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Fran Zerva

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To live for the hope of it all 🍁 Interested in all things disability, fantasy, feminism, neurodiversity. Academic Support Worker to Prof David Bolt.

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Disability Matters @dismatters.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Today is #InternationalDayofPersonsWithDisabilities. To mark the days leading up to Anita Ghai's departure on 11th December last year, we have invited disability scholars to reflect on Anita's legacy. Read the contributions: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
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Disability Dialogues Contributions
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Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🚨 NEURODIVERSITY IS MORE THAN... symposium 📅 4 March 2026, 9-5pm GMT, online. Free to attend, all welcome! Sign up below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...
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Neurodiversity is More Than...
A symposium organised by Abs S. Ashley and Ombre Tarragnat
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse Edited by David Bolt, now available in hardback, softback, and electronic formats. Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25. For more information and to order a copy: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
To celebrate #DisabilityHistoryMonth, browse the LUP reading list and enjoy free access to selected disability studies journal articles across the next month. bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖 @davidbolt13.bsky.social
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Celebrating Disability History Month 2025
To mark Disability History Month in the UK, we’ve collated a reading list from our books and journals that engage with ideas and narratives of disability, particularly our leading journal, Th…
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse Now available to pre-order, new book edited by David Bolt, including an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege. Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25
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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I am delighted to be under contract to write a second edition of my 2019 book, Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide. #MoreThanNeeds
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drerinpritchard.bsky.social @drerinpritchard.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Why does Amazon think it is acceptable to sell merchandise that includes hate slurs and constructs people with #dwarfism as a novelty? Would any other #disability or #racial slur be acceptable?
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies Volume 19 Issue 3 Special Issue: Invitation to Dance: Performing Disability Politics through the Dancing Body Guest Editors: Stefan Sunandan Honisch and Gili Hammer The special issue can be accessed as a whole here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55464
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Project MUSE - Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies-Volume 19, Issue 3, 2025
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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
ReaderBank has a sparkly new website! readerbank.org And new modules to help us better understand reading experiences, how the imagination works and what this means for mental health. Sign up to get involved in the world’s most ambitious study of the reading imagination! 🧵
The ReaderBank website: black text on a blue-purple background saying 'Reimagining imagination. How do you imagine the things you read? Discover more about your mind and contribute to cutting-edge research on the science of our inner worlds.' Two buttons saying 'Find out more' and 'Get involved'. A blue and red flower overlayed on top for decoration.
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“Struggle, stigma, or systemic barriers are not signs of weakness—but can, with the right support and agency, become part of a process of transformation and strength.” www.linkedin.com/pulse/neurod...
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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 23/07/2025
me: i could do this quickly and imperfectly 🧠: lol no me: well i guess i’ll just never start then
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Activism
PDF | Collective mental health patient organising in England is usually dated to the nineteenth century and seen as arising in response to the mass... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Really excited to be a part of this fab edited volume! My chapter “Moments of Identification: Neurodivergent Sociality and Loss in Marvel’s WandaVision” questions the neurotypical/neurodivergent binary and embraces the ambiguity found in the spaces in-between: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...
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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This looks amazing. Huge congrats @franzerva.bsky.social ! I can't wait to read yours and Marnie's chapters.
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Aww, that’s such a lovely comment! You made my day, Rhi 🤭
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta... @drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social
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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...
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Campaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Recent findings from @mencap.org.uk highlight the real-world impact of changes to PIP on people with a learning disability: buff.ly/SJnAhY0 Cuts to #PIP would mean stress, isolation & hardship - when PIP already fails to meet the additional costs of living with a learning disability. #disabled
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Mencap research: The impact of changes to PIP
"Do You See Me?" is our new campaign A campaign is when people work together to try to change something. to make sure that people with a learning disability are fully included and valued in all…
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Looking forward to presenting with @luciejones83.bsky.social today on our work on disabled researchers and research culture! We're at the @ljmuofficial.bsky.social APSS faculty conference "Forever Curious."
