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WobblyGoose/Dr Rachel
@wobblygoose.bsky.social
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Wobbly wanderings through worlds of wisdom. Chaplain✝️.
TSSF, disabled ♿, ND, #spoonie, printmaker disability advocate,🌈 asexual biromantic, she/her
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Disability flare resting companions
A black and white cat asleep on a bed next to a brown teddy bear. The duvet is white patterned with grey sloths
October 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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People enjoying looking at, and interacting with my exhibition in @newcastlecathedral today.

You can visit for free whenever the Cathedral is open until 27th August

Or online www.wobblygoose.com

#SeekingDisabledChrist
Four people looking at an exhibition mounted on white exhibition boards A person standing with their back to the camera feeling a tactile image mounted on the wall in front of them next to the identical printed image. The person is wearing short sleeves and carrying a red drawstring backpack Two people looking at the exhibition. One is looking at the wall panels, the other is looking at the objects in a case
August 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
wobblygoose.bsky.social
It would be great to see people at a networking lunch & quiet afternoon for disabled, neurodivergent and those with lived experience of mental health conditions near Newcastle.

Saturday 16th August 1-4 pm
Newcastle Cathedral
Cafe, then nave

Message or email me to book and for access requirements.
Lino print of Christ signing 'I love you' in American Sign Language
August 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
wobblygoose.bsky.social
Come to the Launch and Celebration of 'Seeking the Disabled Christ' Exhibition

This time next week:
Saturday 9th August
2-4 pm

Book using this link:

newcastlecathedral.org.uk/event/seekin...

Come to meet me, hear about and celebrate the exhibition with drinks and nibbles.
A lino print of Jesus sitting in a powered wheelchair using a ventilator
August 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Postcards and prints are available!

Postcards from @newcastlecathedral and online

Original prints available online via my website

www.wobblygoose.com

Sadly it isn't possible to ship to the EU at present due to the new regulations
An array of postcards featuring lino print images of Disabled Christ fanned out on a wooden bench a lino print of Blind Christ leading a sighted disciple through the fog, printed in dark blue ink on white paper
July 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Seeking the Disabled Christ Exhibition
Open today until 27th August
Free, @newcastlecathedral
And online,

www.wobblygoose.com

Tactile, large print, dyslexia friendly and braille available onsite.

Videos with captions available online.

All welcome

#SeekingDisabledChrist
The introductory panel for 'Seeking the Disabled Christ' Exhibition on a white display wall. There is a black notice directing people to the cathedral crypt on a stand in front Two lino prints: wheelchair Christ and Ventilator Christ, along with a tactile version of Ventilator Christ on an exhibition wall
July 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Exhibition installed!

'Seeking the Disabled Christ' Exhibition
Free, @newcastlecathedral.bsky.social
30th July -27th August
All Welcome
A woman in green top, red trousers and light blue cardigan standing next to a turquoise banner with a wobbly Goose logo, print of blind Christ and the words 'Spirituality, Creativity, Disability'. In the background is the first panel of the 'Seeking the Disabled Christ' Exhibition
July 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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It feels like a particularly pertinent time to receive this book, when it feels like disabled people are in the midst of a fight for life, dignity, access and justice.

Thank you @rachelcdailey.bsky.social

#TakingThePIP
A book with a green cover titled Ramping up rights: an unfinished history of disability activism by Rachel Charlton-Dailey
June 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I am giving a talk in Newcastle Diocese's Theology& series about the theology behind my Disabled Christ images.

It will be in the cafe of Newcastle Cathedral from 4pm (arrive from 3.30pm) -5pm Thursday 5th June.

Level access from the Cathedral's East End.

All welcome
A lino print in black ink on a white background. It shows Christ sitting in an electric wheelchair and using a ventilator. He is wearing a long robe and sandals and has a halo with a cross.
May 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Alleluia! Christ is Risen!

Happy Easter everyone!
An Easter garden containing a small stone tomb with the stone rolled away and various coloured flowering plants in front of three crosses against a pebbledash church wall
April 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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@curiouswilds.bsky.social you're mentioned in the book I'm currently reading, although she misspells your name!
Wild City by Florence Wilkinson
A page of text in a book talking about pavement chalking about plants by 'Rachel Summer' (sic) in the 2020 lockdown
March 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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This lay person is bringing tea to #ClergyMaltClub post midnight Mass.

Happy Christmas everyone!
#CofEPeeps
A hand holding a large mug of tea which is decorated with coloured dots in a random pattern. There's a Christmas tree lit with white lights in the background.
December 25, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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Today involved great company, a ferry, sculptures, beach and tea
View from the bow of the Tyne ferry showing the bow of the boat with a block, tackle and rope. There is the North Shields shoreline in the background against a grey sky Statues of people with curved bases, like the wobbly toys that always return upright, in groups in a sandy paved area with some dunes on the right and a grey sky. each statue is wearing a colorful knitted hat and scarf A white woman wearing a teal hat and blue coat with a red cross body bag standing in front of some beachside railings holding onto a plush hippo and elephant. Behind her is a sandy beach and a calm bay
December 11, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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'Driving' the Newcastle Metro
View through the front window of a light rail carriage of railway tracks with a green metal and red brick bridge against a grey sky
December 11, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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These are excellent: by disabled people and facilitated by the excellent @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social and others.

As for me, happy to chat with SCM about my own experiences, theology and disabled Christ prints
A lino print in black ink on a white background. It shows the head and torso of Christ, depicted in a style similar to an icon. He is signing 'I love you' in American/International Sign Language with his right hand and holding a heart shaped stone in his left hand.
November 21, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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It would.

Mother Clara currently providing unconditional positive regard here
A cream coloured ready bear wearing a black jumper with clerical collar and a flame and dove motif sitting on a bed. She has a distinct head tilt
November 14, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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Cassie says hello to her fellow clergy cat
A Calico cat, snuggled on a grey duvet
November 10, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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My default state is F
A section of the nautical flag code from d to h, including F: I am disabled. Communicate with me
November 7, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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@girlinthe.bsky.social we spent most of today in Chester on our way to Llandudno. I thought you would like this manicure from a cafe cum letterpress print shop we visited
A printer's wooden type chest on top of which sits a case of type, a framed sign saying not to touch the type and a large letterpress type manicule
April 5, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Learning storytelling and deep talk with OutoftheBox stories. My resources have recently arrived. They are so tactile
A pile of coloured pieces of felt on a round rattan basket lid. There are blue squiggles, yellow circles, orange semicircles, red raindrops, green leaves, grey clouds/rocks, brown rectangles and small light blue circles A rattan basket containing various cloth baskets and bags A small Hessian basket containing wooden figures with a few wooden figures in different poses and some rainbow coloured felt circles on a large cream fabric circle A variety of wooden figures in various poses including sitting, standing and wheelchair using people, a donkey and an animal
October 13, 2023 at 4:07 PM
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#ProofOfCat
This is Cassie
A tortoishell and white cat lies on the arm of a sofa with one front paw out and the other raised towards her mouth.
October 11, 2023 at 8:54 PM