Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer @tricyclemayor Twitter profile

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

2 years

I made a video about what it's like to be a disabled cyclist. The freedom is like nothing else until you meet the A frames, the chicanes and the cars in the cycle lane.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

10 months

I was just standing at a bus stop minding my own disabled business. And a woman stopped to expressly tell me that my feeding tube is unpleasant. But you know what's truly unpleasant? Slowly dying of starvation.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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My self-esteem is crushed. In town this weekend a woman looked at me, double took, said "oh my fucking god", and started laughing at my face. I took this photo with my friend today and want to love it as I rarely see her, but I am hating the tube on my face 😭

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

10 months

A year ago I graduated from my PhD. It took me five years to complete & I wrote many parts of my thesis whilst in hospital. Disabled academics like myself often work on crip time. This doesn't make our contributions any less. And academia is a better place for us being in it.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

10 months

Really want to be a super resilient person so that these type of thing don't touch me. But I'm not. I'm in my office having a cry because it's really fucking hard.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

10 months

Alot of people are shocked at this but ableist abuse is prolific. I experience it often - and especially when I am alone. People demand to know what's "wrong" with me, tell me they would rather die than have a feeding tube, & tell me my life is tragic.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

8 months

Abled people really are out there just trying to make you feel like shit for existing.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

8 months

Sharing as I think many don't know how constant ableist abuse is and what the impact of it is.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

9 months

I have gained lots of new followers in the last week, so here's a quick intro to me. I'm Harrie. I tweet about my dogter Frida & inclusive active travel & public transport. I also tweet about my experiences as a disabled person. And I believe trans rights are human rights.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Absolutely immense road space reallocation in Barcelona on Avinguda Meridiana. From 12 lanes for private vehicles down to 2 lanes for private vehicles, with bus lanes, cycle lanes and widened pavements. As well as significant greening.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Be the traffic you want to see.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

8 months

Its been 0 days since I experienced ableist abuse. Out walking Frida, a drunk man sitting on a wall shouted at me "what happened to you?" I said "nothing". He gets off the wall, moves towards me and shouts "what's on yer face then?" Really intimidating. Feeling miserable.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

3 months

What fresh leftie hell is this?? Turns out I've bought a house in one of these 15-minute cities. Coffee shop - 1 minute Food shop - 1 minute Green space - 5 minutes Bus - 5 minutes Tram - 12 minutes Absolutely raging. Will be giving estate agents a terrible review 🤬🤬🤬

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Hi Charlotte I'm disabled and use my e-cargo trike as my mobility aid. There's lots of us disabled cyclists around. Have a look at @Wheels4Well for more information.

Charlotte Gill

@CharlotteCGill

1 year

This is economic medievalism. Sure, some can use cargo bikes (mostly young men taking food deliveries round). But can you imagine trying to move flat on a cargo bike?! Or plumbers and builders trying to ship large parts. People with mobility issues? Meh! This is "normality".

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

2 years

I've resigned from the @BritishCycling diversity and inclusion working group I was part of. Their partnership with Shell is unethical & antithetical to the grass roots cycling the group supports.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

4 months

Absolutely chuffed to be watching a netflix show with an actor casually sporting a feeding tube. Her tube isn't the subject of a plot, she's just getting on with her work with her medical device. First time I've seen tube feeding represented in the media. 🥰🥰🥰

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

11 months

Taxes fund the equipment that keeps me alive and healthy. Disabled people are not a burden and we deserve rich and fulfilling lives, whether or not we are able to work. Welfare spending is the single biggest component of public sector expenditure & we should celebrate that.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

8 months

My cargo trike is adapted for my disability and means I can do many activities - like transporting my dog or carrying shopping - independently. I may be a smug hipster. But it's certainly not my mobility aid (which cost 6x less than an adapted car) that makes me one.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

10 months

Btw my feeding tube is not "a shame", as someone has commented. It's a fantastic piece of technology that keeps me alive and well.

Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

10 months

A year ago I graduated from my PhD. It took me five years to complete & I wrote many parts of my thesis whilst in hospital. Disabled academics like myself often work on crip time. This doesn't make our contributions any less. And academia is a better place for us being in it.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Happy international day of disabled persons #IDPWD #IDPWD2022 Today I'm celebrating my feeding tube, which helps me live well. It's not awful, or terrible, or the worst thing that could happen to you*.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

11 months

Happy World Tricycle Day to anyone who celebrates. I❤️ my cargo trike. When I first gained my disability, I was told by a doctor that I wouldn't be able to cycle anymore. But I can, just in an adapted way. 📸 @BikeIsBestHQ #WorldTricycleDay23

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

2 months

Or. And hear me out. Drivers could simply not go over the speed limit..

Andrew Ellson

@andrewellson

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If you have recently been given a speeding ticket for a 20mph offence, you are not alone ! My article today:

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

5 months

All these active travel activists taking and tweeting photos of disabled people without consent obviously have no clue about how fucking horrible it is as a disabled person to have people take and presumably share your photograph without consent.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

2 years

Disabled cyclist joy.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

My adapted cargo trike cost £5000. A car that's adapted to my needs costs £42,000. £3,999 for a cargo bike?! How a new kind of class politics arrived on Britain's streets | Adrian Chiles

£3,999 for a cargo bike?! How a new kind of class politics arrived on Britain's streets | Adrian...

There are two kinds of people pedalling those ungainly bikes you see everywhere – and only one can afford the price tag

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Things I carry by cargo trike. A thread. Dog.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

2 years

Disabled cyclists need accessible parking spots.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

2 years

Spent such a good day looking at recumbent trike options. Found the one I want I think (not the model in photo). Anyone got a spare £13.5K? 😅😓 Cycling disabled is (prohibitively) expensive.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

10 months

Recently a journal editor told me I shouldn't have submitted to his journal if I couldn't meet the same temporalities as non-disabled academics. I cried for two days. Being with and talking with other disabled academics helped me recover somewhat.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

8 months

Disabled people with physical impairments can't cycle apparently. And god forbid a disabled person should have multiple forms of impairment.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

The middle age man in lycra that just told me my e-cargo trike is cheating can fuck right off.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

3 months

Delighted to be awarded @Motability funding for my 3-year project 'Monitoring access control removal on traffic-free routes'. Using Vivacity sensors, interviews & surveys, we'll monitor the impacts of barrier removal on intended & antisocial use. 1/

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

9 months

Free staff parking is not caring. It creates poverty through forced car ownership, it stresses hospital parking facilities that are already at capacity, and it promotes polluting behaviour—with the ensuing economic and health consequences. .

Caring for those who care—free parking is not it - The BMJ

Focusing on free car parking as a way to “reward” hospital staff is neither equitable, nor beneficial to health and wellbeing, say Harriet Larrington-Spencer and Matthew Jackson Last month The...

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D. King, MD

@doctorORbust

9 months

I'll die on this hill: Hospitals should not charge patients or staff to park. For patients, it disproportionally affects those with the lowest economic status. And for employees, you're charging them to essentially come to work; this most affects employees who make the least.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 month

This makes no sense. You can purchase a ULEZ compliant vehicle for much less than £30K. Really don't understand what this is supposed to 'prove'.

Dad says he's racked up £30,000 in ULEZ fines taking his child to school

'Man's here, all he's done is take his kid to school and the government - our dictatorship - have bombarded him with this pile of letters.'

metro.co.uk

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

İf you're saying "what the eff is that on her face" loud enough for me to hear as you walk past, you're just being unkind on purpose. It's a feeding tube btw ✌️

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

4 months

When a driver hit me & left me with life-changing injuries, GM Police told me they weren't prosecuting coz the witness statement didn't match my own. Turns out: 1. the witness had not written said statement 2. the witness had not signed said statement

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

8 months

A man in my comments denying that ableist abuse happened. Shows he doesn't know 1) any women or 2) any disabled people if he doesn't think we get abused on the street.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

5 months

Reading an academic paper which describes living with disability and illness as 'living with adversity'. I really don't like it. What do other disabled people think?

