
Gemma Williams
@bloody_spoonie
Research Fellow, Birmingham City University
PhD student - Periods in a Pandemic: menstrual health and Covid-19
Project lead @PandemicPeriod
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English can be very gendered, and this can mean that we sometimes use language that can make non-binary people feel excluded or unwelcome, even when we don’t mean to.
Below are some examples of easy ways that you can use language that includes everyone.
#NonBinaryAwarenessWeek


🚨 New Study Alert! 🚨 We are excited to announce our latest study on transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people and negative experiences with healthcare providers 🌈🔬 #TPSResearch
Learn about participants' experiences with healthcare providers: ow.ly/NlOG50P83FQ


Nikita Aashing Chadha from Cysters 🎗 #BlackLivesMatter talks about how #endometriosis is bounded by heteronormative, colonial, classics, ableisitc, AND neuronomorative power dynamics.
📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢
#RefamingEndo


Thankful for hybrid conferences! Really great for those of us who have chronic health conditions/disabilities in terms of accessibility 🙌
Well done #ReframingEndo conference for doing this set up. More like this please!


Our first speaker at #ReframingEndo is Jaipreet Virdi who is talking about the value and importance of disability theories and approaches to understanding and reframing #endometriosis as a chronic illness.


'Transpeople are often an afterthought in the context of healthcare ' - Oliver Wain at #ReframingEndo (co-author of the “There needs to be care throughout” report Scottish Trans Waverley Care
#endometriosis
scottishtrans.org/wp-content/upl…


“Who knows how many trans people have had to choose sterilization in order to access #endometriosis care?”
We need more research and statistics on trans people with this disease. And gender affirming care.
#ReframingEndo

'There is power in seeing ourselves in stories'
Author Karen Havelin
Please Read This Leaflet Carefully
Buy this book! 💛
#ReframingEndo


'Endometriosis does not discriminate'
Rizwana Roomaney absolutely spot on 👏👏👏
#ReframingEndo

'There needs to be care throughout.'
'The research gap is real...Bring minoritised people into the space to close the gap.'
'We know identity impacts healthcare.'
#ReframingEndo 💛🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💛


Takeaways from Panel 1 #ReframimgEndo 'We need to listen to the past to understand the present...and move the conversation on' 💛
Excellent, thought provoking start to the day 👏

The fantastic Birmingham Conservatoire is the setting for the in-person part of #ReframingEndo conference 6&7 July
Free period products too! 🙌



TOMORROW! Can't wait for this - first in person conference since January 2020... and at my university, so nice and local #ReframingEndo
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british…

NEW Tool for Clinicians – Menopause in ethnic minority women, developed with BMS member, Dr Shashi Prasad GP & certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician, who is passionate about menopause awareness & improving care among ethnic minority women bit.ly/4616o0a



After successfully intimidating Oxfam International @BritishLibrary and others to withdraw support for trans people, the GC movement are now trying to bully the NHS into allowing patients to refuse treatment by anyone who’s trans. Imagine if that was Black or Gay. nhsconfed.org/publications/l…