Bethany
@bywthedragon.bsky.social
She/they, Christian, disabled, queer, progressive, intersectional feminist. Sci-fi and fantasy fan, rabbit owner, married. Bible and science believer, trying to improve myself and just get by day by day.
Reposted by Bethany
Have you signed our open letter yet?
We're calling on the Department for Education to revice harmful guidance on RSHE.
Over 700 people have signed, but we still need your voice:
openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...
We're calling on the Department for Education to revice harmful guidance on RSHE.
Over 700 people have signed, but we still need your voice:
openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...
The Urgent Need to Revise the RSHE 2026 Guidance and Centre Trans, Non-Binary, Intersex, Asexual and Gender Non-Conforming Voices
openletter.earth
July 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Have you signed our open letter yet?
We're calling on the Department for Education to revice harmful guidance on RSHE.
Over 700 people have signed, but we still need your voice:
openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...
We're calling on the Department for Education to revice harmful guidance on RSHE.
Over 700 people have signed, but we still need your voice:
openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...
Reposted by Bethany
Disability Pride Month is here! Here is a surprisingly insightful article from…Good Housekeeping? On the origin, history, and meaning of our Pride flag.
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a438769...
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a438769...
Understanding the Design of the Disability Pride Flag
Here's what you should know about the flag's symbolism and origin.
www.goodhousekeeping.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Disability Pride Month is here! Here is a surprisingly insightful article from…Good Housekeeping? On the origin, history, and meaning of our Pride flag.
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a438769...
www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a438769...
Reposted by Bethany
It’s Disability Pride Month.
Many people can’t understand why we would be proud of our disabilities because ableism is everywhere.
This month we celebrate disabled lives and push back on ableism & eugenics.
We are not less than
We are not expendable
We will keep fighting
Many people can’t understand why we would be proud of our disabilities because ableism is everywhere.
This month we celebrate disabled lives and push back on ableism & eugenics.
We are not less than
We are not expendable
We will keep fighting
July 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It’s Disability Pride Month.
Many people can’t understand why we would be proud of our disabilities because ableism is everywhere.
This month we celebrate disabled lives and push back on ableism & eugenics.
We are not less than
We are not expendable
We will keep fighting
Many people can’t understand why we would be proud of our disabilities because ableism is everywhere.
This month we celebrate disabled lives and push back on ableism & eugenics.
We are not less than
We are not expendable
We will keep fighting
The next time I see something about defining a woman, I'm going to end up deciding I'm non-binary, because not one definition has resonated with me.
June 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The next time I see something about defining a woman, I'm going to end up deciding I'm non-binary, because not one definition has resonated with me.
Seen a big decline in my ability to support myself recently. Researching posture support cushions and aids, and reminded once again that being disabled is SO EXPENSIVE.
Just to sit on the sofa, is going to cost me minimum £50. If I got some options, it's way more.
But it's that or bed.
Just to sit on the sofa, is going to cost me minimum £50. If I got some options, it's way more.
But it's that or bed.
May 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Seen a big decline in my ability to support myself recently. Researching posture support cushions and aids, and reminded once again that being disabled is SO EXPENSIVE.
Just to sit on the sofa, is going to cost me minimum £50. If I got some options, it's way more.
But it's that or bed.
Just to sit on the sofa, is going to cost me minimum £50. If I got some options, it's way more.
But it's that or bed.
Reposted by Bethany
There’s been a lot going on in relation to trans people’s healthcare in the UK. We’ll give more of a run down next week but we want to make sure people understand what’s going on.
Read full thread.
Read full thread.
April 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
There’s been a lot going on in relation to trans people’s healthcare in the UK. We’ll give more of a run down next week but we want to make sure people understand what’s going on.
Read full thread.
Read full thread.
Today, I am grateful for my garden, and a chair to recline in the shade on, and a husband who set up the chair and does the gardening I am not able to do any more.
April 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Today, I am grateful for my garden, and a chair to recline in the shade on, and a husband who set up the chair and does the gardening I am not able to do any more.
