Five years ago I started working in my first book proposal.
Three years ago today, I signed my book deal for Outrage.
A year ago it came out in hardback.
It’s out now in paperback & is Indie Book Of The Month.
Books are not quick things - writing takes time & publishing takes even longer.
So many people in my situation wouldn’t have been able to go to social media & then had the story picked up by mainstream media.
They wouldn’t have been able to do the FOI / EIR / SAR process to get the paperwork.
Many would have believed the council’s emails which were so awful they made me cry.
Woke up this morning to the news that the Times’ investigation into Thanet District Council’s failures as a freeholder is the most popular story across the entirety of The Times.
Do you think they might hold their hands up and apologise yet?
Hey @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social - given I have paid for visitors parking and am parked in the visitors spot (and the passes are virtual, not physical) how come you’ve given me a PCN?
A study of nearly 2.5 million children in Sweden last year found no causal link between exposure to paracetamol and the risk of autism.
What the data says, in some ways, won't matter. Trump, RFK Jr and all of the MAGA lot have no vested interest in truth and they never have.
Tonight, Trump and RFK Jr will announce that folinic acid (leucovorin) is a 'treatment' or 'cure' for autism.
Dr Oz was made Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Guess whose business bought in a load of folinic acid to sell?
Is it Dr Oz's?! Yes, of course it is.
The autistic community have been here before, with the pervasive myth that vaccines caused autism.
Do you know what that caused? Dead children, killed by preventable diseases because people were so scared of their children becoming autistic, or otherwise subjected to ‘cures’ like drinking bleach.
Tomorrow Trump will announce the ‘cause’ of autism, something he says is ‘out of control’. He also doesn’t care if (read: that) what he says is wrong.
Autism isn’t out of control, but ableism is.
Autism isn’t out of control, but eugenics are.
The decision by M&S to apologise to transphobes legitimises their bigotry and essentially tells all staff and customers they are not safe in their stores.
Transphobes won’t be happy until trans people are eradicated from public life and will punish them for doing their jobs effectively, even
/3
His wife was recovering from an operation and he needed to get some bras that she could wear while she recovered. I remember really worrying for him as a customer that because of anti trans sentiment he might be put at risk.
Unfortunately it seems neither staff nor customers are safe in M&S
/2
On Saturday, before the headlines about the trans employee doing her job and offering customer service, I was in a M&S bra department and there was a man there buying bras.
At one point he came over and asked me for help thinking I worked there
/1
People ask me how I'm managing my hypermobility.
So far, I've been told:
- 'you're not even hypermobile' from every male physio, rheum who was a woman was aghast
- 'you're just drug seeking' by the pain management nurse
- 'have you tried going on the pill?'
- 'have you tried losing weight?'
It didn't occur to me that when people are complaining about queuing, they're complaining about the time being wasted and not in fact the agonising physical pain caused by standing still.
Like, what?! Standing still isn't supposed to hurt? No one told me this!
Yes - paperbacks pretty much always come out a year after hardback and I'm currently working on the edits
Soz. Opposite of a holiday read 😂
“Indeed, the average amount for those who had incurred costs associated with their transition was £6,573. Facial feminisation surgery (FFS) is not currently available on the NHS, despite being one of the surgeries trans women and trans feminine people most often seek. This is one of the reasons the average surgery costs for trans women and people on the trans feminine spectrum were significantly higher at £17,276, compared to £7,518 for trans masculine respondents. Stories of trans people skipping meals to pay for medication are not uncommon. Put simply, the system in the UK is such that trans people are being put into a terrifying predicament: either pay or risk your wellbeing and material safety on a day-to-day basis. As a result, it is often only wealthy or otherwise privileged trans people who are able to transition.”
Thought I was pretty well-versed in how horrific things are across the community: @ellenjones.bsky.social keeps reminding me of my ignorance every other page. SEVENTEEN GRAND?! Who has that kind of money?!
Snip taken from p118 of Outrage (Bluebird, 2025) which you should borrow or buy RIGHT NOW 🔥
Thank you Nic! Please leave a review in the usual places if you haven't already :)
In a world that actively makes disabled people feel like a burden - including through the removal of essential disability benefits - the passing of the Assisted Dying vote today is devastating.
Me: Do you like swimming?
@lucywebster.bsky.social: I like swimming in five star hotels in hot countries.
I ended up in A&E on Friday night after becoming very, very unwell and we know I was very, very unwell because I wasn't even enthusiastic about the concept of a Doctor Who finale.
Me. Not enthusiastic about a Doctor Who finale.
I might as well have been kidnapped.
It should now be fixed!
Starting Pansy Studios a month ago was such an exercise in proving that actually, I am exceptionally good at what I do.
Just because LGBTQ+ talent (and indeed disabled talent) like me is being systematically deprioritised and devalued, it doesn't mean my work is lesser.
Anyway, hire me. I'm ace.
In 24 hours I've managed to secure coverage of the first production of Twelfth Night by an all trans and non-binary cast & director in Broadway World, The Telegraph, Attitude, Them, Playbill, Metro, Pink News, The Evening Standard and even GB news (points for even getting them to mention trans joy).
So proud to be doing the press, marketing & PR for this ✨
I say it all of the time but if you need a problem solved, ask a disabled person. We're full time problem-solvers because an inaccessible world is a full-time problem.
I never see it on screen, except in a 'disabled people have superpowers' way. We don't, we're just adept at fighting injustice.
As a disabled writer, nothing brought me more joy than watching this week's Doctor Who episode in which disabled people - and specifically disabled community - are the ones with the clarity and organisation to try to bring down a harmful system.
If you’re a bookshop or library wanting to cover LGBTQ+ equality right now and giving people tools can I recommended 1. Stocking my book Outrage and 2. Inviting me to speak
I panic about not having done enough book events all the time. But then I remember I’m literally disabled.