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@sophiemattholie.bsky.social

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Public History student, Fundraising + Policy - Disabled Students UK, Trustee - The LUNA Project, writer and reader, disabled, ND and loud about it. Views my own https://aspacewithin.substack.com/

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · Jan 4

books i read in 2025: a thread

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 2d

thank you for writing it! From Inside The Egg lives inside my brain permanently (in a good way)

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 2d

i've got an injured shoulder so i can't do most of wheelchair basketball, but i discovered at the weekend that i can still shoot one handed! made me very happy

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 2d

a LOT of the good disability stuff I've read is middle grade but not sure if that's what you're after! it is very fun though, people are doing a lot of reimagining of new worlds there

If poetry counts as part of CNF, Cling Film by Bethany Handley always

(I got overexcited so this is a lot of recs)

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 2d

Both: Ten Steps to Nanette has a deliberately fragmented narrative which I found so interesting, Strong Female Character is a very distinctive voice, both autism-related

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 2d

Trauma: How to Say Babylon, Just Ignore Him, Glasgow Boys (YA that blew my MIND), Allow Me to Introduce Myself, As Long As Lemon Trees Grow, What My Bones Know, Bad Fruit

HEAVY trigger warnings for all of these

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 2d

Disability: obviously Some of Us Just Fall, I found Pain Woman Takes Your Keys interesting stylistically, What the World Doesn't See is a YA written with so much care, A Still Life is a beautifully wandering memoir, Twelve Moons intersperses disability with nature + life

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 5d

I would love it if I didn't leave every Ortho appointment having been told completely different things about timelines/what I'm supposed to be doing/what not to do, like that would be really novel and fun

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 7d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 7d

We also had that yesterday

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 8d

"How's your decolonising memory module going Sophie?" Today I legitimately answered a question in a seminar with "he's a rich white man" and that was the correct answer

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 8d

Surely 5 hours of minigolf just becomes golf? Like that's not mini anymore

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 9d

What proportion of that is minigolf? I feel like an hour is already too much for me

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 10d

i would say sprout sends his apologies but he's actually far too busy having one brain cell and eating paper

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 10d

god honestly, this guy will sit anywhere other than a bed

small black cat with green eyes half in a plastic shopping bag

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 11d

was working on a group presentation with some of the new postgrads today, they asked me what my diss is about and when I told them they actually said "woah" out loud, so that's my ego sorted for the foreseeable

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 12d

So it's the combination of needs to move for labs, needs to lock for transfers, needs pressure relief, needs supportive backrest, needs to elevate legs which is doable with a desk chair setup but ergo think that would be more expensive and less suitable. I am crossing fingers they write it strongly

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 12d

Thinking logically I don't see how they can refuse it on cost unless they really like court cases. But logic doesn't prevail at any uni and especially not this one

Ergo are specifically saying there are cheaper options but none of them are suitable, so we'll see

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 12d

Super helpful thank you. This is a hypothetical - same person/uni as I've told you about before - but the recommendation is a powerchair with tilt etc because of the combo of pressure and positioning needs. Ergo says cheaper than electric desk chair. Friend is concerned uni will shit themselves

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 12d

She's a brave soldier 🫡

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 12d

He has such excellent markings

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 12d

So hypothetically, if a university pays for a disabled student to have an ergonomic assessment for a specialist desk chair to be used on campus (labs etc), and what the assessor recommends is more expensive than they'd like (for good reasons), can the university refuse to pay for it?

(for a friend)

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 12d

Oh BLESS him. One of ours fell into the bath literally yesterday 😭

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 12d

She fits perfectly onto it, it must be hers! Thank you

Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 12d

I am having the most overwhelming 24 hours and I am politely asking for pet pics please

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Sophie🧑🏻‍🦽♾️🏳️‍🌈 @sophiemattholie.bsky.social · 14d

Did some accessibility room audits with the SU today and most of what I've learnt is that everything which is officially classed as accessible isn't, and everything which isn't officially accessible is. So it's going well, I would say