Elle Hodges | they/them
@lynsayhodges.bsky.social
📚 Doctoral student: survivors’ lives + coping post-SA
🏳️🌈 Interests: emotion, trauma, disability justice, Madness, autoethnography & photography
✊ Anti-carceral/-capitalist feminist
🖊️ Published as Lynsay Hodges
🔗 Read my work: https://linktr.ee/lynsayhodges
🏳️🌈 Interests: emotion, trauma, disability justice, Madness, autoethnography & photography
✊ Anti-carceral/-capitalist feminist
🖊️ Published as Lynsay Hodges
🔗 Read my work: https://linktr.ee/lynsayhodges
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I guess an intro is in order!
Hi I’m Elle (published as Lynsay Hodges), a PhD student @ Goldsmiths.
My research uses autoethnography, participatory methods, and media analysis to investigate the lives of sexual violence survivors and the assemblages of survival that form.
Say hi if you like! 👋
Hi I’m Elle (published as Lynsay Hodges), a PhD student @ Goldsmiths.
My research uses autoethnography, participatory methods, and media analysis to investigate the lives of sexual violence survivors and the assemblages of survival that form.
Say hi if you like! 👋
I’m also interested in trauma, emotion/affect, Madness, disability studies, photography (and art more widely) as method, and both anti-carceral and anti-capitalist feminism.
Obligatory #academicsky tag to find like-minded folk!
Obligatory #academicsky tag to find like-minded folk!
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i was able to get this surgery today because of you amazing lot helping me raise the funds - my friend now needs some help and i would love if you were able to donate 💕💸
www.gofundme.com/f/3b4zv-help...
#MutualAid #Crowdfund #HelpSky #ShowUpForWishes
www.gofundme.com/f/3b4zv-help...
#MutualAid #Crowdfund #HelpSky #ShowUpForWishes
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
i was able to get this surgery today because of you amazing lot helping me raise the funds - my friend now needs some help and i would love if you were able to donate 💕💸
www.gofundme.com/f/3b4zv-help...
#MutualAid #Crowdfund #HelpSky #ShowUpForWishes
www.gofundme.com/f/3b4zv-help...
#MutualAid #Crowdfund #HelpSky #ShowUpForWishes
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Tapping the sign: "Staying alive is a lot of work for a disabled person in an ableist society."—Alice Wong in the Introduction to Disability Visibility
I find myself increasingly wondering how able bodied people appear to believe that being disabled is"easy."
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Tapping the sign: "Staying alive is a lot of work for a disabled person in an ableist society."—Alice Wong in the Introduction to Disability Visibility
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Today in Jeremy's salad: romaine, collard greens, white pumpkin, cucumber, and violet
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Today in Jeremy's salad: romaine, collard greens, white pumpkin, cucumber, and violet
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
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Hidden in the controversial about UK "choking ban" proposal are a host of even more egregious proposals that could:
* make camming illegal
* redefine escort ads as pimping
* render model contracts unenforceable
* criminalize discussions of teen sexuality
And a whole lot more ...
* make camming illegal
* redefine escort ads as pimping
* render model contracts unenforceable
* criminalize discussions of teen sexuality
And a whole lot more ...
Moral panic about rough sex gives way to censorship in the UK
British regulators and lawmakers are hot on a measure that would make possessing or publishing strangulation porn a crime.
reason.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Hidden in the controversial about UK "choking ban" proposal are a host of even more egregious proposals that could:
* make camming illegal
* redefine escort ads as pimping
* render model contracts unenforceable
* criminalize discussions of teen sexuality
And a whole lot more ...
* make camming illegal
* redefine escort ads as pimping
* render model contracts unenforceable
* criminalize discussions of teen sexuality
And a whole lot more ...
When we talk about sexual violence, even when exposed by survivors themselves, we still tend to centre the male perpetrator (because god forbid a woman could be one! /s)
An example: #MeToo became about Weinstein. Few people can name Alyssa Milano, and fewer still Tarana Burke.
This needs to shift.
An example: #MeToo became about Weinstein. Few people can name Alyssa Milano, and fewer still Tarana Burke.
This needs to shift.
But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
When we talk about sexual violence, even when exposed by survivors themselves, we still tend to centre the male perpetrator (because god forbid a woman could be one! /s)
An example: #MeToo became about Weinstein. Few people can name Alyssa Milano, and fewer still Tarana Burke.
This needs to shift.
An example: #MeToo became about Weinstein. Few people can name Alyssa Milano, and fewer still Tarana Burke.
This needs to shift.
Mum has to give me money to buy my own xmas presents online for her to then put away because of how her card works.
She got me a pretty resin bookmark with one of those things to help keep a page open, with the hope it’ll help my silly hands when reading
1/3
She got me a pretty resin bookmark with one of those things to help keep a page open, with the hope it’ll help my silly hands when reading
1/3
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Mum has to give me money to buy my own xmas presents online for her to then put away because of how her card works.
She got me a pretty resin bookmark with one of those things to help keep a page open, with the hope it’ll help my silly hands when reading
1/3
She got me a pretty resin bookmark with one of those things to help keep a page open, with the hope it’ll help my silly hands when reading
1/3
I’d like to remind people that we have no genetic markers for Madness and neurodivergence, including those which are hereditary.
There is no singular gene which makes one autistic or have bipolar disorder.
Genes didn’t turn out to be as simple as psychs wanted.
So let’s not do any ableism here.
There is no singular gene which makes one autistic or have bipolar disorder.
Genes didn’t turn out to be as simple as psychs wanted.
So let’s not do any ableism here.
Exclusive: Adolf Hitler’s DNA has been sequenced by scientists
It has:
- shown he had a disorder which impacted his sexual development
- debunked rumours about his ancestry
- shown a high likelihood that he had a neurodivergent condition and/or bipolar disorder
www.thetimes.com/article/e728...
It has:
- shown he had a disorder which impacted his sexual development
- debunked rumours about his ancestry
- shown a high likelihood that he had a neurodivergent condition and/or bipolar disorder
www.thetimes.com/article/e728...
Hitler had hidden genetic sexual disorder, DNA analysis reveals
The Nazi dictator had Kallmann syndrome, which hinders normal puberty and the development of sexual organs, according to groundbreaking research
www.thetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I’d like to remind people that we have no genetic markers for Madness and neurodivergence, including those which are hereditary.
There is no singular gene which makes one autistic or have bipolar disorder.
Genes didn’t turn out to be as simple as psychs wanted.
So let’s not do any ableism here.
There is no singular gene which makes one autistic or have bipolar disorder.
Genes didn’t turn out to be as simple as psychs wanted.
So let’s not do any ableism here.
CW misogynistic SA language and sexual harassment
I can attest to this too. I was called jail bait during my youth (and abused by a man who did so, in fact). I also received the most harassment as a teenager. It pretty much all stopped once I hit 21.
CSA is thoroughly normalised in society.
I can attest to this too. I was called jail bait during my youth (and abused by a man who did so, in fact). I also received the most harassment as a teenager. It pretty much all stopped once I hit 21.
CSA is thoroughly normalised in society.
I was talking with a friend my age not long ago about how she received the largest amount of male interest from older men when she was ~8 years old to around 19 or so.
At least a couple of them--from church, mind you--said she was "worth the risk with law enforcement". She wasn't safe at church.
At least a couple of them--from church, mind you--said she was "worth the risk with law enforcement". She wasn't safe at church.
I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
CW misogynistic SA language and sexual harassment
I can attest to this too. I was called jail bait during my youth (and abused by a man who did so, in fact). I also received the most harassment as a teenager. It pretty much all stopped once I hit 21.
CSA is thoroughly normalised in society.
I can attest to this too. I was called jail bait during my youth (and abused by a man who did so, in fact). I also received the most harassment as a teenager. It pretty much all stopped once I hit 21.
CSA is thoroughly normalised in society.
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i wish i could convince myself to hope that maybe, just maybe, THIS time people will finally admit that sexual violence is *political violence*, is a political and social structure, is a technology of oppression, not a private, basically forgivable transgression. but i really can't fool myself
The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
i wish i could convince myself to hope that maybe, just maybe, THIS time people will finally admit that sexual violence is *political violence*, is a political and social structure, is a technology of oppression, not a private, basically forgivable transgression. but i really can't fool myself
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every so often it's breaking news that powerful men are doing exactly what we all knew they were doing
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
every so often it's breaking news that powerful men are doing exactly what we all knew they were doing
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Hi dear,
The bombs may have stopped, but the aftermath still defines our days. Please don’t let the world forget Gaza—share our pain and our plea for relief.
Please consider donating💚
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✅✅Donate here 🙏👇
The bombs may have stopped, but the aftermath still defines our days. Please don’t let the world forget Gaza—share our pain and our plea for relief.
Please consider donating💚
✅Verified by #Molly_Shah
✅✅Donate here 🙏👇
Please consider making a donation 💚
Your support can help us rebuild, heal, and find hope again after all we’ve endured.
gofund.me
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Hi dear,
The bombs may have stopped, but the aftermath still defines our days. Please don’t let the world forget Gaza—share our pain and our plea for relief.
Please consider donating💚
✅Verified by #Molly_Shah
✅✅Donate here 🙏👇
The bombs may have stopped, but the aftermath still defines our days. Please don’t let the world forget Gaza—share our pain and our plea for relief.
Please consider donating💚
✅Verified by #Molly_Shah
✅✅Donate here 🙏👇
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The birth of the author
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The birth of the author
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
CW for brutal discussions of genocide and violence
I watched this documentary today and all I could think, as I was hearing all these horrors, was “if this is what comes out on ITV, if this is what they’ll say on camera (even with disguised identities), what the fuck else is happening?”
I watched this documentary today and all I could think, as I was hearing all these horrors, was “if this is what comes out on ITV, if this is what they’ll say on camera (even with disguised identities), what the fuck else is happening?”
The new film featuring firsthand testimonies of Israeli soldiers in Gaza reveals patterns of systematic abuse.
‘You can do anything’: Israeli war crimes in Gaza aired in UK documentary
The new film featuring firsthand testimonies of Israeli soldiers in Gaza reveals patterns of systematic abuse.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
CW for brutal discussions of genocide and violence
I watched this documentary today and all I could think, as I was hearing all these horrors, was “if this is what comes out on ITV, if this is what they’ll say on camera (even with disguised identities), what the fuck else is happening?”
I watched this documentary today and all I could think, as I was hearing all these horrors, was “if this is what comes out on ITV, if this is what they’ll say on camera (even with disguised identities), what the fuck else is happening?”
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[tw: DV, financial abuse]
due to a series of incredibly shitty situations as detailed in the GFM, my friend needs some help raising funds
the most pressing issue is becoming a british citizen bc of the rising wave of fascism, costing £1785
please donate if you can afford, & share!
#MutualAid
due to a series of incredibly shitty situations as detailed in the GFM, my friend needs some help raising funds
the most pressing issue is becoming a british citizen bc of the rising wave of fascism, costing £1785
please donate if you can afford, & share!
#MutualAid
Donate to Help me become a British Citizen, organized by Dylan C
My name is Dylan, and I am sharing this on behalf of a friend - their story is below. Thank y… Dylan C needs your support for Help me become a British Citizen
www.gofundme.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
[tw: DV, financial abuse]
due to a series of incredibly shitty situations as detailed in the GFM, my friend needs some help raising funds
the most pressing issue is becoming a british citizen bc of the rising wave of fascism, costing £1785
please donate if you can afford, & share!
#MutualAid
due to a series of incredibly shitty situations as detailed in the GFM, my friend needs some help raising funds
the most pressing issue is becoming a british citizen bc of the rising wave of fascism, costing £1785
please donate if you can afford, & share!
#MutualAid
CW sexual violence
Colonialism is predicated on sexual violence. I would put my neck on the line to say you will not have war without rape. Even the land was feminised when discussed as something to be taken and plundered.
These scenes, then, are as unsurprising as they are horrifying.
Colonialism is predicated on sexual violence. I would put my neck on the line to say you will not have war without rape. Even the land was feminised when discussed as something to be taken and plundered.
These scenes, then, are as unsurprising as they are horrifying.
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
CW sexual violence
Colonialism is predicated on sexual violence. I would put my neck on the line to say you will not have war without rape. Even the land was feminised when discussed as something to be taken and plundered.
These scenes, then, are as unsurprising as they are horrifying.
Colonialism is predicated on sexual violence. I would put my neck on the line to say you will not have war without rape. Even the land was feminised when discussed as something to be taken and plundered.
These scenes, then, are as unsurprising as they are horrifying.
Statistics are similarly bad in the UK: fewer than 3 in 100 rapes resulted in a charge, let alone a conviction.
The criminal ‘justice’ system cannot and will not protect us. We need to imagine wider possibilities for justice that is truly transformative.
Source: rapecrisis.org.uk/get-informed...
The criminal ‘justice’ system cannot and will not protect us. We need to imagine wider possibilities for justice that is truly transformative.
Source: rapecrisis.org.uk/get-informed...
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Statistics are similarly bad in the UK: fewer than 3 in 100 rapes resulted in a charge, let alone a conviction.
The criminal ‘justice’ system cannot and will not protect us. We need to imagine wider possibilities for justice that is truly transformative.
Source: rapecrisis.org.uk/get-informed...
The criminal ‘justice’ system cannot and will not protect us. We need to imagine wider possibilities for justice that is truly transformative.
Source: rapecrisis.org.uk/get-informed...
Currently reading Mad World by Frazer-Carroll and Black Disability Politics by @drsamischalk.bsky.social (apparently my brain wants to read several books at once now), and I’ve gotta say they pair fantastically together! Both have a strong emphasis on disability justice so I’d recommend!
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Currently reading Mad World by Frazer-Carroll and Black Disability Politics by @drsamischalk.bsky.social (apparently my brain wants to read several books at once now), and I’ve gotta say they pair fantastically together! Both have a strong emphasis on disability justice so I’d recommend!
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UK universities cannot thrive while continually cutting academic staff
No amount of wellness webinars, Lego play workshops, communal climbing events, bounce back sessions, desk yoga, jigsaw puzzle nights or Vice Chancellor's Special Awards for Resilience can change this
No amount of wellness webinars, Lego play workshops, communal climbing events, bounce back sessions, desk yoga, jigsaw puzzle nights or Vice Chancellor's Special Awards for Resilience can change this
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
UK universities cannot thrive while continually cutting academic staff
No amount of wellness webinars, Lego play workshops, communal climbing events, bounce back sessions, desk yoga, jigsaw puzzle nights or Vice Chancellor's Special Awards for Resilience can change this
No amount of wellness webinars, Lego play workshops, communal climbing events, bounce back sessions, desk yoga, jigsaw puzzle nights or Vice Chancellor's Special Awards for Resilience can change this
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Tim Davie, whose BBC cancelled The Mash Report and went after Lineker as part of a 'war on woke', going for not being right-wing enough speaks volumes about where the BBC will go next.
(Don't remember the DG going when they used the wrong footage to make Johnson look better at the Cenotaph)
(Don't remember the DG going when they used the wrong footage to make Johnson look better at the Cenotaph)
Tim Davie: BBC director general embroiled in Gary Lineker controversy
Critics claim former marketing man at centre of row over impartiality is too close to the government
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Tim Davie, whose BBC cancelled The Mash Report and went after Lineker as part of a 'war on woke', going for not being right-wing enough speaks volumes about where the BBC will go next.
(Don't remember the DG going when they used the wrong footage to make Johnson look better at the Cenotaph)
(Don't remember the DG going when they used the wrong footage to make Johnson look better at the Cenotaph)
A good thread on the non-consensual sharing of videos of state violencee
Random thoughts on ICE trauma porn: For years Black folks on social media have been asking people to not share videos of police violence. Now people are sharing videos of ICE violence. Terrible, traumatic moments in people’s lives shared often without consent.
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A good thread on the non-consensual sharing of videos of state violencee
An evil person getting ill/becoming disabled is not ‘karma’. This implies that disability is a punishment for bad deeds, and makes it fair game to then be ableist even more about said disability.
Trump will not see your comments about his failing health. But disabled people in your community* will.
Trump will not see your comments about his failing health. But disabled people in your community* will.
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
An evil person getting ill/becoming disabled is not ‘karma’. This implies that disability is a punishment for bad deeds, and makes it fair game to then be ableist even more about said disability.
Trump will not see your comments about his failing health. But disabled people in your community* will.
Trump will not see your comments about his failing health. But disabled people in your community* will.
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Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
Islamic Center of Charlotte in Charlotte NC. Would help feed a starving baby no hesitation 🥰🥰🥰 #fyp #fypシ #fypシ゚viral #testingyourchurch #church #faith #religion #baby #hungrybabytest #viral #viralvid...
TikTok video by Nikalie 🌈
www.tiktok.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.