julie dixon

DVA Chair. Trustee @ Just Good Friends. Lifelong Carer. Semi Retired convert😎

[Renée Hoenderkamp @DrHoenderkamp]

The BMJ should be ashamed of their article calling for this barbarity to be normalised… I was repulsed and angry in equal measure.

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

So well written.. Oliver you rock

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

Hey @elonmusk the AI on your own platform says you are the biggest spreader of misinformation on here

Repost so everyone sees the truth about Elon posts

[BBC Radio 4 Today @BBCr4today]

"You can't physically chuck a 13-year-old over a school gate and say: ‘Go on, get in.’"

Actor Anna Maxwell Martin, who's navigated the SEND system as a parent, tells #R4Today that attitude is just as important as funding to help support children with special educational needs.

[Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonLD]

📝Yesterday I submitted my petition demanding the removal of the 9:30am start time for disabled bus passes.

❌Disabilities don’t start at 9:30am & neither should disabled bus passes.

🤝Thanks to organisations supporting this campaign. Together, we’ll break down these barriers!

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Please repost so we can shame her ass back into a cave…

[Tanni Grey-Thompson @Tanni_GT]

PIP still isn’t an out of work benefit. Can people stop confusing it.

[Tanni Grey-Thompson @Tanni_GT]

PIP is not an in or out of work benefit. It’s a qualifying one. Would be good if people understood this. It needs proper reform

[julie dixon @Msjuliedee]

@Serena_Partrick Sick fuck

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Genuinely intrigued to know how St John Ambulance came up with the stats to show that 'people with breasts are less likely to receive bystander help'.
Did they look at the data, see that women were less likely to receive help and decide that our breasts were the reason?

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

I stand with @jessphillips. Do please reTWEET if you do, too. This is beyond party politics now. It’s about whether as a nation we still have self-respect. #IStandWithJess

[julie dixon @Msjuliedee]

@elonmusk Says the man who supports a convicted sexual abuser.

[Jenny Eclair @jennyeclair]

Can we look at this now - can we give this absolute horror some attention please

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

I took Emmy out Christmas shopping yesterday & we went to a cafe.

There were 4 teenage girls sitting at a table. When Emily walked past them they recoiled in horror and started laughing and making “oh my god” comments.

I don’t know if Emily noticed.

Maybe for her the abnormal cruelty from strangers that is so normalised now by social media, and off social media, that she just takes it in her stride.

But I noticed and I do wonder.

I wonder how so many with obviously less than perfect hearts and thought patterns themselves, rationalise their cruelty as legitimate whilst they focus on superficialities like body shape and facial perfection and ageing - particularly for women.

I wonder when did we stop telling our children not to point, make comments or laugh at people who are different to them?

Is it since their parents took to sitting on social media & doing so for hours?

Is that who we are now?

Emily may not fit a mould with her learning disability.

She may not feature as a priority for in deed it could be argued she’s a target for MP’s, legislators, bureaucrats, comedians or social media influencers; but Emily would never judge or hate anyone on the colour of their skin, sexuality, sex, disability or age.

Emily really does meet the world with open arms.

I wish more people did that.

Happy Christmas.

#LearningDisability

[PumpkinsandPost-Its @2ndtimeMama]

Today whilst most people across the world indulged in Black Friday sales - Liz started a new journey. Her body arrived at Glasgow University where she will spend three years, giving medical students the best opportunity to know more about her disease.

She was passionate about doing this. She ate and drank even when feeling extremely sick to make sure she met the criteria to go. Liz wasn’t scared of dying but she was scared of leaving us - and especially Mateo - behind. In her death she was determined to do everything she could to ensure other siblings get to stay together.

We are determined to help her to do this and are on a mission to raise as many funds as we can to fund vital research and support for others with Desmoplastic Round Cell Tumour.

If you can please donate to help us stop other young people dying too soon. If everyone who sees the post donates just £1 we could make such a difference.

Ideas for fund raising activities and offers of help also very welcome. We will make the difference Liz wants us to make, even if it takes a lifetime.

If you can’t donate please help us by liking, sharing or commenting on this post in the hope that others will see it. Together we can make a difference.

https://t.co/iSsJO84jB0

(Photo taken by the fab @rheathcote )

[Derbyshire Voluntary Action @dva_info]

Calling all community spaces across Derbyshire

This will be a great event to join our free network supporting and connecting community hubs
Fri 6 Dec 10:30 AM - 3:00 PM: Derbyshire Community Hubs Network Christmas Connecting Event: for a…
https://t.co/mnjENWCdky

[Milli Hill @millihill]

One of the only surviving founders of breastfeeding organisation La Leche League has written a letter of resignation today, citing LLL's insistence on including 'breastfeeding men'. Marian Tompson is in her 90s and warns us we are losing our way. Link in my bio or on the tile.

[Tony Kent @TonyKent_Writes]

This is the Shadow Justice Secretary.

In his very first tweet in the role, he has chosen to lie to you.

Keir Starmer did not let Jason Hoganson out early. Hoganson was serving for domestic violence. DV is specifically excluded from the ‘release on 40% of sentence’ scheme that Starmer’s government has introduced.

As a result, he was released at 50% of sentence instead. Which has been the release provisions for quite some time.

Anyone want to guess whose party introduced 50% release?

These lying fuckers just cannot be trusted.

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

Paralympic champion Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson to lead new group of experts tasked with improving air travel for disabled passengers

https://t.co/ww7pLub4ps