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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The death of woke is Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard thinking this was an appropriate thing to share to her 16 million followers, during Domestic Abuse Awareness month, when a woman or girl is killed by a man known to them every 10 minutes.

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

New cursed children's book series just dropped

Two children's books in the "Little Experts" series: Why Money Matters by Deborah Meaden and Why Politics Matters by Alistair Campbell

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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

New non-fiction books by the Catz community: 📚 Fellow @andrzejharris.bsky.social‬ (2020) co-wrote 'The Stitch-Up' (2025, Chatto & Windus) with @emmaszewczak.bsky.social 📚 Alumnus Phil Craig (1978, History) is celebrating the publication of '1945: The Reckoning' (2025, @hodderbooks.bsky.social‬)

Cover designs for 'The Stitch-Up' and '1945: The Reckoning'

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Publication day!! Can't believe our book The Stitch-Up: How Medical Misogyny Harms Us All is finally out, it has been a real marathon - a marathon with my cervix hanging out of my vagina for the last 23 and a half miles.

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Well that was a *mad week*. Really looking forward to our book launching on thursday!! (no book launch though because I'm a wet blanket)

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 25/05/2025

Very interested to read this (pre-ordered), @emmaszewczak.bsky.social (and all the more so after @doctoroxford.com's review in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 25/05/2025

"Secrecy, stigma, blame & ignorance run like toxic waste through The Stitch-Up, a fierce polemic about the medical misogyny & gender violence that disfigure healthcare." Delighted to review @emmaszewczak.bsky.social's powerful new book for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. Courageous, candid & timely.

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The private pain of prolapse: six things I wish I’d known – from sex to exercise to mental health. Pelvic organ prolapse affects around half of all women, yet it is little understood and very rarely discussed, by @emmaszewczak.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025... via @theguardian.com

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The private pain of prolapse: six things I wish I’d known – from sex to exercise to mental health

Pelvic organ prolapse affects around half of all women, yet it is little understood and very rarely discussed. Here is what I found out after my diagnosis

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

God when he decided to give us free will

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No Context Grand Designs @ukgranddesigns.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Kev's on bluesky... and he's ready

Kevin McCloud in a hard hat in front of a digger, looking menacing. Text: This machine can do ten a day.

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Leaving my in-laws wearing this after initiating back-to-back arguments all christmas:

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Just realised that Andrzej's parents actively turned motion smoothing back ON after we turned it off in the summer

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Walked into the room in my Lucy and Yak overalls and my Polish Father-in-Law goes "home for christmas from the shipyards of Gdansk"

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I have never in my life wanted to be in the UK before now

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

In Poland, don't know what a vpn is, sincerely want to hurt every single person talking about Wallace and Gromit

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Bought these Little Miss books in Polish. Thought I'd check the translations. Can you guess the English language titles from these lol

Four of the Mister Men books - translated by Google translate as LITTLE CUTE, LITTLE WISE, A LITTLE DESPOT and LITTLE BITCH lol

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I saw mommy fellating santa claus

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

51 of the men who raped Gisèle Pelicot

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The lengths my GP goes to to try and hide their phone number on their website. Well, good luck, because I've got you on speed dial you stupid bastards

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Speaking of medical misogyny (😩) my book has a cover now

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My son's ill and off school and my daughter, in a fit of jealously, hid the tv remote.

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

With the fall of Assad, I'm thinking of journalist Marie Colvin who was murdered by his regime in 2012 during the Siege of Homs. Here's her final broadcast recorded in Syria hours before her death youtu.be/XL-okvk34qk?...

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Marie Colvin on Channel 4 News

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

And *this* is the context we're bringing assisted dying into

Guardian news story: Elderly patient dies after 52 hour A&E wait without medication. Report highlights 'shocking' example of man left unable to swallow after waiting over two days mostly on a bed in a corridor without regular medication

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Eden Appiah-Kubi @edenawrites.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Sade has a new song out and it's a beautiful tribute to her trans son! Prepare to bawl 😭❤️😭❤️😭 #blacksky youtu.be/IFMmnMjFiPk?...

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Sade - Young Lion (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by SadeVEVO

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This sums up everything that's misunderstood about assisted dying: most of these people do not have access to "decent lives" in the first place

Polly Toynbee Guardian article: "The assisted dying bill has passed. At last: a decent life can end in a decent death"

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

By way of an update/introduction - my book "The Stitch-Up: How Medical Misogyny Harms Us All" co-written by Dr @andrzejharris.bsky.social is finally coming out in May 2025!! Keen to link up with people interested in any aspect of gender violence in healthcare.

Screenshot of penguin webpage for book entitled The Stitch-Up: How Medical Misogyny Harms Us All, released 29/05/25

Text from penguin webpage:

As Emma was being sewn up following the birth of her second child, the midwife paused, looked up and said the worst thing anyone has ever said to her: ‘Your vagina’s fallen out.’

After receiving a vague diagnosis of ‘prolapse’, she spent the next two years being shunted between specialists. The solutions on offer ranged from kegels to hysterectomy and even labia trimming. Some doctors simply shrugged and said there was nothing they could do.

Women around her spoke of similar experiences: mothers told that pain was the price of parenthood; trans women blamed for ‘wanting a vagina in the first place’; Black women disbelieved and dismissed; intersex men and women lied to by their doctors.

The mesh scandal that injured thousands. The ‘love doctor’ who performed nonconsensual vaginal surgeries. Over and over again, Emma heard stories of women in pain, bleeding, dying, failed by the professionals who were supposed to help them.

Medical misogyny kills, and leaves many more in agony, unable to live full lives. The Stitch-Up tells their stories, and calls for better research, healthcare options, language and treatment, arguing that being female should never be a death sentence.

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

An administration all-round committed to the slaughter of the young.

News story from the Guardian: A senior official in Joe Biden’s administration has told the Associated Press that the US is urging Ukraine to quickly increase the size of its military by drafting more troops and lowering the conscription age to as young as 18. The official, speaking to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity, said on Wednesday the outgoing Democratic administration wants Ukraine to lower the mobilisation age from 25 to help expand the pool of fighting age men available.

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Coming to terms with the fact I will never be on a list of people to follow because there are no lists for unemployed people who eat corned beef straight out of the tin

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Ellen DeGeneres after relocating to the cotswolds

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

one waterstones in the whole of Cornwall

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Update on my "coming off antidepressants" journey: today I ate a dog treat in a restaurant because I thought it was a bowl of sweets

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I have read too many stories in the past few years of babies dying or being grossly harmed during childbirth in a devastatingly underfunded NHS not to laugh at the use of the term "heartbroken" here

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

One thing that I hope will be different on bluesky than on twitter is americans

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

First they came for the 6A and I did not speak up... then they came for the 1F and I did not speak up... then they came for the 2F and there was no one left to speak for me

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Can someone explain to me how blue sky is full of all the same people making all the same jokes and somehow they're 20% less funny here than...elsewhere

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

in Liverpool and everytime someone's nice to me in public (constantly) I instinctively think they're being sarcastic

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

We're in the car, a police car just drove past, and my kids chanted together "oink oink piggy piggy!" Always humbling to hear your own voice in the mouths of babes

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

come up with a funny joke, can either a. post on twitter for fascists b. post on here for no one c. post on both and commit cardinal sin of telling a funny joke twice

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

so did this place ever catch on?

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

started 2023 not being able to drive, ended 2023 not being able to drive, and long may that continue 💪

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

when in Rome (Whitstable) be gay (vomit them back in the toilets)

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

I actually like posting on two text-based platforms at the same time and that is because I am mentally ill

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Emma Szewczak @emmaszewczak.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

I would change my name on here to something "spooky" but a polish name for british people is already frightening enough

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