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Rachel Charlton-Dailey
@rachelcdailey.bsky.social
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Disability rights & sausage pics. Author of Ramping Up Rights and columnist at The Canary. Book tour ⬇️ {She/they}

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And just like that the Ramping Up Rights book tour is over! What an incredible past few months getting to meet some many fucking brilliant disabled people. I've loved single minute. We'll be back in the new year but until then you can still buy the book here linktr.ee/rampinguprights
a white woman with shoulder length ginger hair wearing a black dress with witchy symnols on. shes holding a pair of glasses and stilcking her tongue out with her eyes closed laughing towards the camera. on her lap is a sausage dog
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Hello! as it’s Disability History Month coming up I’d like to offer to buy people 2 copies of my book Ramping Up Rights: An Unfinished History of British Disability Rights please
A copy of the green book ramping up rights on a bookcase with a green fairy light draped over it
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Baby’s first book shop window!!! Thank you @lighthousebks.bsky.social

I’ll be at Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair on Saturday on an excellent panel - Reframing Resistance. Both IRL + online lighthousebookshop.com/events/refra...
A bookshop window full of books including mine
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Hello if you're new here, I'm a disability rights journalist, activist and author. Currently write for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social and my disability rights history book, Ramping Up Rights is also out now. AND of course I'm dog mam to Rusty (pictured)

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a white woman with shoulder length ginger hair wearing glasses and a black dress with witchy symbols on it. She is holding a mic and reading from a book whilst a sausage dog sits on her knee with his tongue out
October 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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stop buying halloween decorations from temu you losers
A gravestone Halloween decoration with an outline of billy butcherson from hocus pocus on and underneath it reads “here lies y body of William butchers on diedist of may lost soul”
October 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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we've been working hard on ignoring food that gets dropped on the ground, cos my fine motor skills get worse in the cold and someones a dustbin.

