Emma Szewczak
@EmmaSzewczak
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Book on gender violence in healthcare for @ChattoBooks Agent John Ash at CAA Szewczak is pronounced Shev-chak she/her
Cambridge, England
Joined April 2016
Some news! Three years ago my vagina caved in during childbirth, now I'm writing a book with @AndrzejHarris about all forms of gynaecological violence in healthcare, research and beyond. DMs always open for those wanting to share x
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Hmm I wonder which is better, either a man having a minimally invasive 20 min vasectomy under local anaesthetic that comes with a recovery time of 1 day or a woman having major abdominal surgery under general anaesthetic that takes a month to recover from. Impossible to say!
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I'm in the swimming changing rooms and can hear a woman with her small child and so far we've had "daddy said he'd pack snacks but. they're not in the bag" "daddy said he'd pack your arm bands but I can't see them" and finally "daddy didn't pack the towels" lol good one daddy.
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This has radicalised me and I think I'm going to kill someone
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Nativity season is upon us! My son has been cast as a wise man. My daughter, on the otherhand -
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had to tell my son that santa isn't real in the middle of the night because he was hysterical about a strange man coming into the house, but made him *promise* not to tell his younger sister that he doesn't exist. so instead he told her that santa's dead.
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My kids have started playing out in the street recently and my god the hostility from random passing strangers/neighbours!.
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Disappointment for royal fans as rain and storms predicted for the coronation weekend
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pre-feminism women just living, laughing, loving
before feminism came around women were literally treated like princesses, doors held open, no financial worries, no exhausting jobs & seen as too delicate to do tough work. Now women are expected to be just as tough and do all the hard work that should be reserved for men smh.
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walking past the barista in starbucks to get to the toilet when I haven't bought anything
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I tell myself cambridge isn't that bad and then three kids in my son's class dress up for world book day as characters out of their parents books.
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obsessed with paris hilton not posting a single picture of her husband from their wedding
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remember when our King said he wished he was a tampon.
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I sincerely hope he gets it in the fucking neck tonight.
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Can't believe there are people in sport with a physical advantage over others. That just isn't what sport's about.
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drama in the school whatsapp chat! the PTA invited us all to a coronation party and one of the dads (who's a professor of colonial history) said eat my dick.
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The woman has just reassured her child that the pool will definitely have towels before getting in and I don't know how to tell her she's not in the Nuffield Health now.
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I'm sorry but a £85k salary really doesn't make you rich, when I was on £90k I still had to force my elderly father to do laps around the garden after a hip replacement to supplement my monthly income - BEFORE tax.
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I know we are supposed to be euphemistic about suicide but someone I love deeply has killed herself and I'm sorry if that sounds violent but it is, it was, and I just don't know how else to be honest without these words
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a thread of bangers by one of twitter's top ten tweeters: Richard Dawkins.
Saw a down-and-out in Seattle last night. His sign said not "I need food" or "I need a job" but "I need a fat bitch". What could this mean?.
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The "having to scan your receipt to get out" thing in supermarkets is absolutely enraging to me, a perpetual browser. Like ok you didn't have the particular brand of crisps I wanted so now I have to stay here until I die.
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I'm convinced the decline in children's mental health has more to do with them barely playing out any more and less to do with technology.
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jk rowling wrote a polish character and it went as well as could be expected.
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Didn't she *accidentally* email her interview notes to Boris Johnson, leading to the cancellation of the interview? This year?.
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this is an absolutely UNHINGED way to open your book on the history of medicine !!!!!
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50% of people express positivity and the rest say things like "you are terrible parents" "take them to a park" "bloody kids" etc. Everyone has to say something. It's clearly such a divisive thing!.
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oh look at that, yet another #CervicalScreening public awareness campaign that assumes people have simply forgotten to book an appointment, or are too "embarrassed" to do so, rather than acknowledging the real reasons behind poor attendance (PAIN! TRAUMA!).
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My bulgarian neighbours are *aghast* with the situation, think the country is shockingly hostile to children. They're not wrong!.
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My mum just had to pull out one of her own teeth, and now I'm going to *Boots* to ask a pharmacist what we should do about it, because she's been waiting 2 years for an NHS dentist appointment and 111 told us not to go to A&E and this is the worst country in the whole world.
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Funnily enough, all the students in the area (those without kids and perhaps the most likely to not be understanding) are all great about it!! Join in with the football etc. And yet the older people - who presumably played out themselves as children - are not.
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my son when I tell him he can't have a mr whippy from the van because we've got mini milks at home:.
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@alexkurtagic I don't think you're going to find peace and quiet though, I think you're going to find cold neighbours and a higher risk of house burglary!.
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they made him. rippley.
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My mum’s been so humiliated in recent weeks that I’m trying to focus on the funny lovely things instead. After she died, we found loads of hilariously weird shit in her house that she’d made for herself. Like this:
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ed davey turning up at his local polling station this morning
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An elderly neighbour has particularly taken against it, shouts at them/us whenever she gets a chance. So far we've had: it's bringing the house prices down, we clearly don't love our children, they are too loud, they are taking up too much space.
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Finally a "good" bad smear test story: my friend went for her pap smear the day after she'd had a massage, and without thinking lay on her front instead of her back. The nurse had to tell her to turn over.
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Yet another woman killed by the Polish state. Agnieszka had been pregnant with twins and when one of them died in her womb doctors refused to remove it unless the other one also died, as the procedure would constitute an illegal abortion. She contracted sepsis and died on tuesday.
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I think it's pretty enraging that some people read the neil gaiman article and are not mostly enraged by the person who is raping people in it.
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Imagine being part of a medical team that decides to tell the police that a woman took abortion pills too late.
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In 2013 my partner met the Queen and Prince Philip at the opening of his lab in Cambridge. When Philip learnt that he was Polish, he said, "how did you get here? Come here to pick raspberries?".
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How are MPs even allowed to do this? It's in your constituents interests to see what you're posting!
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Meanwhile, in polish news "Ciapunio - suspected of eating 100 heads of cabbage"
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of course my son threw his mr tumble poster onto the kitchen skylight and there's no way of getting it down and now I have to look at this face every day for the rest of my life
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make his hands, cowards.
We’re unveiling our Chocolate Charles ahead of the Coronation next week. 👑. The sculpture took 4 weeks to create and weighs over 23KG😲 – the equivalent of 2,875 individual Celebrations chocolates. Which of your faves can you spot on Charles’ bust? 👇. *disclaimer in thread*
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All the people replying "she should've checked the bag!!" because it goes without saying that men are fuck ups lol.
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ok so what actually happened was he replied "I feel uncomfortable with all the compulsory nationalism" and someone else chimed in with "THIS IS A CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL WHAT DID YOU EXPECT" and he full bodied them with ":-)".
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My children's school had to raise money for heating last year.
'It was a hard one to turn down. one of my children was keen to go'. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson explains why she accepted free @taylorswift13 tickets earlier this year. @bphillipsonMP is in Liverpool for the @UKLabour party conference
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Bring back the feminism that asks men to share the burden of hormonal birth control.
Bring back the feminism that recognizes birth control as a pillar of women’s agency and liberation my god.
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waterstones hires full-time booksellers for a pathetic 18k a year, and yet has the nerve to implement a social media useage policy stricter than that of the government's civil service.
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What, in your opinion, is the single greatest celebrity photograph in history?.
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You can bet your life these tiny girls have already been asked if they've got a boyfriend yet.
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Anyway I'd be interested to hear other people's experiences with this. I spent my whole childhood playing out and it was probably one of the best things about it!.
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France has enough on its plate right now without having to deal with this
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32 prisons still operating in the UK today were built in the Victorian era. Most don't feature opening windows, adequate ventilation or air conditioning. During 30ºC heatwaves they've been described as feeling like ovens. Can't even imagine what inmates are experiencing right now.
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my partner says please don't do this emma we have to see these people everyday for the next 5 years. my gut feeling is, but that makes it funnier.
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my heart says join in and drag it out but my head says join in and drag it out.
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there's estate agent grift, then there's saying this house has a balcony
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I just find it weird that you'd publish this sort of article in a leading broadsheet, right now, as though the ongoing war is actually a TV show and this man isn't probably about to be assassinated
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Heart attacks do not present differently in men and women and such misinformation actively contributes to a gender gap in treatment outcomes.
After Mum's heart attack yesterday, I am putting this out there. Heart Attacks present differently in Women, and if my Dad hadn't acted as quickly as he had, things may have been a very different story today.
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my baby was the wrong way round and they refused to let me have an elective c-section because "we don't do them for that in this country" 👍👍.
Britain's fertility rate falling faster than any other G7 country .
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Happy father's day, dad! Here's a picture of my dad not at my graduation, here's a picture of my dad not at my wedding, here's a picture of my dad not meeting his grandchildren, here's a picture of my dad not being at any of my birthdays, here's a picture of my dad not.
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The leader of the opposition in Poland has just proposed interest-free mortgages for under 45s whereas the leader of the opposition in Britain proposes. what, exactly?.
PMQs: Starmer draws on the impact of the cost of living. "The average family in Britain will be poorer than the average family in Poland. We're going to see a generation of young people learning to say 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet' in Polish", says Starmer
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And *this* is the context we're bringing assisted dying into
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too many people giving their children nicknames as first names nowadays, you've got your ellas, your archies, your leos, your lotties, your livs. whatever happened to good old fashioned long form names???? give the child a CHOICE of nicknames for goodness sake.
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Reporting on the murder of John Hunt's family and the daily mail manages to shoe horn in their house price in what I can only assume is some quiet dig at bbc presenter salaries? You stay classy, the daily mail
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one of the biggest knocks to women's rights in the UK and yet noted british feminists jk rowling, kathleen stock, maya forstater, helen joyce, rosie duffield all remain surprisingly silent on the matter.
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If anyone knows of any pro bono lawyers in shropshire who'd be willing to help out with my "did the hospital accidentally mix up my mum's body and cremate the wrong person" problem, I'd be very grateful 🙏.
Had a funeral for and cremated my mum in december, but today the Shropshire Council emails to tell me she's still in the Hospital waiting to be cremated.
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the professor's comment has 3 likes and the THIS IS A CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL comment has 3 likes. adding my friend lindsay to the group to break the tie (lindsay doesn't have a child at this school).
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My daughter's going through a phase of having nightmares and everytime she wakes up crying our bastard neighbour (mid 60s world-leading professor) bangs on the wall. Thank you sir!! Very helpful!! The next time he does it I'm putting it on his wikipedia page.
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if private schools dont give you advantage literally why do you pay 20k to go then.
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@hiccuptruck Name me one method of birth control that has 100% success rate AND doesn't disproportionately effect the woman.
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Can't stop thinking about the babies in the incubators that are about to be turned off in Gaza. Not a soul in the world can defend that.
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just did the best april fools to my partner, who hates worms. said the cat knocked over the kids' worm house onto his laptop and all the worms escaped
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a horse girl I went to primary school with just named her baby Saddle.
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Overheard an old man in John Lewis complaining about how early the xmas decorations are up. It's 19th December.
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when I was doing an internship for a charity and all the women got flowers for international women's day except me because I wasn't fulltime.
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Here's a man who refuses to sell his land to property developers, casually harvesting his crops in the middle of a housing estate in Poland.
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15 years since my friend moved to Clowne, Derbyshire, and learnt that her new sixth form was called Clowne College and nothing has been funnier since.
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Of course lol (for the love of GOD, leave him if he expects you to go through female sterilisation bc he won't have a vasectomy)
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Just disgusting to publish this piece written by a child abuser and his pathetic wife under the privilege of anonymity. Poor them!!! Shame his victims weren't entitled to the same privacy when he committed sexual crimes against them!!!
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actually think my profile is more male than the male head, and I'm here for it.
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Fed up with smear test discourse. Attendance is low because the process is bad! Instead of changing it (home testing IS possible) we get coercive campaigns. So much in women’s health is about making us do painful things we don’t want to do rather than making the bad things better.
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cannot believe forty THOUSAND human beings, of their own free and fair volition, are following an account I made when I was drunk with the sole aim of trolling kevin mccloud
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@KateOrson They're all five and under. They've been duped by the very people they trust the most.
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