Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Are you telling me they didn't think this through? Astounded. 010
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 25/03/2025I couldn't have been more excited to get an email response from Micah Fowler, the first actor with CP I saw on TV. disabilityrepresentationdiary.substack.com/p/entry-2-pa... 001
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 25/03/2025I got back into my slightly broken wheelchair like, "Maybe it fixed itself in the intervening time." I'm sorry, but I just needed to grip onto the delusion. 000
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 25/03/2025I just interviewed Emmerdale's James Moore for The Disability Representation Diary! We discussed the importance of authentic disabled characters in media and the ongoing fight for proper representation in today's political climate. 010
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Each week I will be interviewing a disabled person about their experiences of disability representation—and why they matter. Please share and subscribe! 💛🖤🤍 020
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Calling all disabled film/TV fans! 🎬 Who’s your ALL-TIME favourite #disabled character in TV/film history? I’m working on a project & want to hear your thoughts! DM me, or my email is in my bio. #DisabilityRepresentation #FilmAndTV #DisabledCharacters #Accessibility 031
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I once had an ad for medical negligence lawyers related VERY specifically to CP. But then, not five minutes later, running so...not bang on. 020
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Please consider bringing this information/and the interviews we’re seeing on this to your MP’s attention: #AssistUsToLive 021
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Please consider taking part. #AssistUsToLive 010
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Before I went on Christmas break I wrote about the legend that is Gail Platt. #CoronationStreet www.cobbled-together.co.uk/post/i-m-par...cobbled-together.co.ukI’m Part Cobble, Me: The Legacy of Gail Platt on Coronation StreetGail Platt has lived on Coronation Street for 50 years as she said, “I practically know every cobble back-to-front.” 000
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Literally the only way this Christmas gift could've been better is if were a birkin. #Emmerdale 010
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Got taunted and called "hot wheels," today by a group of teenage boys. Which on the scale isn't that offensive. But my only abiding thought is, just who is dragging these children up? 010
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 21/12/2024This is my article of the year. If you'd told baby Melissa she would be writing about #Angel for the #RadioTimes. Like that's my show! www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/b...radiotimes.comSorry Buffy fans, Angel's controversial ending was actually perfectTwenty years on, Angel's finale still stands up. 000
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I contributed a bit on disability representation in Star Trek for this and loved it. 💙 022
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024I am consulting on a speech and language project. Specifically about not feeling shame around speech and today I got embarrassed I couldn't say "cappuccino" in a cafè. Like once the shame gets hold it sticks. 000
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 17/12/2024www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/whee... End of an era as my new wheelchair doesn't have full handles -- utterly sure they will still find a way. #Disabled #Wheelchair #Consentglamourmagazine.co.ukPlease stop touching my wheelchair without my consent - it makes me feel violated and dehumanised“Why do non-disabled people feel they have the right to invade personal space and control our bodies simply because we may have a physical difference?” 0102
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I compared having a new wheelchair, with the old one in the corner, to having an ex boyfriend and comparing constantly, and it's so true. "He wouldn't do it like that." #Disabled 000
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I grew up in a working-class environment where any notion of being #disabled was to be pushed down, throttled out. I didn't want to be an activist but living in a disabled body IS activism. 092
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Surely the only proper way to address my birthday card. 020
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I am a huge Gail fan - adore her. Also as a mancunion third of 3 I get the Platts. Would give the other two my kidney but never my phone charger. Our Gail deserves a REST. #Corrie 010
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024It's wild and wonderful to me that a year later I still get asked about this. #Disability #Ableism www.stylist.co.uk/opinion/rosi...stylist.co.uk“Like Rosie Jones, I face ableist comments about my speech every day – and it’s exhausting”As Rosie Jones has to push back against ableist abuse yet again, one writer shares her experience of the same 'rinse and repeat' cycle. 030
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I told someone I am close to all the statistics on assisted dying being broadened out elsewhere. Their one word response? "Ew." It's just so vile and careless. #AssistUsToLive 010
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024@catsmithmp.bsky.social I urge you to vote No. This bill leaves us vulnerable. Disabled lives are worth more than a few hours of debate --- don't help to put a potentially slowly tightening noose around our neck. #AssistUsToLive 000
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 28/11/2024As so many MPs remain undecided on #assisteddying please consider contacting your MP: #AssistUsToLive 000
Reposted by Melissa ParkerPolly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 26/11/2024If you're not fighting for disability justice, against forced DNRs on disabled people, against benefits cuts; unless you've been advocating for better care, access, infection control; unless you know the intersections of disability / poverty ... you don't have an informed opinion on assisted dying. 0188
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I wrote an open letter to my local MP. Please consider doing this too: #AssistUsToLive www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024... 001
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I really am so hopeful this will give #disabled people a platform to protest in a way that is #accessible. #AssistUstoLive Please share! 065
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024My first ever published #poem is about being #disabled and working-class. #poetry 020
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024As an introduction: I am an award winning #disabled journalist and published poet. Soaps, Star Trek and a bit of a Smeghead. 0140
Melissa Parker @melissakparker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I wrote something like "Your pinky promises crack our fingers," for moments like this the #disabled know what "robust safeguards" means. 000