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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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Ben Hunte(@BenInLDN) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'We're speechless'

Exclusive: A leaked government document has exposed transphobic draft policies for UK civil servants.

The new rules will block most trans staff from using single-sex spaces such as toilets, and force staff to accept anti-trans views.

vice.com/en/article/3ak…

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Scottish Trans(@ScottishTrans) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.

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
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The PRIDE Study(@ThePRIDEStudy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 New Study Alert! 🚨 We are excited to announce our latest study on transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people and negative experiences with healthcare providers 🌈🔬

Learn about participants' experiences with healthcare providers: ow.ly/NlOG50P83FQ

🚨 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
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dr alicja pawluczuk(@AlicjaPawluczuk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

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Nikita Aashing Chadha from @cystersgroup talks about how #endometriosis is bounded by heteronormative, colonial, classics, ableisitc, AND neuronomorative power dynamics. 📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢 #RefamingEndo
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Gemma Williams(@bloody_spoonie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thankful for hybrid conferences! Really great for those of us who have chronic health conditions/disabilities in terms of accessibility 🙌

Well done conference for doing this set up. More like this please!

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!
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A/Prof Kate Seear(@Kate_Seear) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Our first speaker at #ReframingEndo is @jaivirdi who is talking about the value and importance of disability theories and approaches to understanding and reframing #endometriosis as a chronic illness.
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dr alicja pawluczuk(@AlicjaPawluczuk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Transpeople are often an afterthought in the context of healthcare ' - Oliver Wain at (co-author of the “There needs to be care throughout” report Scottish Trans Waverley Care



scottishtrans.org/wp-content/upl…

'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 @ScottishTrans @WaverleyCare #endometriosis scottishtrans.org/wp-content/upl…
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Eileen Mary Holowka(@derangedpoetess) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Who knows how many trans people have had to choose sterilization in order to access care?”

We need more research and statistics on trans people with this disease. And gender affirming care.

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Gemma Williams(@bloody_spoonie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'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.'

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'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 💛🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💛
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Gemma Williams(@bloody_spoonie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Takeaways from Panel 1 'We need to listen to the past to understand the present...and move the conversation on' 💛

Excellent, thought provoking start to the day 👏

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Gemma Williams(@bloody_spoonie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The fantastic Birmingham Conservatoire is the setting for the in-person part of conference 6&7 July

Free period products too! 🙌

The fantastic Birmingham Conservatoire is the setting for the in-person part of #ReframingEndo conference 6&7 July Free period products too! 🙌
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Trans Actual(@TransActualUK) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Researchers are looking for trans participants:

LGBTQ+ young people (under 25) please fill out this survey on support for LGBTQ+ Young people when things go wrong in relationships!

Survey: tinyurl.com/surveylgbtqco-…

Instagram: @lgbtqcoresearchers

Researchers are looking for trans participants: LGBTQ+ young people (under 25) please fill out this survey on support for LGBTQ+ Young people when things go wrong in relationships! Survey: tinyurl.com/surveylgbtqco-… Instagram: @lgbtqcoresearchers #TransResearch #Research #LGBT
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Gemma Williams(@bloody_spoonie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

TOMORROW! Can't wait for this - first in person conference since January 2020... and at my university, so nice and local

thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british…

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British Menopause Society(@BrMenopauseSoc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

NEW Tool for Clinicians – Menopause in ethnic minority women, developed with BMS member, @dr_shashiprasad GP & certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician, who is passionate about menopause awareness & improving care among ethnic minority women bit.ly/4616o0a
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Professor Kay (they/them) is dissertatin'(@shetheybeyonce) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am conducting interviews about Black women and non-binary femmes experiences with digital misogynoir on Twitter & how they create harm reduction. If you are 18+, Black, Identify as a Black woman or non-binary, and an active Twitter user please sign up bit.ly/KBCSTUDY2023 RT

I am conducting interviews about Black women and non-binary femmes experiences with digital misogynoir on Twitter & how they create harm reduction. If you are 18+, Black, Identify as a Black woman or non-binary, and an active Twitter user please sign up bit.ly/KBCSTUDY2023 RT
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India Willoughby(@IndiaWilloughby) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

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