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...

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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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.

Nik Sunil Williams@nikwilliams.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

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.”

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.

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.

Erin Ekins (she/her)@queerlyautistic.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

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.

Dr. Amy, PsyD@dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · last yr.

Actually. Why am I responding to someone who would entertain this nonsense? Blocked, but here’s the info for anyone else who wants to block someone who’s spewing misinformation about vaccines and autism.

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.

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.

Eb@ebthen.bsky.social · last yr.

I don't know how to get this through to people. If you want to help people who are being targeted and don't have a ton of power, you also have to change your hearts and your deepest biases and attitudes, like that some mental health-related labels are okay to use as insults. You have to stop that.

(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?

Eb@ebthen.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

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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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

'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.

Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · last yr.

Ministers appear to be set to announce cuts to a flagship disability employment scheme, just as the government is trying to push more disabled people towards the workplace.

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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.

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

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

Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · last yr.

Ministers appear to be set to announce cuts to a flagship disability employment scheme, just as the government is trying to push more disabled people towards the workplace.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Talia "Pre-Order CALL ME KIMBERLY" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · last yr.

We have enough validity right now, but what cis folks CAN actually do: - Contribute to GFMs for trans care and travel (we are a very impoverished demographic!) - Help a trans person get a job - Help a trans person move - Vocally oppose anti-trans legislation (yell at reps, not random bigots online!

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.

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

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!

Want to make friends when you're autistic but also want to be on your own is hard actually.

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.

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.

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...

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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When you have TWO assistants with you as you work, and they are BOTH slacking.