Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️

Freelance journalist: health and social care, inequalities and women's topics with interest in parenting. Women's health advocate. ADHD and endometriosis.

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

I'm building my followers as I transition from working in youth mental health to women's health advocacy. Personal exp. ADHD, endo, maternity. Broad interests across the sector. Writer, speaker, trainer/facilitator. Open to collaborations and new projects.

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

@dannyb4175 Thanks for your kind comments!

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@RachelCDailey Went to the press preview on Wed (HMU if you know of anyone who might like a freelance piece). It was very well curated!

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@vagina_museum Alas, alos Barcelona

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Yesterday I was excited to attend the press preview of 'Endometriosis: into the unknown' @vagina_museum. It was a wonderful exhibition in collaboration with amazing people @OxfordEndoCaRe . It was thought-provoking(go) and gave me lots of article ideas I need to find homes for!

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

I'm really excited to be attending the press preview of this, but still looking for a home for my pitch around it. Leads very welcome! #JournoRequest #Network #JournoFriends

[Vagina Museum @vagina_museum]

Our exhibition Endometriosis: Into the Unknown opens this November. It will take you on a voyage of discovery from the basics of endometriosis to the cutting edge of research, exploring myths and the reality of living with the condition along the way. https://t.co/UK6MJrGwsR

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

@AlisonStine @npquarterly Do writers need to be US-based? I have a pitch (not country specific) and am based in the UK. Thanks.

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

#ADHD was only formally recognised in adults in 2008 in the UK. Of COURSE there has been an increase in diagnosis. Of COURSE that means there are more people on medication, but it doesn't have to mean a shortage. Preparedness should have countered that. That feels basic...

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

The irony of the medication fiasco and all of the subsequent negativity when we're only on day 12 of #ADHDAwarenessMonth is not lost on us...

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

This 👇🏻

[ADHD UK @ADHDUKcharity]

IN RESPONSE TO: Philippa Perry: ‘ADHD is now fashionable. Social contagion drives this’.
from today's Times Newspaper. @Philippa_Perry @thetimes @HelenRumbelow #adhd.

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

Who can recommend a good first dictaphone that isn't wildly expensive but has good sound quality, please?

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

#FreelanceJournalists I have a press preview invite, what are the conventions around pitching a piece on it and claiming expenses from commissioning publication?

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@dannydenfisch 👋🏻

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

@DisJournoForum will there be any recorded content available after the event, which I'm not available for?

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

Time to try out Bluesky...I don't have many contacts here, as this account is pretty new, but feeling hopeful, for the sake of my freelance career... #JournoRequest #FreelanceWriter

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

@iwill_molly CYP NOW, or set weekly Google alerts to alert you to news topics featuring certain words

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Which portfolio sites do other writers use? #FreelanceJournalist

[Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @sensorystories_]

Them: You don't look autistic

Me: You don't see it because my autism mostly affects me. I've spent most of my life minimizing the impact it has on others (for them, not for me)... and now you don't see it, but I feel it twice as much

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

"Endometriosis has been described as a disease of the reproductive system, which is why treatments up until now have been limited to hormones or surgical removal. Scientists now know endometriosis is, in fact, a whole-body inflammatory condition."At last! https://t.co/HimqDLVLbu

[Laura Wallis (she/her) 🎗️ @ADHDwriting]

@RoseStokes I only had one of these. It's stark seeing it like this...

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@leslieagarrett @bluedotliving Are you open to international writers? UK with a great story.