Reposted by Bethany
I wonder how often we feel guilty about our failure to progress in our lives as Christians, when what we need to do is to let ourselves be fed - in prayer, in worship, in reading the Scriptures or books that might help us, or giving ourselves time to be silent before God? 2/2
March 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I wonder how often we feel guilty about our failure to progress in our lives as Christians, when what we need to do is to let ourselves be fed - in prayer, in worship, in reading the Scriptures or books that might help us, or giving ourselves time to be silent before God? 2/2
Reposted by Bethany
Reposted by Bethany
New ‘Downing Street considers U-turn on cuts to benefits for disabled people’. Come on @uklabour.bsky.social: U-turn on not only the PIP freeze but the discriminatory suggested change to PIP criteria and disability elements of Universal Credit. We can and *want* to co-design better with you.
March 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
New ‘Downing Street considers U-turn on cuts to benefits for disabled people’. Come on @uklabour.bsky.social: U-turn on not only the PIP freeze but the discriminatory suggested change to PIP criteria and disability elements of Universal Credit. We can and *want* to co-design better with you.
Reposted by Bethany
The DWP lists the PIP fraud rate at 0%.
The amount of PIP going unclaimed by people who could claim it is about £1billion.
Why do you Tories always have to lie?
Also, a wealth tax like Spain has would raise tens of billions a year but the gov despise taxing the rich like they should.
The amount of PIP going unclaimed by people who could claim it is about £1billion.
Why do you Tories always have to lie?
Also, a wealth tax like Spain has would raise tens of billions a year but the gov despise taxing the rich like they should.
March 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The DWP lists the PIP fraud rate at 0%.
The amount of PIP going unclaimed by people who could claim it is about £1billion.
Why do you Tories always have to lie?
Also, a wealth tax like Spain has would raise tens of billions a year but the gov despise taxing the rich like they should.
The amount of PIP going unclaimed by people who could claim it is about £1billion.
Why do you Tories always have to lie?
Also, a wealth tax like Spain has would raise tens of billions a year but the gov despise taxing the rich like they should.
Reposted by Bethany
Happy Ides of March! Today may we remember that dictators, emperors and tyrants of all kinds are mortal :)
March 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Happy Ides of March! Today may we remember that dictators, emperors and tyrants of all kinds are mortal :)
Reposted by Bethany
#Labour
Government looking at cutting access to work support, making it harder to claim PIP, NHS reforms will make it more difficult to access treatment. By doing all of this disabled people will be even further away from employment. Cutting these many won’t be able to continue in the job they have
Government looking at cutting access to work support, making it harder to claim PIP, NHS reforms will make it more difficult to access treatment. By doing all of this disabled people will be even further away from employment. Cutting these many won’t be able to continue in the job they have
March 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#Labour
Government looking at cutting access to work support, making it harder to claim PIP, NHS reforms will make it more difficult to access treatment. By doing all of this disabled people will be even further away from employment. Cutting these many won’t be able to continue in the job they have
Government looking at cutting access to work support, making it harder to claim PIP, NHS reforms will make it more difficult to access treatment. By doing all of this disabled people will be even further away from employment. Cutting these many won’t be able to continue in the job they have
Reposted by Bethany
When someone becomes disabled or chronically ill, people will twist themselves into knots finding a way to blame them. They need to find fault so they don’t have to face the randomness of life.
The truth is, anyone can become disabled at any time.
Good health is not a guarantee.
The truth is, anyone can become disabled at any time.
Good health is not a guarantee.
March 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
When someone becomes disabled or chronically ill, people will twist themselves into knots finding a way to blame them. They need to find fault so they don’t have to face the randomness of life.
The truth is, anyone can become disabled at any time.
Good health is not a guarantee.
The truth is, anyone can become disabled at any time.
Good health is not a guarantee.
Bought my first wheelchair today.
I've been hiring them for occasions like trips away, so I can extend my days out. But the last two months I've found myself not going to regular activities and struggling to leave the house at all.
So it seemed the time had come to use one more often.
I've been hiring them for occasions like trips away, so I can extend my days out. But the last two months I've found myself not going to regular activities and struggling to leave the house at all.
So it seemed the time had come to use one more often.
February 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Bought my first wheelchair today.
I've been hiring them for occasions like trips away, so I can extend my days out. But the last two months I've found myself not going to regular activities and struggling to leave the house at all.
So it seemed the time had come to use one more often.
