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Katie Munday - Autistic and Living the Dream
@kmunday.bsky.social
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ESRC funded PhD candidate - Exploring Trans and Gender Diverse Autistic Adults Experiences of Health and Social Care Inequity

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Come on you, Sharks!

Off to support our local team Southern Sharks wheelchair basketball club
Me, a large white person seen from the shoulders up. I've got scruffy hair and my glasses are slightly steamed up (argh the weather!). Im holding up a blue grey blahaj/shark from IKEA which I will be waving manically court side]
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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When you get to that time in the month when you have to sell all your things to stay afloat...

[Image from Baldurs Gate 3, four characters are in Sourcerer's Sundries. The druid dwarf and human wizard are stood in line in just their underpants as they've sold all their clothes.]
Image from Baldurs Gate 3, four characters are in Sourcerer's Sundries. The druid dwarf and human wizard are stood in line in just their underpants as they've sold all their clothes.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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As a person who struggles with working memory, demand avoidance and a big dollop of CBA, I have tried all sorts of "get your shit together" apps.

I usually last a week, a month if I'm lucky.

Finch helps me remember my meds, drinking and even to enjoy myself!? Here's to another 500 days.
An orange screen at the center is my blue birb, Alfredo, he is wearing a trans flag t shirt, and holding a candle for TDOR. He celebrates in a star on our 500 days!
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Trans Day of Remembrance today.

I'm thinking about all the amazing people we've lost to violence 🕯
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Read books, blogs and social media posts written by trans+ people.

Listen to podcasts, music and other audio from trans+ people.

Surround yourself with trans+ art.

So many of us have shared our experiences freely and openly. Take advantage of this knowledge and love.

#TransAwarenessWeek
A pink felt square I decorated today. Top left is an felt tip pink heart with a blue outline. Four lines on an angle are underneath in pink, red, blue and orange. Large black handwriting at the centre of the square says: please read a book
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I had a great session at @writershq.bsky.social yesterday and got myself two gold stars!

If I have to give myself stickers and snacks to write my PhD work then so be it.

Chufty badges all round!
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I'm a year into my four-year PhD course. I'm using a PAR approach with a group of co-researchers.

I keep debrief notes on our meetings and reflect on things more widely, including violence in the academy for trans Autistic students and faculty.
A peach background, a black box outline at the centre. Black text at the centre of the box reads: PhD Students: how do you journal?
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Where to put these new @artiecarden.bsky.social stickers???

Eat the rich
Bi and ready to cry
Trans lives over cis feelings
November 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Decorating the kids yummies at the Halloween gathering tonight. Super satisfying.
A silver foil plate filled with sausages wrapped in pastry mummy-style, they have edible google eyes on them.
October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Happy Halloween, folx!
A silver foil plate with some potato ghost smilies. One, the focus of the picture, have sweets for eyes.
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Trans Aware Cancer Care had a gorgeous time starting to sew together our flag.

Over the last year we have spoken and created art with nearly 100 trans+ people & allies. It is our collective artwork that is being sewn into a very large trans flag.

This is a creation of love, connection and hope.
Two individuals from behind sewing different parts of the flag. I am on the right in a green striped dress sewing a laminated piece on to a blue square. Most of the flag is draped over large wooden tables in the foreground and background - its just that big!
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Another lovely time Pumpkin picking with the kids. We ran through this Glow Tunnel about 10 times.

I had to take a photo with the amazing artwork set from @begasigns

We all came home and slept afterwards 😴
October 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Help & Care, @beyondreflectuk.bsky.social & Wessex Cancer Alliance, are launching a project to make breast & chest screening at University Hospital Southampton more accessible for disabled, ND, & trans+ people. And we need your help!
October 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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I feel that I can be myself at the University more and that others see worth in my ND queer way of being and communicating.

That feels very nice.

Celebrations tonight include a takeaway and some kind of cake 🥳

#PhD #Candidate #TransResearch #AutResearch #SmashedIt #Teaching
Me from the shoulders up. I am pulling a wide-eyed, open-mouthed goofy face. Totally shooketh.
October 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Sometimes, you forget you're awesome, so this is your reminder.

