Philippa Willitts 🏳️‍🌈
incurablehippie.bsky.social
Philippa Willitts 🏳️‍🌈
@incurablehippie.bsky.social
Leftie lesbian journalist
August 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I have come to learn that on every walk I do that's slightly longer, there is a point where I lose any faith that I can complete it.

Accessibility fails make reaching this point considerably more likely.
August 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Something tells me these aren't acting as as much of a deterrent as someone hoped
July 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
10. Some of the finished works
11. The Dog and Partridge sign
June 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
7. Phia in progress
8. Me in progress
9. People paper cutting and gluing
June 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
3. Me and Phia <3
4. Table in progress
5. Phia's Fuck the Gender Binary collage
6. People gluing and paper cutting
June 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Had a lovely evening advocating for queer joy and kissing more girls at the #Pride-themed Cut Up Collective event last night with Phia. There were some really creative, moving and funny collages made and it was fab.
1. My Kiss More Girls collage
2. My Queer Joy collage
June 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I wrote for Global Comment about exploring the place you live more intentionally, even in the rain, and you get to see some bonus ducks 🦆 as well. globalcomment.com/staycation-i... #SheffieldIsSuper
May 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
How do you review a film when your friend is in it? The simple answer is you don't, but I've never been one for simple answers. So instead I had a look at journalistic ethics, meanness in reviews, and other such good stuff. globalcomment.com/ethics-compa...
May 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Love it when I get the chance to evangelise about #TomLehrer, and I did so for Global Comment 🎶
April 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
[rape, sexual assault, legal system]

I reviewed #PrimaFacie, with the ever-exceptional Jodie Comer globalcomment.com/the-explorat...
April 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
#MobilityAid recycling at Sheffield Hospitals This is not a drill!
April 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Do I know anybody who works / has worked in Bereavement Services at a UK local council who would be up for an off-the-record chat? There's some background info I need to understand more about how a particular process works? Cheers. #JournoRequest
April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Look what 5-years-ago me had the presence of mind to put in my Google Calendar to pop up today 🤯
April 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Lisa's finally going to get a funeral. Posting here for maximum visibility because I know a lot of us have been waiting for it. It's on 9th May at 11.15am in Colchester, with an online option too. Please do DM me for the full info if you'd like to attend.
April 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Some days I am super focused and motivated. Other days I bribe myself with jelly babies to get the hard tasks done, like a toddler. Did you know jelly babies were originally called Unclaimed Babies? Which is honestly horrifying imagery. Bassett's in Sheffield renamed them Peace Babies after WW1.
April 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I've been making a note of words that made me happy, or intrigued, or that were just unusual or fascinating, for a while. Here are some of them. I think the last one is the one that pinged the happy bits of my brain the loudest - and it's got 8 syllables!
March 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
"The problems we are facing as a country are not caused by disabled people" - I talked about #AccessToWork with Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2 about benefits and some stats

#HandsOffDisabilityBenefits #WelfareNotWarfare #DisabilityJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
March 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Want some tips on posing for the camera? Ask 1982 Me. No doubt Dad had just told me that if I dug a hole deep enough, I'd reach Australia
March 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Look what I did! Each element is painfully but beautifully symbolic but in a way I mostly can't explain without crying. So, for now, this is a fox, and a parakeet flying from a cage, that are beautiful and that's explanation enough.
March 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Little things that make me disproportionately happy #3
The #AuthorClock!
Why does it makes me so happy? It reminds me that when I'm checking the time (often because I'm stressed!), that there is a world outside of whatever feels urgent in the moment. Also it is just enriching!
March 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Spotted some especially extra #YarnBombing (as if yarnbombing can be ever described as anything other than extra) in #Oughtibridge #postboxes
March 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
40-something years later I'm still thrilled with this precise aesthetic #IncurableHippie
February 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
February 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
When you spend the first 18 years of your life in a town obsessed with pies, you don't necessarily realise quite how obsessed with pies it is 🥧 Then you leave home and wonder why there aren't steak puddings in the chippy or pie stalls at events or pies on every menu and it gradually sinks in #wigan
February 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM