Carys Hughes

M4C PhD student @ UoN researching Indigenous literary activism and North American nature writing. Gardener and Writer (she/her).

[Carys Hughes @carysmadeleine]

Looking forward to joining @Midlands4Cities & @AmCanNotts for my PhD examining North American women’s nature writing, reclaiming Indigenous epistemologies and literary enviornmental activism since the 1970s #M4CWelcome20

[UoN Anti-Casualisation Network @UoNCasuals]

We have long insisted casualisation in HE is inextricably linked with racial inequalities. This is starkly illustrated by @UniofNottingham's decision recruit a TA to convene modules on anticolonial struggle, via a part-time, six-month, casual contract #WeAreUoN

[Carys Hughes @carysmadeleine]

I feel a combination of anger and grief that I am left without answers, and that I must now continue the exhausting labour of continually advocating for my body, even though medical misogyny throws up every roadblock.

[Carys Hughes @carysmadeleine]

Women deserve for their pain to be taken seriously and we deserve to be able to trust medical professionals to be thorough, empathetic, and proactive. My surgeon didn't even show me the photos taken during my surgery even though I had requested them.

[Carys Hughes @carysmadeleine]

Given the conservative estimate that 1 in 10 women have endometriosis, surely we should be dedicating more resources to research, specialist centres, and training?! Instead, gynaecology departments up and down the country aren't equipped to treat patients with this disease.

[Carys Hughes @carysmadeleine]

No woman wants to be diagnosed with endometriosis, and to collectively dismiss women's experiences of pain is at best ignorant, and at worst dangerous. I'm also aware that diagnosis of endometriosis still doesn't offer any great hope of effective treatment or management.

[Carys Hughes @carysmadeleine]

On Tuesday I had a laparoscopy to diagnose endometriosis. I've been dealing with chronic pain for 10 years and I was hopeful for answers. Instead, I awoke to find that my surgeon hadn't even bothered to examine the entirety of my abdominal cavity.

[Carys Hughes @carysmadeleine]

I'm not a medical professional and I'm not an endometriosis expert. I have, however, had to continually advocate for my health over ten years and I have seen and experienced the misogyny of medical professionals first hand.

[Carys Hughes @carysmadeleine]

Endometriosis is a complex disease with lesions that range from obvious darkened spots of disease to mild discolouration of tissue. Some lesions cannot be visualised and require more extensive surgery (laparotomy) to diagnose.

[Carys Hughes @carysmadeleine]

My surgeon wasn't an endometriosis specialist but passionately explained (more to my partner than to me) that "women always think they have endometriosis" and that "endometriosis is incredibly easy to spot". I know from my research that this isn't accurate.

[Richard Siken @richardsiken]

The 20th anniversary edition of Crush will publish in early 2025. Hardcover. With a new introduction by Dana Levin and an afterword by me. Available for preorder now. https://t.co/4twlShVFWa

[🕐HOURLY🕑 shitpost @hourly_shitpost]

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[IASH, Edinburgh @IASH_Edinburgh]

NEW FELLOWSHIP:
The Institute is delighted to announce a new Fellowship aimed at artists and creative practitioners of Palestinian heritage. The Artist at Risk Fellowship will support an artist to spend 2 months as a Visiting Fellow at IASH in May/June/July 2025. 🇵🇸

[Carys Hughes @carysmadeleine]

Wish I could be there - please consider attending if you are able! Alternatively, you can sign the petition in this thread 🐾🦡:

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

"It's the billionaires not the immigrants that have made us poor!"
Graffiti in Merseyside, Liverpool

[Andrew Fisher @FisherAndrew79]

Imagine if we humanised those who drowned at sea crossing the Channel in small boats in the same way we do millionaires on yachts ...

Imagine if every dead Palestinian was named, their life stories told, their tragedy relayed?

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Me proofreading my latest draft

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Please sign our petition to end the Badger cull:

https://t.co/Q6lOmNZaD8