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🌈 queer-friendly wild swimming trips around london
🏊🏽‍♀️ come see! swim free!
🌊 next swim: tbc
🌞 by @imm___o

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it’s been a minute! a pure delight to be back at @hampsteadponds today, even in the rain 🌧 #queerlondon #wildswimming #queerswimming #queerswimmers by @swimfreeldn

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Sunday was dreamy 💙🥟🌊🌥☕️🏊🏽‍♀️✨ @marshallstreetleisure @ugly.dumpling.uk by @swimfreeldn

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📚 FEBRUARY BOOK RECS 📚

✨ we’ve put together a lil reading list centred around swimming, nature, queerness, identity and the city. support yr local library and check them out today 😎

🦋 SKIN by Kerry Andrews: “Artfully paced, with queer undercurrents, this novel is tender and totally enveloping” (Attitude)

London, 1985. Joe, father to eleven-year-old Matty, has disappeared, and nobody will explain where he's gone, or why. In the long, hot summer that follows, Matty's hunt for Joe leads to the ponds at Hampstead Heath. Beneath the water, there is a new kind of freedom.

🌈 OUT OF BOUNDS, an anthology by British Black and Asian poets: “This book really redraws the map of Britain: away with taxonomies of hurt, welcome cartographies of worth” (Fred D’Aguiar)

An alternative A to Z of the nation, a new poetic guide, this anthology asks us to look again at the UK’s local and regional landscapes and the poets who pass through them. Its poems question the idea of an easy or singular identity, dealing with the triple bind of ethnic, geographical and poetic belonging.

🌊 WANDERLAND by Jini Reddy: “She rejects the stereotypes placed on people of colour, and crafts a beautiful story of self-discovery and exploration of the natural world” (Brown Girl magazine)

Whether following a 'cult' map to a hidden well that refuses to reveal itself, attempting to persuade a labyrinth to spill its secrets, embarking on a coast-to-coast pilgrimage or searching for a mystical land temple, Jini depicts a whimsical, natural Britain.

🌻 TURNING by Jessica J Lee: “A sublime, philosophical slipping into the deep, filled with a wonderful melancholy as she swims through lakes laden with dark histories” (New Statesman)

At twenty-eight, Jessica Lee makes a decision that she believes will win her back her confidence and independence: she will swim fifty-two of the lakes around Berlin, no matter what the weather or season.

🍄 what have we missed? let us know in the comments ✨✨✨ Swim Free's book recs by @swimfreeldn

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our first outing of the new year will be to this BEAUTIFUL restored pool in central London! if you want to experience this 1930s pastel aesthetic for yourself then dm to join us 🏊🏽

DATE: sunday 12th february
TIME: 12pm
PLACE: Marshall St Spa and Leisure Centre, W1F7EL by @swimfreeldn

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HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of our beautiful followers - here’s to more cold water hot sun n good friends in 2023 🌊🌊🌊 by @swimfreeldn

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thanks to everyone who came out (pun intended) 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 @london_fields_lido #queerswim #wildswimming #wildswimminguk taken in London Fields Lido by @swimfreeldn

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a successful trip to @london_fields_lido 💙🌊 by @swimfreeldn

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on Sunday 25th September we'll be at @london_fields_lido for an autumnal swim at 12:00 🍁 (yes it's not technically wild but it is heated - treat yourself!)

instead of using Eventbrite, this time please DM us if you’d like to come and we’ll let you know how to book 😇

🌈 C U NEXT SUNDAY 🌈

🎨 by Alex Chilvers by @swimfreeldn

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🌊🌊🌊 SAVE THE DATE for our next outing: Sunday 25th September 🌊🌊🌊
any places you particularly want to swim at before it gets icy icy? let me know ⬇️ 🥶 by @swimfreeldn

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a pure delight to swim with the @gears4queersldn crew on Sunday - thanks to all the beautiful people who came down to @tootingbec_lido 🌊✨💙 taken in Tooting Bec Lido by @swimfreeldn

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dreaming of being on this exact boat. but in the meantime...we'll have to make do (in the best way) with @tootingbec_lido 🌊 come join us this Sunday for an adventure with @gears4queersldn 💙 link in bio 💙 taken in Écréhous by @swimfreeldn

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PEDDLE AND PADDLE WITH US! open to all levels, come socialise in the sun 🤞 :-)))

10:30 - cycle from Brockwell Park to Tooting Bec 🚲

11:30 - splash about at Tooting Lido 🌊

12:30 - picnic time 🍏 🍎 🍐 🍊 🍋 🍌 🍉 🍇 🍓 🫐 🍈 🍒 🍑 🥭 🍍

DM @swimfreeldn or @gears4queersldn on Instagram with any questions or accessibility concerns 💖

This is an event for the queer community and their trusted allies.

LINK IN BIO 💙💙💙 by @swimfreeldn

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