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Erin Ekins (she/her)

@queerlyautistic.bsky.social
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32. Autistic. Queer. Fat. Fangirl. Wearer of fab earrings. Author of 'Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide for LGBTQIA+ Teens on the Spectrum'.

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I wrote Queerly Autistic as the book I desperately wish I'd had as a young queer autistic person. I know what it was like trying to figure myself out without access to this sort of information, and how vulnerable that made me. Knowledge is empowerment - and safety. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Queer author from Essex devastated after school removes book
The author says her book was an aid to open up the conversation around gender, sexuality and identity.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I recently found out, thanks to this investigation by @indexoncensorship.org, that my book, Queerly Autistic, was caught up in a mass book ban in a Greater Manchester school. I’m furious that the librarian, who is autistic, was harassed by the school for providing my book to autistic young people.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Do NOT open your door for any authority unless they have a warrant — from a court, signed by a judge. NO warrant, NO entry. If they arrest you, you ALWAYS have the right to remain silent, even if they don’t read you any rights. The ONLY thing to say: “I want a lawyer.”
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Anti-autistic ableism isn't just deadly for autistic people. When 'tackling the autism epidemic' = systematically attacking vaccines, it means anti-autistic ableism is deadly for all of society. And you can't push back against that threat without centring the fight against anti-autistic ableism.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I'd also like to mention that THIS is exactly why seemingly proposed plans to cut the Access to Work scheme and put more responsibility on employers to accommodate disabled people will NEVER work.
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Dr. Amy, PsyD 🎃 @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · 15/02/2025
The doctor who claimed MMR “causes autism” lost his license for falsifying data and also had developed a vaccine to compete with MMR, so he made it up to make money. Don’t come into my mentions with this shit.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Not that this is news to many of us, but the past few months have really shone fresh light on how corporations are not and will never be on your side. They have to be forced to be even tepidly progressive and inclusive, and when that force is taken away, they'll drop everyone in an instant.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
People will say "what, at a time like this, how is this your biggest issue?" and it's not my biggest thing but it's a small thing you can do in yourself that primes you for noticing things and being a better accomplice and support and community member.
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Falco SkyWolf @falcoskywolf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
(Regarding the hope that people will stop using ableist takes about evil people.) How we TALK about people shapes how we TREAT people. If you take it as a given that verbal abuse isn't right, doesn't that reinforce the idea that physical abuse isn't right?
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The effect of all the worst, biggest sex pest fuckups on earth claiming autism as an excuse for their dipshittery, will be increased eugenics. Each time one of these dipshits announces autism as a justification, they cement the public perception of autism as dangerous, antisocial, predatory, etc
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Wylder 🏳️‍⚧️♿ $100/$2300 @wylder.myatproto.social · 08/02/2025
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A white trans person (he/them) with dark undercut hair and blue eyes, and their dog Tasha, a black and white pitty-foxhound mix. Both are smiling.My partner MousePounder wearing a Star Trek T-shirt with his arm around our dog Tasha, a black and white pitty-foxhound mix. She's standing alert and excited looking slightly to the left of the camera. He has a smiley face emoji over his face for privacy. The background is blurred.

