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Trans Pride Notts @transpridenotts.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Trans Pride Notts 2026! Join us throughout the day for events to celebrate the day. We will be kicking off the day with a Protest at Sneinton Market at 11am. Then join us for protest speeches at 12 in Nottingham's Old Market Square

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

You are are an amazingly brilliant team @thedailytism.com I'm proud to be a Patreon supporter. I value your creativity, commitment and energy so much, knowing how energy can be in short supply. Not everyone is as fortunate as me to be able to subscribe. If you can, this team deserves your support!

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I can't be there for the premiere of 'Writing Weirdness', unfortunately. But hoping to watch the recording afterwards.

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Rose Matthews (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 @rosematthews.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Publication day for #Autistic #Menopause: A Guide to the Menopausal Transition for Autistic People and those Supporting Them' by Dr Rachel Moseley and Prof Julie Turner-Cobb, illustrated by me. Knowledge is empowering! uk.jkp.com/products/aut... #autism #neurodivergence #perimenopause #postmenopause

Purple book cover with green and gold leaves. Text reads: Autistic Menopause: A Guide to the Menopausal Transition for Autistic People and those Supporting Them. Dr Rachel Moseley and Prof Julie Gamble-Turner. Illustrated by Rose Matthews

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 08/01/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT: Autistic Women Oversharing is back! We're returning for a second series of our podcast with a raft of hilarious guest hosts from the Daily Tism team. Join us on your favourite podcast platform for Episode 1 next Thursday the 15th of January!

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Yes, so so wrong in all kinds of ways. Don't say 'Legos' near me. I'll frown and tut in the background and be repeating all day to myself, "It's Lego. It's always been Lego. Stop it!' - until I've totally annoyed myself.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A researcher is looking for participants to take part in research about improving access to healthcare for LGBTQ+ people living with chronic illness. Please see the poster for more information. If you would like to participate, please email him directly 17002702@hope.ac.uk #LGBTQResearch

Text Reads: I am seeking participants for research exploring ways to improve access to healthcare for LGBTQ+ people living with chronic illness in England.
I am looking to speak to people who: are 18+ and live in England; identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer, or/and as part of the LGBTQ+ community; consider yourself to live with one or more chronic illness.
What is involved? Taking part involves two online conversations (interviews) and a creative task. Your participation in the project can be spread over several weeks.
Who is carrying out the research? I am a PhD student based at Liverpool Hope University. I am trans and bisexual and I live with multiple chronic illnesses.
Interested? Please visit https://bit.ly/4hNcIx4 or email Vickery Stamp (he/him or they/them) at 17002702@hope.ac.uk for more information or to express interest
The poster is illustrated with an image of a megaphone, a health zine and a set of coloured pencils.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 31/08/2025

Boy do we have some exciting news… to everyone who’s been asking if we’re taking on new writers, the answer is finally yes! We’re hiring! Sharpen your pencils, comedy writers - you have two weeks to perfect your applications to be our next freelancers!

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Get more from The Daily Tism on Patreon

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Looking forward to Notts Pride tomorrow. See you there! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Pride #Nottingham

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I love this. Thank you for making me smile (often), Moose.

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I was proud to be able to adopt a couple of Snorp at the weekend, at Notts Trans Pride. I think they're settling in well, and they make me smile. They are adorable small #ClayCreatures with large personalities. Please look out for them. #Snorp

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Very powerful. You are a fantastic writer, Elsa, and we need your words and we need your satire. We need all of you. Thank you for sharing. I hope the powers that be are listening.

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

So glad I spotted this, reposted by someone else. I've just booked to watch the livestream.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Trans people are who they say they are. If we allow people, even allies, to say that they are biologically not-that, then we are conceding a conceptual and rhetorical ground that we should not concede.

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Thanks for another great news show @thedailytism.bsky.social To everyone I know: Watch! Watch! Watch! (That's three times at each of your favourite volume settings.)

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Wow! Just wow! This is far too close for comfort. This also covers days that aren't annual leave but are supposed to be non-working days for those like me who are not quite full-time!

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I've been gender non-conforming all my life. I'm tired of people harassing & questioning me when I use public toilet spaces. I know best which bathroom to use! Also: I now define my gender as a non-binary lesbian. Get used to it! Solidarity with all trans people. Trans rights are human rights.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 26/03/2025

Got interviewed by @itsjoshmilton.bsky.social for the Metro. The article interviews disabled people on the impact of the UK governments proposed savage benefit cuts and looming policies of austerity metro.co.uk/2025/03/26/i...

