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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿

@paulaknight.bsky.social
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Author, illustrator, comics creator THE FACTS OF LIFE (Myriad) Kidlit Books x3 Words and pictures linktr.ee/paulajknight www.redbubble.com/people/PaulaJKnig… ko-fi.com/bedscapepaula Bedridden #MEcfs ♿ TAC/ Migraine

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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's @alcs.co.uk payment time. That'll pay for Christmas dinner! Secondary royalties for work that appeared in magazines etc. You join, enter the details, and some money comes out twice per year. Some of my entries go back over 20 years - illustration for Mizz magazine etc. #Illustration #Writing
A screen of my alcs statement email with a yellow letterhead and black writing saying that payments will be made around the 30th of September
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Symptoms are “horrible” and severe cases are a “living nightmare.” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social speaks to @natashadevon.bsky.social on LBC about ME/CFS, its long history of being dismissed and psychologised, and the role of governments and insurers.
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social was on top form tallking about ME on @natashadevon.bsky.social Packed a lot of important info in: Pace Trial, GET harms, benefit cuts, insurance etc. It was like a potted history and didn't mince words about how awful it is. Listen back! #MEcfs #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Important article in the Guardian today by George Monbiot about ME. I've been bedridden for 8 yrs and likely had ME for over 30 yrs since I had glandular fever in the '90s. My health was never the same since. Initially I was told I was 'just unlucky'. #MEcfs #MedicalScandals
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Intending to write another column about the treatment of #ME/CFS patients this week, pegged to new research findings on the biological basis. My question for sufferers: Are any of you still being offered inappropriate (psych/GET etc) "treatments"? Please email george at monbiot dot info. Thanks.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Artist: @twonks.bsky.social
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1st panel - being chronically ill
2nd panel - hi mate, how's it going
3rd panel - [guy drowning with phone at his ear] - yeah, can't complain

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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Surface pattern design of succulents for some of the larger fabric items available on Redbubble. It's the first time I've tried surface pattern so please be gentle. My brain nearly fell out. It's not quite right, but there's always a next time. #Artsky #PlantParent www.redbubble.com/i/tote-bag/S...
Surface pattern design of little succulents in brightly coloured pots.
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New succulent stickers, and other items, in my shop. What's your favourite succulent? I loved the giant aioniums at Tresco abbey gardens in the Isles of Scilly. www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Su...
Five succulents illustrations ranging from green to grey blue to move in different coloured potsFive succulents design on a mugFive succulents design on a notebookFive succulent stickers on a bedside table
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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 13/09/2026
The site I use for Indian customers is not working. This is my shop for people outside of India in case you are interested. ko-fi.com/chembarathi/...
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Visit Chembu's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A couple of weeks ago it was my 3000th day bedridden. I drew this to mark the occasion. It's a long time for both illness-haver and carer #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEcfs #ChronicIllness #DisabledArtists
A three panel one page comic featuring a white woman in a profiling bed in grey blue watercolour and the words 3,000 days in bed with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis. Other colours are brick red and muted orange
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Can you guess what? I watched on TV this week? #Illustration #Wildlife #DisabledArtists
Some digital illustration studies of a Goss hawk including close up of its head and to in flight and one perching in browns and greys and a brown ink pen line.
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Billowy cumulii. Filmed from my bed. #Clouds #Timelapse
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I haven't been using this platform for a while. My mum died in May, and I'm slowly putting myself back together after overseeing her care from my bed over the past couple of years, organising a funeral I couldn't go to, and the ensuing sadmin. It has been a year!
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thrilled to be a part of this amazing special issue of WSQ on Chronic edited by @tahneeroksman.bsky.social & Nancy K. Miller. My essay is called "What If? Chronic Illness Aesthetics & Politics in the Work of Paula Knight & Alison Larkman" @paulaknight.bsky.social #ChronicIllness #IllnessPolitics
Cover of WSQ special issue on CHRONIC edited by Nancy K. Miller and Tanner Oksman
Cover art The Bed by Renée French
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Privilege of various kinds does a lot of heavy lifting in the inspirational wellness industrial complex. It's frustrating when people can't see it, because making other people feel crap about themselves is the opposite of wellness and inspiration.
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Happy April! A panel from my graphic memoir The Facts of Life (2017). I have some copies for sale right from the horse's mouth and will list them somewhere soon. #comics #NatureWriting #Writing #ArtSky
Black and white ink drawing of an oak seedling sprouting surrounded by Sun rays
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Myfanwy Tristram @myfanwytristram.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I’ll soon have a couple of #comics mentoring spots opening up; so if you’d welcome a regular check-in on your comics or #graphicnovel project, something to consider. I’m just one of the mentors available via the @ldcomics.bsky.social mentoring scheme www.myfanwytristram.com/comics-and-g...
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Comics and graphic novels mentorship
If you would like to explore mentorship, you can get in touch via the LDComics mentorship scheme – or if you’d like something more bespoke (longer-term perhaps), drop me an email and le…
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
URGENT: An NHS hospital is starving a severe ME patient & has now stopped giving her fluids. Savannah has now lived with severe ME for several years - but the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South London is putting her life at risk. @h-sharland.bsky.social has the story www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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An NHS hospital is starving a severe ME patient and has now stopped giving her fluids
Savannah has now lived with severe ME for several years - but the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South London is putting her life at risk
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Please consider donating to Savannah's fundraiser so she can afford care and continue legal representation. She has v severe ME with feeding problems and is being treated appallingly in QEH hospital right now. Please share! 🙏 Any questions, please read the fundraiser updates. #MEcfs #Disability
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Wow. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Niko Suvisto @nikosuvisto.com · 26/02/2026
We have finally finished updating our online art gallery into a dark theme! A Quiet Storm showcases art made by people who have experienced severe ME/CFS. Our full statement is below. www.aquietstorm.me #MECFS #pwME #Art #OnlineArtGallery
A hand-drawn text: ‘New look!’. Under it A Quiet Storm cloud logo. And below the logo a text: ‘Our updated website is now live!’.
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A robin photo from when I was able to go out with my modest telephoto lens (I was unable to hold anything bigger than that up). I can't believe this was 10 years ago. #Nature #Robins #Photography
A photo of a robin on a curved red brick wall top. 
Words: I took meow worms today but no one was interested in them. This was the result of another photography twitcher with sunflower seeds. I'm jealous of his lens. It's bigger than mine, but I suppose it's what you do with it that counts.
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 25/02/2026
📚💙 A member of our book club on Fable has set up her own space, 'Endless Horizons' for teens living with disabilities to help build community and connection. If you know a disabled teen who would be interested here is the link! 👇
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Endless Horizons Book Club | Join & Read on Fable
Join Endless Horizons on Fable. Connect with readers, discuss books, and explore curated reading lists.
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Looking forward to non-fiction workshop with Rae Earl this morning with @ldnwriterscentre.bsky.social I'm attending three writing events this week, and I'm completely bedridden. It wouldn't be possible without online provision. Disabled writers and artists deserve inclusion. #DisabledWriters
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
#writingtip #writingtips #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
It's great to have successes in creative work but don't pull the ladder up after you. It's good to share knowledge, other people's work and help others on their path. The world is better for art, writing and creativity. #DisabledArtists #DisabledWriters #Writing #ArtSky #Comics
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Cartoon County @cartooncounty.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Sisters are great guests. Come in person this evening or watch the improved live stream on www.youtube.com/@panelborder...
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Alex Fitch
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Dan Wyke @danwyke.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Today (23 Feb) reps from Forward ME are meeting with the DHSC and NHS England to discuss progress on the development of a clinical care pathway for people with mild-moderate ME/CFS. However, crucially, the pathway fails to include people with severe ME. 1/3
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
TW: Very distressing content Clip from Austrian TV report on Samuel, who developed severe ME/CFS following Covid and chose assisted suicide on his 22nd birthday. Includes a brief interview with him before his death. #MECFS #LongCovid
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My writing software doesn't recognise the word 'mither'. How very dare it? #AmWriting
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Update on Savannah’s case in The Times. She has severe ME/CFS, has lost 30kg and eaten nothing since January 18. Sonya Chowdhury, CEO of Action for ME, describes the situation as “appalling” and says she is very worried Savannah could die. archive.ph/J3Xv3
Screenshot of the article from the Times
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A metaphor for PEM. New short comic about ME. #Comics #MEcfs #Disability #DisabledArtists #pwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #GraphicMedicine
A four panel comic with a teal background. image is of struggling white skinned hands clasped by a cable tie and resulting injuries. ME is like a cable tie. The harder you fight it the tighter its grip
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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Don't miss this on Tuesday eve ONLINE - Morag's book is so brilliant and necessary - a vital amendment to so much walking lit - an intersectional feminist history of walking as creative practice, radical act and resistance, with a focus on queer, disabled & working-class lives. #BookSky #WalkingLit
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
www.alzheimers.org.uk/blog/politic...
