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Rachel Charlton-Dailey
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Disability rights & sausage pics. Author of Ramping Up Rights and columnist at The Canary. Book tour ⬇️ {She/they}

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 16d
Hello if you're new here, I'm a disability rights journalist, activist and author. Currently write for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social and my disability rights history book, Ramping Up Rights is also out now. AND of course I'm dog mam to Rusty (pictured)

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a white woman with shoulder length ginger hair wearing glasses and a black dress with witchy symbols on it. She is holding a mic and reading from a book whilst a sausage dog sits on her knee with his tongue out
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Disability Pay Gap Day shows Labour don’t actually care about supporting us into work

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Disability Pay Gap Day shows Labour don't actually care about supporting us into work
Disability Pay Gap stats show that non-disabled people earn £2.24 more per hour than disabled people - leaving them £4k a year better off
www.thecanary.co
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Most boring man in politics to be ousted by the second most boring man in politics, allegedly. But what is the Streeting vs Starmer "fight" really a smokescreen for? (via @thecanaryuk.bsky.social) www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Corporate media spread rumours Streeting set for leadership challenge
Corporate journalists are abuzz with rumours that Wes Streeting may challenge Starmer's leadership - but the NHS is still on its knees
www.thecanary.co
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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LOCALS I'll be the surprise (not at all last minute) 4th guest at tonight's Arty Parti live podcast recording at Diegos in Sunderland as part of University of Sunderland's Creative Industries Week

Info and Tickets here (I'm replacing Jonny Smith FYI): artyparti.com/events
ArtyParti - Events
ArtyParti is a twice-monthly podcast, events series, and community platform that celebrates the work of artists and creatives. ArtyParti brings artists and creatives together to share about their pro...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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And just like that the Ramping Up Rights book tour is over! What an incredible past few months getting to meet some many fucking brilliant disabled people. I've loved single minute. We'll be back in the new year but until then you can still buy the book here linktr.ee/rampinguprights
a white woman with shoulder length ginger hair wearing a black dress with witchy symnols on. shes holding a pair of glasses and stilcking her tongue out with her eyes closed laughing towards the camera. on her lap is a sausage dog
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Heard the BEST insult at the weekend: "he sounds like someone who wanks with the big light on”
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. The absolute tumbleweed from the media & gov shows just how much they want to bury how much disabled people fought and still fight for our rights.
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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It's here!! Thank you, @rachelcdailey.bsky.social and @biggreenbooks.bsky.social!
Ramping Up Rights: An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism by Rachel Charlton-Dailey has a green cover and shows 2 disability pride flags (black with a diagonal wave across it in green, blue, white, yellow, and red)
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Here's an ace #buyastrangerabook day offer.

Disability History Month starts on November 20th.

And to help raise its profile @rachelcdailey.bsky.social is offering to buy TWO people a copy each of her book Ramping Up Rights.

Check out the blurb and let us know if you'd like a copy.

UK only
Front cover of Rachel's book, Ramping Up Rights : An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism Blurb for Rachel's book. A 100-year history of enraging injustices and inspiring campaigns: the fight for British disability rights isn't over. From the 'crippled suffragette', to '80s punks chaining themselves to buses, to campaigners taking a stand online, this book celebrates the amazing activists and protest actions behind the UK's long battle for disabled people's rights to live. Rachel Charlton-Dailey highlights a shockingly overlooked tradition of disabled struggle. She unpacks how British attitudes and policy went so wrong in the twenty-first century, and interviews campaigners and disabled people about how they have reclaimed power, from resisting government reforms to changing the media narrative. She explores live frontiers in the push for civil rights--from the scandalous inaccessibility of our education and transport systems, to the existential debates about genetic screening and 'the right to die'. In this powerful book, honouring past disability activism becomes a call to action. Charlton-Dailey shows readers how hard, and how often, disabled people and their allies have fought, and won. She gives them the energy to keep fighting back.
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The best of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

UK only
Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
www.biggreenbookshop.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Okay this is going to annoy me all day, in like 2020ish there was someone Trump appointed to something with a hilarious name involving the word Dick, what was it hive mind?
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Delighted to be chairing this discussion with my anthropologist/activist hat on with @rachelcdailey.bsky.social @samgoncalveshorton.bsky.social and Dan Glazebrook on Saturday in Edinburgh 💜

Come along if you’re around!
lighthousebks.bsky.social Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 14d
SO looking forward to this discussion next Saturday at the Radical Book Fair
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Millions of Americans are going to go hungry without SNAP (aka food stamps. What was Trump doing while this happened? Literally partying with billionaires of course

www.thecanary.co/global/world...
Trump literally parties with billionaires while 26 million Americans go hungry
If you think Trump is on your side, the fact he threw a Great Gatsby-themed party while cutting food aid to millions should tell you otherwise
www.thecanary.co
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Baby’s first book shop window!!! Thank you @lighthousebks.bsky.social

I’ll be at Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair on Saturday on an excellent panel - Reframing Resistance. Both IRL + online lighthousebookshop.com/events/refra...
A bookshop window full of books including mine
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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There isn’t a “war on Christmas” it’s just that Christmas is 9 letters long and it wastes space on packaging when everyone knows what holiday mince pies are for
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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SO looking forward to this discussion next Saturday at the Radical Book Fair
October 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Done crap at sharing my @thecanaryuk.bsky.social articles on here so here's some pieces I'm proud of lately 🧵
October 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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I'm calling it, lads. Golden from KPop Demon Hunters is the new Let It Go. Haven't seen a room full of kids scream along to a song this loud and know every single bloody word since Frozen
October 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Amazing that, even now, we’re still nodding and buying the ‘sex addiction’ thing from men who absolutely cannot go without sticking their dick in another person. It sounds like something a child would make up.
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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The final stop on the Ramping Up Rights book tour (of this year) will be at @lighthousebks.bsky.social Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair on 8th Nov. I'll be on the Reframing Resistance panel at 2:30. As well as in person, it'll be streamed online: lighthousebookshop.com/events/refra...
Lighthouse | Reframing Resistance: Strategies for change past, present & future
lighthousebookshop.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
rachelcdailey.bsky.social
Hello if you're new here, I'm a disability rights journalist, activist and author. Currently write for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social and my disability rights history book, Ramping Up Rights is also out now. AND of course I'm dog mam to Rusty (pictured)

linktr.ee/rachelcdailey
a white woman with shoulder length ginger hair wearing glasses and a black dress with witchy symbols on it. She is holding a mic and reading from a book whilst a sausage dog sits on her knee with his tongue out
October 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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23.5K families lost child benefit for going on holiday thanks to "fraud crackdown"

If the gov can fuck up this epically with something as easy as who's in the country, how can we possibly trust them with disability benefit reforms?

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Over 23,000 families lost child benefit for going on holiday thanks to HMRC error
HMRC admit to fucking up child benefit claims for thousands of families - how can this government be trusted with disability benefit reforms?
www.thecanary.co
October 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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stop buying halloween decorations from temu you losers
A gravestone Halloween decoration with an outline of billy butcherson from hocus pocus on and underneath it reads “here lies y body of William butchers on diedist of may lost soul”
October 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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It's #Strictly Come Canary week 5! I am powering through this lads not gonna lie. I love this show, but Jesus, it's been a weird one this series @thecanaryuk.bsky.social
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Strictly Come Canary, week five: way to kill the mood, guys...!
Not only has Jimmy departed Strictly, but so are the hosts. Rachel Charlton-Dailey won't miss Robot Tess, but she wonders about replacements
www.thecanary.co
October 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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we've been working hard on ignoring food that gets dropped on the ground, cos my fine motor skills get worse in the cold and someones a dustbin.

So here's Rusty definitely not seeing his doggy bacon cos I forgot to say he could have it 😂
a black and tan sausage dog looking away from a pile of doggy bacon (though he does have his tongue out)
October 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Happy 6am to everyone with small animals or children who think time is a construct but it is definitely 7am
A Black and Tan dachshund playing with a white ram
October 26, 2025 at 6:05 AM