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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 14/02/2025
'Access to Work' is a badly administered and bizarrely inaccessible scheme. It's also one of the only things the UK government does to help disabled people to access work at all.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt
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Luke 🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukeacl.com · 14/02/2025
Some members of the queer community need to be strongly schooled about the shoulders of the strong and brave trans people upon which they stand. It seems they’re forgetting who they owe so much to. There will be no trans exclusion or erasure. We will not allow it to happen. We must fight it.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
If the government passes the buck back to employers to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees, a proportion of employers will simply and quietly decide they'd rather not bother, and hire someone else
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is bananas. Access to Work is a scheme that specifically helps disabled people work in paid employment. The minister's comments suggest too many people know about it so it needs paring back - and responsibility shifted to employers, who as we know just lurve more responsibilities
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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This Valentine's Day we have digital billboards across the city centres of Glasgow & Aberdeen, and a digital ad van in Edinburgh, to raise awareness of harmful conversion practices. If you spot our ad, tag us & use #EndConversionPracticesScotland. equality-network.org/EndConversionPracticesScotland
Graphic with a red to black gradient background. At the top it says 'Roses are red, Violets are blue, Do what you're told,' surrounded by small pink and red hearts at either side. Below this is an illustration of a cracked pink heart with an arrow through it. In the heart it says 'and don't be you.'. Below this it says 'LGBT+ Conversion practices are abuse.' At the bottom of the graphic is a qr code and the Equality Network logo.
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Bobbi Elman @autismadvocate.co.uk · 10/02/2025
Another fab #StarterPack by @aim-rainbow.bsky.social Whom I’m honoured to be on the board with @aimautistic.bsky.social @emergentdivergence.com @kmunday.bsky.social @queerlyautistic.bsky.social @piperstrangeart.bsky.social @aidahdeedrag.co.uk go.bsky.app/NGjhgQ2
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Every time we see reports of the number of autism diagnoses going up, I see people responding with 'alarm' and 'concern', when all I feel is relief. Because every rise in number represents less people living their whole lives struggling to understand why everything is just so much harder for them.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A fine day to remember that if you think that DEI hiring policies means that unqualified people are getting jobs, then what you actually believe is that cisallohet abled neurotypical white men are somehow naturally the only people qualified for certain jobs. And there's a fucking word for that.
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
All of this, and let me add... -If you are in charge of any kind of space (store, library, office, house of worship, online communities, etc), you need to be doing everything you can to make it safe for trans people AND hostile to transphobes.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
So far, there's a lot more evidence that fighting back can work than that it can't, whether it's through the courts, mobilizing public opinion, or even in some reported cases GOP politicians complaining.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Ooh, wow, there's a lot of you who have accumulated whilst I've been away! Apologies for not being more active this year - I've been working on final touches for my next book (I hope to share news soon!) and dealing with a family tragedy simultaneously. Hoping to see all of you more on here soon!
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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Want to make friends when you're autistic but also want to be on your own is hard actually.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Pro-tip: if you're going to dramatically swan-dive arse-over-tit into a brand new hyperfixation, make sure you do it a few weeks before your birthday.
Selfie of me, a white woman in my early 30s with a buzzcut and red rimmed glasses, peaking out happily from behind two compendiums of The Old Guard comics which I'm holding in front of my face.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
It's my 33rd birthday today, so, to celebrate, have a throwback photo of me in my natural habitat - getting very excited about finding another leaf to add to my extensive collection of leaves, rocks and twigs.
Old photo of a white toddler in red trousers, a white top and a purple hat, running towards the camera, grinning with a leaf grasped in her hand.
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Apt-Get @aptget.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it. #Trans #LGBTQ #UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards
The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segre...
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
When you have TWO assistants with you as you work, and they are BOTH slacking.
A blue Staffordshire Bull Terrier Terrier and a brindle Staffordshire Bull Terrier curled up on a dog bed together.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Whenever someone claims that Elon Musk acts 'like that' because he's autistic, I come back to this story to draw a distinction. Having strong aversions to colours? That's autism. Banning your employees from wearing safety clothes because of your aversion to a certain colour? That's NOT autism.
Screenshot of a headline from April 16th 2018. 

'Report: Tesla Factory Workers Are In Danger Because Elon Musk Hates The Colour Yellow.'
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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Doubting someone's autistic because of one specific trait, or specifically a trait that's not part of the diagnostic criteria or not common amongst others is disrespectful behaviour, please don’t do it.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 24/12/2024
💚 Good News of 2024! This year we covered feel good news via our series Three Queer Cheers presented by @s3xtheorywithdee.bsky.social Here are just some good news highlights! We will be back in 2025 with more mid-week pick me ups! 👇
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The fireworks are ridiculous tonight, so I'm currently cranking my noise-cancelling headphones up to a (probably dangerously) high level whilst blasting a heavy playlist. Replacing loud noise I can't control with loud noise that I CAN control is sometimes the only way to get through it.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Well folks, we got through another one. Here's to surving the next as best we can. And some dogs to make all the nonsense of life just that little easier.
Luna, a young brindle Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and Odin, an old blue Staffordshire Bull Terrier (smaller than Luna), sitting next to each other looking up at the camera with interest. Luna's ears are pricked up and Odin has his head tilted slightly.
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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
For all those autistics who find Christmas difficult. I see you. Please take care and take all the time you need to rest.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
This Christmas has been very weird - trying to make it as Christmassy as possible despite it very much not being so, and feeling my social battery totally zapped from navigating it all. So shout out to everyone for getting through Christmas, especially if it was a tough one for you this year.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Every time someone in a film or TV show says 'fire at will!', me, my brother, and my dad go 'oh no poor Will!'. If we're all together, it's a race to see who says it first.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Does anybody get the impression that Luna and Odin were excited about getting their Christmas Dinner?
Luna, a brindle Staffordshire Bull Terrier, sitting on the floor looking up excitedly with her ears splayed out, and Odin, an older blue Staffordshire Bull Terrier, looking up whilst propped on his hind legs next to her in a 'beg' position.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Gentle reminder today to anyone who needs it: you can celebrate today, (or any other day, if you prefer) in any way you like, or not at all. You don’t have to live up to anyone’s expectations of you. You deserve kindness.
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Just a reminder: you are NOT unusual, weird, or unlovable if you have: - no one to see on Christmas Day, - no presents, or - no contactable relatives. Very few people live the idealised version on TV. Those of us who live differently—whether by choice or trauma—matter as much.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Dog bless us, everyone.
Selfie of a Luna, a brindle Staffordshire Bull Terrier with her face close to the camera, sitting on the lap of a white woman in her early 30s, who is wearing a stitch christmas hat and pulling a funny smiling face.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I'm pleased to report that my brother and I are taking Christmas Dinner preparation very seriously.
A very tall white man with glasses, dark brown hair and a beard brandishing a stalk of sprouts like it's a  lightsaber.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Y'all it's worth remembering we just had a prolonged period of "the queers and transes must be nice to those in power" and the hellscape we're facing now is the result.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Christmas out-of-office is on, so cheers!* *goblet is filled with water due to Erin being boring
Selfie of me, a white woman in my early 30s wearing glasses, a knitted pikachu hat with bobbles, and an Avengers themed ugly christmas jumper. I'm holding up a Disney themed plastic goblet filled with clear liquid.
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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I keep seeing “person/ people with neurodiversity” and “neurodiverse individual” come up (e.g. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...). Why does this matter? Not only is it linguistically wrong, but it also means that autistic people are unintentionally “othered” again Neurodiversity INCLUDES US ALL
A poster describing how to use the word “neurodiverse” and stating:

- A person can’t “have neurodiversity” or “be neurodiverse”
- A person is either neurodivergent or neurotypical 
- A group can be neurodivergent, neurotypical or neurodiverse

“Neurodivergent” is a term that refers to people with “a mind that diverges from dominant cultural standards of neurocognitive functioning” (Nick Walker, PhD, queer autistic psychology professor). It was coined by Kassiane Asasumasu.

Neurodivergence includes (but isn’t limited to) conditions and “ways of being” such as autism, ADHD, dyslexia and epilepsy.
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Libby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk · 24/12/2024
Today would have been Brenda Howard's 78th birthday had she not sadly passed away in June 2005. We have a lot to thank her for. I came across this riso print while searching for a good photo of Brenda. www.whitepaperpen.com/art-shop/bre...
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Brenda Howard Bi Bi Bi by Rachael House — WHITE PAPER PEN
£15.00 Riso Print / Open Edition / Available in 2 colours. Size - A3 / 29.7cm x 42cm / Sold unframed. *Framing can be arranged. Please email for a quote.
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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
My autism makes going to the shops a few days before Christmas an absolute nightmare hellscape because of the sensory/social overload, but my ADHD makes going to the shops a few days before Christmas compulsory because I've predictably forgotten everything until the last minute 🙃
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