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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Depressing that my first thought on hearing about the twin transphobes was just "oh ffs not another one"
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midgieeeek! @midgie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ever touched a cat? they’re great. very soft
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Very excited to be a speaker @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social this weekend! See you in the fields?
SCM Young Voices
The Student Christian Movement Young Voices panel features four Voices from Young theologians. We've asked them what their generation needs to be saying abd what the rest off us need to be hearing. Sorrel Christian Eyres  The Body of the Church as Didabled: Lessons from a Crip Christian. Sorrel Christian views the 21st-century UK church as a disabled body, and explores what radical acceptance can do for the life of the church. Megan Thomas. Love beyond borders: Abolition and Christianity.  This talk will reflect on how Jesus looked to the margins, and will challenge listeners to consider how we, as Christians, treat the ostracised
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Saint Columba's URC Oxford @saintcolumbas.org · 01/04/2026
Hello @oxfordclarion.bsky.social we thought you might like to see Monty the Donkey on his way to his ecumenical visit to St Columba's @urc.org.uk last Sunday. We understand he has a bit of a soft spot for us inclusive and affirming non-conformists as well as for other churches.
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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Plans are a-go for our National Gathering, Do Good To Those Who Hate You: How do we love our far-right neighbour, taking place this June at Leeds Universities Chaplaincy! Book your place at buff.ly/BhqgAj1
10.30: Drinks and chat

11.00: Intro from Naomi Nixon

11.15: Theological Reflection from Rachel Muers

11.45: Keynote with Bishop Arun Arora

12.45: Worship led by SCM Communities

13:00: Lunch

14:00: Workshops
Option 1: Seeking Sanctuary with Ben Bano 
Option 2: Craftivism with Emma Temple
15:00: Bible Study with Richard Cooke
16:00: Drink break
16:30: Theological Reflection from Rachel Muers
16:45: Closing worship with SCM Communities
17:00: End
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Preparing to celebrate my graduation by, you guessed it, sending an email about disabled access. This is frustrating, but entirely in keeping with my experience of Oxford while studying....
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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Come do a course on trans theology at the @londonjesuit.bsky.social! You genuinely won't get the opportunity anywhere else!* 5 weeks, Monday evenings, starting 8th June *to the best of my knowledge londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/4kgas...
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An Introduction to Trans Theology (08-Jun-2026)
Course overview  This course introduces students to the growing field of trans theology. Beginning with the origins of the field as it developed out of feminist theology in the early 2000s, we will se...
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Beth Kitson @drbethkitson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
“Seriously ill and disabled people facing years of significant difficulty are at risk of being left on a lower rate simply because recovery, however partial or distant, cannot be ruled out.”
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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Hi, on this #TDOV, I’m Rachel … the first out trans priest in a senior role in the Church of England. I am also a writer, award-winning poet and theologian, and a broadcaster. Being trans is great, ordinary, and frankly not the most interesting thing about me. I love being me! #TransDayOfVisibility
Portrait of RM at Winchester Cathedral
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Iva 🐛 @ivathehuman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Silly cat drawings (Had an accident with blue ink)
Ink drawings of cats wearing silly costumes

