natalie Fiennes

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: She may be a bag of trouble: A short history of sex education
1. Sex: I am fast
2. Gender identity: Changing rooms
3. Masculinity: Trump's button
4. Body image: From scrawny to brawny
5. Sexual consent: No means no
6. Contraceptives: 'If you have sex you will get pregnant and die'
7. Virginity: Purity
8. Sexual violence: "Abuse of power comes as no surprise'
9. Sexuality: From Stonewall to Yarl's Wood
10. Pornography: Sex education today
11. Sex work: The oldest job in the world
12. Relationships: Just swipe right
Conclusion
Resources

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 28

A Short History of Queer Parenting, by Kirsty Loehr is really good. A breezily-written & super accessible cultural history. A nice partner piece to her equally good Short History of Queer Women. Recommended for tweens, teens, & adults.

A book cover which reads:

From the author of
A Short History of QUEER WOMEN
KIRSTY LOEHR
A Short History of
QUEER
PARENTING

CONTENTS
Author's Note
ix
Let's Make It Queer
1
Lesbians Being Lesbians
19
Sperm Me On
37
How Do You Like Your Eggs?
59
Gay Adoption = Discrimination Against

Children (According to the Pope)
85
... A Pretended Family Relationship
101
And You're The...?
109
Where Are All the Queer Parents?
133
The Gayby Boom
149
#Queer Parents
163
Postscript
183
Acknowledgements
185
A Note on Sources
187

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 24

A small group of transphobes are protesting on High St, Cardiff city centre. An impromptu gathering of trans folks an allies have formed an already bigger counter demo, supported by local businesses handing out rainbow drops and blasting Lady Gaga! Anyone in the area should join us!

A group of trans-affirming counter-demonstrators have gathered to show their displeasure at an organised but small transphobic demo on Cardiff’s High St.

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 17

Cardiff Foodbank’s warehouse in Splott, where I live, is almost empty & they’ve put out an emergency appeal. Donate ££: givetoday.co.uk/cardifffoodb... Donate food by dropping it off: cardiff.foodbank.org.uk/support-us/d... Please share! Read more 👇

We're very worried. We have never seen our warehouse so empty, and now, for the first time ever, we're out of crucial items-such as long-life fruit juices that make up our three-day emergency food parcels.
Every week, in Cardiff, our dedicated volunteers run 12 food bank sessions across the city-where people in crisis can get the support they so desperately need.
Please, can you help? There are lots of ways to get food to US:

Please, can you help? There are lots of ways to get food to
uS:
Online via Give today. Your donations are delivered straight to our warehouse.
https://givetoday.co.uk/car
difffoodbank|
In person-you can drop off food at a Cardiff Foodbank collection point that we have at a number of supermarkets.
https://cardiff.foodbank.org
.uk/support-us/donate-food

Bring the food to us-our warehouse in Splott is open from 09:30am to 1:30pm, Monday to Friday.
Here are the items we so desperately need:
Coffee
Fruit juice (long-life)
Tinned tomatoes
Tinned potatoes
Custard
Tinned fruit
Sponge puddings
Please share with your networks.

Photos of an almost empty warehouse and empty pallets shared as part of Cardiff Foodbank’s urgent appeal for donations in money or in food.

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 16

Naturalise #bisexuality by continuing to post pics of nature in bi lighting!

A pic of a lake (blue), mountains (purple), and the sky (pink) in the colours of the bisexual pride flag.
I once read a pissy social media post implying that the proliferation of these kinds of photos was bad because they are desperate (if unconscious) attempts by desperate bi people to naturalise bisexuality.
I say, let’s make this a conscious effort.
Bisexuality is seen by so many people as fake or not a real thing, let’s continue to try and make it seem totally natural and normal which, of course, it bloody well is.

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 16

Peak Telegraph, peak Bristol.🖤

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 13

Next stop, the Billy Dragg, Efa Supertramp, & Cosmo gig at the Ty-Ni Social club in Adamsdown. Anarcho folk country punk vibes. All welcome!

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 13

Currently chilling at the Cardiff Big Queer picnic. Quaffing champagne, eating sushi, enjoying lush local queer musicians, reading the propaganda I collected on the March, and bumping into friends, old and new.

Flyers for a collection of worthy causes & queer events

My Cardiff pride lunch and my outstretched legs

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 13

Carwyn Donovan lent his support to the petition for a public inquiry into the corrosive and evil Section 28, the Thatcherite “don’t say gay” law which outlawed teachers talking about queerness in schools between the 1980s & 2000s. You should too.👇👀 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 13

Another Cardiff Pride highlight was meeting Carwyn Donovan, Comrade, queer ally, & son of legendary NUM activist Dai Donovan a trailblazer of trade union support for LGBTQ+ rights (yes, him from the movie Pride!!). www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 13

Met up with the amazing Dr Sara Correia-Hopkins, who’s doing great work on an oral history of Section 28 in Wales cardiffjournalism.co.uk/thecardiffia...

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 13

Pride parade: tick!

A bi man in a pink suit at Cardiff Pride with a placard reading “PROTECT TRANS STUDENTS”

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 13

Placard? Tick. ✔️

Side 1 of placard: Protect Trans Students (all caps, rainbow font)

Placard reading: B with the T (all caps, font in the colours of the bi and trans flags).

Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 11

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Andy Williams@llantwit· Jun 11

Private Eye is one of the best campaigning and investigative news outlets we have. It’s always a badge of shame when an institution is covered in that august organ. Senior management at Cardiff University, sadly, are frequently covered these days.

A cutting from Private Eye magazine.

‘Read the room
FIER making drastic cuts to jobs and courses last year, Cardiff University is considering removing an entire floor of a busy, useful library to install a trendy "immersive learning environment"
The university confirmed that the second floor of the Arts and Social Sciences Library was "a location currently being explored" for an, ahem, proof-of-concept learning space to try out the idea. It says it wants to draw on examples of immersive learning spaces at some of the best universities worldwide.
Previously used to describe the old-fashioned but effective concept of going to France to learn French, "immersive learning" is now all about being inside digital presentations, either using virtual reality headsets or rooms with big-screen walls.
Certainly the "immersive rooms" at nearby University of Wales Trinity St David (where
students can enjoy being surrounded by flm of
LED screens) and the Igloo Virtual Reality Cave at the University of the West of England feature heavily in their recruitment marketing. But campaigners at Carditt say polling consistently shows students want real physical books as well as digital wizardry.
There has been outcry from staff and students, who rather value the vital quiet study space and the 7,000 or so books housed on that floor, including old and rare collections of Welsh literature and music. To make matters worse, the space was only refurbished in 2024, with new carpets, desks and lighting, after academics had complained for years about the shabby state of the study space.
A petition to protect the library has attracted more than 10,000 signatures - and with some success! As the Eye went to press, the university announced that its original timeline to start work over the summer break had "become unachievable and we have taken the decision to pause initial preparatory work"’

Andy Williams@llantwit· May 28

I should fucking hope so.

Dear Guests,
For guests with rooms on the 3rd Floor, please use the main lifts located at the Reception while maintenance works are taking place.
Should you require any assistance, please contact Reception and a member of our team will be happy to help.
**We apologise for any incontinence**
and thank you for your understanding

Andy Williams@llantwit· May 7

Today is the Senedd election in Wales! Say no to the far right, don’t enable Reform, vote Plaid, Green, or (if you must) Labour.

A sign reads “polling station” outside a community centre in Adamsdown, Cardiff

Andy Williams@llantwit· Mar 18

To sum up, saving the news means 3 things: - Protecting standards and trust-story by story - Building a sustainable model that funds the journalism - Ensuring high-quality news remains discoverable in a platform-led, Al-shaped world

Saving the news means 3 things:
Protecting standards and trust-story by story
Building a sustainable model that funds the journalism
Ensuring high-quality news remains discoverable in a platform-led, Al-shaped world

Andy Williams@llantwit· Mar 18

ITN’s editorial response to AI? RED LINES AND RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION include… - Human judgement = final safeguard - AI offers tools, not authors - Transparency + labelling when on-screen is key - Governance + training essential

RED LINES AND RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION include…
- Human judgement = final safeguard
- AI offers tools, not authors
- Transparency + labelling when on-screen is key
- Governance + training essential

Andy Williams@llantwit· Mar 18

An interesting slide with lots of insights into what ITN journalists are worried about in relation the rise of AI. 9/

THE SOBERING BIT:
THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM
89%
expect an economic threat to news organisations
86%
worried Al will erode media literacy
74%
concerned their work will be distorted/misrepresented
49%
believe Al tools amplify some views and suppress others
36%
have low confidence in Al overviews Al summaries
Al becomes a new layer between publishers and audiences

Andy Williams@llantwit· Mar 18

And here’s the second part of that video. 8/