Doing my best to #travel, #write, #teach, #learn & #dance my way through life. Passionate advocate of the #childlessnotbychoice and #DownsSyndrome communities.
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My tiny contribution to #WorldChildlessWeek. I hope this & all the other incredible contributions I've read will lead to more empathy & understanding of people who happen to be #childless
Please do RT if it resonates.
#listen #poetry #childlessnotbychoice worldchildlessweek.net/wed-1…
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'There's nothing wrong with Holland' A blog about why I struggle with THAT poem.
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90% of Ukrainians fleeing the country are women and children. Across other groups it's more like 20-30% women and children entering Europe as refugees...(asylumeurope.org)
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A little anecdote about Ukraine in happier times. 🇺🇦💙💛
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What a beautiful anecdote. 💙💛
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It gets better: an hour in to the reunion, Dad's cousin sat back and marveled, 'Your sisters will never believe you're alive!'
He and his little sister were reunited a few days later. She's 91 now.
(Dad died 2 years later and his cousin not long after that.)
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My Ukrainian dad was taken by Nazis in 1941 & lost all contact with family. In 2006 we returned (from UK) to his village and amazingly found his cousin.
Despite the shock, she was adamant that someone go and milk the cow right away because the 'English drink tea with milk'! 🇺🇦🤣
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Today, #Putin launched 8 missiles at #Vinnytsya, where my dad's sister still lives.
I haven't managed to contact her.
I'm so glad my dad's not here to see this happening...again.
🇺🇦 Слава Україні 💙💛
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67 years later he discovered his little sister was still alive. They were reunited at #Lviv Railway station, where this week there has been footage of thousands fleeing another invasion of his beautiful country.
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A short thread 🧵
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💙💛🇺🇦My dad was #Ukrainian. When he was barely in his teens, the Nazis invaded his village. Two years later, it was the Russians.
He was taken by the Nazis and heeded his father's pleas never to return, for all their sakes.
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Please help me and help my family. We are trying to get our two nieces to the uk they are only 8 and 14 years old.
Write to your local MP and ask them to change the government position on entering the Uk. We don’t need money we need help with visas
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦💪🏻 – at Petworth, England
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#Ukrainian citizens are asked to dismantle/deface road signs.
Here's the official exemplar:
⬆️ F@#% off
⬅️ F@#% off again
➡️ F@#% off to Russia
Proud to be 🇺🇦💙💛
Слава Україні! Героям слава!
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'Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. '
Expecting Adam, Martha Beck
#WDSD2021 #DownsSyndrome #DownSyndrome
Oh, dear. I used to study these ads with my GCSE media studies students. At 14 they understood the humour & psychology behind the marketing - & why it was successful. Then again, they were active consumers, able to analyse and read texts critically without simply being offended.
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@homestartuk, first of all, let me say that I know of the great work you do; I have dear friends involved locally.
However, I'm disappointed by your search for people with 'parenting experience', which seems at best shortsighted and at worst discriminatory. 1/5
@gatewaywomen
Many of the greatest teachers I know have no children. One of the few NICU nurses who showed genuine empathy and who I trusted implicitly with my baby also had no children.
Conversely, many of the people I've met who seem least capable of empathy and compassion are parents. 4/5
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I have updated my explainer on #COVID19 #vaccination #fertility #pregnancy and #breastfeeding again!
What’s new? Safety data on the ~15,000 pregnant people who have so far received the vaccine in the UK and USA.
(Spoiler alert: it’s reassuring.) 🧵
drive.google.com/file/d/1_wH…
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NIPT.
'What we need, is for our society to shift towards truly embracing equality before any further screening rolls out. We need minority communities to be included. We need people to begin to re-learn what they have been taught about disability.'
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Number 35. @Emmerdale @EmmerdalePress "People with Down syndrome are excellent communicators, whether they use speech or signing. Not speaking is not the same as having nothing to say. Correct research would have shown you this." @mencap_charity @DSAInfo #EducatingEmmerdale