#PhD #MajorReview #Awesome #Autsome

[A coffee thermos with the above phrase on. It sits in front of my board, slowly filling with very colourful queer postcards, lots of rainbows, love hearts, ganesh and condoms]
A coffee thermos with the above phrase on. It sits in front of my board, slowly filling with very colourful queer postcards, lots of rainbows, love hearts, ganesh and condoms
October 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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The school sickness has finally made its way to us. It's Little Man's first year of school, and we have finally got a school sickness.

A 24-hour bug doesn't mean 24 hours in a #ChronicallyIll household.

Our evenings have been filled with wrestling, Boulders Gate, and feeling sorry for ourselves.
A split screen of Boulder's Gate 3. There are lots of stats on the screen. The left hand side focuses on a a druid which has turned to a Owl Bear. The right hand side shows a half orc cleric wielding a great axe
October 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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We saw Suzy Izzard in her one person Hamlet, and she was phenomenal!

#Hamlet #Shakespeare #SuzyIzzard
Suzy, a tall, blond haired woman on stage. She is wearing red lipstick, red nails, a plain black jacket, and plain black leather trousers. The stage is sceneless and propless. Black curtains hang at the upstage.
October 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Tell me you have a four year old without telling me you have a four year old...

Picture shows me wearing a white Autistic and Living the Dream t shirt covered in animal stickers: a crocodile, elephant, walrus, zebra, monkey, polar bear, and a killer whale. All the classics.
Me wearing a white Autistic and Living the Dream t shirt covered in animal stickers: a crocodile, elephant, walrus, zebra, monkey, polar bear, and a killer whale. All the classics.
October 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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#HealthyConversationSkills is about creating spaces in our everyday practice (and lives!) to talk about what makes us happier and healthier. This also appreciates that there are barriers to happier, healthier lives for too many people.

#SCDTP #ESRC
A projector with a white background. Different colour text on the slide reads: Healthy conversation skills MAKING EVERY CONTACT COUNT Healthy Conversation Skills training Developing people for health and Healthcares 29/09/25 Facilitator: Rob Anderson-Weaver Public Health Portsmouth City Council
September 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I started Crip Kinship by Shayda Kafai today. It's been on my shelf for a while.

I'm twenty pages in already and seriously thought about taking it to soft play 😆
Crip Kinship, a small blue book with a beautiful cover with colourful flowers and a black person in an orange dress walking with a stick
September 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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I have spoken at the Houses of Parliament on cancer service inequity for Disabled people. I am involved in community based research, including my PhD exploring health and social care inequity experienced by trans autistic people.

Feel free to contact me for more info at; [email protected]
Picture shows me talking at University of Portsmouth on Autistic transgender people's access to health and social care.
September 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Good grief.

I have altogether too much to say about the flag waving ignoramuses who hide their racism behind supposed patriotism and giving a single fck about women and girls protection.

And now a baby vest...

*sigh*
I saw this advert this morning for a 'white England flag short sleeve bodysuit' down from £2 to £1.20! What a bargain! /heavy sarcasm.
September 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Hmmmm...
Alt text: “I think it’s worth … some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” — Charlie Kirk
September 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I feel like this little stretchy yellow person attached to the ceiling... just hanging in there.
A little stretchy yellow person stuck to a white textured ceiling, an arm and a leg hang loose
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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It's first day at school here and I wasnt crying *before* I read this but gods know I am now.

[A small yellow laminated card attached to a purple bag with a biscuit and tea bag in for calming after the first drop off. Text in alt ]
We gave you a little wave and smile as you left our door today We know it can be hard to leave and know your child must stay You've been with them for many years and have been their loving guide But now alas, the time has come to leave them by our side Just know that as you drive away and tears down your cheeks may flow We'll love your child as our own and help them learn and grow We can't wait to get to know them and find out what they love to do We're looking forward to the year ahead and sharing it with you So please put your mind at ease and cry those tears no more For we will take care of your precious gift when you leave them at our door. The Year R Team
September 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM