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kate litman

2 years

‘I can’t lay Alice’s body at the steps of NHS England, but instead I will lay out something of her life, and can only hope that the institutions that failed her will answer for its loss.’ I wrote about Alice’s life and the political conditions of her death

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kate litman

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5 years

my little sister came out to our parents as trans a few weeks ago and my mum just told my gran, who is in her 90s, and she’s been phoning my mum every day since saying ‘so when am i going to meet my granddaughter! i’m so looking forward to meeting her!’, a living LEGEND

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kate litman

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2 years

today i am attending my sister’s funeral. at the time of her death she had spent 1,023 days on the Gender Identity Clinic waiting list and had not yet had her first appointment

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kate litman

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2 years

rot in hell ❤️

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kate litman

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4 years

i knitted a new jumper! it makes me feel like a boiled sweet

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kate litman

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11 months

when my sister died suddenly in traumatic circumstances, our whole world stopped. our friends and neighbours brought us pasta bakes and curries for a month; we were incapacitated. i can't stop thinking about how there is no room for that kind of grieving in Gaza

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kate litman

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7 years

my mum’s so hungover my brother just told her the joke ‘what did the grape say when it got stepped on? nothing, it just let out a little whine’ and she said ‘oh no that’s so sad’ and started crying

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kate litman

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2 years

i will always have questions about alice’s death that i will never be able to find an answer to. one of those is what alice’s future might have looked like if she’d had access to the healthcare she needed and had been treated with dignity by those who owed her a duty of care

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kate litman

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2 years

this is an email my mum sent to the GIC about their waiting list on 22nd may. alice made the decision to end her life four days later in the early hours of the morning on 26th may.

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kate litman

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2 years

like, please leave me alone. every now and again i get random messages and replies about how my sister, who is dead, wasn’t really a woman. there is no level these people won’t stoop to and no circle of hell hot enough

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kate litman

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9 years

my heart goes out to any aspiring dystopian fiction authors who keep having their ideas stolen by the conservative party

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5 years

my sister’s been so nervous about how our grandparents would react and neither of us could have dreamt it would be like this. i’m so proud of them both!!!

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kate litman

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5 years

omg so glad these people said ‘imagine no possessions’ 😌😌😌 hope they tell us how they will be redistributing their wealth soon!

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kate litman

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1 year

i'm so proud of my mum for speaking bravely and beautifully about Alice at the first day of the inquest into her death today. it's hard to come to terms with the malicious replies and the ease with which people mock the death of my sister who i loved so dearly

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

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Alice Litman: Transgender woman not offered care, mum tells inquest

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kate litman

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6 years

donna sheridan is presumably 21 when she graduates. in mamma mia 1 sophie is 20, so donna is 41. in mamma mia 2, sophie says cher is 25 years late to being a grandma, implying 5 years have passed. donna died 1 year ago at 45. what drove her to an early grave? in this essay i will

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kate litman

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2 years

we’re right to name the political conditions of Brianna’s death, and any attempt to paint that as ghoulish or opportunistic is unbelievably cruel. when Alice died my mum was talking about posting her ashes to Rosie Duffield within days

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kate litman

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2 years

i was so glad to make it to trans pride with my parents and my brother on saturday, and so proud to march for Alice 💗

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kate litman

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4 years

my new year’s resolution for 2020 was to knit my first ever jumper after starting to knit in late 2019, and i made so many!

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kate litman

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6 years

if you ever think you’re socially inept, last week in a seminar we had to introduce ourselves by saying one thing we couldn’t live without and i panicked so much that i said ‘kitchen surface cleaning spray’

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kate litman

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8 months

last year 500 deaths were attributable to ambulance delays, only 3 of 125 NHS Trusts met waiting-time targets for cancer patient referrals, and NHS workers went on strike over low pay and unmanageable working conditions. but good to see labour focus on the 'priority issues' 👍

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️

@LeftieStats

8 months

🚨 BREAKING: Labour will ban trans women from female hospital wards, says Wes Streeting. Labour would ban all trans patients from "single-sex" wards, instead putting them in separate wards solely for trans people. Streeting says this is a "priority" for Labour. (Via Sky News)

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kate litman

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4 years

it’s actually repugnant that the royal family looked at a murdered woman and saw a great opportunity for some reputation laundering, seeing the clips of saintly kate drifting among mourners interspersed with images of police violence is making me want to throw up

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kate litman

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1 year

i’m screaming at this, yougov said why can’t gay people drive

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kate litman

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7 years

i love student living

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kate litman

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2 years

my beautiful sister alice died by suicide last night. here she is at her 'gender reveal party' and after she shaved her head - i couldn't believe how much she looked like me. i loved her so much, and it breaks my heart that she was in so much pain

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kate litman

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11 months

i'm attending the trans day of remembrance vigil in soho this evening where i'll be speaking about my sister's death. in the 2 minutes silence i'll also think of the 13,000 palestinians who have been killed in the last few weeks and everyone who is grieving them

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kate litman

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10 years

#ThingsToLeaveIn2014 boys who think it's their job to police how girls and women dress http://t.co/5OaEiDrMpz

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kate litman

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1 year

my family and i were glad to go on GMB this morning to speak about the inaccessibility of trans healthcare, how it contributed to Alice’s death and the transformation we believe is possible if GPs are empowered to provide gender-affirming healthcare

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'If you were referred today, you'd actually be waiting for over 20 years.' The family of a young trans woman who took her own life while waiting for her first appointment with a specialist have called for changes to the trans healthcare system, which they described as 'not fit

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kate litman

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2 years

this trans day of remembrance, and every day, I am thinking of my sister Alice who died by suicide on 26th May. she lived in a world which made her life a battleground for a culture war and denied her the medical care she needed

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kate litman

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2 years

@gender_endtimes yes that’s okay, thank you for asking ❤️

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kate litman

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1 year

my parents speaking beautifully about how much they loved Alice, and the conditions of hostility towards trans people that contributed to her death

‘She just wanted to live how she wanted to’: couple mourn their trans daughter

Alice Litman, 20, was facing a five-year wait for a gender identity assessment when she died. Her parents say a complete overhaul of trans care is needed

www.theguardian.com

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kate litman

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7 years

how i plan to conclude all my essays from now on

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kate litman

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2 years

it's impossible to forget that my sister Alice died partly because of of the inaccessibilty of potentially lifesaving medical care and widespread hostility to trans people. we are raising money for @allsortsyouth and @Genderintell in her memory ❤️

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kate litman

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11 months

i'm so proud of my mum for reckoning with her own experience of unlearning transphobia. she has always been led by her unconditional love for me and my siblings, something i know Alice knew before she died

Caroline Litman@alicemydaughter

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11 months

#TransAwarenessWeek 🧵Trigger warning: suicide I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice. Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was fifteen, to her sister, Kate a year later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/

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kate litman

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2 years

i guess my point is don’t deny the families of dead trans people our own political consciousness. don’t paint us as ‘normal grieving families’ who are being misrepresented by radical queers. ours is the same fight

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kate litman

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8 months

'I'm not really interested in who comes out on top after the latest round of juvenile verbal sparring in the House of Commons. I am interested in material improvements to the lives of trans people.'

Sister of trans woman who died awaiting gender-affirming care criticises Sunak | ITV News

The prime minister has come under pressure to apologise for accusing Sir Keir Starmer of having difficulty in 'defining a woman'. | ITV National News

www.itv.com

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kate litman

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9 years

how clueless cis boys think vaginas work versus how vaginas actually work

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kate litman

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5 years

huge victory for me and all women as a man snatches my suitcase at the station to carry it up the steps for me, manages 3 steps before crashing it back down, exclaims ‘fucking hell what do you have in there’, and i pick it back up and bound up the stairs with a skip in my step

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kate litman

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5 years

submitted my dissertation on lesbian mothers, child custody struggles, criminalisation and state surveillance today!!!! i’m actually so proud of this piece of work

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7 years

october 31st vs november 1st

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6 years

oh so when an image of the virgin mary cries randomly and silently opens and closes its eyes in response to people talking to her it’s a ‘miracle’ and you have to build a chapel in her honour, but when i do it i ‘have no interpersonal skills’ and am ‘ruining christmas dinner’

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6 years

say hello to charlie, the WIND UP CLOWN DOLL my grandfather bought me before he died and i was forced to keep on my bedside table throughout my childhood. sometimes the gears would catch and it would stop playing only to start of its own accord in the middle of the night

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kate litman

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1 year

i don’t think i ever shared this tattoo i got for alice - a toy handbag which i had as a toddler and passed on to her. to me it’s about the joy of our shared childhoods and a celebration of transfemininity

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kate litman

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2 years

i wanted to share this section from my eulogy for Alice, which i read at her funeral

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kate litman

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2 years

there will be an inquest into Alice’s death on 31st August. We want the coroner to consider the absence of functioning trans healthcare as a factor in her death, and make recommendations to stop future preventable deaths. Can anyone help us get started with this?

kate litman

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2 years

today i am attending my sister’s funeral. at the time of her death she had spent 1,023 days on the Gender Identity Clinic waiting list and had not yet had her first appointment

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2 years

I wanted to share my full speech for Alice at the Trans Day of Remembrance vigil in soho today ❤️

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1 year

at the inquest into Alice’s death today, the coroner found that services providing healthcare for trans people are ‘underfunded and insufficiently resourced for the level of need that the society we live in now presents’

Alice Litman inquest: Transgender services are underfunded, coroner says

Alice Litman took her own life after waiting almost three years for an NHS clinic appointment.

www.bbc.co.uk

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8 years

you can't 'promote homosexuality' because it's not an ideology, you can just make sad lonely queer kids want to die less

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3 years

students! if you enjoy the ‘buzz of campus life’ you might like to try the buzz of the picket line

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3 years

NEW: The Russell Group of Universities has said industrial action by staff over #pension cuts "will only penalise students who are enjoying the buzz of campus life after a challenging 18 months and will not change the fact that reform is needed" to the #USS pension scheme.

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8 years

just witnessed a 6 y/o abruptly stop walking along the pavement, drop onto all fours and yell 'I WANNA BE A BABY AGAIN'. hugely relatable.

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2 years

i can’t bear that i will keep getting older and older and alice will always have died at 20, that i will live four more of her lifetimes, that we were supposed to have the rest of our lives to get closer to each other and instead i will spend mine getting further away from her

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6 years

i’ve spent this mother’s day working on my dissertation on lesbian mothers and child custody struggles in britain in the 1970s/80s, when judges systematically ruled against lesbian mothers because of their lesbianism. i think it’s something more people should know about!

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4 years

so humbling to be happily chatting away to my Y7 class and then notice that in the chat they’re saying ‘have one of you muted her’, ‘is anyone going to tell her she’s been muted’, ‘i think she’s trying to talk’

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6 years

listen i'm not interested in 'it's 2005 in the second movie why do they all have the latest iphone', i AM interested in 'donna was 21 in 1979 which means she was born in 1957/58, cher had her love affair with fernando in 1959, leaving a 1 year old baby to have a fling in mexico'

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kate litman

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3 years

found out today that i got a scholarship to start my MA in social and cultural history at leeds 🥳🥳🥳 i’m hoping to research public anxieties about sex in men’s prisons in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

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2 years

@uncanny_eli the first one… i’m about to say something so cancellable

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5 years

recently i panicked in a round of ‘share a fact about yourself’ & said i was allergic to watermelon (a lie) & then for the rest of the 3 day conference they served watermelon (a delicious snack which i love) at every meal & i couldn’t eat it bc i was faking a watermelon allergy

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9 years

a mentally ill person: [jokes about their mental illness as a coping mechanism] a neurotypical person: STOP ROMANTICISING SERIOUS DISORDERS

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4 years

i would be wary about donating to unspecified ‘women’s causes’ when we know how mainstream feminism can work hand in hand with the carceral state, it doesn’t feel great to me to be asking for money before you decide and announce where it will be going

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Update: We are sorry to confirm that our Clapham vigil scheduled for tonight is cancelled. Please see the full statement here. Instead, we are fundraising £320,000 for women's causes: £10K for every proposed fine for the 32 vigils originally scheduled.

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9 years

it's not a compliment if a man hates other women but loves you

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2 years

Alice would have been 21 today ❤️ she was beautiful and should have had so many more birthdays

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7 years

72% of young people turned out to vote, up from just 43% in 2015! WE DID THIS and i'm so proud of us 🌹💪🏼❤️🍞

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2 years

she was an amazing dancer, she would laugh and laugh playing video games, when she played rugby as a kid she skipped up and down the pitch, she talked about working in film one day, she was sweet and sensitive, her humour was never unkind, i used to tell her bedtime stories

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3 years

need to tidy this up a lot but have been trying to turn a keith haring print into a knitting chart!

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5 years

@SeojoJidai love to you and your grandma 💖💖

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8 years

just witnessed my 89 y/o gran rip up a carefully written xmas letter & declare 'frankly i don't want to hear anything that man's got to say'

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3 years

i got my feedback for my first essay for my masters 🥺🥺🥺🥺

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7 years

was it really that funny? i even spelt wine wrong

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4 years

for everyone asking the pattern is ‘i see your two colours’ by a norwegian brand called pickles! the construction seems bizarre at first but it all works out. also follow my knitting instagram lol @/katesknitting

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5 years

what if you’ve contracted a strain of the pneumonic plague thought to have died out in 1382 that will kill you in days unless you seek out the cure in an ancient textbook hidden inside a university faculty building, then is it okay to cross a picket line?

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7 years

'manages to hold on to'??? she TRIUMPHED with a majority of 35,000 and 75% of the votes you scummy racist rag

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2 years

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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today, my sister Alice would have been 22. on the second anniversary of her death in May i’ll be running 100km from london to brighton. i'm raising money for @INQUEST_ORG , who support families & campaign where someone has died a state-related death

Donate in memory of Alice

Help Kate Litman raise money to support INQUEST

www.justgiving.com

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6 years

you, broke: sandra bullock not being able to see in bird box is a rip off of emily blunt not being able to hear in a quiet place me, woke: put anne hathaway in a movie where she dies if she smells anything so she has to pinch her nose and talk in a funny voice for two hours

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2 years

I will never forget that Alice could still be here, and will always name the political conditions which made her life feel unliveable. to build a world in which Alice could have imagined a happy future for herself will be the work of my lifetime

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5 years

I FINISHED CAMBRIDGE !!!!!!!

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7 years

whenever i read a book in the bath i always forget & put a hand in the water & can’t turn the pages, so i’ve taken to wearing gloves in the bath because i would NEVER be so foolish as to dip a begloved hand into my bath water. this is the kind of gem 280 ch.s allows me to share

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4 years

i made that!

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1 year

it’s hard to know how to feel after the inquest into Alice’s death. more than anything, i want Alice to come back. i can never have that, but i am glad that the coroner has recognise that the way trans healthcare is managed is in need of desperate reform

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it’s hard to believe it’s been a year since Alice died. today my family and i visited the spot she died and left her a gin & tonic - her favourite

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9 years

'the berlin wall eventually fell in 1989-' 'see you in court'

The Independent

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Taylor Swift is now trying to trademark 'Swiftmas' and '1989'

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8 years

the tories blocked a proposed amendment to make sex ed LGBT inclusive for fear of appearing to promote homosexuality. section 28 anyone?

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2 years

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6 years

hi i, uh, shaved my head

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2 years

acceptance is seen as the final stage of grief, but Alice’s death isn’t something I want to accept. Her death was not inevitable, and in a different world she might have lived. I try to sit with the contingency of Alice’s death; to recall a time when her future was long & certain

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as far as the eye could see, from marble arch to downing street, hundreds of thousands marching for an end to occupation and genocide in palestine 🇵🇸

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1 year

@NewFifeRight14 we clearly disagree on trans healthcare, but denying the circumstances of Alice’s death is beyond the pale. the coroner returned a verdict of suicide and we are tormented by imagining Alice’s state of mind in the final moments of her life.

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5 years

this is the ‘you up’ message dreams are made of

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10 years

girls: [detailed explanation of the patriarchy and systematic oppression of women] guys: okay but why do i have to pay for dates

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8 years

history is so depressing, the conviction rate for rape in england 1202-1276 was 6% and do you want to know what it is today?? 6%

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7 years

as a young child virginia woolf wrote a newspaper for her street which included love letters &marital advice she imagined adults might write

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7 years

my mum, on lots of flu medication: isn’t it crazy how someone can be a vegetarian their whole life but they’re still made of meat

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3 years

DUP discourse on the timeline will always remind me of when they were going into coalition with the tories in 2017 & my mum made a facebook status saying ‘i will be writing to my MP against this, because my daughter is gay, and so is her ex girlfriend’ and tagged her in the post

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8 years

when half of young LGBT ppl have considered suicide, reluctance to 'promote' homosexuality translates into willingness to let queer kids die

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1 year

i am glad we are able to speak up for Alice and push for changes in trans healthcare that we believe could save lives. what's hard is knowing no amount of campaigning can win us what we really want - to bring Alice back

Campaign for Alice

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1 year

'It's a torture to be left on the wait list for so long, with no end in sight, with no power, no control over your own destiny'. We spoke to @Channel4News about Alice's death and the struggles she faced in accessing healthcare. The whole interview is here:

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8 years

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6 years

made it to the daily mail kids, showing off her undergarments on a wednesday night!!!!!!!

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5 years

i can’t wait to wake up on december 13th and find that a labour government has simply eaten my landlord

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7 years

pettiness level: voting for the worst option in the twitter polls of people i don't like

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5 years

i was trying to explain the differences between the categories ‘twee’, ‘naff’ and ‘tacky’ to my danish housemate and she just started pointing at things i owned and saying ‘so is that naff? or is that tacky?’ 😞😞

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when i started at my school the boys kept asking me what football team i supported and i was like ‘uhhh idk, i like marcus rashford who does he play for’ which they took to mean that i fancied him so now every time they see me they’re like ‘alright miss, how are you and marcus!’

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