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Amelie Ahern-Williams

@artfuldoodling.bsky.social

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(They/Them) 🏳️‍🌈 | Dysgwr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Queer with a doodling habit Rep'd by Monica Rodriguez at Context Literary Agency ✏️ Portfolio: amelieahernwilliams.com

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Amelie Ahern-Williams @artfuldoodling.bsky.social · Aug 7

Not midnight yet, so I haven't missed #kidlitartpostcard day!

I'm Amelie! I'm interested in fantastical creatures + fun textures, and will be available for comic, PB, and MG work later this autumn 🍂

🎨 amelieahernwilliams.com
✉️ [email protected]
Rep'd by @loveleemonicaa.bsky.social

Kidlitartpostcard illustration:
An ink and collage greyscale illustration of a girl dressed as a knight, brandishing a stick, searching for a child in a cardboard dragon costume, hiding under the bridge she's standing on.
Text: Amelie Ahern-Williams - Rep'd by Monica Rodriguez @ Context Literary Agency

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Amelie Ahern-Williams @artfuldoodling.bsky.social · Sep 4

The 20mph FB groups was a funny mention. I recently discovered my mum accidentally joined one cause she thought it was called "20 IS plenty" (still not sure why she joined but dyna ni). She then ended up writing a long pro-immigration post on there n leaving it be.

Amelie Ahern-Williams @artfuldoodling.bsky.social · Aug 8

This authoritarian approach to policing gendered spaces is terrifying. This is how trans/NB folks get excluded from public life. And it'll hurt cis folks too. This helps no-one.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · Aug 8

EHRC now saying that not only should trans people be excluded from sex segregated spaces, but ALSO those matching birth sex:

“A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from … service for their own biological sex …to prevent alarm or distress for other service users.”
archive.ph/2025.08.07-2...

The Times understands that the guidance is still being finalised and it will not decree that services have to provide single-sex spaces, but that if they do - for example if a lavatory is intended for women - transgender women would be excluded from using it. To allow someone of the opposite sex to use the facilities would be very likely to amount to unlawful discrimination.
It will also make clear that it will not be deemed as discrimination to exclude trans people from those facilities and that services will be allowed to request birth certificates to ensure single-sex services are protected.

It read: "A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from a separate or single-sex service for their own biological sex might be to prevent alarm or distress for other service
users.
"A trans man might be excluded from the women-only service if the service provider decides that, because he presents as a man, other service users could reasonably object to his presence, and it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim to exclude him".

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · Aug 8

If you're in the UK, start contacting your local government, start raising a stink about this unconscionably cruel bathroom ban, call their offices, visit them in person, flood them with complaints about this, and keep the pressure up.

Also, maybe support @goodlawproject.org?

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Amelie Ahern-Williams @artfuldoodling.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thanks! :)

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Angela Matteson @angelamatteson.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hello! #KidLitArtPostcard! A firefly fest to celebrate the abundant fireflies in the garden this year!
angelamatteson.com
I’m represented by @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social @bookendsliterary.bsky.social

#kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #art #ChildrensBooks #picturebooks

An illustration of a firefly character holding a lantern while a smaller firefly looks on in amazement. A kid with wings and a fire-inspired paper crown flies overhead with a moth in a night scene.

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Farnaz Nadim @farnaznadim.bsky.social · Aug 7

It’s #kidlitartpostcard day!

Hi Art Directors and Editors! I’m Farnaz Nadim a kidlit illustrator who would love to work with you on your upcoming projects! I’m open for board books, picture books and editorials.
portfolio www.farnaznadim.com

#kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #art

Mary Poppins floating in the air, over the cherry trees and the roofs the houses, holding tightly to the umbrella with one hand and to the orange carpet bag with the other.

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Amelie Ahern-Williams @artfuldoodling.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Amelie Ahern-Williams @artfuldoodling.bsky.social · Aug 6

Been super inactive recently, but I offer a new portfolio piece! It was initially supposed to be greyscale, but I loved the rusty look too much to remove it.

#kidlitart #kitlit

An ink and collage greyscale illustration of a girl dressed as a knight, brandishing a stick, searching for a child in a cardboard dragon costume, hiding under the bridge she's standing on.

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Abeeha Tariq @abeehatariqart.bsky.social · Jun 25

None of us are free until *all* of us are free ✨

Illustration of a group of characters drawn in a cartoon, midcentury-style. They are at pride and the whole piece is a rainbow gradient with the characters in different colours. A sign held by the character at the top says “none of us are free until all of us are free”

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Jun 20

Terrorism powers should never have been used to aggravate criminal charges against Palestine Action activists and they certainly shouldn't be used to ban them.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · Jun 17

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second:

one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable

that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s *mandatory* if you want to get better

ceej @ceej.online · Jun 17

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

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Tori Kate @torikateillo.bsky.social · Jun 13

little wee artist friends ✨

#kidlit #kidlitart

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an onion with a giant pencil is drawing flowers and a radish with glasses is holding a giant blue pencil crayon drawing the onion and radish friends

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · Jun 14

If we have to choose between a Welsh party and an English party, but the English party has stuck a leek in its hat and is shouting ‘Yekkid da! I love Taffies!’ at us - which will we choose? ✍️ Aran Jones

Elections in Wales - finding out who we are

Aran Jones, Author, SaySomethingIn In May next year, we’re going to find out something new – and something very important – about who we are as a country. Maybe you think that sounds a little dramatic...

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · Jun 7

Why should Wales accept a head of state we didn’t choose? If we want democracy, we need to talk about the monarchy ✍️Owen Williams

Not our King: why Charles doesn’t speak for us

Owen Williams When Charles III toured Wales in 2022, it wasn’t just the waving flags or the military salutes that struck me – it was the quiet compliance of it all. The sense that this is just how thi...

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Amelie Ahern-Williams @artfuldoodling.bsky.social · Jun 7

Fab article, it's a much-needed national conversation!

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Amelie Ahern-Williams @artfuldoodling.bsky.social · Jun 5

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!
I'm currently looking for picture-book, MG, and comic work! I'm rep'd by @loveleemonicaa.bsky.social ✨

🎨 amelieahernwilliams.com

#Kidlitartpostcard:
Amelie Ahern-Williams
amelieahernwilliams.com
Rep'd by Monica Rodriguez @ Context Lit

Greyscale traditional collage.
A girl with her hair in space buns, fanning a black rat lounging in a cushion-filled wheel-barrow. The name "Princess Bert" is painted on the side of the barrow.

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Taylor Price @taylornprice.bsky.social · May 21

Farmer’s market haul

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Amelie Ahern-Williams @artfuldoodling.bsky.social · May 21

Israel have shown there are NO red lines they will not cross in this genocide. Not a single one.
Our governments have actively enabled them to reach this point.
Please email your MP calling for sanctions and an arms embargo, donate to aid organisations, keep sharing and speaking.
#freepalestine

Collage: Woman holding baby, faces shaded with red lines.
Text: If 14000 babies aren't a red line, nothing is.

Amelie Ahern-Williams @artfuldoodling.bsky.social · May 15

Another year of ethnic cleansing, another year of Israel getting to perform at Eurovision.
Israel has form using the arts to launder its reputation. A fun "apolitical" song contest is used as cultural cover for apartheid and genocide.

So, I'll be boycotting this year, and I hope you do too.