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ella t. holmes (wizard)
@ellatholmes.bsky.social
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Writer✨ Essayist. Disability Justice advocate. Thought-haver. Covid competent. Best of The Net Nominee 🤯 Wizard.

💖 https://linktr.ee/ellatholmes
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ella t. holmes (wizard) @ellatholmes.bsky.social · May 2
📌 Hello, it's me!
My name is Ella (she/her or they/them). I'm a human who writes, has thoughts, is a disability advocate, and sometimes dabble in the odd evil orb or two. Oh, and i love drawing wizards.
More details and links below!
a light green to blue gradient background with a collage of images and photos and text. An illustration of a wizard with bob-length orange hair and blue starry robes with knee-high bright pink socks lays across the top, next to the dark blue large header text that reads "Hello, it's me". In a pink cloud shape is dark text that reads "Ella T. Holmes. She/her or they/them". A brown sign post sits in the middle of the image, pointing left to "Facts" and right to "follow me". On the left a green box of dark text lists the following: fiction writer, essayist, thought-haver, disability advocate, artist, shrek fan, s-cargo lover. To the right, two dark blue boxes of white text read: On most socials @ellatholmes. YouTube and substack "Ella has thoughts".
ellatholmes.bsky.social
my favourite character in the new Frankenstein was actually the cup of milk
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
It takes one second to think Elizabeth in the new Frankenstein is autistic, and 500 disabled days to write about it
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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ellatholmes.bsky.social
Disabled & chronically ill folks: I NEED YOUR HELP. YES YOU!

The disability in Dystopia Anthology is coming along, and...

It needs a title! ✨️

Have any ideas? Let me know!
We're #CrippingDystopia 😈
a black background with dark smudges, featuring white distorted text that reads "you wouldn't crip a dystopia"
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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imanibarbarin.bsky.social
I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.

They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
Instead of saying "fuck disabled people, i have to work 40+ hours a week to survive"...

You could stand in solidarity with us and help us achieve a world where your worth and survival is not dependent on how much work you can do, how little sleep you can get, and how many people you can starve.
ellatholmes.bsky.social ella t. holmes (wizard) @ellatholmes.bsky.social · 2d
We’ve been conditioned to believe that empathy, care, and justice are scarce resources, and that if someone gains rights or support, someone else must lose them.
This isn't the case.
We made this shit up.

Wanting better for everyone isn’t a threat, it’s the foundation of collective liberation!!
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
Disabled & chronically ill folks: I NEED YOUR HELP. YES YOU!

The disability in Dystopia Anthology is coming along, and...

It needs a title! ✨️

Have any ideas? Let me know!
We're #CrippingDystopia 😈
a black background with dark smudges, featuring white distorted text that reads "you wouldn't crip a dystopia"
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
I've received some really cool messages so far, and I want more!😈
ellatholmes.bsky.social ella t. holmes (wizard) @ellatholmes.bsky.social · Oct 2
I want your empowering/supportive/disability justice messages, poems, and sentiments for the Disability in Dystopia Anthology!

I'm going to make them into art for the collection.

Submit a picture or typed message to dis-anthology@outlook.com 💌 from now until November 1st!
#books #disability
This image contains text on a two-toned green background. Header text in white reads "Handwritten message submissions wanted". Below that, a ripped piece of paper has brown handwriting that reads "We will survive. Together!". In the bottom left there is a slightly askew neon green mail sticker with the image of a green gas cloud and a skull. To the right of that is light pink text that reads "Write an empowering and supportive disability justice message, poem, or sentiment. Take a picture & submit to dis-anthology@outlook.com It will be included in a collage inside the upcoming anthology!" At the very bottom, centred, in bright green text, is the message "if you cannot hand write it.I can do that for you! Simply submit it as a typed message."
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
I've been thinking about how deeply our hyper-individualistic culture twists conversations about oppression. Too often, “I wish I had support too,” is heard as, “I wish someone else didn’t have support so I can have it.”

And this misunderstanding isn’t exactly accidental 🫣
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
Mr. Bingley says hello 👋
A mostly white cat lying on his back on a grey rug, looking up at the camera. he has wide curious eyes and looks slightly playful, but mostly very cute.
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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ellatholmes.bsky.social
I got to chat with @harperkinsley.bsky.social about writing disability and the complexity of "overcoming" narratives 😁💖

Watch it here 👉 youtu.be/Jaklw1v1r_E?...

& let us know what you think!

#Disability #DisabledStories #Writer
A pink and purple background with centered light blue text that reads "On Writing Disability & Overcoming" on top, and two wavy edged pictures of Ella (left) and Harper Kinsley (right). Between them is a light pink speech bubble with black text that says "chatting with Harper Kinsley".
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
The problem with having a special interest in disability theory is that so many of the books are acedemic and so cost $50+ 😭

excuse me for wanting to read about the biopolitics of disability and not make my bank explode
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
I feel this "in the real world" talk
1) creates a self-fullfilling cycle of absolving others of social responsibilities
2) presents disability as an individual issue, and
2) only benefits our ableist systems and people in power.

Why reinforce "the real world" when we can push for better?
selfcaregamer.bsky.social selfcaregamer @selfcaregamer.bsky.social · 3d
stop telling your neurodivergent child that in "the real world" people won't accommodate them, so they should suck it up. this is the real world and you shouldn't be your child's first bully
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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ellatholmes.bsky.social
Sorry, can't talk if you haven't read Artifice & Access: A Disability in Fantasy anthology 😏

Check it out → tinyurl.com/ykbc29jr

This anthology seeks to disrupt #disability stereotypes and flip off exclusionary narratives🖕.
Disabled and chronically ill people DO belong in fantasy!
a maroon-hued illustration of a man in a suit holding his right hand up as if to stop someone talking. What text sits above his hand, reading "You haven't read Artifice & Access yet"
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
I always enjoy reading Ceinwen's blogs 💖
feedthewriter.bsky.social Ceinwen Langley @feedthewriter.bsky.social · 4d
October blog is UP! Typical of my kind of Halloween, things got very WW2 and Frankenstein focused.

Featuring six book reviews, four film reviews (a couple of which turned into interlocking mini-essays) and an enthusiastic spruik for magazines.

buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...
Only Monsters Play God, or, my October 2025 in media
I had planned for my October to follow a pretty standardly Halloween vibe: scary books, lightly spooky movies. But I am who I am, so after one attempt at...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
Sorry, can't talk if you haven't read Artifice & Access: A Disability in Fantasy anthology 😏

Check it out → tinyurl.com/ykbc29jr

This anthology seeks to disrupt #disability stereotypes and flip off exclusionary narratives🖕.
Disabled and chronically ill people DO belong in fantasy!
a maroon-hued illustration of a man in a suit holding his right hand up as if to stop someone talking. What text sits above his hand, reading "You haven't read Artifice & Access yet"
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
I got to chat with @harperkinsley.bsky.social about writing disability and the complexity of "overcoming" narratives 😁💖

Watch it here 👉 youtu.be/Jaklw1v1r_E?...

& let us know what you think!

#Disability #DisabledStories #Writer
A pink and purple background with centered light blue text that reads "On Writing Disability & Overcoming" on top, and two wavy edged pictures of Ella (left) and Harper Kinsley (right). Between them is a light pink speech bubble with black text that says "chatting with Harper Kinsley".
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
The Growing Moon is one of my favourite short stories 💖

Everyone please read it and shower Mon in compliments! 😁
nomonbooks.bsky.social Mon @nomonbooks.bsky.social · 5d
I have a new story out!

It's speculative fiction piece about what's left at the end of the world, called The Growing Moon.

www.phano.co/articles/the...

#litmag #specfic #black #sapphic #phano
The Growing Moon
Every apocalypse is a story of love lost.
www.phano.co
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
Listen, I hate Trump, but insulting him through his health and physical condition(s?) is rooted in ableism.

Take aim at his choices, not the fact he allegedly needs a colostomy bag.

#Disability is not a weapon for you to weild when you don't like someone. It's a natural part of aging.
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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spikingsart.bsky.social
Mind The Gap & Don't Look Back
#illustration #fantasy #urbanfantasy
A London Underground train on a dark and dingy platform. The train doors open to a sunny field of golden flowers. Doves fly out from the landscape, and a deer watches you from the distance.
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
Sorry but the ABC writing about Lidia Morawska winning the 2025 Prime Minister's Prize for Science...

for recognising that #COVID primarily transmits through air...

... and using the phrase "during COVID" multiple times, when we've done nothing to clean the air, is diabolical 🧍

#DisabilityJustice
a screenshot of an ABC article with a black background and white text. the text reads "Scientific leadership during COVID. Professor Morawska's expertise became especially critical during the COVID-19 pandemic, and her leadership led to global recognition that the virus spreads mainly through the air. Her work in previous years, including on the 2003 SARS pandemic, had "equipped [her] with an understanding of how respiratory infections are transmitted", including the key role of tiny, airborne particles." I have highlighted the phrase "during covid" in yellow.
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
it turns out dowing 4 shots of coffee in 3 minutes seems to make my head pain a little more manageable but it also means I can now feel my eyes and sense colours
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
"You must earn a living" is such a dystopian phrase.

EARN a LIVING?

How about you earn DEEZ NUTS? 🤾‍♀️

Which of course stands for Disability, Equity, Equity, Zoom(classes), Notting (Hill, the 1999 classic), Unity, Teamwork, and Social (responsibility) 🙏

#DisabilityJustice #Disability
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
I LOVE YOU TOM HANKS ❤️
I KNEW YOU WOULDNT FAIL ME TOM HANKS 💖💖
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7d
Tom Hanks understands that Covid is not over & that masks work!

He says he’s in a play and can’t get sick.

“I’ve had covid enough. I don’t want to do that again”

This is the way. Wearing a mask helps keep you healthy and it protects those around you.

A respirator like an N95 is best!
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
I have a question for #disabled & chronically ill baddies:

In what ways do you filter your needs through the lens of the person(s) you're with in order to be less of a "burden"? 🤔

Me first: I forgo asking for *anything* else if that person masks "for" me.

#DisabilityJustice #disabilities
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 AM
ellatholmes.bsky.social
haunted house but it's a bunch of people who don't care about the preventable spread of disease trying to lick you behind the ear
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM