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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 8h

had no hot water for two weeks now and landlord doesn’t consider it an emergency and agency take an hour to get through on hold. renters rights NOW.

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 1d

i have been sleeping on bar burrito cos what sorcery is this vegan chicken

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 3d

what is it to be 31 and be genuinely unable to run a half marathon

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 4d

“benefit cheat” is a pervasive disgusting stain on this country’s character. when you all get sick, ill and inevitably disabled too, you’ll know then. zero compassion for anyone but themself.

we are an island of strangers because of deep supremacist arrogance not because of immigration.

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 4d

it’s rough for us disabled people right now, and nobody is calling it out or checking in with us, asking if we are okay. the other day in morrisons when i was personally harassed, not a single member of the public stopped to ask if i was okay.

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 4d

the surge in ableist harassment coinciding with the flag raising is brutal. every day i personally experience sneers, pointed laughter, “faker” accusations, mocking of my walking/stick usage. every day i log on the internet and seeing people through vile ableist slurs around that died in the 90s.

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Elsa Williams @elsawilliams.bsky.social · 17d

‘Real friendships felt mythical to me’: On autism, reading and growing up

Some people liken autistic girls to an iceberg. Personally, I prefer the analogy of a rotten log: overturn any one of us and there’ll be…

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 4d

“we want more disabled people in work”

cuts access to work, a disabled work scheme, by up to 80%

John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · 4d

The Access to Work scheme is failing disabled people, and its “decline” in the last two years has caused them “real harm”, with some support packages cut by 80 per cent, according to a detailed dossier of evidence prepared by a user-led organisation.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/access-to-wo...

Access to Work dossier of evidence shows ‘real harm’ and job losses caused by DWP cuts and failings

The Access to Work scheme is failing Deaf and disabled people, and its “decline” in the last two years has caused them “real harm”, with some support packages cut by 80 per cent, according to a det…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 5d

started (finally!) writing my novel this month. thought it would a new year’s resolution unfulfilled but basically nah girl feel the fear and do it anyway!! ur a lifelong avid reader and prose dweller. be brave and courage, nonsense and gut instinct will guide u x

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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 5d

ICYMI: More than 80% of women in theatre have experienced a female-specific health issue that has made their job harder, according to research that calls for urgent action to address the stigma around conditions such as menopause and miscarriage 👇

‘Traumatic’: survey lays bare lack of support for women's health in theatre

More than 80% of women in theatre have experienced a female-specific health issue that has made their job harder, according to research

www.thestage.co.uk

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 5d

@greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social please consider this within your future debates. it’s accessibility that is letting us down, not sickness. the clarity with which you speak on immigration, palestine, war, we know you’re capable of the plainness of this too.

social model is the key.

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 5d

disability IS economically viable.

for those of us who do work it’s impossible to unable to sustain without welfare.

and those who cannot work deserve dignity, respect, protection. it is not the human way to leave a comrade behind. difference enriches us.

we are not your political football.

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 5d

welfare CREATES jobs. PIP, ATW, DLA - do you think we just hoard the money and never spend it? no! we hire carers, PAs, assistants with administrative tasks; cleaning, cooking. we buy equipment and non-NHS health care. we hire engineers, plumbers, builders, electricians. higher energy bills…

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 5d

#BBCQT disabled people want to work. believe me, we do. if we are able to, we want to. but no party is mandating accessibility in the workplace. the issue is not our health, not our disabilities, but the lack of physical, environmental, attitudinal adjustments DESPITE LEGAL OBLIGATION.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 6d

“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”

Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 6d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 6d

“baby in her placenta”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 6d

the first autism diagnosis predates the creation of tylenol

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 6d

cripping up has no consequences but more and more jobs and accolades afterwards and i’m fucking sick of it

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 6d

not me missing the deadline for the only opportunity for cumbrian writers i’ve ever seen 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 9d

wish i had the cutesy instagrammable autism instead of the kind where i have meltdowns and repeatedly thump myself till i bruise

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 9d

what do you mean?

daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 9d

cisgendered women and trans people can both have equality at the same time. both groups deserve safety and autonomy. there is no intersectional concern - GC women are not afraid of trans people, they are afraid of men, which coincidentally so are we all. if we united, we would be stronger.

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daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social · 9d

members who don’t believe in trans people’s equality have told to leave and been sacked? even more reason to vote Green.

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