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'I'm LGBTQ+ and disabled - losing my benefits means I will lose my independence'

'If I lost my PIP, I simply lose my job.'

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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The Chancellor said today that she would not do anything to put household finances in danger Yet the government’s own assessment shows their cuts to health related benefits risk pushing 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children 📢 Their assessment also found... 1/3

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This news day is going to shit, isn't it. It feels like the most vulnerable people are being deliberately and cruelly targeted and denied the support and respect that keeps people alive.

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Sarah K @dr-know.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Making hate and abuse the thing that’s protected tells us a lot about who we are. (Clue: really much more like those guys over the pond than we like to pretend!) As ever, the people who want to debate free speech just mean they want to use slurs.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 26/03/2025

Absolutely surreal that the university has been fined more than half a million for pro-inclusion policies that they *didn't even enforce*. Stock left because students *exercised their free speech* and it made her uncomfortable.

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Proud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop @proud-geek.co.uk · 19/03/2025

It’s #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek so I’ve put together a short list of queer books with great neurodivergent protagonists and themes on our website - all of them with links, as well as the suggested reading age. Read the full blog: www.proud-geek.co.uk/post/queer-b... #booksky #NCW

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Queer Books With Neurodiverse Characters

I've had a few people lately ask for queer book recommendations with neurodiverse characters. There are plenty out there, but it's often tricky to find them, especially if you're not sure where to sta...

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Yes, I booked my ticket this afternoon for: Intense Fascination: A Celebration of Autistic Creative Writing. For others who want to go, it's on Saturday 29 March 2025, 9.30am - 5.30pm, online. Tickets are £15 / £10 (concessions). And see more here: beyondthespectrum.uk/bts-writing-...

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I'm going to resist this one. At almost 56 years of age, I'm starting to tell myself that I don't have to be the one who has to solve everything, although it's harder to let go of the worry that creates. The emotional baggage is packed in tight. Everything's a work in progress.

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Things I used to get up to: Leading on the choreography for fundraising and awareness-raising flash mobs. On this day in 2014: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ti2...

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1in3 Day 2014 Flash mob for John van Geest Cancer Research Centre

YouTube video by TrentAlumni

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Autism in therapy: Monotropism, meditation and autistic flow. River Marino with their chapter from 'On Being an Autistic Therapist', edited by Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social and published by @pccsbooks.bsky.social. Repost for your chance to win a copy! www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... #PsySciSky

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Consortium @consortium.lgbt · 26/02/2025

This LGBT+ History Month, the Consortium Team have chosen five incredible activists and changemakers to highlight who have helped shape a more inclusive and just society: 💜 Paris Lees 💙 Leila Zadeh 💚 Harvey Kennedy-Pitt 💛 Fox Fisher 🧡 Reeta Loi 1/3

This image has a grey background with a picture of a person. The black text reads: Activists and social change makers, Paris Lees. LGBT+ History Month founded by SCHOOLS OUT. Paris Lees is an English author, journalist, presenter and campaigner. She is the first trans columnist at Vogue and was the first trans woman to present shows on BBC Radio 1 and Channel 4.

She topped The Independent on Sunday's 2013 Pink List, came second in the 2014 Rainbow List, and was awarded the Positive Role Model Award for LGBT in the 2012 National Diversity Awards.

Her first book, What It Feels Like For A Girl,
was published by Penguin in 2021. The book is a novel memoir based on Lees’ life aged 13 to 18, beginning in 2001.

This image has a grey background with a picture of a person. The black text reads: Activists and social change makers, Leila Zadeh. LGBT+ History Month founded by SCHOOLS OUT. Leila Zadeh previously worked at Frontline AIDS, Oxfam GB and ActionAid EU.

She speaks English, Farsi/Persian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Leila came to the UK as part of a refugee family when she was 13 months old.

She is currently Executive Director of Rainbow Migration. Rainbow Migration supports LGBTQI+ people through the asylum and immigration system.

On 3rd February 2025, Leila wrote an article for Attitude Magazine titled “This LGBT+ History Month, let’s demand an end to LGBTQI+ Detention in the UK”.

This image has a grey background with a picture of a person. The black text reads: Activists and social change makers, Harvey Kennedy-Pitt. LGBT+ History Month founded by SCHOOLS OUT.

Harvey Kennedy-Pitt is a globally educated scientist, educator, a community health equity strategist, and a thought leader with experience in science, healthcare, education, public health research, leadership, and management.

As a public health leader, Harvey’s public health interests include addressing health disparities across communities of colour, particularly among those with racially and sexually minoritised identities.

Harvey is the former CEO of Black Beetle Health.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

OUTpatients offer support and info to LGBTIQ+ people impacted by cancer, they are involved in all sorts of work to improve cancer screening and care for LGBTIQ+ people, and they work to raise LGBTIQ+ people's awareness around the importance of cancer screening. Take a look:

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OUTpatients - LGBTIQ+ Charity

OUTpatients is the UK’s Only LGBTIQ+ Cancer Charity. Proudly Led by and for LGBTIQ+ People Affected by Cancer. We Work Hard to Support & Advocate for our Community.

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Today we celebrate the right to read. #BooksellingIsNotACrime On Feb 9 Israeli police raided the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem, seizing books and arresting Palestinian owners Ahmed and Mahmoud Muna. Today we will be donating 10% of takings to the Educational Bookshop.

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Proud to have been part of the protest in Manchester on this day in 1988. But it should never have been necessary. We must not go back there. Support all LGBTQIA+ communities.

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Read the thread below for reasons to support @wearequeeraf.com Their crowdfunder is at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/queeraf2025

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye. I drew the curtains.

Cartoon: two windows next to each other. The window on the left has net curtains. The window on the right has tattered air stained curtains. Caption on the left: Net Curtains. Caption on the right: Gross Curtains

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Exciting things happening on Weird Pride Day, like this! (I hear it's also Pancake Day.)

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Enjoying all the pictures of cats today, and many lucky cats being rehomed with good people.

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Just replaced the mat and all bungee rings on my bellicon rebounder. There may be bloody knuckles & cuticles, perhaps a broken nail (which, given how short they are, is quite some feat)! It was a workout in itself. But I have succeeded. There's a firm bounce. Not bad for first time replacing alone.

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I look forward to reading this. Thanks to @magpiepages.bsky.social for making it available.

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Signed and now sharing. Please sign if you are in the UK.

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The moment of finding this cartoon was good, however 🙂

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

As we begin LGBT+ History Month in the UK, let's never forget. What's happening in the US right now should terrify everyone. It's too easy to feel shocked and stunned by the news, and find it unfathomable that one man can do this. There's no time to be numb. We need to rise up and act.

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LGBT+ History Month UK @lgbthm.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Welcome to the 21st UK LGBT+ History Month! Celebrating 20 years since Schools OUT first launched UK LGBT+ History Month in 2005. Thank you for making it such a success! This years #LGBTplusHM25 theme is ' #Activism & #SocialChange' Find out more: lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history...

Graphic showing the theme of the month this year and our five historical figures for the 2025 celebration (Octavia Hill, Ivor Cummings, Annie Kenney, Charlie Kiss, and Olaudah Equiano)

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Six weeks to publication! Couldn’t have done it without @bridportprize.bsky.social a ‘Sliding Doors’ moment @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social for recommending me to Antony Topping @greeneandheaton.bsky.social @imogengc.bsky.social for expertly guiding me Alice, I miss you immeasurably. This is for you.

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Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com · 30/01/2025

Do you have a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, ideas, and you think you have enough to turn it into a book? If it seems scattered and overwhelming—and you’re not sure what will fit where—here are ideas for organizing your material and moving forward, from Lara Lillibridge.

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Turn Your Short Pieces Into a Finished Nonfiction Book | Jane Friedman

If you’ve amassed a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, and ideas, here’s a step-by-step guide to shaping them into a book.

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is really helpful to assess themes and structure, even when planning totally new material - because I know it will draw on those previous fragments. I'll hold on to this as I move forward into a renewed relationship with memoir. Thanks @laralillibridge.bsky.social

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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Celebrate the demise of spectrum 10k by getting the Daily Tism to the 10k followers - then we will be the spectrum 10k

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Nicki Hastie @nickihastie.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"If you’re writing poetry, then you’re a poet" is always helpful to remember.

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