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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · 2d

The amazing Christopher Morrison and I are speaking at Summit'25 run about how to optimise access support, and why accessibility is a situational thing.

22nd Oct 2025 @ 11:45am-12:45am in person, London - ££

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Improving Accessibility For Live And Digital Events. - Immersive Experience Network

Learn the tools of making your experience accessible as well as a new paradigm for thinking of events that will open up your experiences to the widest

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 2d

In this week's Household Agony column, the Folklore Agony Aunt helps a reader with their knotty decision over what to do with their household spirits when they move… Subscribe and get all the drama in your inbox! #HouseholdLore🏡 #Folklore #FolkyFriday #spirits liza-frank.com/moving-house... 1/3

Moving House(hold Spirits) | Household Agony!

A reader about to move house asks the Folklore Agony Aunt for tips on how best to manage their household spirits...

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 2d

If you're a #Writer and have a yearning to write the routemaps forward towards a future we'd be proud to leave to the generations that come after us.... Then do come along.

#Thrutopian thinking is wild and broad - and essential

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Love Letters from the Future: Online Writing Retreat — Flowing with Life Events

In what is so often a solitary vocation, writing with others can be deeply empowering and connecting. And when we unite to encourage ourselves and our readers to know, deep in our bones, that another ...

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · 2d

Today's fairytale on Substack is Rapunzel. jenifertoksvig.substack.com/p/rapunzel Don't forget I am gathering in person soon, and you can also book me to gather your fairytale moment online. Details on my website (jenifertoksvig.com)

Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · 2d

Crow! One of my favourites 😀

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 2d

How many words are there where the animal stands in for an entire action?

WOLF: to eat quickly
HOG: to grab and keep more than your share

...I can't think of more. We have animal-plus-preposition, like 'rabbit on', but single-word metaphorical verbs? I love them and propose we create more.

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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 2d

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, the union-led CULT Cymru programme is launching a pioneering initiative that brings together trade unions, employers, government + specialist organisations to tackle the root causes of poor mental health in the creative sector

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Wales’ creative sector unites to tackle poor mental health - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain

On World Mental Health Day 2025, the union led CULT Cymru programme is launching a pioneering initiative that brings together trade unions, employers, government, and specialist organisations to tackl...

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · 3d

20 years ago I wrote a play with a character who stammers, and recently revised it, then wrote this article for speech disfluency charity Stamma. I welcome ideas about how to do a workshop of it with actors who have speech disfluency that we could stream online.
stamma.org/your-voice/l...

Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · 4d

Image alt: five small, brightly coloured cardboard suitcases sit open, displaying little brightly coloured books made of scrap paper.

Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · 4d

The Fairytale Library
20th Oct 2025 @ 2pm-6pm in person, London - FREE

The next in-person gathering of fairytales is at VPN interactive arts fest. Info - voidspacezine.com/12086-2/

Library - jenifertoksvig.substack.com/s/fairytale-...

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · 13d

Theoretical illustrations today on Substack: The Slow Whale. This is an invitation to you to share your drawings, whether or not you think of yourself as an artist. jenifertoksvig.substack.com/p/the-slow-w...

The Slow Whale

Theoretical illustration

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · 19d

I’m just checking everybody knows that tylenol does not cause autism. Everybody actually knows that, right?

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · 27d

Stella Duffy’s gorgeous Chaosbaby Project is my Substack post for today - a few of the many hundreds of photos I took during that process, along with a bit of company singing. jenifertoksvig.substack.com/p/the-chaosb...

The Chaosbaby Project

A collaborative work made in Open Space, founded and led by Stella Duffy

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’m gathering fairytales this afternoon 1-6pm at Side/Step, Colab Tower, South London. It’s free, and takes maybe 30 mins or so. sidestepfestival.squarespace.com

SIDE/STEP FESTIVAL

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today’s Substack post today is a song I crafted from a love letter my grandfather wrote. Music by the brilliant Alexander Rudd and performed by the brilliant Michael D. Xavier. open.substack.com/pub/jenifert...

The Pen Song

A love letter to my grandmother...

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · Aug 18

Today's Substack piece of theoretical theatre is a song by me and composer Alex Rudd. jenifertoksvig.substack.com/p/the-moon-i...

The Moon Instead of You

A Rudd/Toksvig song from 2016

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · Aug 11

Today's Substack post: full script of a short play with a character who stammers. Included today & tomorrow are notes from a consultation I did with the brilliant Nye Russell-Thompson of Stammermouth theatre company about the portrayal of speech disfluency. jenifertoksvig.substack.com/p/tall-storey

Tall Storey

Full script of a short play in verse, with a character who stammers.

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thank you for fighting, and all the work you're doing <3

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · Aug 4

I’m so sorry that I’ve only just seen these. And I’m so sorry theatre has treated you so fucking badly. Thank you for sharing… and I continue to be speechless about how this industry regards access support needs.

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today’s substack is for those who do aerial work… open.substack.com/pub/jenifert...

Sowing the Stars

A story scribed for aerial theatre

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · Jul 28

Barriers to access in theatre are broader than the industry ever acknowledges. Broader than many of us with access support needs acknowledge. I'm posting about this on Substack - come join the conversation. jenifertoksvig.substack.com/p/barriers-t...

Barriers to Theatre

Considerations of accessibility and inclusivity

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · Jul 18

Taking care of our own creativity... come and join me on Substack, where I am finding ways to do just that. jenifertoksvig.substack.com/p/the-wellbe...

The Wellbeing of Creativity

Being a writer on Substack

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · Jul 16

This really is a perfect show. Very strong recommend for anyone who wants a fun, relaxed, entertaining, smart, joyful, engaging evening in a very relaxed and friendly environment that really isn't anything like theatre, and is simultaneously some of the best theatre I have ever seen.

Improbable @improbable1.bsky.social · Jul 15

An exciting announcement...

Following sell out and critical success at the Barbican in 2022 and 2024, an OFFIE Award, and an international stint at ILT Festival in Aarhus, Denmark, Perfect Show For Rachel will be touring the UK through 2025 and 2026!

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Toksvig @toksvig.bsky.social · Jul 8

I have a one-on-one theatre show called The Fairytale Library in which I gather snippets of story from people. Today, I've opened up the Library on Substack. They’re all different, and they remind me of a slightly more gentle version of Post Secret. jenifertoksvig.substack.com/p/the-fairyt...

The Fairytale Library

Immediate, immersive, intimate theatre

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Wayne Smith 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @wayneesmith.bsky.social · Jul 7

An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

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