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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

If a book like mine would be helpful to you or someone you know, or if you'd just like to support me, both Queerly Autistic and it's follow-up, The Queerly Autistic Workbook, are available to buy, individually or as a special discounted bundle: uk.jkp.com/products/the...

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The Queerly Autistic Bundle

Available only on the JKP Store Affirming, inclusive and joyfully empowering, the Queerly Autistic Bundle brings together two essential books by autistic queer author Erin Ekins to support LGBTQIA+ au...

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Thank you BBC Essex for giving me space to talk about finding out that my book had been banned at a school in Manchester, and @indexoncensorship.org for blowing the whistle. As someone who grew up during Section 28, I'll never stop fighting for autistic teenagers' right to access books like mine.

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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

This moral crusade only hurts young people – particularly young autistic people. They deserve better than this.

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

We should all be deeply worried about these bans. When we deny young people access to information and knowledge, we are failing to give them the tools they need to safely navigate the world, particularly around identity, sexuality, gender, and sex.

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I want to thank ‘Emily’, the librarian at the heart of this story, for your work trying to make sure that your students have access to my book and others. I stand in solidarity with you against the harassment and abuse you have faced from the school.

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I will never apologise for the content in Queerly Autistic – particularly the chapter on sex and consent. This is the book I needed when I was younger. Many autistic young people, autistic adults, parents, and professionals, have told me how vital a resource it has been.

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Education on sex and sexuality is not a bad thing. It’s knowledge, and knowledge is power.

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It’s vital that autistic young people have access to clear, easy-to-understand information on sex, sexuality and consent, so they can safely figure out their own identities whilst being able to clearly identify abuse.

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I wrote Queerly Autistic as a guide for autistic young people. It includes clear and concise information on sex, what forms sex can take, and consent. Autistic people are more likely to identify as LGBTQIA+. They are also more likely to be the victims of exploitation and abuse.

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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

They have never cared. And, like I said, this isn't news to a lot of us. We already knew this. But it will be an educational and radicalising moment for some, so let it be that. Do not put your trust in corporations and companies. They aren't here for us. WE have to be here for us.

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I don't care how many times they put up a Pride flag, or kneel, or advertise that they're a disabled friendly employer. The moment force is removed, or they think they can make a profit without being inclusive, then they will drop all pretence and happily regress, because they DO NOT CARE.

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Inclusivity within most corporations has come from one of either two things: force (ie. it's the fucking law) or profit-incentive (ie. they think it benefits their margins and shareholders to appear to be more progressive). But this shit isn't honest, isn't genuine, and it isn't baked in. Ever.

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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 🏳️‍⚧️♿ $0/$1800 @wylder.myatproto.social · 08/02/2025

Disabled trans/queer artist couple need community support w urgent dental needs, getting a car & finding housing. Bread linktr.ee/wylder PayPal.me/WyldWish Cash.app/$WishMage Venmo.com/u/WishMage Roses linktr.ee/wyldwish Whimsy www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... Surprise www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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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#HelpFolksLive2025 #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest
#HelpSky #CommunityAid #CommunityAidRequest
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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.

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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

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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

My present-purchasing friends and family have never had an easier time 🤣

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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 · 10/01/2025

And if he is autistic (he probably is, autistic people can be terrible people just like non-autistic people can) his being an awful person isn't connected to his autism in any way. He's shit AND autistic, not shit because he's autistic.

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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

And, like, his awful behaviour isn't autism, it's awfulness. He has no issue endangering ANYONE, and that includes other autistic people.

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Thus endeth today's episode of 'Erin saw a random post that annoyed her and had to rant before she exploded', please carry on about your business.

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Autistic people can be awful (what do you know, autistic people are people), but 'awfulness' is not an autistic trait. And there have been plenty of awful people who did just fine being The Worst People Ever without being autistic.

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Erin Ekins (she/her) @queerlyautistic.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Being a power-hungry bigoted wealth hoarder who is actively trying to cause harm and make the world worse for their own advancement is not an 'autistic thing', even if the person in question IS also autistic, and these blanket statements harm every other autistic person way more than they harm Musk.

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