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Rayna Lamb - She/her

@purplegoddess.bsky.social

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Wheelchair dancer, feminist, exhausted. Love books, musical theatre. I knit, garden, read, roll my eyes at politicians, yell at ableists, avoid cold weather, back up people making the world better, etc. Trans rights are human rights. Ban cauliflower.

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Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · Jun 26

This is a wonderful, original take on The Little Mermaid that I feel so lucky to be dancing in.

Please consider donating to this project and sharing this post, we need more disability stories in all of the arts, but ESPECIALLY in dance.

#disability #dance #ballet #FairyTales

A New Ballet by Underrepresented Artists

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Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 9h

In theory, I agree, but in practice - only if his nursing/care team is extraordinarily well paid. He would be one of the WORST patients.

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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 19h

The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective

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Graphic with a white background and text: The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective

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Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely no shame or self-awareness.

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 14h

Oh yes, that's top of my list! Especially since any markets near me here in Perth are only open on the weekends until 11 am or midday.

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

Oh! Please everyone keep your fingers crossed that Qantas doesn't lose or break my custom-built electric wheelchair.

I have tech week rehearsals for my show two days after I get back, and I do not have time for any crisises.

Perth people, get your tickets!!

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Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to be in Melbourne next week to visit @schnoodles.bsky.social and see some other friends. Very excited!! It's been nearly a decade since I was last there, and my first trip not for work!

I'll be in the Preston and City areas, any food recs?

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Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

If they play Total Eclipse of the Heart, I think you'll lose the battle. 😆

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Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

I can be bad at maths without ANY outside assistance, since the 1970s! 😂

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

There'd be a higher than likely chance that he's a domestic abuser if he does have family.

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

Only if you convince them to put their wallets into YOUR fridge.

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

And now parents in the US are complaining of the same thing because of Bluey. 😂😂

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

That's incredibly rough. I'm so sorry.

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

That's definitely something we don't need AI for. I know I'm not the only person who has been providing the world with artisanal small-batch local mathematical incompetence since they could talk.

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Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

Scamlords. Scumlords. Lower than dirt.

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Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

Harold Perrineau is CRIMINALLY underrated.

Harold Perrineau - Wikipedia

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Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 2d

I am still very sad that Sue Townsend died before we got Adrian as an OAP. It genuinely makes my heart ache.

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 2d

Not just Scotland, this should apply to American authors setting their books ANYWHERE except America.

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 2d

Magnanimous

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 2d

YES. And fuck stream-of-consciousness writing. Bleargh.

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 2d

Here in Aus I have seen with my own pure and innocent eyes shops that have Halloween and Christmas stock AT THE SAME TIME. RIGHT NOW.

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 2d

2nd the Zenda recs. I read Henchmen before Prisoner, and I am vvvvv glad. I got halfway through the second page of Prisoner and wanted to THROTTLE the hero. An absolutely unbearable mansplaining git.

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 2d

Anti-catholic rant is clearly the author's equiv. to Victor Hugo and the sewage system of 18th C Paris.

Rayna Lamb - She/her @purplegoddess.bsky.social · 2d

`Well, she can't hit me with a piano, so it's fine!'