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Author, poet, old punk & @BylineTimes columnist. Writing while slow recovery from critical illness in '23. Defiant disabled activist, cat mum, Hastings UK

Hastings, East Sussex
Joined March 2009
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Penny Pepper
10 days
My Friday post: trying to make regular tho unhappy in this space. But appreciate my twitter (ahem) tribe. Latest Substack, with permission an edit of the @BylineTimes (print only) piece to make accessible to all "Who Needs Fame?" #fame #writer #disability
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Penny Pepper
24 days
Proud of this. Need to keep writing these things as world judders on with disabled people globally at the bottom of humanity's priority. Thank you to friends & allies who shared their hopes and fears. I cherish your trust. Onwards. @BylineTimes #disability
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Penny Pepper
2 months
Wishing you all the best festivities in whatever form you celebrate them. Thank you everyone for connecting with me, liking posts and sharing updates throughout 2024 - They are very much appreciated. And in 2025 I'll be asking you all 'Don;t Give Up On Me'. You can read why here.
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Penny Pepper
2 months
Top of the tree ready and bringing you good tidings! 😇 You know I've always been an angel - it all started here, aged about 10 bringing a bit of cheek to the Angel Gabriel at the school Nativity. #writerslife #angelic #seasonsgreetings
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Penny Pepper
2 months
Support us writers please! Proud to be in this anthology too.. #WritingCommunity #disability #disabledwriter
@BBookCollective
Breakthrough Books
2 months
Today’s #FirstLineFriday is taken from our latest short story anthology, #Elemental. Introducing: Grape Expectations by @ivyngeow. LINK IN BIO Pssst… it’s only 99p at the moment! #BreakthroughBooks #ShortStory #Anthology #BookTwitter #BooksWorthReading
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Penny Pepper
2 months
Are you trawling around the shops for gifts? Do ho ho ho hop over to my website and grab a copy of one of my books - There are two new 2024 books to grab - my updated paperback of Desires Reborn ( Over 18 ) and the short story Anthology 'Elemental' Enjoy!
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Penny Pepper
2 months
OOhhh.. I'm not quite sure why, but there has been a flurry of interest in Spiral Sky over on Blue Sky. My Spiral Sky LP (1994) was top of the Greek charts for a week in 1994! check out 'Marriage of Convenience'
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Penny Pepper
2 months
Join me in the blue space friends! For work purposes I'll be lurking on X but after recent waves of ableist hate it's time for less interaction here. Look forward to seeing you all there in hopes that it stays bright blue & less hateful. #writerslife #Disability #Bluesky #love
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Penny Pepper
2 months
You know I live a lovely flashback! This glorious pic's from December 2018. 'That’s What She Said' at the legendary Royal Albert Hall (albeit with a ramp faff as per usual) and such fun with @salenagodden @reecelyons_ and Rosie Garland x #flashbackfriday #writerslife
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Penny Pepper
2 months
Here's my cat. I'm slowly moving active participation to the blue... Search me in that space. Be great to have you there. Meanwhile, a revelation. No publisher has taken on my novels. Yes. Novels. Open to offers. Not exactly a beginner. #writerlife #tired #disability #BlackCat
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Penny Pepper
2 months
Thanks to all who came down to the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery to spend some time on the International day of Disabled People. These things take it out of me a bit more now but it's so important (and fun) to get together and celebrate! #disabilityhistorymonth #writerslife✒️
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Penny Pepper
2 months
A reminder to all Hastings friends! Do come and join us at The Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, tomorrow, 3rd December from 3.30. All are welcome at this lovely fully accessible venue to join Disabled activists, creatives, allies and friends. See the poster for details.
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Penny Pepper
2 months
I watched live... At result I burst into tears and hugged a friend. As a DNR survivor I felt sick with fear and anger. For us all. And I can never, ever give up this fight. #AssistedDyingBill #AssistUsToLive @thelizcarr @TheNotDeadYetUK
@Dis_PPL_Protest
DPAC
2 months
MPs vote to support assisted dying bill MPs have voted 330 to 275 in support of the assisted dying bill A difference of 55 We will never give up fighting ✊
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Penny Pepper
2 months
Not leaving but fading, yet always in rebellion! Big love to you Julie (starting 80s salon-y nights in Feb. Hopefully) x
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Penny Pepper
2 months
As we wait for the result, love to you Jane!
@BnsJaneCampbell
Baroness J Campbell
2 months
I am in St. Thomas’s Hospital and I can hear you all chants . I maybe hear in hospital with tubes which I love, because they assist me to live and go back to you all . MPs , please vote NO to the Bill today. @thelizcarr . Please forward
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Penny Pepper
2 months
With you all in heart and soul! Keep warm & safe comrades! #AssistUsToLive #AssistedDyingBill no!
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DPAC
2 months
Activists from #DPAC DPAC Banner #Rights not charity Standing outside Parliament at the vigil / protest Assisted Dying - Suicide Bill Vote No ❌ #AssistUsToLive
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Penny Pepper
2 months
Yes keep warm friends! Following proceedings again now! #AssistUsToLive @helenadollimore
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DPAC
2 months
Fabulous outfit ! Stay warm ❤️ Assisted Dying / Suicide Bill VoteNo ❌ #AssistUsToLive
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Penny Pepper
2 months
It melts my mind this bill is put forward now. @UKDHM I'm organising an event for 3rd Dec! How ironic... Solidarity! @paulapeters2 #AssistUsToLive
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DPAC
2 months
Richard Reiser UK Disability History Month sitting outside Westminster whilst the assisted dying / suicide bill is debated inside the House of Commons Assist Us To Live #MP’s Vote No ❌ #AssistUsToLive
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Penny Pepper
2 months
#AssistUsToLive thank you friends ❤️
@InclusionLondon
Inclusion London
2 months
Today we're outside Parliament as the Assisted Dying bill is being debated and voted upon. No DDPO (Deaf and Disabled People's Organisation) supports AD. We want Government to #AssistUsToLive, not to die. DPAC's Zoom peer support from 9:30-4:30 today:
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