So here's Rusty definitely not seeing his doggy bacon cos I forgot to say he could have it 😂
a black and tan sausage dog looking away from a pile of doggy bacon (though he does have his tongue out)
October 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Happy 6am to everyone with small animals or children who think time is a construct but it is definitely 7am
A Black and Tan dachshund playing with a white ram
October 26, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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West Horsley Place said get fucked, Ghosts fans, we're kicking this pensioner out anyway
West Horsley Place said get fucked, Ghosts fans, we're kicking this pensioner out anyway
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Cos I can’t be bothered to type it again x
This morning my body crashed. I'm okay I just need to do nothing for a little bit. I just wanted to show the reality of running around on book tour, a (very understanding) full time job and campaigning, keeping myself and a dog alive whilst having chronic illnesses and disabilities. I get asked how I do it so much and the reality is I don't, I still push my own limits and end up here every time. I'll be okay. Just need to actually listen to my body for a bit. If I owe you anything I'll reply tomorrow
October 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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The fun thing about being a big neurodivergent hand talker is that in every photo of you speaking professionally you look like you’ve just realised you’re about to be attacked by your own hand
A white woman in a black dress with planets on sat in a grey chair with her book ramping up rights on her lap. She is gesticulating wildly with her right hand so much that it looks like it’s about to attack her face
October 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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TOMORROW! I'll be at @conwayhall.bsky.social with the legendary Stephen Unwin talking disability history and what we're still fighting for now. Tickets still available in person and online. ALSO with last-minute special guest Rusty! www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
A very handsome black and tan dachshund
October 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Adult money
A tiny spiky plant in a white pot with the outline of boobs in pink with heart nipples
October 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Investigations are ongoing and the witness will not be making an statements at this time
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Well good morning to you
A cloudy sunrise with a flash of pink under the clouds
September 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Nottingham you were wonderful last night, sold out event celebrating disability rights activism full of rage, solidarity and disabled joy. Bloody love that I get to do this for my job!
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a stack of my book ramping up rights which is green with a disability pride flag on the front and the subtitle an unfinished history of british disability activism in yellow then my name in white. just behind my book and to the side is a selection of other disabled books three people sat down smiling and holding up copies of ramping up rights. Lozza, a white person with hair wearing a cheky shirt and smart casual grey jorts sat in a wheelchair. me, Rachel, a white woman with collar bone length ginger hair wearing a long green floral dress and big glasses with a pink crystal chain sat on a chair and maisie a white woman with long blonde hair kept off her face with a black hairband wearing a black dress and cardigan in a wheelchair
August 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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If you enjoyed Ramping Up Rights it’d mean a lot if you left me an Amazon review* so that we can get recommended to more people, at a time when disability rights history is needed more than ever (and I can afford to buy rusty more treats 😂) amzn.eu/d/6l6sWQE
A 5 star review which reads You will need this book at some point. Read it now. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 July 2025 If you're not disabled at the moment, you almost certainly will be at some point in the future, and this history is essential reading for that future. There were some passages that made me cheer and others that filled me with righteous rage. Any moment now the Timms Review, provisionally titled Timms' Kampf, will be unleashed on us, with no doubt a follow up consultation with questions like "Do you agree these proposals will effectively reduce the disabled population? Yes/No. Read this and Rage. PS it's lively and entertaining and the author has an excellent sausage dog who deserves some snacks paid for by royalties. A black and tan dachshund wearing a blue harness looking very handsome
July 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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I’m really excited that some of my incredible pals will be joining me along the way too (More events still to come)
With green hearts as bullet points 3rd July - Sunderland with Auburn Langley 4th July - Instagram live with Steve Topple on The Canary’s insta 5th July - Manchester. reading and panel as part of GMCDP’s disability pride (more info TBA) 9th July - Stockton with Claire from Difference North East 15th July - London with Tazmyn-Mei Gebbett 23rd July - Manchester with Cherylee Houston 31st July - Nottingham with Lozza Gilbert 17th August - Edinburgh with Caro Clarke from Portobello Literary (online available too) 15th September - Durham with Ella Willis 15th October - London (other guest still TBA)
June 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Want to come meet me and chat about disability rights? The Ramping Up Rights book tour will be ALL OVER THE PLACE in July and right the way through the rest of the year (there’s also some online events too) linktr.ee/rampinguprig...
On a yellow and Green background is the dates for the ramping up rights book tour, they are as follows 3 JULY Port Independent Sunderland 4 JULY (online) The Canary online 5 JULY Friends Meeting House, Manchester 9 JULY Stockton Library Stockton-on-Tees 15 JULY Waterstones Trafalgar Sa, London 23 JULY Queer Lit Manchester 31 JULY Five Leaves Nottingham 17 AUGUST (10 Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh 15 SEPTEMBER Collected Books Durham 15 OCTOBER Conway Hall London RAMPING UP RIGHTS AN UNFINISHED HISTORY OF BRITISH DISABILITY ACTIVISM RACHEL CHARLTON-DAILEY MORE DATES TBC In the corner of the poster is a photo of a white woman holding a sausage dog
June 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Cute dogs for trans rights
a black and tan sausage dog in a pram with a small progress pride flag and then a massive trans pride flag
June 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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went to a local cafe yesterday and rusty ditched me for his pals (some other regulars)
rusty a black and tan dachshung sat on another sofa entirely to me with two other people
June 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Not to be an absolute bed but I need 1k followers on the clock app before I can put a link in my bio and with the book coming out. (I'm funny sometimes, promise) www.tiktok.com/@rachelcdailey
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May 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Rusty went to his first protest on Friday
A photo of a white woman with ginger hair tied up wearing big sunglasses sat behind a Black and Tan sausage dog in a red pram looking like he’s sleeping. Attached to the front of the pram is a banner that reads cute dogs against cuts
May 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Rusty wanted you all to know he got no chicken and rice for tea, apparently
a dachshund giving puppy dog eyes with an empty plate
May 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Rusty’s really dug deep this #WorldBookDay and come as Schnitzel Von Krumm (with a very low tum)
A Black and Tan dachshund snoozing in the sunny spot on a grey carpet
March 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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UPDATE: They changed the headline after being called out by @thecanaryuk.bsky.social, absolutely outstanding work
DWP plan set to give 1.3 million people big boost to their income 1.3 million workers across the UK will see an improvement in living standards due to long-awaited changes to statutory sick pay. News James Rodger Content Editor 13:30, 03 Mar 2025 Updated 18:23, 03 Mar 2025
March 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM