Ash Bainbridge
ash-bainbridge.bsky.social
Ash Bainbridge
@ash-bainbridge.bsky.social
Midwife | Writer | Unschooler | Getting by with endo & PMDD 🩸 | 2024 Student Midwife of the Year #SNTA | Poetry chapbook “Trans-crip-T" out now with Written Off Publishing 🏳️‍🌈♾️🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he)
Tiny trophy? Giant hand?
I won won Worcester's poetry slam!

The first @worc_artsfest slam with host Aaron Corbett & judges Zakariye Abdillahi, Leena Batchelor & Suz Winspear. Poets bared hearts & funny bones, the audience were solidly on side with all & the panel gave nothing away. Thrilling 👌🏼
March 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My work’s part of the Vagina Museum’s latest exhibition #Menopause: What’s Changed? It explores what’s a fact of life for so many via millennia of silence, the rise & fall of #HRT, booms in a lucrative industry & a burgeoning cultural scene. There’s even armour made from used HRT sachets.

#PMDD
March 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
We did it, ducks 🧑🏻‍🎓

#Graduation #Midwife #NHS #Worcester #Midwifery
March 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I happily poet in both modes. If your gig has a code, please let me know. Don't want to let the vibe down, and I'm equally at home in both scruff and glitter.

#Poet #Transmasc #NonBinaryFinery
February 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Tea, toast and rain bouncing off the windows for today’s national research priority setting group for LGBTQ+ pregnancy, birth and beyond 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #Midwife #Research #QueerFamily
February 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm a speed reader. A book this length would typically take a lunch break. I re-read each paragraph at least three times, slowly. The widest expanse of human emotions & experiences are presented in nuanced, tangible, grounded language. Stunningly crafted, stunningly 💔 #NeonatalLoss #Grief
February 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I adore the community side of midwifery for many reasons… But a really big one is Everyone’s Pets 🐾

#Midwifery #Midwife #Pregnancy #Postnatal
January 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
My work-issued diary. Blank canvas! Please signpost places that make SFW stickers for midwifery, feminism, repro justice, and all that vital stuff for the families I work for and me to see 🫶🏻

#Midwifery #Feminist #ContinuityOfCare
January 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My biggest little turned one year older and at the chocolate decoration station, drew a giraffe giving birth #ChildOfAMidwife

@cadburyworld.bsky.social
January 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Thank you please -
✨ Support queer writers
⭐️ Support radical bookshops
💫 Support indie presses

#QueerPoet #LGBTQ #Poetry #SpokenWord #SmallPress
January 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Queer disabled joy, question flips & certified sexy kebab metaphors in an iconic London bookspot. Every sequin & syllable cut through that mid-January funk to blast “Gynandromorph” into the world! Proper memory making that 👌🏼

@agparker.bsky.social
@housmansbookshop.bsky.social

#PoetryCommunity
January 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Tomorrow we celebrate! 📕 🚀

Author - @agparker.bsky.social
Host - @housmansbookshop.bsky.social
Cover artist - Saffron Lily Illustration
Publisher - @writtenoffbooks.bsky.social

#Poetry #DisabledAndProud #BookLaunch #QueerPoetry
January 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Healthcare 🤜🏼🤛🏼 Poetry. I’ll be there 🖊️
You still have time to register for our 1st free online event: everyone welcome, medics and non medics alike, come join us for a lovely evening of poetry.

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January 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Open mic slot booked! Might even matchy match my event tipple 🥃
📣 Calling all poets! We’ve got 10 open mic slots at the launch of The Whiskey Tree: Untamed Nature #Wave2. Share your work alongside our featured poets. First-come, first-served—grab your slot now! 🌟
📅 3rd Feb | 20:00 GMT
🎟️ Book here: shorturl.at/CIf9K
Launch Event: The Whiskey Tree – Untamed Nature (Wave 2)
Join us on 03/02/25 at 20:00 on Zoom for the launch of The Whiskey Tree: Untamed Nature (Wave 2), with live readings & open mic!
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January 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Celebrating this punch of a collection? Yes, please! 💥 Come to Housmans bookshop for a cosy night of queer poetic resistance.

Book & image by @agparker.bsky.social
Cover art by Saffron Lily Illustration
Published by @writtenoffbooks.bsky.social

#Poetry #DisabledAndProud #BookLaunch #QueerArt
January 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
New year, new social media to worry about advocating for better healthcare without getting in trouble 👌🏼 #NHS #Midwifery #LGBTHealth
January 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM