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Hat (they/them)

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Activist, artist and researcher. Interested in experiences of the menstrual cycle, disability and trauma. Mad, queer, autistic 🦈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #StopOxevision

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Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · Aug 19

New article: Menstruation is undoubtedly an important consideration when evaluating the physical well-being of patients in eating disorder treatment. However, the focus must go beyond simply equating the return of menstruation with health and recovery link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Experiences of menstrual health and amenorrhoea in eating disorder inpatient units in England: a subgroup analysis from a lived experience led, qualitative study - Journal of Eating Disorders

Background Although no longer specified within the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa, the prevalence of menstrual disturbances among patients with eating disorders is well-documented. However, ...

link.springer.com

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Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · 14h

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That's so frustrating! I've actually never had problems with this GP before this week, I usually just do the online form and get an appointment a day or so later depending on if it's urgent. I suspect they're overwhelmed by the new triage thing and are sending patients elsewhere as a solution?

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Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · 16h

Whatever this new GP triage system is, it's really not working because they told me to go to A&E for a really really minor issue and then the person wouldn't speak on the phone because she wasn't medical, so I guess the options are getting called a time waster in A&E or "hope for the best" ??

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 1d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · 3d

Sharing my banner here as I haven't been well enough to go to any of the pride events near me this year (and they're not very accessible to me) but I will still share the rage, pride, joy and grief from afar

Placard reads: PROTECT TRANS AND DISABLED LIVES against a trans pride flag with the colours of the disability pride flag overlayed in a diagonal across the placard

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david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social · 4d

All the evidence from Labour conference points in one direction: More cuts to disability benefits

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/all-the-evid...

Via @johnpring.bsky.social

All the evidence from Labour conference points in one direction: More cuts to disability benefits

Information from Labour ministers and other party sources has shown beyond any doubt that the government is preparing for further attempts to cut spending on disability benefits over the next 12 mo…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 6d

This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter:

A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare

Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

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Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · 6d

Mad love ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️

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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 6d

Lampard Inquiry update: the Oxevision hearings due to be held in May have been rescheduled for the 13th and 14th October. This includes pre-recorded oral evidence given by Stop Oxevision and live hearings with a member of Oxehealth / LIO, and EPUT head of strategy, and digital

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Nell @nellh.bsky.social · 7d

Such an important article from @researchpixie.bsky.social et al

More time and research needed into this neglected area

Eva Naprika @evanaprika.bsky.social · 7d

Institutional Abuse, Neglect and Harm in UK Community Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review of the Peer‐Reviewed Evidence - Edwards - 2025 - Health Expectations - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Institutional Abuse, Neglect and Harm in UK Community Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review of the Peer‐Reviewed Evidence

Background Statutory guidance relating to the prevention of institutional abuse, neglect and harm does not reflect the contemporary organisation of UK community mental health services. Historical as...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8d

i wouldn't call myself an expert on capitalism or anything but this does indeed seem like something of a problem

CNN @cnn.com · 8d

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a recent report.

Most companies aren’t seeing a return on AI investments. This tech CEO wants to change that | CNN Business

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month. O...

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 9d

It shouldn't need to be said, but your value as a fellow human being is not whether you are financially productive or whether you avoid claiming benefits. Image created by @ritb.bsky.social

I am a valuable member of society, in sickness and in health, regardless of whether I am able to work or volunteer. My value as a human being is not dependent on my financial contribution to the economy.
Recoveryinthebin.org

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 10d

www.jaacap.org/article/S089... Some Clinicians fret over how to spot the difference between autistic stimming (joyful, self-regulating) and the terrifying dread of OCD. Unable to envisage *asking autistic people*, they are hopeful that there will be a scientific test to tell them the answer.
Sigh.

Autism Spectrum Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Conundrum

In this issue, Pereira et al. conduct a systematic review, exploring the complex, often confusing, relationship between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), two comm...

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Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · 11d

Ooh yeah good idea! I had wondered about using the little pottery bits for a mosaic but I'd be nervous to use them I think!

Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · 12d

People always ask what I do with it. I just carefully sort it into colours and keep it in many different jars (my lifelong favourite activity of ✨sorting things into piles✨)

Jars of sea glass sorted into colours, lots of white/seafoam, green. Some brown. Much less red and blue.

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Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · 12d

Who wants to see some of my summer sea glass hauls? (I'm showing you anyway). The two photos of the sorted sea glass are each from just one day's collection at Charmouth (two separate days) 🌀💎

White skinned hand holding a jar of sea glass in blues, pink, red and bright green

Lots of pots and dishes of sea glass sorted into colour. There is lots of green and white but only a few blue pieces

A mix of sea glass in a sieve, mostly green, white and brown

Sea glass sorted into colours, there is loads of white and green, less brown and just a few bits of blue, yellow and red. Also some bits of coloured pottery and a tiny fossil

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Asylum Magazine @asylummagazine.bsky.social · 14d

www.medact.org/2025/blogs/t...

Healthcare as a site of violence

Towards abolishing borders and violence in healthcare - Medact

An abolitionist approach to health offers a vision where care is accessible to all, and violence no longer defines the systems that affect our wellbeing.

www.medact.org

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Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · 14d

This is so lovely ❤️

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Ellen Jones | 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Outrage @ellenjones.bsky.social · 16d

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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Michael Brown OBE 🌍 @mentalhealthcop.bsky.social · 18d

NEW BLOG - "And Here We Go Again"

Less than a week after assurances the police will always respond to "immediate risk" incidents, another Preventing Future Death report showing they didn't.

mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/a...

And Here We Go Again

Last weekend The Times newspaper published three articles about the Right Care, Right Person programme – it’s fair to say the immediate social media response to that was interesting, includin…

mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com

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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 19d

We’re honoured!

Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 19d

Fab activism Honour: Stop Oxevision
Stop Oxevision is a brilliant, thorough, well researched campaign to highlight the use of Oxevision, a patient monitoring system consisting of an infrared sensor and camera, which can be used to observe patients remotely

#RITBhonours

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Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · 19d

I hope the soft, delicate fabric shows the precarity of disability protest and softness of the care we give one another in the space where a possible answer to this question lies in the ways we build care and community. (Doing our best to) protect ourselves and each other as an act of resistance.

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Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · 19d

Through trying to fight for disability justice and being harmed in the process, I kept finding myself asking the same question over and over: how do we protect ourselves from the very institutions, from healthcare to welfare, which are meant to protect us as yet perpetuate the greatest harm?

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Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · 19d

I was giving evidence on behalf of @stopoxevision due to last minute changes the hearings will probably (yet to be confirmed) be heard in October.

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Hat (they/them) @hatporter.bsky.social · 19d

Amongst the horrors of this year, this artwork came from my experience of giving evidence to the Lampard Inquiry, a public inquiry investigating the deaths of over 2000 people under Essex mental health services – each of whom was catastrophically failed by the very institution meant to protect them.

Photo of a sheer fabric artwork hanging from a washing line with a white wall and blue sky in the background.

The artwork is a sheer white fabric with text stitched in red and green fabric. The text reads: HOW DO WE PROTECT OURSELVES FROM THOSE WHO FAIL TO PROTECT US. As the fabric is sheer, the text can be read clearly in the shadow of the artwork. In this image the words PROTECT US are very clear in the shadow..

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