Rose Ruane

Dressing up for Halloween as a sexy flower arrangement from Le Bonheur

The full weight of the UK establishment - NHS, the Times, Baronesses of the House of Lords, all misrepresenting an actual full blown scandal of acute child harm. My research (with @sandraduffy.bsky.social) captures the real situation, centring patient voice journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Absolutely dissolved into a perfect puddle at this exceptionally beautiful gift from dearest @jackkibble-white.bsky.social who had my erasure poem/sound work for radio Wing of Glass put on vinyl & who designed the perfect sleeve. Truly one of the most wonderful things anyone has ever done for me🩷💕

49 today and my 15 year old self is the one getting all the presents (complimentary)

Painting created by Martin Birch c.1970s, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital where he was compelled to live. This is part of a large body of surviving work which ranges from David Shrigley-esque cartoons to biting critique of the psychiatric system & literary & philosophical reflections

About to start making this cut & sew Noah’s ark from a 1972 Women’s Weekly magazine. I had the kit as a small child in the 80s & neither cut, nor sewed it then & having recently bought this one from eBay for a tenner, I’m hoping that, this time, I will actually accomplish both cutting & sewing…

Sorry I riled up all those elegant bitchy big swans and directed them to your home address. It was a crime of passion

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed

I swear I used to be so much snazzier than this

‘Had he not been an inmate of Bedlam then Broadmoor, isolated from other artists and the pressures of the market and contemporary taste, he would have been, perhaps, a Pre-Raphaelite. Instead, he pursued his own course.’ Nick Richardson on Richard Dadd’s visions. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

!!! I am a big big fan of @historyworkshop.org.uk so it's a real honour to have them publish this piece on radical history, print culture and walking. With many thanks to brilliant editor @sophie-turbutt.bsky.social and @btwhite.bsky.social for the encouragement 📚

Warner Bros: Did you film that adaptation of The Devils of Loudon? Ken Russell: sure did boss, real fuckin sexy, just like you asked

Off on an atomic odyssey and this is how I’ve learned about the idea of ray cats today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_cat

Painting of an eye, created 1960s, by Mavis Oultram, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, where she was compelled to live. Eyes appear in each one of the handful of her surviving works. Little biographical information is currently known to us

Also, removing the spurious pall of the moral, not letting my basic value as a human be in doubt. Striking the 7 deadly sins from my vocabulary: all behaviour is communication, even your own. No one is “lazy” to condemn oneself as such stops us finding the real reason for an inability to do a thing

This is a thread of hard-won tips and tricks for preventing the brain from falling over - or, at the very least, mitigating any falling over that may still occur, despite best efforts. Please do add yours to the list

Currently 738 signatures. And all the expected people sneering about it over on the other place. Success, I think.

Today is World Menopause Day. We recognise that menopause affects a diverse range of people, including all women, transgender men, non-binary and intersex individuals. We are champions of inclusive healthcare and support the reproductive and hormonal experiences of everyone in the community.

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like

Two days of selling kitchens over the phone in the late 90s. Went out for a cigarette and I guess that, technically, I still remain on that break, since I never went back

Climbing into a small hole the size of a large hole

If you’re interested in a PhD in Publishing Studies funded via this scheme, drop me a line…

[1970] Fleetwood Mac - The Green Manalishi. Pan's People dance at Stonehenge and lead the faithful around Portobello Road.

The NHS Guidance on trans people in hospital will protect zero women but will badly harm trans people. What a hateful disgrace and will be remembered by future generations as a stain on us all.

I have to show off the books I got for my birthday earlier this week, including two by bsky mutuals, one of which carries a cover quote from the author of the other. Small world innit. V happy with this lot. @regretteruane.bsky.social @raynewman.bsky.social

Mr Bones is the haunted skeleton of dead Bertie Basset, no further questions

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 45! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 13 Dec! Submit free via Submittable👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

An elaborately rotten little stinker of a day from soup to nuts

Face, probably of one of the locust Martians from Quatermass and the Pit, on the side of a 15th Century pew.

Next door’s baby woke up roaring disconsolately at seven and has scarcely paused for breath since, and it seems to me, to be a perfectly reasonable response to this gloomy grey Monday morning

Sunday domestic bliss hour, home all lamplit, still & spotless, smelling of cooking & laundry. The honeyflood of well-being before the schoolheart, soulsink, doom-dread shatters the cosy contentment like a tin bath of daft oul downhill dicks barrelling through the window of a mattress shop

as the brilliant @publicradionerd.bsky.social mentions, my brand new play about trans pioneers Michael Dillon & Roberta Cowell opens at Wilton’s Music Hall in April! Please do come along :)

Flies, created by Martin Birch c.midC20th in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where he was compelled to live. The large number of his surviving cartoonish works are filled with biting wit, literary & philosophical references & critique of the psychiatric system which held power over him

Despite the name giving me full body shudders of cringe, I made cowboy candy earlier and it truly is sublime stuff. Just ate some on the most incredible sausage sandwich of my life and I’m practically levitating with pleasure

From the Robot Doctors series created by Mary Bishop, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital c.midC20th. One of 100s of paintings she made during 30 years compelled to live there, which express & explore traumas & distresses within & outwith the psychiatric system which held power over her

The Cross I Love To Bear, created by Mary Bishop c.midC20th, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, where she was compelled to live for 3 decades. This is one of 100s of works created while there, exploring her trauma & distress & critiquing the psychiatric system which held power over her

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