Amelia
@aemlair
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Dr A! Creative & Critical Writing PhD at Sussex - queer intimacy in Les Mis. Disabled writer, working on a funky little timeslip novel. She/her or they/them.
Brighton, England
Joined February 2013
For anyone thinking to themselves ah yes I'm having a nice day but what would really be the icing on the cake is 300,000 words about #LesMis, my creative–critical PhD thesis on the novel and its adaptations, including fanwork, is available online for free!
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Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables has a profound relationship with its queer fans. Fans testify to the novel’s importance in their lives and, through substantial self-reflexive creative and critical...
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RT @TLCUK: MORE #BeingAWriter member good news! Congratulations to Amelia for her @IAmInPrint shortlisting 🎉 #TLCTalent.
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RT @CRIPticArts: Are you a disabled facilitator interested in running a one off creative workshop? 🔥 . We want to know about anything creat….
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This opportunity is only open to deaf and disabled people. For more on what we mean by that, see our website Connect Through Creativity is a program of weekly workshops & activities using the arts to...
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RT @Writers_Artists: We're excited to be supporting the Oxford Fantasy Summer School with @BloomsburyBooks 🐉 🪄 🧚 . Listen to talks by best-….
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Is "Call Me By Your Name meets Andor" an insane comp or, like, can you see the vision?? (This isn't the timeslip attic novel, though actually maybe I should be including a character Diego Luna could play in a screen adaptation. DREAM BIG.).
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This time last year, Ollie's absolute limit was paddling. Now, she's started going on strike and refusing to budge when we try to leave the beach because she's not done playing yet thank you very much. (Dora, meanwhile, has always secretly been a seal).
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Expressing how exhausting it is keeping up the Normal Human Facade (energy-limiting disability, autism) for extended socialising, and multiple loved ones responding let it drop; you're at your best in gremlin mode. Yessss this is what it feels like to be Known.
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Finally some good disability-related news - after spending six months working on an appeal and waiting three agonising months to hear about the outcome, my PIP has been reinstated, and I don't have to go through the ordeal of a tribunal!!! Life-changing.
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An honour to have been shortlisted!! Huge thanks to @Losbennett and big congrats to this talented bunch of writers 🌟.
Agent @losbennett really enjoyed opening the portal to the I Am Writing Science Fiction/Fantasy entries this year and said the standard was really high. Our thanks go to Laura for her dedication. And congratulations to all of these intelligent offerings - very well done.
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RT @OxFantasyLit: If you were unable to attend in person the Oxford-Bloomsbury Fantasy Lit Summer School in September 2025, registration fo….
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A fun new one: a medical professional using resources dated 2004, with references exclusively from the 80s and 90s. I know ME/CFS research is underfunded, but come on.
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So excited to see my artwork on the cover of Issue 2 of Beyond the Spectrum's smashing online magazine! Dive into all the wonderful writing and art and creativity of The Space Beyond here:
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RT @BritFantasySoc: We're looking for readers to share their work at our event days. We particularly welcome diverse voices. Just fill in….
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Dora (biggest baby in the world) is somehow FIVE today!! She has little white hairs on her chin 😭
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RT @TLCUK: FREE webinar for busy, disabled, chronically ill and/or neurodivergent writers from our friends @AAT_transcribes taking place ne….
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What I post about online ≠ a reliable indication of my ADLs. Big love to all my disabled friends also navigating the constant background anxiety re benefits. Here's a pic of the gals enjoying the summer to make up for the not-fun kind of shit-posting (3/3)
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obligatory caveat: I generally only post about the good/funny stuff; absolutely everything I manage to do takes insane amounts of effort and preparation, and wipes me out in the days/weeks/months after - 99% of the time I am flat out in bed in my PJs and not by choice 👍 (2/3).
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Tentatively making my account public - met a lot of lovely writing people lately and want to be able to connect easily - but also v aware that my PIP appeal is currently with the DWP and my UC is affected by LCW sooo (1/3).
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