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Laura Elliott

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Laura Elliott

@TinyWriterLaura

Writer, maker, disabled journo. Debut novel AWAKENED out now with @angryrobotbooks. ‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - @nytimes

Sheffield, England.

notesfromanunrulybody.substack.com

Joined August 2010

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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Jun 10, 2025
The book It destroyed its cage Yes YES The book is out! it’s publication day for Awakened, so if you want Sleepless monsters, medical ethics, Anonymous Billionaires locked in towers and a touch of dark romance, i have the order links for you 🐦‍⬛ linktr.ee/lauracelliott
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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Oct 25, 2024
are they working an extra hour? then yes they should get paid the extra hour, how is this even a question????
Nursing Standard
@NurseStandard
Oct 24, 2024
Clocks go back: should nurses get paid for the extra hour on night shift? rcni.com/nursing-standa…
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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
May 27, 2024
the day i found out that the coffee was so hot it FUSED HER LABIA TOGETHER requiring reconstructive surgery and triggering constant pain afterwards, AND that she was only suing them for the cost of her medical bills was genuinely a day i lost a lot of faith in the world
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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Oct 7, 2024
on a very basic level idk how they expect doctors to confirm period pain - or any pain, for that matter - beyond ‘the patient says they’re in pain’
BBC News (UK)
@BBCNews
Oct 7, 2024
Period-pain proof required for school sick days bbc.in/3zOpCuD
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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Aug 24, 2024
this is why i maintain that pregnancy is the original body horror WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUR EYEBALLS CHANGED SHAPE WHAT KIND OF CURSE IS THIS i-
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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Feb 21, 2025
this story is so heartbreaking. she was basically turned into an unwilling surrogate for someone else’s baby, believing all that time she was carrying her own child, & then after months raising him she had to give him to the bio parents - and also learned they’d lost her embryos
Everything Georgia
@GAFollowers
Feb 19, 2025
A Georgia woman is suing her former fertility clinic after an embryo mix-up led her to give birth to another couple’s child.
Readers added context
Missing context: the woman, Krystena Murray, is suing the clinic over distress not because the child was black, but because she loved the child she gave birth to, and was then forced to surrender him to the biological parents. nytimes.com/2025/02/19/us/…
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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Sep 16, 2024
i just saw someone tweeting about how people can’t afford to go to nail salons and get their hair done recently (true) but then they followed it up by saying it’s crazy that these things are now luxuries… am i losing my mind or have these things not always been luxuries????
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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Jun 2, 2024
1) there was a push in the queer community for straight people to use the word partner ages ago so that using the term wouldn’t automatically out someone 2) my partner is in his 40s, and we’ve been together 9 years + own a house together. ‘boyfriend’ sounds juvenile
NFL LurkBoy
@LostInTheLurk
Jun 2, 2024
Straight people are starting to use “partner” more and more. I don’t like it.
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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Dec 15, 2024
see the thing is my hate isn’t arbitrary it’s based on the material impacts of AI on the environment and the capitalist depletion of humanity’s soul, so 🤷‍♀️
fionaspawn 🦈
@fionaspawn
Dec 13, 2024
arbitrarily hating on AI doesn’t make you cool, edgy or progressive
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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Jul 29, 2025
1920s-style pandemic, followed by increased fascist rhetoric, followed by 1930s style dresses, followed by… 😬
Scarlet Astrorum
@ScarletAstrorum
Jul 29, 2025
If Prada’s fall collection is any sign, we we are finally going to have 1930s dress silhouettes in fashion
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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Aug 8, 2024
social media is at its best whenever someone gets chosen by a kitten and live-tweets the process of realising they now own a kitten
Matt Ramsey
@OneNerdyOpinion
Aug 8, 2024
Umm… so this just showed up outside my work… I have no idea what to do and everyone I would call about it sleeps like normal people…
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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Sep 1, 2019
amazing that cooking for free at home is typically women’s work, but as soon as you start to make money from it ONLY MEN CAN HANDLE THEIR GIANT MANLY PANS
Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Aug 25, 2024
i don’t usually entertain objectively nonsense takes but: do people actually think that ‘body horror’ refers to the body becoming horrifying to OTHERS? because… no, that’s not what body horror means!
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Laura Elliott
@TinyWriterLaura
Mar 15, 2024
one day i’m going to need historians to study how the lie about lockdowns lasting for years has already taken hold when the history is so recent and everyone who was alive in 2020 knows that they lasted only months at a time, stopped & started, & by 2021 everyone had given up
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