On the top we have three clown/jesters, and on the bottom is a king and a mage levitating a fish in the air
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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 15/01/2026
Eye-popping report on the Disability Confident badge: "With no strict audit, and only self-certification until Level 3, there is no guarantee employers have implemented the practices they claim to have done, or actually employed anyone disabled." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Disability Confident scheme changes don't go far enough, campaigners say
Charities say employers will still be able to certify themselves without employing
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Quite pleased with this article - always remember, Piss on Pity. Especially in the church. tinyurl.com/33bn5crw
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“Piss on Pity”: A rejection of the charity model in the church for the thirtieth anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. - St James's Church Piccadilly
Find out what's going on at St James's Piccadilly by reading our news posts, listening to podcasts and watching videos.
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Told the tesco man I'm disabled today, gestured to the wheelchair. He brought the crates through to the kitchen, yay! His voice also rose an octave and stayed there, nay!
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Emily @becausechaucer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I have been confronted with an ad for Advent calendars and so it is time for the annual PSA: THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN ON CHRISTMAS THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS THAT IS ADVENT WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I love when you ask an autistic person for something and they're like STAND BY and you know you're about to get the absolute best resources available.
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Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Over 25 years ago I wrote a poem titled 'So Here We Are' after spending a week with the Iona Community. Our week was led by the late, great Kathy Galloway. We were a group of LGBTQ Christians and being with a whole bunch of folk like me was powerful, joyous and formative.
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JPuddlegoose @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Powerful letter from Clare Herbert in today's Church Times
Image: screenshot of letter in newspaper. Text reads: 

Bishops’ decisions on LLF process

From the Revd Dr Clare Herbert

Madam, — I have spent my working life in ministry in the Church of England, as parish worker, deaconess, deacon, and priest. I am now in my seventies.

I can, therefore, remember, at the very start of my ministry, the cry of the late Dr Una Kroll, which she hurled from the gallery of the General Synod, when in 1978 progress towards the ordination of women to the priesthood was halted. Her cry was of rage and beseeching: “We asked for bread, and you gave us a stone.”

So, I recognised the cold, hard stone in my own heart when I read this week that the House of Bishops (News, 17 October) had decided that there should be no immediate change to the current rules that bar the clergy from being in same-sex civil marriages. It is that stone in the pitof the stomach which is formed by the pain of knowing that a cry for equality has gone unheard.

On 31 May, I married my partner of 35 years. Surrounded by joyful witnesses to our enduring love, my partner became my wife in a Quaker marriage ceremony. In retirement, I have become a “Quanglican”: that is, one who gladly attends Anglican services and Quaker meetings for worship. My wife is a Quaker, and, in the Religious Society of Friends, I have experienced a profound sense of freedom, affirmation, and openness such as I have never known before.

My personhood and closest relationship were celebrated that day in a fullness to which I continue to respond with gratitude, joy, love, and the desire to continue serving the God who made me.

We in the lesbian and gay community may choose to pick up and live with the heavy, joyless stones imposed on our heads and hearts by an unresponsive Church. But it is important to recognise that we do not have to do so in obedience to God. I have discovered the God who is a Giver of Bread.
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The single biggest thing that would improve my life as a wheelchair user who can't drive would be a reliable, regular, and reasonably priced public transport system. If it were actually properly accessible that would also be nice.
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I learned something new today
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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I am feeling deeply frustrated with the phrase "a person has deeply held religious beliefs" being code for being transphobic or gender critical. I have deeply held religious beliefs, but I'm (mostly) normal.
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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🎉 Meet Aryam! Aroace + queer Kuwaiti refugee, writer, poet + community organiser with a focus on Domestic Violence + decoloniality. Excited to share her story for Ace & Faith 💜🩶 📅 22 Oct, 7:30–9:30pm, online 🔗 Free sign-up: buff.ly/BY4h37F More panellists coming soon! 👀
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I love my job, but is biting my tongue through the "disability awareness" part of the EDI training just something I have to do now?
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Star Rose ⭐️🏳️‍⚧️ @thebratqueen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
They're making the sunsets transgender!
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Map lovers, may I recommend East Riddlesden Hall? They have an excellent 17th C map of Canaan with annotations from the Old Testament. And they let me use a special torch to read it all.
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WobblyGoose/Dr Rachel @wobblygoose.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Postcards and prints are available! Postcards from @newcastlecathedral and online Original prints available online via my website www.wobblygoose.com Sadly it isn't possible to ship to the EU at present due to the new regulations
An array of postcards featuring lino print images of Disabled Christ fanned out on a wooden bencha lino print of Blind Christ leading a sighted disciple through the fog, printed in dark blue ink on white paper
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I bought a Merton College Oxford jumper for the express purpose of wearing to medical appointments. Consultants have frequently taken me more seriously after I've mentioned studying there.
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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Swipe for an update on our Disability Campaign group from SCM Member Sorrel! ➡️ If you're a student who is passionate about social justice, DM us to join our Disability Rights Campaign WhatsApp 💌
If one part suffers, the other parts suffer with it: An update on the SCM Disability Campaigns Group. "In SCM we have many disabled members, as well as members who are carers. We are also, as a movement, inspired to work for social justice. To this end, we recently created a Disability Rights Campaign group. Our original aim for the group was to campaign against the PIP and Universal Credit bill that was proposed to significantly reduce support available to disabled people, but I hope that we can continue to work as a group to support each other and to work on other causes as they come up." At the bottom of the page are two simple illustrations, one showing a brown woman with a prosthetic leg pushing another brown woman in a wheelchair. The other illustration shows two pale yellow people using a megaphone and shaking their fists."Over the last few months, before the now-renamed Universal Credit bill was passed, we worked together to write two open letters, to Liz Kendall (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) and Rachel Reeves (Chancellor of the Exchequer). We explained our concerns about the Green Paper released in advance of the bill, and our objections to the proposed bill itself, in both practical and faith-based terms. We also shared some personal stories from members regarding how the proposed cuts would affect us." Two illustrations show a "hidden disabilities" lanyard, and two pale pink people holding a placard and a megaphone. They look to be on a protest.We are glad that the small part we played in the overall campaign against the cuts has contributed to the changes to PIP being removed from the bill and set to be reviewed. However, we are disappointed and concerned that the cuts for new disabled claimants of Universal Credit were passed, as this will seriously impact some of the most vulnerable disabled people and families in our society.  Personally, I’m very glad that we have been able to bring this campaign group together, and I hope we will continue to live out our faith through working to support each other and disabled people more generally.  Sorrel - SCM Member
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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
What does community mean to you? 🤔
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Mother: I've never known anyone have as much admin to do as you! Me, mentally totting up tasks: mm it's called being disabled
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Rachel Firth @canonrachel.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
What a wonderful moment in #Synod .The terrible "Issues in Human Sexuality" document has been consigned to the recycling bin with huge support across the Synod, in all Houses and constituencies. Glimmers of hope.
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
After 6 years and many changes, got a 2:i in my BA in French and Spanish from Oxford! Celebrated with a very very soggy hike
Rainy Cumbria hills. Sorrel is in their powerchair with their back to the camera, waterproof hood up, looking at the viewpoint maps of the hills. Probably to no avail, given the mist and general lack of visibility.
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Enjoying reverting to home education pre-exam syllabi. Today I've done German grammar, piano (hymn practice), recorder practice, and started a French novel that nobody is expecting me to write an essay about
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Been a while since painsomnia. My crime? Getting too invested in scrubbing the sink and standing for wayyy too long
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
If I didn't already have a job next year I'd definitely be applying - SCM is a wonderful organisation and the faith in action worker will do great work supporting progressive Christian students in the UK
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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
📢 COME AND JOIN OUR TEAM!! 📢 Are you a recent graduate who wants to make a difference to the lives of students and equip them to put their faith into action? 👀 SCM is looking to appoint a Faith in Action Project Worker to join our small and dynamic staff team!! Find out more: buff.ly/3u8MiFM 🫶
A photo of staff member Phoebe at Greenbelt last year holding an SCM banner and smiling at the camera.
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Welfare reform bill aka terrifying and unfair cuts for disabled ppl passed to committee stage, and on the 1st of Disability Pride Month no less. Possibly with concessions on the 4 point rule, but none of that is actually on paper, just promised. Aaaarghhhhhhh.
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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
new accessibility legislation just dropped (into force)
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Finishing my degree means lying in my childhood bedroom reading old story books. Possibly for longer than intended because the stairlift is playing up, but I'm cool with that
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Dear @teamlabouruk.bsky.social MPs, We need you to sign the amendment. You cannot, in good conscience, vote for a Green Paper that will affect—quite literally—millions of the most vulnerable people in the country without an Impact Assessment. Work with us. Please sign now. Thanks, Everyone
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is huge! A human rights tribunal found that employers must accommodate remote work for immunocompromised employees Remote work accommodations are something disabled people have needed for decades Covid showed us it’s possible, but ableism & discrimination took it away We all need this right
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Employer required to accommodate immunocompromised employees during communicable disease outbreaks
Measles outbreaks raise issue of accommodation similar to COVID-19
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
BREAKING - I understand a large number of MPs - potentially 80+ and including select committee chair are signing a reasoned amendment to the welfare bill which declines to give it a second reading
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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Fuck the Labour Party, and fuck the Labour Government too. Disabled people aren't some fringe interest group, we're a quarter of the sodding population, and the standpoint that constitutes the perspective prioritising our interests produces insights that matter not just to us, but to everyone.
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Two disabled leaders have quit the “stakeholder network” set up to ensure that the voices of disabled people are at the heart of the government’s work, after months – and even years – of “inertia” and a failure to respond to their input. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/two-members-...
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Two members quit government’s ‘tokenistic’ network because Disability Unit is ignoring disabled people
Two disabled leaders have quit the “stakeholder network” set up to ensure that the voices of disabled people are at the heart of the government’s work, after months – and even years – of “inertia” …
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
A tribunal has allowed ministers to continue to hide vital information from scores of secret reports into deaths of universal credit claimants, just as they publish a new bill that will have a major impact on the working-age benefits system. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tribunal-all...
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Tribunal allows DWP to continue to hide information from secret reviews into universal credit deaths
A tribunal has allowed ministers to continue to hide vital information from scores of secret reports into deaths of universal credit claimants, just as they publish a new bill that will have a majo…
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Please. If you're non-disabled/ unaffected, please please please at the very least email your MP. If you're disabled/ affected, I love you, keep fighting, and (if I know you) you can always dm me for support
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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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PIP cuts mapped: The worst-hit areas as more than 1.3m could lose support
Some of the UK’s most deprived areas stand to lose out the most, new data reveals
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Sorrel-Christian @storiesofsorrel.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Last night in college and I managed to trip my electrics... honestly on-brand
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Hannah Valerie @eckerusla.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Sharing the wonderful icon "Refugees: La Sagrada Familia" by @klicons.bsky.social for #WorldRefugeeDay. #RefugeeWeek
Portrait: icon of the Holy Family fleeing at night. They are depicted in modern clothing and have halos. Joseph (wearing a black backpack) leads the way, and just behind is Mary (with a red bag clutched in each hand), carrying Jesus in a purple sling. All three look afraid.
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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Come and fill out the EHRC consultation with the Trans* Theology Group! Wednesday 25th June, 7.30pm - 9pm. Open to all SCM members and those eligible for membership. Email transtheologygroup@movement.org.uk for the Zoom link.
Come fill out the EHRC consultation with the Trans Theology Group! An illustration of a cartoon-like character standing next to a form.The end of this month is the deadline to fill in the public consultation in response to the EHRC and their guidance based on the Supreme Court ruling. This task is quite intimidating and the form is designed to be difficult to go through, so next week the Trans* Theology Group are hosting a social zoom call where folks can come and join us to fill in the form in a safe, comforting and happy environment.

We will have some resources available to help folks in filling out the questions, and will be able to support each other in the process.Wednesday 25th of June, 7.30 'til 9 on our usual zoom link! email transtheologygroup@movement.org.uk. Trans rights are human rights.
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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
If you can't join us in person, join us online! We'll be livestreaming talks at 11.20, 12.20, and 15.30 this Saturday at our National Gathering. Don't forget to click the bell to be notified when we go live: buff.ly/dUntXfS
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