I've been hiring them for occasions like trips away, so I can extend my days out. But the last two months I've found myself not going to regular activities and struggling to leave the house at all.
So it seemed the time had come to use one more often.
Reposted by Bethany
NHS RIGHT TO CHOOSE IS CHANGING.
NHS England is about to make getting an ADHD Assessment and support even harder.
NHS England is in consultation about changes that will mean the end of Right to Choose as we know it.
Find out more from ADHD UK
adhduk.co.uk/nhs-right-to...
NHS England is about to make getting an ADHD Assessment and support even harder.
NHS England is in consultation about changes that will mean the end of Right to Choose as we know it.
Find out more from ADHD UK
adhduk.co.uk/nhs-right-to...
NHS Right to Choose Changes
NHS England is looking to make a change that will fundamentally alter your right to Right to Choose. They're consulting now and we need you to protest to try to stop it. If they're allowed to make the...
adhduk.co.uk
February 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
NHS RIGHT TO CHOOSE IS CHANGING.
NHS England is about to make getting an ADHD Assessment and support even harder.
NHS England is in consultation about changes that will mean the end of Right to Choose as we know it.
Find out more from ADHD UK
adhduk.co.uk/nhs-right-to...
NHS England is about to make getting an ADHD Assessment and support even harder.
NHS England is in consultation about changes that will mean the end of Right to Choose as we know it.
Find out more from ADHD UK
adhduk.co.uk/nhs-right-to...
Noticing that comments seem to be hidden on FB posts on progressive pages I follow - I have to select 'all comments' to see them
February 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Noticing that comments seem to be hidden on FB posts on progressive pages I follow - I have to select 'all comments' to see them
Reposted by Bethany
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
February 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
Reposted by Bethany
We’re still in a global pandemic. The threat of Covid has not passed.
We’re seeing an increase in bird flu, measles, TB & more.
Public health has been dying a slow & painful death for years. We are on our own.
The good news? Masks work for more than just Covid! My complete guide to respirators 👇🏼
We’re seeing an increase in bird flu, measles, TB & more.
Public health has been dying a slow & painful death for years. We are on our own.
The good news? Masks work for more than just Covid! My complete guide to respirators 👇🏼
We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask
Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!
www.disabledginger.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
We’re still in a global pandemic. The threat of Covid has not passed.
We’re seeing an increase in bird flu, measles, TB & more.
Public health has been dying a slow & painful death for years. We are on our own.
The good news? Masks work for more than just Covid! My complete guide to respirators 👇🏼
We’re seeing an increase in bird flu, measles, TB & more.
Public health has been dying a slow & painful death for years. We are on our own.
The good news? Masks work for more than just Covid! My complete guide to respirators 👇🏼
Reposted by Bethany
Disabled people are the experts in our bodies. We know what we can and can’t handle, and often understand our conditions better than most healthcare workers.
Respect our autonomy & don’t force us to put our baseline at risk. Let us be partners in our care.
Respect our autonomy & don’t force us to put our baseline at risk. Let us be partners in our care.
February 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Disabled people are the experts in our bodies. We know what we can and can’t handle, and often understand our conditions better than most healthcare workers.
Respect our autonomy & don’t force us to put our baseline at risk. Let us be partners in our care.
Respect our autonomy & don’t force us to put our baseline at risk. Let us be partners in our care.
Reposted by Bethany
Trans people are fucking amazing. Don’t you forget it.
February 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Trans people are fucking amazing. Don’t you forget it.
Reposted by Bethany
"You may disagree with an evangelical Christian on trans rights, but share the same views on foreign aid."
Counterpoint:
"We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist." - Robert Jones, Jr.
Counterpoint:
"We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist." - Robert Jones, Jr.
February 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"You may disagree with an evangelical Christian on trans rights, but share the same views on foreign aid."
Counterpoint:
"We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist." - Robert Jones, Jr.
Counterpoint:
"We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist." - Robert Jones, Jr.
Reposted by Bethany
ME, whether acquired after COVID or not, is about watching - with perfect discipline and minimal emotion - your life drift away in slow motion.
November 17, 2024 at 11:08 AM
ME, whether acquired after COVID or not, is about watching - with perfect discipline and minimal emotion - your life drift away in slow motion.