Relational feminist psychotherapist • PhD • interested in politics and psychotherapy • passionate about ending domestic abuse against cis and trans women •
#ME and
#FND • Reproductive and Disability rights are human rights • she/her • Ⓥ •
Do you feel overwhelmed? Tired? Exhausted with the constant news cycle?
I want you to know: that's their goal.
They want you checked out. They want you burnt out. I get it. I feel it.
Take a break, but don't give up. When you give up, they win.
BRAND NEW 🍏 How Do You Like Them Apples? 🍎
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
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BONUS - How Do You Like Them Golden Apples?
This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded.
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
On
#BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.
I disagree.
RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
Nigel Farage wants to drag Britain down the same road as Trump’s America: chaos, division and fear. Our NHS, our rights and our communities are at risk. Do not let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.
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I wrote about Trump’s comments trivializing domestic violence, and tried to chart the parallels between his own theory of governance and the logic of abusers.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...I’ve never been more scared about the state of the world
Farage has gone to the US to tell them Britain is ”awful” - If you don’t like it over here Nigel maybe don’t catch a return flight?
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
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Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live
Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’
NOT a small part. A big, big, big part. I am a glorified audio stenographer, to these fabulous women.
Season Finale! I’m so proud to have been a small part of this podcast with my fellow experts. But the credit goes to
@sturdyalex.bsky.social who has worked incredibly hard and produced an outstanding podcast. He really is as lovely, inclusive, funny and clever as he comes across on his podcasts 💜
Sorry, but wtaf? This does absolutely nothing but ensure that even more people, including children, have to use irregular crossings, and blocks people who even this government have recognised are refugees from being with their families. This is utterly sickening from Labour. 1/
Season Finale! I’m so proud to have been a small part of this podcast with my fellow experts. But the credit goes to
@sturdyalex.bsky.social who has worked incredibly hard and produced an outstanding podcast. He really is as lovely, inclusive, funny and clever as he comes across on his podcasts 💜
🐍 MEDUSA - Here's Looking At You, Kid 🪦
Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.
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MEDUSA - Here's Looking at You, Kid
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 01/09/2025 · 1h 35m
🐍 MEDUSA - Here's Looking At You, Kid 🪦
Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.
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Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 01/09/2025 · 1h 35m
🚨 BREAKING: Russia has struck the EU delegation building in Kyiv.
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Fellow therapists: do you also feel uneasy with BetterHelp ads on every podcast?
I can’t identify the source of my concern but I’m aware of the criticisms (low pay/high caseloads, mismatch in client needs and therapist expertise)
Does it erode trust in
#therapy?
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Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage.
Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?
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Trump mentions NYC, Baltimore, and Oakland, says "they're so far gone," and adds, "this will go further. We'll starting very strongly with DC."
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#BREAKING | CNN’s Matthew Chance joins the Jordanian air force in a flight over Gaza and gets an aerial view of the widespread destruction caused by the Israeli military after almost two years of genocide war.
This is despite Israeli limitations on recording Gaza
obviously that was incoherent because I'm angry, anyway I saw this on Cambridge Heath Road yesterday and thought it was nice
🆕 The fault, dear POTUS, is not in our stats 📉
@pimlicat.bsky.social &
@sturdyalex.bsky.social welcome back sage
@brianklaas.bsky.social.
🗡️ Is MAGA beginning to turn on Trump?
😫 Why is the British far right SO WHINEY?
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The fault, dear POTUS, is not in our stats
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 07/08/2025 · 1h 10m
@decodemestudy.bsky.social found eight genetic signals linked to
#MECFS They show differences in immune and nervous system function, and how the body responds to infection. This indicates immunological and neurological causes.
ME is real. We are ill.
#DecodeME
www.decodeme.org.uk 
Initial DecodeME DNA Results - DecodeME
06 August 2025 The DecodeME team is delighted to announce that the initial analysis of 15,579 DNA samples is complete, and we have important news to share. Main findings from our analysis Your genes ...
God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.
Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers
Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time
Another wonderful episode of
@alexpodyssey.bsky.social
Although I am a contributor, I am an avid listener too and it’s a real treat to hear the whole episode and expand my own understanding. Alex beautifully shows us how and why the Greeks myths are still alive today.
