Dr Emma Sheppard

@emmas.bsky.social

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Sociologist, Aberystwyth. Critical disability studies. Overthinking trauma, bodies, pain, time, sexuality, crip rage, queer joy. Knitter, sewist, reptile herder, forever exhausted. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈 Compost the rich. https://linktr.ee/dremmasheppard

Irwin, an old and grumpy bearded dragon, sitting on the end of a bench. He is outside and it's a sunny day.
Hoops the greyhound, in a harness, standing on a patch of grass in front of a rocky beach. In the distance is a town in the sunshine and a green hill.
A small brown tortoise is just visible in amongst the greenery
A screenshot of Dwayne The Rock Johnson in an unidentified netflix show. He is wearing aviator sunglasses, a black rollneck jumper, and a brown leather jacket. Text reads: Dwayne Johnson is MICHEL FOUCAULT
Sam has stuck his head between the stair sides. he is a big ginger cat with a serious expression.
A view over an area with lots of trees - and sunshine. In the distance, the sea
Sam is a large ginger cat. He is standing on my chest, right in front of my face - my hair and forehead are behind his head
A fat ginger cat sitting in the middle of a sewing project - pieces of paper are laid out carefully on a long length of colourful fabric.
A pair of hand-knitted socks with a diamond pattern of ridged stitches. The socks are bright red-orange-yellow striped.
A very brightly coloured slide on a projector screen. It says "part two: sex"
A far too bright slide with graphic patterns. The text reads: part one asexuality.
Emma - a fat white woman with shoulder length pink hair and big glasses - standing in front of a screen which says "BDSM" and has a painting showing a gay leather bar on it
A small box turtle in her indoor home - and she looks annoyed (although this is her usual expression)
My hand, holding a plastic articulated shark fidget toy in shades of blue
A small grey cat perches on my lap between me and the keyboard.
A large orange cat, crouching in a doorway. He looks stubborn but nervous.
Bob, a small grey cat, sitting in a wire-fronted carrier, looking both stoned and annoyed
A chocolate bar labelled mecidinal
A small cat, curled up with his nose tucked under his tail
Text reads "me doing my silly little crafts trying to stay sane" - a man working the land in front of a boiling cloud of smoke and fire
A pair of hand-knitted socks in maroon and black stripes. The heels are black and have maroon hearts knitted into them
A cat sitting in front of a laptop. Which is on my lap. I cannot use the laptop
A wall with a lot of postcards. A lot of cards.
Information image from the CASPR website, with headshots of the three speakers and a website: criticalpainscholarship dot C A
Irwin the bearded dragon - a smallish yellow-grey-brown lizard with little spikes along the sides of his body and a big wedge-shaped head - sitting a path in my garden, between overgrown plants
Melvin the greyhound, lying in the corridor of a train, looking resigned and a bit bored.
A crocheted blanket in bright stripes, in a star shape
A large greyhound stretching his mouth out to take a piece of baked dough