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Politics and dementia: Why it’s not okay to diagnose from a distance
In recent years, there has been increasing questioning of the fitness of senior politicians to hold office on the basis that they have dementia or are otherwise mentally or physically unwell. It’s par...
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
CW Edited clip from an ORF report on the death of Samuel by assisted suicide. Highlights that many people don’t know about the illness, there are no effective treatments, there is a lack of care, services, financial aid and support for people with #MECFS in Austria.
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Myfanwy Tristram @myfanwytristram.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
ROAD TRIP (well, rail trip)! I've got a load of events set up around the launch of Noisy Valley and I'd love to see you at one of them. I'm listing them all in a newsletter to go out tomorrow, so do sign up for all the details on the where and when! mailchi.mp/3e30144be390...
People looking at Myf Tristram's pictures
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Yesterday, we launched Brave New World? a ground-breaking report about the impact of Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). This major new study has been published in partnership with other creator-led organisations. buff.ly/vIuLqfn
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
NEW 🚨 A South London hospital is still putting severe ME patient Savannah's life at risk and a clinician who psychologises ME might be why. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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London hospital STILL starving severe ME patient, Savannah — bias medical approach to blame
A South London hospital is still putting severe ME patient Savannah's life at risk and a clinician who psychologises ME might be why.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Cat among ferns’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
A tabby cat with its back to the viewer sits on scrubland grass surrounded by dying fern fronds, harmonising but not camouflaged
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
If someone is listing anti- all the isms apart from ableism, I'm unlikely to follow back. I'm disabled and fed up of the left eliding this. Intersectional everything here. #Disability #Ableism
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
There is a letter to send in this piece. Urgent! Please do if you can. A young woman's life is on the line, yet again, at the hands of the NHS. #MEcfs #Disability
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We have made the decision to formally close our X social media account. Once a vibrant platform to promote the interests of authors, we feel X is no longer a trusted place for balance, community support, and reliable information.
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Now is a good time to give your existing contracts a once over.   Check when your royalty statements and payments are due. If you have sub-licensing agreements, don’t forget to look at these too. They are often for a limited duration, so make a note of when the agreement expires.
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Please subscribe to Alex Fitch's YouTube so that we can get Cartoon County livestreaming again. Making the Arts accessible is a worthy and important cause. I can't attend in-person events because I'm bedridden, so appreciate it. Thank you! #virtualEvents #Comics #Disability
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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Last day to vote in the @brokenfrontier.bsky.social Awards. Some of these categories are *incredibly* tight. Last time I looked there was just one vote between the leading nominee and the two joint nominees trailing them.#BFAwards25 www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-...
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Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2025 – Events in Gaza Make Their Presence Felt in Another Eclectic Set of BF Nominations – Broken Frontier
The Broken Frontier Awards 2025 are here and you get to play a part in deciding who the winners are for the last twelve months.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🖼 Woodland floor with Snowdrops, Josef Lauer, C19th.
Painting as described, ladybird on one leaf.
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allyann @allyann.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
📌 ME/CFS Feed pinned post 📌 Finds keywords of #mecfs #cfs #MEScience ME/CFS and #MEAwareness bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Katy B @katybrc.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
"We lack such treatment (for ME) not because #ME is some “weird” “mysterious” illness that cant be understood Its because our political medical & scientific institutions have chosen to make ME the lowest-funded illness relative to disease burden by a mile"Nick Joliat 👇 massmecfs.org/members/memb...
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Spotlight: MassME Remembers Walker Storz - Massachusetts ME/CFS & FM
Spotlight: MassME Remembers Walker Storz
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Good grief. Unrealistic expectations.
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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I wrote and illustrated my 240pp graphic memoir The Facts of Life over ten years with a concentrated period of two years working more than ft to do the hand-drawn artwork, book cover and hand lettering at the end of that period. I had other jobs and time off for illness within the time #BookSky
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