🆕 AESOP II: A dolphin and a seagull were hurling insults at each other 🐬
Is truth a set of facts? Might something fake be authentic? Can you contruct a truth out of lies? And why are unreliable narrators more compelling?
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8. AESOP II - A dolphin and a seagull were hurling insults at each other
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 26/07/2025 · 1h 13m
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
I’ve worked as a trauma psychotherapist with refugees who experienced war, torture and sex trafficking.
I’ve heard stories of what happens to civilians during war and more methods of torture than I thought possible.
Without doubt: shooting starving people in search of aid is a form of torture.
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On International Non-Binary People’s Day, Liberal Democrats are proud to stand with and celebrate non-binary people in the UK and all around the world.
We will keep fighting until we can finally build a society where everyone is free to be who they are.
July is
#DisabilityPride Month. The social model of
#Disability holds that disability doesn’t reside in the body, but is shaped by the world’s refusal to include us.
Practical provisions, compassion and justice are not extras, they are entry points to belonging.
#InvisibleDisabilities #MECFS #FNDFirst disabled adults, now children with SEND…. Great article by
@johnharris1969.bsky.social 👏
“Labour needs to stop sowing fear and dread among people whose lives are already full of those things”.
I’m done with
#Labour
#SEND #Disability #DisabilityRights
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After disability benefits, is Labour really about to target the educational rights of special needs children? | John Harris
Noise has been building about restricting help for kids who badly need it. As a special needs parent, I can tell you: it’s terrifying, says Guardian columnist John Harris
Good discussion on re: 16-26y/o attitudes re: democracy. Interest in autocracy may stem from lacking autonomy or hope for the future, thus wanting “strong” leaders to ‘fix’ things. The scared inner child and rebellious inner child working in sync perhaps?
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Sunday School: Not Another One!
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 06/07/2025 · 56m
⬆️ Also applicable to adults too, hence Trump and Brexit et al.
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Sad to hear Starmer cite changing the Labour Party as one of his major achievements. Sure, it's changed, in so far as everyone in it feels alienated and drained of hope but it's not very classy to brag about that.
Downbeat Liz Kendall acts as if even she no longer believes in welfare reforms | John Crace
A mauling by MPs the day before took its toll on the work and pensions secretary amid yet more concessions to placate Labour rebels
July is Disability Pride Month. It’s a time to celebrate identity, community, and resistance. Amid ongoing welfare reforms that too often devalue disabled lives, our visibility is not just important, it’s necessary.
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The Government (first Tories, now Labour) delays a vital report in
#MECFS yet again—calling it a “distraction” from its 10-year NHS plan. But without addressing chronic illness, what are we really planning for?
#ChronicIllness #Disability #InvisibleIllness #DisabilityJustice
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I previously wrote to my MP about the proposed
#PIP changes.
My MP hasn’t joined colleagues in speaking out against the proposals. I’ve followed up to ask why. If your MP is silent too, I urge you to write.
Our voices matter. Our lives matter.
#Disability #PIPReforms #labour #WelfarenotWarfare🚨 Joint statement: Unacceptable “concessions” on the disability cuts MUST be rejected.
Signed by
@justtreatment.org,
@nsunnews.bsky.social,
@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social, Crips against Cuts, Mad Youth Organise and Taking the PIP.
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#chronicillness and guilt are constant companions. Especially when we have to say “no”: to family, friends, work & ourselves. Remember: no is a full sentence. No need to explain or apologise. Your life isn’t an apology.
#disability #chronicillness #neis #MECFS #FND #WelfareNotWarfare
Keep piling pressure on MPs not to vote for disability benefit cuts. Flood their post bags & email in boxes
They vote for cuts organise in your area show electorate what they voted on & hold that MP to account - that they won’t be forgiven for it & disabled people won’t forget
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This is incredible and a breakthrough the
#MECFS community have been waiting for. I just hope this will begin to de-stigmatise the condition and the erroneous perception it’s psychological.
#ME #longcovid #neis #chronicillness #disability
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I want to see non-disabled people shouting about the disability benefit cuts. If you spoke out about trans rights, abortion rights, or migrant rights in recent weeks? Good on you! If you aren’t doing the same for disabled people, ask yourself why.
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