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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage

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📚 Author of Outrage: Why LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won And What We Can Do About It 💜 Award-winning strategist & speaker 🏳️‍🌈 Autistic lesbian 🐶 Probably petting a dog

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · Dec 27

My book Outrage is a @foylesforbooks.bsky.social top read for January 2025 💕 www.foyles.co.uk/further-read...

www.foyles.co.uk

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · 18d

A study of nearly 2.5 million children in Sweden last year found no causal link between exposure to paracetamol and the risk of autism.

What the data says, in some ways, won't matter. Trump, RFK Jr and all of the MAGA lot have no vested interest in truth and they never have.

Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · 18d

Tonight, Trump and RFK Jr will announce that folinic acid (leucovorin) is a 'treatment' or 'cure' for autism.

Dr Oz was made Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Guess whose business bought in a load of folinic acid to sell?

Is it Dr Oz's?! Yes, of course it is.

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · 19d

The autistic community have been here before, with the pervasive myth that vaccines caused autism.

Do you know what that caused? Dead children, killed by preventable diseases because people were so scared of their children becoming autistic, or otherwise subjected to ‘cures’ like drinking bleach.

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · 19d

Tomorrow Trump will announce the ‘cause’ of autism, something he says is ‘out of control’. He also doesn’t care if (read: that) what he says is wrong.

Autism isn’t out of control, but ableism is.

Autism isn’t out of control, but eugenics are.

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · Aug 6

The decision by M&S to apologise to transphobes legitimises their bigotry and essentially tells all staff and customers they are not safe in their stores.

Transphobes won’t be happy until trans people are eradicated from public life and will punish them for doing their jobs effectively, even

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · Aug 6

His wife was recovering from an operation and he needed to get some bras that she could wear while she recovered. I remember really worrying for him as a customer that because of anti trans sentiment he might be put at risk.

Unfortunately it seems neither staff nor customers are safe in M&S

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · Aug 6

On Saturday, before the headlines about the trans employee doing her job and offering customer service, I was in a M&S bra department and there was a man there buying bras.

At one point he came over and asked me for help thinking I worked there
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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · Jul 28

People ask me how I'm managing my hypermobility.

So far, I've been told:

- 'you're not even hypermobile' from every male physio, rheum who was a woman was aghast
- 'you're just drug seeking' by the pain management nurse
- 'have you tried going on the pill?'
- 'have you tried losing weight?'

Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · Jul 28

It didn't occur to me that when people are complaining about queuing, they're complaining about the time being wasted and not in fact the agonising physical pain caused by standing still.

Like, what?! Standing still isn't supposed to hurt? No one told me this!

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · Jul 28

Yes - paperbacks pretty much always come out a year after hardback and I'm currently working on the edits

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · Jul 7

Soz. Opposite of a holiday read 😂

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Caz 💖💜💙 @wabbits.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thought I was pretty well-versed in how horrific things are across the community: @ellenjones.bsky.social keeps reminding me of my ignorance every other page. SEVENTEEN GRAND?! Who has that kind of money?!

Snip taken from p118 of Outrage (Bluebird, 2025) which you should borrow or buy RIGHT NOW 🔥

“Indeed, the average amount for those who had incurred costs associated with their transition was £6,573. Facial feminisation surgery (FFS) is not currently available on the NHS, despite being one of the surgeries trans women and trans feminine people most often seek. This is one of the reasons the average surgery costs for trans women and people on the trans feminine spectrum were significantly higher at £17,276, compared to £7,518 for trans masculine respondents. Stories of trans people skipping meals to pay for medication are not uncommon.

Put simply, the system in the UK is such that trans people are being put into a terrifying predicament: either pay or risk your wellbeing and material safety on a day-to-day basis. As a result, it is often only wealthy or otherwise privileged trans people who are able to transition.”

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · Jun 22

Thank you Nic! Please leave a review in the usual places if you haven't already :)

Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · Jun 20

In a world that actively makes disabled people feel like a burden - including through the removal of essential disability benefits - the passing of the Assisted Dying vote today is devastating.

Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · Jun 17

Me: Do you like swimming?
@lucywebster.bsky.social: I like swimming in five star hotels in hot countries.

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · Jun 1

I ended up in A&E on Friday night after becoming very, very unwell and we know I was very, very unwell because I wasn't even enthusiastic about the concept of a Doctor Who finale.

Me. Not enthusiastic about a Doctor Who finale.

I might as well have been kidnapped.

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · May 31

It should now be fixed!

Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · May 28

Starting Pansy Studios a month ago was such an exercise in proving that actually, I am exceptionally good at what I do.

Just because LGBTQ+ talent (and indeed disabled talent) like me is being systematically deprioritised and devalued, it doesn't mean my work is lesser.

Anyway, hire me. I'm ace.

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · May 28

In 24 hours I've managed to secure coverage of the first production of Twelfth Night by an all trans and non-binary cast & director in Broadway World, The Telegraph, Attitude, Them, Playbill, Metro, Pink News, The Evening Standard and even GB news (points for even getting them to mention trans joy).

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · May 28

So proud to be doing the press, marketing & PR for this ✨

BroadwayWorld @broadwayworld.com · May 28

The veteran actor will lead a one-night livestreamed rehearsal by Trans What You Will on July 25, with proceeds benefiting Not A Phase.

Ian McKellen to Open All-Trans and Non-Binary TWELFTH NIGHT Reading

Sir Ian McKellen, 86, will headline an all-trans and non-binary cast in a one-night rehearsed reading of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at The Space Theatre on July 25, livestreamed worldwide to support the UK trans charity Not A Phase.

www.broadwayworld.com

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · May 24

I say it all of the time but if you need a problem solved, ask a disabled person. We're full time problem-solvers because an inaccessible world is a full-time problem.

I never see it on screen, except in a 'disabled people have superpowers' way. We don't, we're just adept at fighting injustice.

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · May 24

As a disabled writer, nothing brought me more joy than watching this week's Doctor Who episode in which disabled people - and specifically disabled community - are the ones with the clarity and organisation to try to bring down a harmful system.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · May 21

Book recommendations I give at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social tonight plus the Gaylien I was given at Beeston library and the books I bought from 5 Leaves @sachacoward.bsky.social @ellenjones.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social

Hellebore, siblings , the use of photography

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · May 20

If you’re a bookshop or library wanting to cover LGBTQ+ equality right now and giving people tools can I recommended 1. Stocking my book Outrage and 2. Inviting me to speak

Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · May 20

I panic about not having done enough book events all the time. But then I remember I’m literally disabled.

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · May 20

I panic about not having done enough book events all the time. But then I remember I’m literally disabled.