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Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social He/him | sometime historian of medicine (vaccination + smallpox) | museums + heritage | folk tales + music | resilient + empowered communities | climate action | anti-capitalist solutions | ever hopeful | rooted in rural Gloucestershire | owengower.co.uk
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Virginia @vedobleve.bsky.social “we are all someone else to someone else” -Calvin and Hobbes
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Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
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sj @saltydyke.bsky.social agender dyke | sick + mad
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KarenA @karenada59.bsky.social I am 60 years old autistic person diagnosed late enjoying graphic novels,bird watching, theatre.
Susan Rudy @susanrudy.bsky.social Academic & Writer | London & Wivenhoe | QMUL researcher | former creative writing teacher at Birkbeck and English Professor at University of Calgary | queer feminist theory | experimental writing
Chronically ill Artists Network @chronicallyillart.bsky.social Providing support, opportunities, information and advocacy for chronically ill artists and arts professional. Find out more and sign up to our newsletter at https://www.chronicallyillartistsnetwork.com/
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Imo @poetr-imi.bsky.social Poet | 24 | "A King’s Bones" (2022) published with Vole books. Disabled Poets Prize 2025, 2nd place for Best Single Poem.
https://bio.site/imogenmchugh
HSD + POTS + chronic fatigue + scoliosis + more!
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Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social 📸 Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera 📸
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Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social Daniel Rolph grew up in the UK foster care system, experiencing firsthand the challenges that come with it. Now, he's channelling those experiences into his debut novel, Shattered Paths
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YvoK (she/her) @yvokk.bsky.social Writer of Non-Fiction and Poetry 🖋️📚 Activist for Justice 💙 Chronic Illness (Long Covid ME/CFS) 😷 Cats 🐈🐈⬛ LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Paul Miller @graphicrust.bsky.social Socialism:
From each according to ability
To each according to need.
Fight injustice, prejudice, inequality & climate change
Hope not Hate
He/Him
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#DefendDemocracy
#NoMusicOnADeadPlanet
Royston Tester @enochjones.bsky.social Poems, short stories, rural SE Spain ... with animals
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/history/2018/08/ns-poem-grief
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/tester-royston
http://www.roystontester.com/about.html
Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social Darren Mark Skilton - Brighton & Hove. Left. Supporting activism, social action, and activist organisations. Collective Action.
Socialist. LGBTQIA+. Anti-facism. Anti-racism. Climate activism. Free Palestine. NHS. Love and Solidarity.
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social PhD Chelsea College of Arts. Work in: Partisan Hotel, gorse journal, Mercurius Magazine, Sublunary Editions, 3AM Magazine, Essence Press, Vanguard Readings. Chapbooks with Gordian Projects & Nightjar Press, book with Rossi Contemporary
Hannah - OT in Deaf mental health @hannahtheot.bsky.social NHS Occupational Therapist in Deaf mental health👋🏻 / she/her / BSL Level 6 🫶🏻/ hearing/ Disabled / Views my own 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Hannah Daisy @makedaisychains.bsky.social That #BoringSelfCare person from the other place
Author A.L. Norton @authoralnorton.bsky.social International, award-winning, bestselling author of over 33 books. Global award-winning book promoter. Owner of Readers Depot. Youtuber. Book Hoarder. #Autoimmune warrior. Married to Author Dell Sweet. #Disabled #childabusesurvivor #wolfpackauthor
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Supporting research, improving access, and creating fairly-paid, flexible, accessible work for disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent freelancers
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Gwenola Sueur @gwenolasueur.bsky.social Doctorante en sociologie | Université de Bretagne Occidentale | Parcours de mères, violence conjugale, territoires ruraux | Usages sociaux de l'"aliénation parentale" & du "contrôle coercitif"
https://gwenolasueur.wordpress.com
📩 gwenola.sueur@gmail.com
RestFest Film Festival @restfestfilmfest.bsky.social a virtual film/video festival & arts gathering space
📹 by/for Disabled, Deaf, chronically ill, neurodivergent, mentally ill and/or mad community
National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social Creating a lived experience-led mental health justice movement to fight harmful systems and build better alternatives. Become a member via our website: https://linktr.ee/NationalSurvivorUserNetwork
Survival mode💙 @equestrian34.bsky.social My animals own me 🐕🦺🐈
Domestic Violence Survivor
Multiple Sclerosis Warrior
It’s not about the cards you were dealt in life it’s how well you play your hand.
#Resist #pro-choice #dogs #cats #BlueCrew #Democrat
HEXENTEXTE @hexentexte.bsky.social image, text & the body
Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social Novelist. Poet. Reader.
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Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
Meduse @queerzero.bsky.social Psychotherapist • Artist
Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social Yorkshire based printmaker, tarot nerd, mad person and carer, passionate about disability rights, BSL and mad/crip/MMIND culture.
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David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social Cardiff poet. Best of the Net nominee. Author of two poetry collections - 'Spectrum of Flight' published in 2020 & 'Dawn's Incision' in 2024. Co-Poetry Editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Rowan Spray @rowanspray.bsky.social Botanical Fine Art Photographer London UK www.rowanspray.com
The Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social 📣Leading Conversations About #CSA Through Survivor-Led Training, Campaigning & Support
🌸Sophie Olson: Founder/activist/writer
📖Author of The Flying Child - A Cautionary Fairy Tale For Adults 🌸(ZunTold)
#TheFlyingChildStory #CSASurvivorSky
Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social Author. Poet. Podcaster @planetpoetry.bsky.social First full poetry collection 'The Mayday Diaries' Pindrop Press May 1st 2025. Sings in choirs. Yogi.
Alex Paterson @alexrjpaterson.bsky.social UK Charity Professional -
passionate about making the world better for tiny humans | LGBTQ+ champion🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | Infant mental health specialist, Early Years Teacher and Former Nursery Manager| Evidence, Impact and therapeutic approaches
David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
Podcast: https://milkweed.org/between-the-covers
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
Ruth Naughton-Doe @ruthndwrites.bsky.social Research Fellow at the Family Wellbeing Research Team @ Uni of York, UK. Perinatal mental health, loneliness, and addressing the social determinants of mental illness. Mum + lover of the outdoors. Views my own. http://lonelyparents.org
Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social Cultural worker/buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT. ANNAH, INFINITE out now ❤️🔥 Also wrote amuk, ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES, & I make art.
https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infinite/
Jen Wilbur @jenwilbur.bsky.social community curator and projects coordinator in arts and heritage 💫 they/them 🏳️⚧️
Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social Creative writer, content creator ,Linguist ,trainer, activist
Human Rights campaigner, Against all forms of violence against women & children
Interested in systems reform & healing from trauma & adversity in education & communities
Language Matters
Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social Consultant psychotherapist/ disability activist/ bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Worker, future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake ❤️🥄💜🎭🦓🥄🏳️🌈
#MadSky #TraumaNotPD #Disability #Neurodivergent #Mad https://t.co/83d2Ztwpp2
Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social 📚 Prof of Contemporary Literature & Theory.
🐈⬛ Poet, Londoner, ashtangi, beleaguered cat-feeder.
📕 Author of Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity.
Jessica Boatright @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social Creative Project Manager by day, writer by night. Advocate for the power of community and the arts. Big fan of sunsets!
Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Theatre goer, Music lover, Irishwoman abroad she/her
http://linktr.ee/SarahOCwrites
Rex @rexicus.bsky.social Design, metalsmithing, writing n that, Glasgow. They/them.
Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
https://amcreamer.net
DawniQ 🎨 @dawniq.bsky.social Your next door neighbour’s imaginary friend.
Former: Police / Private Investigator/ Award Winning Mental Health Campaigner
@quinonostante
Artist. Empath. Activist.
Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social Mum, trade unionist, lecturer, Ed D student | Chair of BCU UCU, Vice Chair West Mids UCU, UCU NEC | Social reproduction feminism, reproductive labour, education activism.
V tired.
S_Golightley @sgolightley.bsky.social Lecturer & ‘troubled teen industry' survivor-researcher. Mad Studies - Critical Disability Studies - Social Work. https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/golightleysarahdr/
Rachel Gadsden @rachelgadsden.bsky.social Rachel is a British visual & performance artist and disability culture activist, who exhibits and presents her work nationally and internationally. www.rachelgadsden.com
Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy Journalist, author, cat butler. I write about #Russia, the #Baltic states, and #Ukraine. I don't write about diatoms, I just think they're cool. Views own. Hi! :sp_bi:
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nat raha @fullnommunism.bsky.social poet & activist-scholar
📚 Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds @plutopress.bsky.social
📚 apparitions (nines), Nightboat Books
Queer.party/@fullnommunism
she/her- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Isidor @isidor.rs I make Extremely detailed music! Immerse yourself into my futuristic soundscapes, I am a boundarypushing synthwave producer at #NewRetroWave Your own music guide!
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new words {press} @newwordspress.bsky.social new words {press} is dedicated to the elevation of trans & gender-expansive voices. our focus is poetry, experimental poetry, & hybrid work. we publish a journal, chapbooks, books, & special projects.
Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social Academic. I research risk, emotions, social work/welfare, politics and democracy. Posts poetical, philosophical, trivial in equal measure. Lido fan.
David O'Flynn @docdof.bsky.social Psychiatrist & Curator
London
Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social 🔥Free Disability Zines🔥 https://linktr.ee/disabilityark
Disability: History, Politics, Media Analysis and more!
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Snowball @snowballcommunity.bsky.social
What’s is Snowball??…Think TripAdvisor for the disabled community.
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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social British Writer, speaker, artist, filmmaker, working class, queer, interested in disability & the madness that is given to us by the world. She/They
Dr Simon Crosbie @simon-books-art.bsky.social PhD: 'Trauma, dissociation and the boarding school experience'. Interested in art and psychoanalysis, trauma studies, art history, and cemeteries. Survivor of institutional abuse. No DMs. Opinions are my own.
Website: http://simon-crosbie.squarespace.com
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Misstreeladi @misstreeladi963.bsky.social 
Vijay Joshi @vjwords.bsky.social Poet...Poems are a very constructive channel for inner self, to link it with the world out there...
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetry #poem
Alive And Able @aliveandable.com Disabilities and Accessibility Advocacy
LUNG @lungtheatre.bsky.social Multi award winning, campaign-led arts charity. Resident Company at National Theatre. More of our work 👇
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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social Ⓐctivist Ⓐnthropology MAs + PhDs
🌍 Journal: https://jwsr.pitt.edu/
📕 Books: https://blog.pmpress.org/kairos/
🏴☠️ Lectures: https://www.ciis.edu/news/david-graeber-memorial-lectures
Buyera Bilal (CEO humanity and Lillah charity) @buyera.bsky.social Serving humanity through feeding the orphans and needy, constructing water wells, food packs, iftar meals, qurbani donations, emergency relief, Quran distribution, aqiqah and many others 📥+255780598366 for more information
Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.