Printout of PowerPoint slides showing. Slide has an image of Tanya Titchkosky's book  The Question of Access and the heading "Curiosity and Wonder"
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crippingbreath.bsky.social @crippingbreath.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We launched our Artist Collaborator search last week! Take a look here to learn more if you are an artist who lives on or with ventilation & would like to participate in a paid residency 🙌🏽 www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre... @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
A ventilated person sat at a desk against a pink background; Image by Josh Slack, Inertia Creative; modified by Louise Atkinson
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Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
New article from NDHums co-lead, Abs S. Ashley exploring neurotrans affectual landscapes in the face of anti-trans violences.
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Brilliant afternoon yesterday celebrating 15 years of #CCDS with powerful talks from some very important disability studies figures from Liverpool Hope! Thank you for all that you for disability studies - you are the reason we keep fighting ✊ #KnowledgeNotNeeds
An image of JLCDS issues and three academic books (Performing Disability in Early Modern British Drama, Advertising Disability, and Finding Blindness) distributed across a table.
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A touching open letter from our fab SEN and Disability Studies students about the proposed redundancies at Liverpool Hope University: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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An Open Letter from Disabled Students Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University
An Open Letter from Disabled Students Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University To the Leadership of Liverpool Hope University, We are writing to express our disappointment regardi...
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
On 28 June, the CCDS launched Dr Ella Houston's monograph Advertising Disability. The book is part of the Autocritical Disability Studies series edited by Prof David Bolt. In addition, there is a response by Dr Catalin Brylla. The launch can now be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOvd...
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CCDS Book Launch: Dr Ella Houston's Advertising Disability
YouTube video by Centre for Culture and Disability Studies
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Please consider signing and/or sharing this petition to stop compulsory redundancies at Liverpool Hope University #Solidarity ✊ chng.it/5zqNTByvfC
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Stop Compulsory Redundancies; Protect Students and Staff
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Students gathering to protest mass redundancies at Liverpool Hope today 😍 I don't work there any more but I feel like I can still confidently say our students are THE BEST.
Large group of students with placards gathered in front of a university building
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Jill Pluquailec of Sheffield Hallam has organised an open letter laying out the impact on #DisabilityStudies as a field - please do share and sign [add a comment with your info]
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An Open Letter from the Disability Studies Community Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University
An Open Letter from the Disability Studies Community Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University To the Leadership of Liverpool Hope University, We, members of the international Disab...
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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"If we imagine the poem is a body, is it possible to map the experience of chronic illness onto the space of the page?" Thanks to Jane Hartshorn for this latest exploration of creative practice research in our new 'In Practice' project. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/08/p...
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Poetry as Chronic Illness Research: ‘Another Attempt’
Jane Hartshorn’s poetry experiments within the contradictory and temporary spaces of chronic illness, reflecting rather than controlling the experience.
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Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
📣📣‼️ Registration for the CRITICAL NEURODIVERSITY STUDIES: DIRECTIONS/INTERSECTIONS/CONTRADICTIONS (CNSC) conference is now open! ‼️📣📣 Sign up here: ndhumanities.com/critical-neu...
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Registration – ND Hums
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
New Book in the Autocritical Disability Studies Series - Stories on Disability Through our Voices: Born This Way by Yoon Joon Lee: www.routledge.com/Stories-on-D...
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Stories on Disability Through our Voices: Born This Way
This book integrates the discipline of disability studies with the lived experiences of women with visible disabilities. It seeks to foreground the silenced voices of Korean and Korean American women ...
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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
#MedHums101 Medical humanities puts lived experience at the centre of health research. Check out some of our most read articles on this topic: thepolyphony.org/tag/lived-ex...
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lived experience – the polyphony
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Anna Stenning @annastenning.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
What can a synthesis of neurodiversity theory and care ethics offer to research on language, communication, and culture? I am interested in how neurodivergent experiences challenge normative assumptions about relationality, communication, and value. 🧵
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Dan Goodley @dangoodley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Goodley, Dan, Kirsty Liddiard and Rebecca Lawthom. 2025. “The Depathologising University.” Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 27(1): 120–133. DOI: doi.org/10.16993/sjd...
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The Depathologising University | Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Just re-read this - written almost 10 years ago - from the brilliant @touretteshero.bsky.social - about PIP. History always repeats itself. www.touretteshero.com/2016/03/19/i...
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“Independent Pissing or Pounds? Choose”
I’ve just been to the toilet. To be able to do this safely I need a number of aids. Some of these are permanent and stay in the bathroom, like the grab rail and the emergency alarm. Others are things...
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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
For more detail on this I cannot recommend this article enough journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Your neurodiversity week celebration reminder that the term should not be directly attributed to Judy Singer 🧠🌈
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This looks amazing! There is still time to book your tickets for tomorrow’s launch #anti-ableism
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Comrades! Now the audiobook's finally out, I have five codes for free audible copies of *Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism*. If you want one just like and share/quote this post. After 48 hours I'll pick five sharers at random to send the codes to.
Audiobook cover, white background with black text reading "Empire of Normality: neurodiversity and capitalism, Robert Chapman, Elliot Fitzpatrick". There is a silhouette of a sideways face, with an image of birds instead of a face.
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
As the CCDS has recently passed its 15th anniversary, not to mention the 60th issue of JLCDS and the 15th book in the Literary Disability Studies series, an event will be hosted at Hope Park, 1.30-4.30, 30th May, full details of which can be found: store.hope.ac.uk/product-cata...
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CCDS: 15th Anniversary Symposium | Liverpool Hope University Online Store
Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University1.30-4.30, 30th May, 2025Hope Park, Conference Seminar Room 1 and 2
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Wow, fantastic news! Congratulations! Looking forward to reading more about it!
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Can finally share my VERY EXCITING NEWS!!! Me, @amfoster.bsky.social and @luciejones83.bsky.social have been awarded @edicaucus.bsky.social funding for 'Divergent Minds in the Archive', a project investigating archive accessibility for neurodivergent users (and staff)... 1/n
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Funded projects - EDICa
Funded Projects EDICa set aside £1 million for a Flexible Fund to commission projects aligned with EDICa’s three workstreams. Below […]
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Dr Dyi D. Huijg @drdyidhuijg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I work as an academic coach an accepting new clients again. I support (neurodivergent, disabled & other) academics with developing their ideas and turning them into (realistic) research designs and publications. I'm happy to support PhD, ProfDoc and MA students with this too
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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 20/02/2025
perfectionism is just a terrified kid in a trenchcoat standing on a pile of learned coping skills
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New podcast! Me and the always-excellent Stuart Murray talked about uncertainty for Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health: in the critical medical humanities and as part of methodology, but also in academia more broadly. open.spotify.com/episode/5HxB...
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Episode 26 - Uncertainty /w Dr Ria Cheyne and Prof Stuart Murray
Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health · Episode
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Aw that’s such a fab idea! If not, I’m more than happy to lend it to you!
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It’s incredibly interesting and informative - I think you would love it!
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Super excited to get my hands on this - the perks of working for Prof @davidbolt13.bsky.social 📚
An image of the book “Literary Neurodiversity Studies: Current and Future Directions” by Bradley J. Irish in a soft pink/purple background.
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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 11/02/2025
therapist: and what do we do when we’re feeling stressed? me: stop making plans, avoid text messages, and accidentally alienate myself from all of my friends therapist: no
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drerinpritchard.bsky.social @drerinpritchard.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I was interviewd @dailystar.co.uk to again argue that #Dwarfism is not a commodity. If people think it's acceptable would they consider hiring any other #Disabled person? www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...
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Benidorm icon says handcuffing dwarfs to stags is no worse than football mascots
EXCLUSIVE: Benidorm tourism operators have a history of hiring performers with dwarfism to entertain stag dos and birthday parties and, despite criticism, claim they are doing a good thing by providin...
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Nadine Antoinette 🖤📚 @lilblackheart.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
they say "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" well i don't want to be strong, i want to drink iced coffee and read books and take naps.
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