Nicki Hastie

I've already given my Lego free run of the house. I'm almost out of space now, but I daren't bury any in the garden even if it would aid with storage. I'm too worried about the poor bricks getting cold.

Text Reads: I am seeking participants for research exploring ways to improve access to healthcare for LGBTQ+ people living with chronic illness in England. I am looking to speak to people who: are 18+ and live in England; identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer, or/and as part of the LGBTQ+ community; consider yourself to live with one or more chronic illness. What is involved? Taking part involves two online conversations (interviews) and a creative task. Your participation in the project can be spread over several weeks. Who is carrying out the research? I am a PhD student based at Liverpool Hope University. I am trans and bisexual and I live with multiple chronic illnesses. Interested? Please visit https://bit.ly/4hNcIx4 or email Vickery Stamp (he/him or they/them) at 17002702@hope.ac.uk for more information or to express interest The poster is illustrated with an image of a megaphone, a health zine and a set of coloured pencils.

A researcher is looking for participants to take part in research about improving access to healthcare for LGBTQ+ people living with chronic illness.

Please see the poster for more information. If you would like to participate, please email him directly 17002702@hope.ac.uk

#LGBTQResearch

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Boy do we have some exciting news… to everyone who’s been asking if we’re taking on new writers, the answer is finally yes!

We’re hiring! Sharpen your pencils, comedy writers - you have two weeks to perfect your applications to be our next freelancers!

Looking forward to Notts Pride tomorrow.

See you there! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Pride #Nottingham

I'm choosing Garden Birds.

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden.

#FridayReads

I love this. Thank you for making me smile (often), Moose.

I was proud to be able to adopt a couple of Snorp at the weekend, at Notts Trans Pride. I think they're settling in well, and they make me smile.

They are adorable small #ClayCreatures with large personalities. Please look out for them.
#Snorp

Very powerful. You are a fantastic writer, Elsa, and we need your words and we need your satire. We need all of you. Thank you for sharing.

I hope the powers that be are listening.

So glad I spotted this, reposted by someone else.

I've just booked to watch the livestream.

Great - thank you. I really appreciate the response and for pointing me to more LGBTQ+ content in the #AgeingWithPride series. Such important work you're doing.

Good to read about Lizzie.

Who's Lynn? Can I read Lynn's story too? 😃

For Women Scotland: a legal critique | Good Law Project April’s Supreme Court decision is being treated as the final word. But the judgment has introduced considerable uncertainty to the law, and some parts appear to set back the rights of trans people by ...

An exceptional analysis of some of the 🤯 errors in the Supreme Court Judgment.

Something has gone very wrong indeed.

(Published by kind permission of @translegalproject.bsky.social). goodlaw.social/nid3

Trans people are who they say they are.

If we allow people, even allies, to say that they are biologically not-that, then we are conceding a conceptual and rhetorical ground that we should not concede.

Thanks for another great news show @thedailytism.bsky.social

To everyone I know: Watch! Watch! Watch!

(That's three times at each of your favourite volume settings.)

Wow! Just wow!

This is far too close for comfort.

This also covers days that aren't annual leave but are supposed to be non-working days for those like me who are not quite full-time!

I've been gender non-conforming all my life. I'm tired of people harassing & questioning me when I use public toilet spaces.

I know best which bathroom to use!

Also: I now define my gender as a non-binary lesbian. Get used to it!

Solidarity with all trans people.

Trans rights are human rights.

'I'm LGBTQ+ and disabled - losing my benefits means I will lose my independence' 'If I lost my PIP, I simply lose my job.'

Got interviewed by @itsjoshmilton.bsky.social for the Metro. The article interviews disabled people on the impact of the UK governments proposed savage benefit cuts and looming policies of austerity metro.co.uk/2025/03/26/i...

The Chancellor said today that she would not do anything to put household finances in danger

Yet the government’s own assessment shows their cuts to health related benefits risk pushing 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children 📢

Their assessment also found... 1/3

This news day is going to shit, isn't it.

It feels like the most vulnerable people are being deliberately and cruelly targeted and denied the support and respect that keeps people alive.

Making hate and abuse the thing that’s protected tells us a lot about who we are. (Clue: really much more like those guys over the pond than we like to pretend!) As ever, the people who want to debate free speech just mean they want to use slurs.

Absolutely surreal that the university has been fined more than half a million for pro-inclusion policies that they *didn't even enforce*. Stock left because students *exercised their free speech* and it made her uncomfortable.

Queer Books With Neurodiverse Characters I've had a few people lately ask for queer book recommendations with neurodiverse characters. There are plenty out there, but it's often tricky to find them, especially if you're not sure where to sta...

It’s #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek so I’ve put together a short list of queer books with great neurodivergent protagonists and themes on our website - all of them with links, as well as the suggested reading age.

Read the full blog: www.proud-geek.co.uk/post/queer-b...

#booksky #NCW

Yes, I booked my ticket this afternoon for:

Intense Fascination: A Celebration of Autistic Creative Writing.

For others who want to go, it's on Saturday 29 March 2025, 9.30am - 5.30pm, online.

Tickets are £15 / £10 (concessions).

And see more here:
beyondthespectrum.uk/bts-writing-...

I'm going to resist this one. At almost 56 years of age, I'm starting to tell myself that I don't have to be the one who has to solve everything, although it's harder to let go of the worry that creates. The emotional baggage is packed in tight. Everything's a work in progress.

This was four years before my cancer was detected.

YouTube video by TrentAlumni 1in3 Day 2014 Flash mob for John van Geest Cancer Research Centre

Things I used to get up to:

Leading on the choreography for fundraising and awareness-raising flash mobs.

On this day in 2014:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ti2...

Autism in therapy: Monotropism, meditation and autistic flow.
River Marino with their chapter from 'On Being an Autistic Therapist', edited by Max Marnau @rabthecat.bsky.social and published by @pccsbooks.bsky.social.

Repost for your chance to win a copy!

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

#PsySciSky

This image has a grey background with a picture of a person. The black text reads: Activists and social change makers, Paris Lees. LGBT+ History Month founded by SCHOOLS OUT. Paris Lees is an English author, journalist, presenter and campaigner. She is the first trans columnist at Vogue and was the first trans woman to present shows on BBC Radio 1 and Channel 4. She topped The Independent on Sunday's 2013 Pink List, came second in the 2014 Rainbow List, and was awarded the Positive Role Model Award for LGBT in the 2012 National Diversity Awards. Her first book, What It Feels Like For A Girl, was published by Penguin in 2021. The book is a novel memoir based on Lees’ life aged 13 to 18, beginning in 2001.

This image has a grey background with a picture of a person. The black text reads: Activists and social change makers, Leila Zadeh. LGBT+ History Month founded by SCHOOLS OUT. Leila Zadeh previously worked at Frontline AIDS, Oxfam GB and ActionAid EU. She speaks English, Farsi/Persian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Leila came to the UK as part of a refugee family when she was 13 months old. She is currently Executive Director of Rainbow Migration. Rainbow Migration supports LGBTQI+ people through the asylum and immigration system. On 3rd February 2025, Leila wrote an article for Attitude Magazine titled “This LGBT+ History Month, let’s demand an end to LGBTQI+ Detention in the UK”.

This image has a grey background with a picture of a person. The black text reads: Activists and social change makers, Harvey Kennedy-Pitt. LGBT+ History Month founded by SCHOOLS OUT. Harvey Kennedy-Pitt is a globally educated scientist, educator, a community health equity strategist, and a thought leader with experience in science, healthcare, education, public health research, leadership, and management. As a public health leader, Harvey’s public health interests include addressing health disparities across communities of colour, particularly among those with racially and sexually minoritised identities. Harvey is the former CEO of Black Beetle Health.

This LGBT+ History Month, the Consortium Team have chosen five incredible activists and changemakers to highlight who have helped shape a more inclusive and just society:

💜 Paris Lees
💙 Leila Zadeh
💚 Harvey Kennedy-Pitt
💛 Fox Fisher
🧡 Reeta Loi

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OUTpatients - LGBTIQ+ Charity OUTpatients is the UK’s Only LGBTIQ+ Cancer Charity. Proudly Led by and for LGBTIQ+ People Affected by Cancer. We Work Hard to Support & Advocate for our Community.

OUTpatients offer support and info to LGBTIQ+ people impacted by cancer, they are involved in all sorts of work to improve cancer screening and care for LGBTIQ+ people, and they work to raise LGBTIQ+ people's awareness around the importance of cancer screening.

Take a look: