Ange Harker 🦻🦇🤘🥾

We're gearing up for Seafest tomorrow at St Bees beach, who's coming along? 🌊🦑🦭🐚🌞

Register to join us here (it's free!) 👇
https://bit.ly/SeaFest2025

You can also just pop along tomorrow between 10am and 4pm if you're not sure of your plans just yet!

Oooh, a rare & precious chance to get the splendid Ange Harker's autograph! Plus apparently you get a wonderful guidebook packed with potential adventures on the newest national path, thrown in at no extra charge.

Haha thanks Nicola! 😁

Waterstones graphic showing special offer details and the covers of the three books.

25% off selected pre-orders at @waterstones.bsky.social till Thursday - inc. #WalkingTheKCIIIECPNorthWest & 2 other #Cicerone guides for the #PeakDistrict by @andrewmccloy.bsky.social & South #Devon by #HollyScrivener!

Use code SUMMER25 by end of Thursday: linktr.ee/ange_harker

#WPreorder

Photo of Sam Read Bookseller in Grasmere

A wide beach shot with low waves trickling across the sand towards dunes and distant buildings

A group of people walk along a wooded and grassed clifftop path above golden sands

Cover of the guidebook

Pleased to announce that all pre-orders of my #Cicerone Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West guidebook from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social will be signed!! ✍️

You can find the Sam Read website via linktr.ee/ange_harker & at www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-...

#KCIIIECP

Breaking news for Cumbria Literary Culture! @postalpathsguy.bsky.social accused of knocking off The Salt Path!

@thetimes.com - Alan Cleaver is a true original and does meticulous research on the places & people he writes about. Let's make #ThePostalPaths a bestseller instead!

archive.ph/7z9PD

So proud of @catmitchell17.bsky.social and @pennyauthor.bsky.social for making a #Disability focus issue of @thebookseller.com happen after 3 years hiatus. So heartening to see such brilliant books by disabled, D/deaf, neurodivergent writers being published across genres, as in my preview. #BookSky

Hello! Publishers! Writers! I have everything that's been submitted for this and there's c. 20 books over the entire year, not including the few I know about which didn't get submitted through @thebookseller.com, and NO poetry at all? I know there are more books by disabled writers coming than this!

Map section showing Ilton-Cum-Pott parish (and the nearby Shortlick Well and Shortlick Hill)

Cripes, that’s a bit bigger than my local repository #IltonCumPott #ShortlickWell

A white gallery space with an artwork on the wall and two wooden structures with bells hanging from them in the foreground. Dark blue text reads: Towards New Worlds Exhibition Opening, Wednesday 21st May 2025, 2pm, Online, Free

Join Disability Arts Online as we launch Towards New Worlds Digital, the pilot exhibition for our new online gallery space dis_place.

📆21 May
📍Online
💷Free

disabilityarts.online/events/towar...

A beginner's guide to map reading.

Click the images to find four lines on an OS Explorer map which you are legally allowed to walk on...

@ordnancesurvey.bsky.social

Missed all the walks again but hoping to pop in to the community day tomorrow morning! 🐦

Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong!

We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science

(you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)

Image shows a copy of The Edge of Solitude by Katie Hale in paperback. The cover shows a turquoise iceberg in a blue-purple sea, with a pink and purple sunset sky overhead. The title text is white, with the author name in turquoise. It's stunning.

I just signed off on the paperback cover for The Edge of Solitude! Going to print later this week, and out on 3rd July!
Available to pre-order from wherever you normally buy books, but especially from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social, aka my lovely local indie: www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-...

YES.

Jobs - Disability Arts Online

Lots of opportunities here - including a £2k commission to create a unique piece of artwork marking 25 yrs of advocacy and support in opening up arts and culture to deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences.

Please share :)

The Supreme Court sided with FWS.

But it didn’t hear from a single trans person.
This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years.

We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

A thread in which I try to show some of the harmful practical effects on the quality of its analysis of the Supreme Court's appalling and delegitimating decision to exclude all trans voices from a judgment with profound effects on trans people's lives.

Normally rule-following autistic says fuck transphobic laws A cisgender autistic woman who is generally so law abiding she once performed a citizen’s arrest on herself for jaywalking will not acknowledge any evil transphobic legislation, it has been confirmed....

“Fuck your single-sex spaces and fuck your Supreme Court. If I see you calling the police on a trans person in a public restroom I will personally flush your phone down the bog whilst pretending it’s Wes Streeting’s head.”

I thought I’d posted the video yesterday!🤦‍♀️

#Frogs #Whernside #YorkshireDales

Video of a high moorland pond with lots of little frog heads poking out and ribbiting away!

View of the pond just over a fence with the summit of the hill behind.

FROGGOS!

At least 70, near top of #Whernside, @yorkshiredales.org.uk

A very large Exmoor Horn sheep.

Seven years today since we first introduced you to this absolute unit.

Image shows the cover of The Edge of Solitude by Katie Hale. It's pink and mauve, with a teal iceberg on it. The title text is in white, and the author name in teal.

LOOK at this absolute BEAUTY!! 💕📘❄️ The paperback cover of #TheEdgeOfSolitude is here!

I love how @canongate.co.uk have kept the essential beauty of the hardback, but modified - and how the text just pops! 👀

Out on 3rd July - preorder from your favourite bookshop! buythebook.online/the-edge-of-...

‘I can’t sleep, I’m so scared’: disabled people face benefit cuts domino effect Three people tell how knock-on impact of losing Pip on carer’s allowance and other benefits will affect their families

“I can’t sleep, I’m so scared.”

My report in tomorrow’s Guardian on the disability benefit cuts “domino effect”: losing PIP will see unpaid carers lose their benefits too - pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.

Teen Vogue: remains braver than almost any other news outlet at this time.

View up a footpath to some knobbly mountains

A drystone shelter cross (literally 4 drystone walls in the shape of a cross creating sheltered rest areas for walkers in the four quarters) is nestled near the bottom of Esk Hause, a dip between mountains.

Two legs from the knees downwards with trousers rolled up like shorts, standing in a small patch of remnant snow.

View across slanted rock outcrops in the foreground to Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain, in the distance.

Brilliant to be back in the big #fells yesterday - it’s been a while & not sure how long it’s gonna take to recover but the #VitaminD top-up is pulling me through for the moment! (That and chips.)

#Langdale #EskPike #Bowfell #LakeDistrict #Wainwrights

I've seen toads out and about along our coast, and now bees as well!!

Things are waking up, spring is on its way 😎❤️

It’s a long while since I’ve walked these paths having been down on the coast for much of my time this decade - must be about 9 years since my last @lakelandtrails.bsky.social Sticky Toffee run up this way!

View of a countryside lane heading towards forested hillside under a clear blue sky.

Selfie of a white 40-something woman with dark hair and black sunglasses in a black T-shirt.

Glorious day and already T-shirt #weather above #Cartmel!

A colourful poster with a gradient background of blue, pink, yellow, and green. At the centre is a black scribble design overlayed with the text DaDaFest International 40 in white, followed by RAGE in bold yellow, handwritten-style font, and A quiet riot! in smaller yellow text below. The dates 08 – 31 March 2025 appear in white.

⚡dadafest.bsky.social has revealed its 2025 festival programme which marks the Liverpool-based disability and Deaf arts-led organisation’s 40th anniversary.

disabilityarts.online/magazine/new...