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Featured Reader Janine Booth Followed by Open-Mic
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Janine Booth says that she is a Marxist, trade unionist, socialist-feminist, author, poet, speaker, tutor, former RMT Executive member, supporter of Workers’ Liberty, neurodivergent, bi, Peterborough United (men’s footy) and Lewes FC (women’s footy) fan!
She has had five ‘proper’ books published:
• Guilty and Proud of it: Poplar’s Rebel Councillors and Guardians 1919-1925 (Merlin Press, 2009)
• Plundering London Underground: Private Capital and Public Service 1997-2010 (Merlin Press, 2013)
• Autism Equality in the Workplace: removing barriers and challenging discrimination (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016)
• Minnie Lansbury: suffragette, socialist, rebel councillor (Five Leaves, 2018)
• The Big J vs The Big C – issues, experiences and poems in the battle against breast cancer (Flapjack, 2019)
She writes and performs poetry. As The Big J, she was part of the ranting poetry movement in the 1980s, doing more than 100 gigs before giving it up at the end of the decade. In 2014, she took up the muse again, and is now a performing angry middle-aged woman poet. 🙂
Her six books of poetry can be bought from her website, here:
• Mostly Hating Tories: poems by Janine Booth
• The 3Rs: Ranting Rhyming Revolting: more poems by Janine Booth
• Disaffected Middle-aged Women (currently out of stock)
• Fighting Tories: The Force Awakens
• Unprecedented Rhymes: verses versus the virus
She active in the RMT trade union, having previously represented its London Transport members on the union’s National Executive. She was the founding Chair, and then Secretary, of the union’s Disabled Members’ Advisory Committee.
She is a member, and former co-Chair, of the TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee, and posts reports and news on her website about how the Committee is working to organise and speak up for disabled workers.
She particularly works on the issue of autism and neurodiversity, including running training and giving presentations to trade unionists about Autism / Neurodiversity in the Workplace.
She is a former member of the ETF Women’s Committee.
From 2005 until 2007, she blogged on the Workers’ Liberty website, and from 2007 until 2011 at Stroppyblog.
She lives in Lewes, East Sussex, with her youngest offspring, two cats and two dogs.