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gossip girl / London Playbook diary reporter @POLITICOEurope • arthritis advocate • DMs open • views mine • she/her

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Bethany Dawson
8 months
In some 🚨 😎 professional news 😎 🚨 I am officially one of the jammiest people in Westminster. I am shifting over to join the incredible Playbook team as a new diary reporter, where I’ll be focusing on getting the inside scoop on all the SW1 events.
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
I’ve now been in more lockdowns than relationships
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6 months
Thank you to the charity shop gods for blessing me today
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
happy to announce that as a university student, the may 17th opening of Unis would give me a grand total of 5 days of classes before we break up, and I graduate
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Bethany Dawson
4 months
Having a fried egg is banned now. Because of yolk
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Lee Anderson MP
4 months
Full English Breakfast A great start to the day but how long before some highly educated expert tells us our traditional breakfast is racist? 🍳🥓🌭🍄🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
Whilst most attention has been paid to Allegra Stratton and the Number 10 Christmas parties, the Nationality and Borders Bill has passed. The legislation allows for the Government to remove citizenship without warning, to turn back asylum seekers and criminalise their passage.
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Bethany Dawson
9 months
Therese Coffey says that she is "shocked" the Shadow Home Secretary "can't even get the country right," because Yvette Cooper made reference to Kigali. Kigali is, of course, the capital of Rwanda
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
if you have a 27 year old Irish boyfriend called Chris in London, sorry :/
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1 year
Cabinet Office correspondence in 1996. We used to be a real country
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
I spoke to 3 people who have had their shifts cancelled tomorrow because of the Queens funeral. As a result, 2 have lost the budget for 2 weeks worth of food, and 1 has lot the cost of electric for a month. The UK is still in a cost of living crisis.
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Bethany Dawson
5 years
Sorry I was late today because Rory Stewart was hogging the bathroom
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
oh you think there are more wheels in the world than doors? consider this
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Bethany Dawson
4 months
A non political friend texts to ask why the Conservatives are repeatedly announcing things at bedtime
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Conservatives
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🚨 STAY TUNED 🚨
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
Andriy, a Ukrainian trans man, has let me chronicle his story as he escaped Ukraine. He’s safe in Berlin now, but it could have turned out so differently.
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Bethany Dawson
1 year
this hinge interaction from two years ago still haunts me
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sweet afia🇬🇭
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what’s the worst rizz someone has ever used on u? mine was when a yt man tried to say that his lips were bigger than mine
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
Reminder that Liz Truss hasn’t even been PM for two weeks and she’s already - Met the Queen - Announced the death of the Queen - Met the King - Spoken at the Queen’s funeral - Done PMQs Easily the most insane start to any PM’s time in office
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
every time I am unfolding laundry, this sophisticated gentleman wants to watch
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4 months
so, people who were in secondary school when furlough was announced
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
It’s time for men to take responsibility for pregnancies, too, urologist @esgarmd told Insider. He said too many men are responsible for “irresponsible ejaculation,” and it’s time for that to stop.
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Bethany Dawson
4 months
the "repay in full" button is a joke, right
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Eleanor Langford
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A friendly reminder to anyone who started uni after 2012 to never check their student loan balance Thanks to the current 7.8% rate, my interest is *double* my repayments and I have £8k more on my undergrad loan than I did two years ago... Only 23 more years of repayments to go!
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1 year
people watching in the gallery and at home shouting "it's a hospital" at Lammy as he repeatedly says the Al-Ahli mosque
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
for those that may need a helping hand tonight: BEAT ED helpline tel: 0808 801 0677 BEAT ED helpline for under 18s: 0808 801 0711 National Centre for EDs: 0845 838 2040 Eating Disorder Support: 01494 793223
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
I spoke to some Amazon workers in Illinois this week, to talk to them about the safety conditions in light of a warehouse collapsing and killing six people. 🧵
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
@rhiannonlucyc why are people outside! says man outside
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
No no this was not meant to do numbers
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
He had to leave for his safety. He had to leave to care for his mother, and as a trans man, he had to leave to escape the vast additional risks that present LGBTQ+ people in a conflict.
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Bethany Dawson
3 months
very good
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3 months
Note: we love that you're all really excited about new MP Steve Darling and his guide dog, Jennie, but just a little reminder to add alt text when you're sharing pictures of new MP Steve Darling and his guide dog, Jennie💡 It's easy to do - here's an example!
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
🧵 Like many of the Ukrainians who woke up to the terrifying sound of shelling, Andriy, 19, realized that Putin's invasion of his homeland meant the end of his life as he knew it. He had to escape.
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
btw just noticed google docs will suggest you to write "wheelchair bound," don't! it is considered an unhelpful term by the disabled community and wheelchairs and other mobility aids often open up the world and increase access and are not something you are bound to. thx!
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
a man on tinder just told me that i shouldn’t be a journalist i should “be on the front page instead” (as like, a compliment towards my looks that doesn’t make sense). little does he know. women also write front page news stories
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
We live in an area of the states called Tornado Alley. Amazon should take that seriously," Rebecca told me. But they don't, she said, as tornado drills are never practised.
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
Andriy decided to join the millions of refugees, but needed help from someone who understood his situation. On March 3, he got in touch with the London-based activist and model @raindovemodel who is leading an effort to get trans people out of Ukraine.
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
Whilst the warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois collapsed, Jeff Bezos celebrated the sixth launch of his Blue Origin rocket. McCollum said this made her and her colleagues feel "like all the employees may as well be robots or inanimate objects."
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
Speaking to one man who has an a vasectomy because of the overturning of Roe, he said "It seems like birth control is almost always the responsibility of the woman. And I think that's really terrible," McCamley said.
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3 years
i’m fine but i am sobbing x
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
🚨 Speaking in Parliament on IWD, Bernard Jenkin MP said 436 trans women committed rape between 2012 and 2018. The CPS has now confirmed to me that this is not correct. Jenkin misrepresented the data. He's now being called to withdraw his comments.
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
my dads! i love them. i’m sorry to the radio 1 people i got over excited to when i was 14 and called into their show
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Daniel Howell
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the box boys are now officially homeowning homosexuals
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Really looking forward to saying I got a 1st in my degree, but I can’t! because i didn’t! doing a degree in a pandemic is very very hard! will be graduating with a 2:1 in Politics and Sociology :)
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
The cease-fire nor the legitimacy of the humanitarian corridor is not immediately verifiable, with the Mariupol City Council saying that “fighting is taking place” in part of the safe route. Negotiations with the Russians are ongoing.
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
The Mariupol Mayor, Vadim Boychemko, has said:  "In conditions when our hometown is constantly under relentless fire from the occupiers, there is no other solution than to allow the residents, that is, you and me, to safely leave Mariupol."
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3 years
@TGEUorg said: "If recruited, trans people face a higher risk of harassment and violence. Mismatching ID documents can lead to denial of service, suspicion of fraud, ridicule, harassment, and violence"
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
One reason Boris Johnson gave for a lack of BSL interpreter during Covid briefings was lack of space in 10 Downing Street. Now, still, even with a £2.6m spend on a press room, there is no BSL interpreter.
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2 years
@tomhfh EXCL: person has fun when it’s allowed
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
Having your work on the front page of BBC news, after having your first year of freelancing being sprinkled with health issues making this line of work rather hard, is completely surreal. I’m going to have a tea cake.
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
depression is kicking my ass but i managed to get up and go for a swim and managed 750m. everyone say well done beth
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
"I was scared. My head was messed up, and I was tired. Thankfully, Mom told them that we've lost all the documents. "We decided I had to whisper so that nobody would notice my deep voice, I even painted my nails violet and wore Mom's shirt," Andriy said.
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"So I decided that, since I've never really wanted kids, and this procedure is not that big of a deal, I would just get this done, just because those are my beliefs, and this is a way to express them,” he said.
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
For those not watching the Euros and confused by the current Twitter feed: Danish player Christian Eriksen has collapsed mid-game and is having chest compressions performed on him. The BBC has not cut streaming during this incident.
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
everybody please. look at these trousers
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
Is “baby’s first front page story” a thing?
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4 years
Friday's Independent digital: "Experts named in race review weren't consulted" #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Bethany Dawson
1 year
This is, objectively, the funniest email opener I’ve ever seen
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
One person died last week trying to shepherd people into the bathrooms. Some Amazon workers said that more Edwardsville workers might have survived if Amazon had a more rigorous focus on preparing for natural disasters.
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
🚨 personal news time !!! 🚨 very very excited to be joining the incredible news team at @thisisinsider in a few weeks as their weekend news fellow! i’ll be working Wednesday-Sunday in an incredible news room, and i’m so overjoyed with this new role.
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chris didn’t like my reply
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
🚨 personal/professional news klaxon After a very, very busy news day it feels fitting to say this is my last weekend at Insider as a fellow. From next weekend, i’m being promoted to junior reporter ✨
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
@blackpoppies14 Hi Stephen, I'm a journalist at The Independent and I'd love to talk to you about this, I've popped you a DM. Thanks!
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
25-year-old Alex Sanchez also spoke about his vasectomy. He told Insider that he was “devastated” at the Supreme Court ruling. He saw a tweet saying 'If you're considering getting a vasectomy, now's the time to get one,' and his decision was made.
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
Workers are still expected to work through extreme weathers. They can take time off, but only within the restrictions of their allotted leave. If they have no spare days to take, they have to come in during a tornado.
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
Thanks for the ego boost LinkedIn, but I don’t think I’m quite there yet
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
Dubilewski told Andriy he needed to hide his ID — to tell border enforcement that he lost it — and flee as soon as possible. After seven hours, they found a place on a train bound for the border with Poland. But first came the dreaded document checks.
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I’m going to make them debate it out
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
@AdaHubrig Would finding the ingredients online (from the retailer) and citing that be possible?
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
In a statement to me, @stonewalluk said "Trans people exist, which has been settled in law in the UK since 2004, and they should not be subjected to degrading 'debates' about whether their identities are real or an 'ideology.'”
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
Milestone in my writing career: my mum sent me an article she thought I’d like, and it was written by me
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
@ruskin147 I too am calmed by cheese
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
Fake abortion clinics now number real ones 3 to 1, with about 2600 of them in the USA. Their websites contain false information about the risks of abortion, and aim to get women to give birth to foetuses they plan to abort.
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
allow me to blow my own trumpet for a second, but a few years ago i remember having a little cry about never being able to be a journalist because i’m just too ill, and now i get to write about disability (and 100 other things) and have it read by millions. how mad and sexy
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Bethany Dawson
1 year
Good morning! In a sentence that still feels slightly unbelievable, today is my first day at POLITICO as a news reporter. I’m jumping into the UK politics beat and couldn’t be happier about it 😎
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3 years
And what to do during a tornado makes her and Cari, another worker I spoke to, feel unsafe: get across the five-football-field-long warehouse, and hide in a bathroom. There, there's no falling merchandise.
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
Morning other freelancers it’s okay if you don’t get 2,700 commissions and a Pulitzer today, if it’s slow it’s not because you’re rubbish xxx
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
Fuck, and I say this with my whole chest, this I developed horrific chronic pain as a 13 year old. I felt completely alone in my illness and was suicidal. I had a tiny tumblr blog to talk about it. Doctors told me I was being dramatic about my pain and was making it up (1/2)
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
Freddy McConnell ( @freddymcconnell ) spoke to me about the “distress” of seeing letters published in The Times about him and his identity, using the wrong pronouns and speaking ill of his family
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
Sanchez now wants to change the stigma of vasectomies and open the conversation about them. After speaking up about his procedure, he said women have thanked him and friends have gone to book their own vasectomies.
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
spent my lunch break working on this really vital instagram infographic. share with a friend in need x
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
@freddymcconnell spoke about what trans people want from the press: "Really, we want nothing. It's not because we're trying to hide anything. It's because there's literally nothing to talk about. We're just completely normal, boring people”
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
i’m turning off notifications for this but if his girlfriend sees this DM me and i’ll buy you a coffee
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Bethany Dawson
2 years
The increased conversation on vasectomies is bittersweet, @esgarmd said: “We celebrate the fact that that's happening, but we are heartbroken with the fact that it was a consequence of taking the rights of an individual”
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
Two of my favourite people ever were supposed to be married in 2 and a half hours, but we’ll be waiting until we’re out of tier 4 now. Or I’ll get ordained and marry them in the kitchen. To my mum and her almost wife 🥂
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Bethany Dawson
1 year
pizza express after the coronation is the absolute biggest serve and i can’t explain why but i’m right
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Rory Stewart
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And now for some food..
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Bethany Dawson
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He said it was "even smoother than I thought it would be," adding that it was quick and painless, the most annoying aspect being that he couldn't ride his bike for a few weeks.
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
PITCH: invite trans people to talk on trans rights, and give them actual safe spaces to do so
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Peston
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Joining @Peston & @AnushkaAsthana is Labour MP @RosieDuffield1 We’ll discuss ⬇️ 💷 Rising cost of living ⛴ P&O ferries 🏳️‍🌈 Labour and trans rights 💻 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝟵𝗣𝗠 @itvpeston 📺 𝟭𝟬𝟰𝟱 𝗣𝗠 @itv #Peston
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Pitching the story vs writing the story
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. @IndiaWilloughby - who was previously a panellist on Loose Women told me that "The intensity of the hate has been ratcheted up so highly by mainstream media that it's rendered [trans people] unemployable.”
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
she’s had the vaccine, and now my mum has given the all clear from cancer in her fourth annual check 💕
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
If three households can mix at Christmas, why couldn’t I have seen my Grandad at Yom Kippur? Why couldn’t my friends have been with their families on Eid?
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
Looking at the effects of negative representations of transphobia, a study published in 2021 found that repeated exposure to transphobic content has "clinically significant" symptoms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD
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Bethany Dawson
1 year
border control expert is a really weird way to say former UKIP leader
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“I simply don’t see people’s patience lasting much longer”. Border Control Expert Henry Bolton says the ‘failure’ of Home Office planning and consultation is causing rising tensions between migrants and local communities. @TVKev | @_HenryBolton
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Quick shout out to my dad who, when I was 13 and found feminism, told me women’s body hair was gross and would not be too receptive to my feminist rants. A few months ago he sent me a copy of @CCriadoPerez ’s “Invisible Women” and asked to read it after me. Character development?
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
My brother has Down’s syndrome. When we were tiny I remember watching Something Special with him, and there was a boy with DS talking to the camera. My brother was so excited and was going “he’s like me he’s like me!”. Everyone deserves to see themselves represented accurately.
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
I, a c-section baby, am not a human
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@river_medway Gender is a fact Every human on earth came out of a vagina #IStandWithJKRowling
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Bethany Dawson
3 years
The absolute fear that I feel as someone who will have 0 immune system, knowing that in 2 months people will not need to self isolate with COVID, cannot be put into words
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Bethany Dawson
4 years
In the best news, my brother has been offered the vaccine 🎉
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Bethany Dawson
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My brother (who, for context, has Down's) saw Jo Brand in a supermarket and went up to her, stood about 30cm from her face and said "you are Jo Brand off the television." They ended up having a chat for a few minutes about her job and what they were going to buy. Very nice!
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What’s your favorite interaction you’ve had with a celebrity?
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Bethany Dawson
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@tomhfh Tom are you upset you weren’t invited
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