Exploding Appendix
@explodingappendix.bsky.social
Art & Research Group led by Bradley Tuck dedicated to exploring the history and future of avant-garde and radical counterculture // Making complex ideas accessible to all with our free in-person and online events.
📍Brighton, UK
📍Brighton, UK
This Saturday we will be heading to #London for our first-ever London Anarchist #bookfair @bookfairldn.bsky.social
We will be selling our #poetry #chapbooks by young Gaza poet Roba Al-Sharif and activist Charlotte Head, part of Filton 25.
📅Sat 26 Sept, Floor 4 at Rich Mix, 10am-6pm. Free entry.
We will be selling our #poetry #chapbooks by young Gaza poet Roba Al-Sharif and activist Charlotte Head, part of Filton 25.
📅Sat 26 Sept, Floor 4 at Rich Mix, 10am-6pm. Free entry.
September 22, 2026 at 2:05 PM
This Saturday we will be heading to #London for our first-ever London Anarchist #bookfair @bookfairldn.bsky.social
We will be selling our #poetry #chapbooks by young Gaza poet Roba Al-Sharif and activist Charlotte Head, part of Filton 25.
📅Sat 26 Sept, Floor 4 at Rich Mix, 10am-6pm. Free entry.
We will be selling our #poetry #chapbooks by young Gaza poet Roba Al-Sharif and activist Charlotte Head, part of Filton 25.
📅Sat 26 Sept, Floor 4 at Rich Mix, 10am-6pm. Free entry.
We are so looking forward to #talk to #photographer Frances Marshall next Tue!
📹More about the history behind this project.
📅 Tuesday, 1 Sept, 7pm-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online
🎟 #Free, all welcome!
Book your tickets & support Frances Kickstarter: www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-reli...
📹More about the history behind this project.
📅 Tuesday, 1 Sept, 7pm-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online
🎟 #Free, all welcome!
Book your tickets & support Frances Kickstarter: www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-reli...
August 30, 2026 at 9:51 AM
We are so looking forward to #talk to #photographer Frances Marshall next Tue!
📹More about the history behind this project.
📅 Tuesday, 1 Sept, 7pm-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online
🎟 #Free, all welcome!
Book your tickets & support Frances Kickstarter: www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-reli...
📹More about the history behind this project.
📅 Tuesday, 1 Sept, 7pm-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online
🎟 #Free, all welcome!
Book your tickets & support Frances Kickstarter: www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-reli...
💭 #Photographer Frances Marshall will join us to talk about her project “Queer Religion”, an international photo project exploring the lives and experiences of openly queer religious leaders and practitioners across the monotheistic faiths.
Tue, 1 Sept, 7-9:30pm
Southern Belle, Hove & Online
Free
Tue, 1 Sept, 7-9:30pm
Southern Belle, Hove & Online
Free
August 25, 2026 at 7:46 PM
💭 #Photographer Frances Marshall will join us to talk about her project “Queer Religion”, an international photo project exploring the lives and experiences of openly queer religious leaders and practitioners across the monotheistic faiths.
Tue, 1 Sept, 7-9:30pm
Southern Belle, Hove & Online
Free
Tue, 1 Sept, 7-9:30pm
Southern Belle, Hove & Online
Free
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I'm deeply ashamed of my profession. Its treatment of Jason Arday - right across the board - fills me with disgust and horror. The tormenting of a highly vulnerable man was seen as monetisable entertainment. This is a stain that won't wash off.
bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
bylinetimes.com
August 19, 2026 at 9:47 PM
I'm deeply ashamed of my profession. Its treatment of Jason Arday - right across the board - fills me with disgust and horror. The tormenting of a highly vulnerable man was seen as monetisable entertainment. This is a stain that won't wash off.
bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
📢Our September-December 2026 programme is now live!
🤩All events are on Tuesdays, free and open to all.
Online & in person at The Southern Belle, Hove, at 7pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/40341144033
👀Which sessions are you looking forward to attending?
#Brightonevents #Artsandculture #Artevents
🤩All events are on Tuesdays, free and open to all.
Online & in person at The Southern Belle, Hove, at 7pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/40341144033
👀Which sessions are you looking forward to attending?
#Brightonevents #Artsandculture #Artevents
August 20, 2026 at 1:49 PM
📢Our September-December 2026 programme is now live!
🤩All events are on Tuesdays, free and open to all.
Online & in person at The Southern Belle, Hove, at 7pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/40341144033
👀Which sessions are you looking forward to attending?
#Brightonevents #Artsandculture #Artevents
🤩All events are on Tuesdays, free and open to all.
Online & in person at The Southern Belle, Hove, at 7pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/40341144033
👀Which sessions are you looking forward to attending?
#Brightonevents #Artsandculture #Artevents
📚 #Books are back in stock! Grab our #poetry #chapbooks: explodingappendix.bigcartel.com
‘Daughter of Death’, Roba Al-Sharif
£8+P&P (50% go to Roba in Gaza)
‘A Voice Is A Delicate Thing', Charlotte Head
£8+P&P (£2 to Medical Aid for Palestine).
It’s been an honour to be able to publish these!
‘Daughter of Death’, Roba Al-Sharif
£8+P&P (50% go to Roba in Gaza)
‘A Voice Is A Delicate Thing', Charlotte Head
£8+P&P (£2 to Medical Aid for Palestine).
It’s been an honour to be able to publish these!
August 4, 2026 at 4:56 PM
📚 #Books are back in stock! Grab our #poetry #chapbooks: explodingappendix.bigcartel.com
‘Daughter of Death’, Roba Al-Sharif
£8+P&P (50% go to Roba in Gaza)
‘A Voice Is A Delicate Thing', Charlotte Head
£8+P&P (£2 to Medical Aid for Palestine).
It’s been an honour to be able to publish these!
‘Daughter of Death’, Roba Al-Sharif
£8+P&P (50% go to Roba in Gaza)
‘A Voice Is A Delicate Thing', Charlotte Head
£8+P&P (£2 to Medical Aid for Palestine).
It’s been an honour to be able to publish these!
The end of an era! We are working on a new website, and we have now changed all our profile pictures from the old to the new logo designed by the talented @soofiya.bsky.social !
Exciting times, but also feels bittersweet to say goodbye to our old visual identity. Do you feel that too?
#Branding
Exciting times, but also feels bittersweet to say goodbye to our old visual identity. Do you feel that too?
#Branding
July 28, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The end of an era! We are working on a new website, and we have now changed all our profile pictures from the old to the new logo designed by the talented @soofiya.bsky.social !
Exciting times, but also feels bittersweet to say goodbye to our old visual identity. Do you feel that too?
#Branding
Exciting times, but also feels bittersweet to say goodbye to our old visual identity. Do you feel that too?
#Branding
🌀 What happens when a group of people tries to move together using three metres of latex?
Join us for a Disrupted Rhythms dance shoot, whether you'd like to perform or help capture the improvised dance there's a place for everyone.
📅 21 July, 7-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove
🎟 Free
Join us for a Disrupted Rhythms dance shoot, whether you'd like to perform or help capture the improvised dance there's a place for everyone.
📅 21 July, 7-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove
🎟 Free
July 11, 2026 at 10:30 AM
🌀 What happens when a group of people tries to move together using three metres of latex?
Join us for a Disrupted Rhythms dance shoot, whether you'd like to perform or help capture the improvised dance there's a place for everyone.
📅 21 July, 7-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove
🎟 Free
Join us for a Disrupted Rhythms dance shoot, whether you'd like to perform or help capture the improvised dance there's a place for everyone.
📅 21 July, 7-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove
🎟 Free
Bradley shares what we will be discussing in our last session of the season this Tuesday: The #Encyclopaedia as #Montage: #Benjamin, #Bataille & #Queneau
See you there!
📅 30 June, 7-9:30pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free
#surrealism #experimental
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-encycl...
See you there!
📅 30 June, 7-9:30pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free
#surrealism #experimental
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-encycl...
June 28, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Bradley shares what we will be discussing in our last session of the season this Tuesday: The #Encyclopaedia as #Montage: #Benjamin, #Bataille & #Queneau
See you there!
📅 30 June, 7-9:30pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free
#surrealism #experimental
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-encycl...
See you there!
📅 30 June, 7-9:30pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free
#surrealism #experimental
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-encycl...
📚 What if an #encyclopedia was less about answers and more about making unexpected connections?
Last session of the season on fragments, #dictionaries, #montage, and #experimental rethinking.
📅30 June, 7-9:30pm, The Southern Belle, & Online.Free.
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-encycl...
Last session of the season on fragments, #dictionaries, #montage, and #experimental rethinking.
📅30 June, 7-9:30pm, The Southern Belle, & Online.Free.
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-encycl...
June 19, 2026 at 6:49 PM
📚 What if an #encyclopedia was less about answers and more about making unexpected connections?
Last session of the season on fragments, #dictionaries, #montage, and #experimental rethinking.
📅30 June, 7-9:30pm, The Southern Belle, & Online.Free.
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-encycl...
Last session of the season on fragments, #dictionaries, #montage, and #experimental rethinking.
📅30 June, 7-9:30pm, The Southern Belle, & Online.Free.
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-encycl...
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Today is World Sickle Cell Day! 🩸🌙 @inviswarriorscd.bsky.social invited us to run a #creative workshop x Great Exhibition Road Festival @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
We raised awareness about sickle cell & invisible disabilities, made zines & wrote wishes and pledges for our collaborative piece.
We raised awareness about sickle cell & invisible disabilities, made zines & wrote wishes and pledges for our collaborative piece.
June 19, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Today is World Sickle Cell Day! 🩸🌙 @inviswarriorscd.bsky.social invited us to run a #creative workshop x Great Exhibition Road Festival @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
We raised awareness about sickle cell & invisible disabilities, made zines & wrote wishes and pledges for our collaborative piece.
We raised awareness about sickle cell & invisible disabilities, made zines & wrote wishes and pledges for our collaborative piece.
We are deeply saddened to hear that Lottie Head, the author of our latest chapbook “A Voice Is A Delicate Thing”, has been sentenced to 6 years in prison with terrorism charges along with three others, part of the Filton 25. Solidarity with Lottie, Fatema, Sam & Ellie.
filtonactionists.com
filtonactionists.com
June 16, 2026 at 5:34 PM
We are deeply saddened to hear that Lottie Head, the author of our latest chapbook “A Voice Is A Delicate Thing”, has been sentenced to 6 years in prison with terrorism charges along with three others, part of the Filton 25. Solidarity with Lottie, Fatema, Sam & Ellie.
filtonactionists.com
filtonactionists.com
It was such a pleasure to be invited to the #Royal #Pavilion Adelaide Salon #Art #Gala last weekend.
We stepped into a world of contemporary and heritage art, curiosities, and spectacle. It felt truly magical, like travelling into an alternative world of oddities and prestige.
#Brighton
We stepped into a world of contemporary and heritage art, curiosities, and spectacle. It felt truly magical, like travelling into an alternative world of oddities and prestige.
#Brighton
June 2, 2026 at 6:24 PM
@ferasalkabani.bsky.social join us to discuss his book.
We'll talk about how cross-cultural encounters shaped understandings of #homosexuality from the 19th century to the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
📅 Tue, 9 June, 7pm
🌍The Southern Belle & Online
🎟 #Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-bu...
We'll talk about how cross-cultural encounters shaped understandings of #homosexuality from the 19th century to the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
📅 Tue, 9 June, 7pm
🌍The Southern Belle & Online
🎟 #Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-bu...
May 29, 2026 at 3:36 PM
@ferasalkabani.bsky.social join us to discuss his book.
We'll talk about how cross-cultural encounters shaped understandings of #homosexuality from the 19th century to the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
📅 Tue, 9 June, 7pm
🌍The Southern Belle & Online
🎟 #Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-bu...
We'll talk about how cross-cultural encounters shaped understandings of #homosexuality from the 19th century to the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
📅 Tue, 9 June, 7pm
🌍The Southern Belle & Online
🎟 #Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-bu...
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Delighted to announce that my first monograph, Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire, is now available in paperback 🎊
Get your copy for only £23.19 📕📘 📚 (with this discount code: GLR BD8) directly from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/richard-b...
Get your copy for only £23.19 📕📘 📚 (with this discount code: GLR BD8) directly from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/richard-b...
May 14, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Delighted to announce that my first monograph, Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire, is now available in paperback 🎊
Get your copy for only £23.19 📕📘 📚 (with this discount code: GLR BD8) directly from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/richard-b...
Get your copy for only £23.19 📕📘 📚 (with this discount code: GLR BD8) directly from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/richard-b...
In 2023, we talked to Fidge Bibblyotek Never Work Zine, MNamug & Nuria Castro @aghhzine.bsky.social & @soofiya.bsky.social about the multifaceted nature of zines as cultural artefacts, and the creative, political, and social dimensions of zines as intimate, DIY, and community-driven publications.
May 27, 2026 at 8:51 AM
In 2023, we talked to Fidge Bibblyotek Never Work Zine, MNamug & Nuria Castro @aghhzine.bsky.social & @soofiya.bsky.social about the multifaceted nature of zines as cultural artefacts, and the creative, political, and social dimensions of zines as intimate, DIY, and community-driven publications.
📽️Here’s a snippet of the podcast where we talk with Sussex English faculty professor Helen Tyson about how early #20th-century writers imagined the act of reading itself, & how reading became a site of transformation, conflict, & meaning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvD2...
#Modernism #Literature
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvD2...
#Modernism #Literature
May 12, 2026 at 2:22 PM
📽️Here’s a snippet of the podcast where we talk with Sussex English faculty professor Helen Tyson about how early #20th-century writers imagined the act of reading itself, & how reading became a site of transformation, conflict, & meaning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvD2...
#Modernism #Literature
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvD2...
#Modernism #Literature
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In celebration of International Workers' Day, we've discounted everything on our website, including books on the histories of revolution and revolt that radically imagine what our futures can hold.
Shop our Red May Sale, with up to 40% off all books!
Shop our Red May Sale, with up to 40% off all books!
Red May Sale | Up to 40% off all books
“Not a penny off the pay, not an hour on the day!” This was the slogan that galvanised the 1926 General Strike, a moment where workers moved to take control of their workplaces, communities and lives....
www.versobooks.com
May 5, 2026 at 12:22 AM
In celebration of International Workers' Day, we've discounted everything on our website, including books on the histories of revolution and revolt that radically imagine what our futures can hold.
Shop our Red May Sale, with up to 40% off all books!
Shop our Red May Sale, with up to 40% off all books!
Next session we turn to the lesser-known stage and film work of the #Bauhaus, exploring how movement, rhythm, and abstraction reshape the human figure.
From "Triadic Ballet" to early abstract cinema.
📅 Tue 19 May, 7pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online
🎟 Free
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bauhaus-fi...
From "Triadic Ballet" to early abstract cinema.
📅 Tue 19 May, 7pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online
🎟 Free
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bauhaus-fi...
May 5, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Next session we turn to the lesser-known stage and film work of the #Bauhaus, exploring how movement, rhythm, and abstraction reshape the human figure.
From "Triadic Ballet" to early abstract cinema.
📅 Tue 19 May, 7pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online
🎟 Free
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bauhaus-fi...
From "Triadic Ballet" to early abstract cinema.
📅 Tue 19 May, 7pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online
🎟 Free
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bauhaus-fi...
✒️Watch Charlotte Head read her poems from our latest poetry pamphlet, “A Voice Is A Delicate Thing”, and get to know more about the process behind her work and her experiences whilst being incarcerated.
🎧Watch the full podcast on YouTube: youtu.be/stGuIKjNuE4?...
#Poetry #BookLaunch #Reading
🎧Watch the full podcast on YouTube: youtu.be/stGuIKjNuE4?...
#Poetry #BookLaunch #Reading
April 21, 2026 at 1:26 PM
✒️Watch Charlotte Head read her poems from our latest poetry pamphlet, “A Voice Is A Delicate Thing”, and get to know more about the process behind her work and her experiences whilst being incarcerated.
🎧Watch the full podcast on YouTube: youtu.be/stGuIKjNuE4?...
#Poetry #BookLaunch #Reading
🎧Watch the full podcast on YouTube: youtu.be/stGuIKjNuE4?...
#Poetry #BookLaunch #Reading
🎬 What does it mean to grow up after Hiroshima?
We explore the cinema of #Nobuhiko #Obayashi. Surreal, shifting, anti-war #films where youth becomes a way of thinking through history.
📅 Tue 28 April, 7-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle & Online
🎟 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/the-coming...
#Cinema #Event
We explore the cinema of #Nobuhiko #Obayashi. Surreal, shifting, anti-war #films where youth becomes a way of thinking through history.
📅 Tue 28 April, 7-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle & Online
🎟 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/the-coming...
#Cinema #Event
April 14, 2026 at 9:19 AM
📚Thank you to everyone who has come today and specially to Charlotte Head for sharing her words and experience so honestly with us💕
✒️It's been such a powerful evening and we are so honoured to be able to hold spaces for these important conversations.
#poetry #booklaunch #reading
✒️It's been such a powerful evening and we are so honoured to be able to hold spaces for these important conversations.
#poetry #booklaunch #reading
March 31, 2026 at 7:59 PM
📚Thank you to everyone who has come today and specially to Charlotte Head for sharing her words and experience so honestly with us💕
✒️It's been such a powerful evening and we are so honoured to be able to hold spaces for these important conversations.
#poetry #booklaunch #reading
✒️It's been such a powerful evening and we are so honoured to be able to hold spaces for these important conversations.
#poetry #booklaunch #reading
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A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human carelessness, earthquakes and the grim efficiency of the United States Air Force. The first films of hug...
www.openculture.com
March 24, 2026 at 5:28 AM
A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
🎨Join us for a conversation with Tash (Radical Brighton)
& Rifa Thorpe-Tracey, exploring how community, resistance and creative expression are being sustained in an increasingly challenging landscape.
📅 Tue, 7 April, 7-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle & Online
🎟 Free
#Brighton #Free #Culture #Arts
& Rifa Thorpe-Tracey, exploring how community, resistance and creative expression are being sustained in an increasingly challenging landscape.
📅 Tue, 7 April, 7-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle & Online
🎟 Free
#Brighton #Free #Culture #Arts
March 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Second book launch this month: A Voice Is A Delicate Thing” by Charlotte Head.
Charlotte Head has written these poems in this book whilst in prison for trying to stop weapons from being made in the UK for Israel’s g€nocide in Gaza.
📅 31 March, 6-7pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free
Charlotte Head has written these poems in this book whilst in prison for trying to stop weapons from being made in the UK for Israel’s g€nocide in Gaza.
📅 31 March, 6-7pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free
March 19, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Second book launch this month: A Voice Is A Delicate Thing” by Charlotte Head.
Charlotte Head has written these poems in this book whilst in prison for trying to stop weapons from being made in the UK for Israel’s g€nocide in Gaza.
📅 31 March, 6-7pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free
Charlotte Head has written these poems in this book whilst in prison for trying to stop weapons from being made in the UK for Israel’s g€nocide in Gaza.
📅 31 March, 6-7pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free