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

6 months

Disabled people must work from home to do ‘their duty’, says UK minister I'm a disabled person who WFH. It suits me well, But we cannot ignore the level of privilege involved in securing such jobs. It's taken me a PhD to get here.

Disabled people must work from home to do ‘their duty’, says UK minister

People with mobility and mental health problems should work from home or lose benefits under new policy

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

10 months

Hunting for prey/chihuahuas to push over

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

9 months

Really appreciate all the lovely responses I got to this. Martin Lewis even took time out of getting the UK through the cost of living crisis to comment 😂😍 Quite a few anonymous twitter accounts denying the abuse happened. Clearly those users know no women or disabled people.

Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

10 months

I was just standing at a bus stop minding my own disabled business. And a woman stopped to expressly tell me that my feeding tube is unpleasant. But you know what's truly unpleasant? Slowly dying of starvation.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

10 months

Similarly, I did not achieve my PhD "in spite of" my feeding tube. I achieved my PhD because of my feeding tube. You can't write a thesis if you're dead.

Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

10 months

Btw my feeding tube is not "a shame", as someone has commented. It's a fantastic piece of technology that keeps me alive and well.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

5 months

When I first got ill, I desperately needed non-medical literature on enteral feeding to help me make sense of my experiences. It didn't really exist. So I've been writing my own. Here's 3 publications on my experiences of living (not just surviving) with an NJ tube. 1/4

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

2 years

I particularly resent @BritishCycling using disabled people to try and justify their partnership with Shell.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

7 months

Don't assume. Fuck off. Fixed it.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Just out here busting myths about what you need a car for. #BetterByTrike

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Trying to cycle somewhere new as a disabled person using a trike. Looking at multiple maps and having conversations with multiple people to try and find a route that is accessible. It shouldn't be this hard to cycle somewhere. Utterly demoralising.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Be the traffic you want to see 🐕❤️🚲

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

7 months

The #AskDontAssume campaign is legitimising really horrible and intimidating situations like this.

Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

8 months

Its been 0 days since I experienced ableist abuse. Out walking Frida, a drunk man sitting on a wall shouted at me "what happened to you?" I said "nothing". He gets off the wall, moves towards me and shouts "what's on yer face then?" Really intimidating. Feeling miserable.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

2 years

It's brachial plexus injury awareness week. I got my traumatic brachial plexus injury when a driver hit me off my bike with their car. Still cycling, albeit quite differently. 📸 @BikeIsBestHQ

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

7 months

Exhausted after six weeks solid of infections caused by my feeding tube. I've finally taken it out to have a little respite. But this means no food for three weeks until I can get a new tube. Being disabled is hard work but at least Frida is cute as ❤️

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

8 months

If you don't think a man shouting at me on the street demanding to know my private medical history is abusive, you need to take yourself off twitter and educate yourself.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

8 months

@BossingBertie Love her princess tape

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

4 months

Best friends ❤️

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

10 months

@RachelCDailey I had such a great moment on the tube last year when a woman looked up at me and said "do you want a seat?". I said yes and thought she was going to offer me hers. But she tapped the man sitting next to her on the shoulder and asked him to move so I can sit 😂😂😂😂😂

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

9 months

Spending Saturday in a coffee shop with my significant other ❤️

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

5 months

We are not objects for you to use to prove points. We are people living our lives and deserve autonomy over our bodies.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

3 months

Oh cool. The dropped kerb to the cycle parking in Stevenson Square has been removed so I can no longer park my trike there. Thanks @ManCityCouncil for reducing my ability to get around actively and independently 👎

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

2 months

Celebrating four years with Frida in my life ♥️

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

7 months

The most exciting thing about buying a house is that I will get to have one of these in the front garden for when friends visit.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Cycle as a disabled person = getting accused of faking your disability. This is one of the reasons disabled people are concerned about cycling.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

5 months

Do you have lived experience of disability and are interested in undertaking a PhD on accessible transport design, policy or practice? If so, message or email me. At UoW we have an opportunity to apply for a fully funded PhD fellowship. #PhD #DisabilityTwitter Please RT

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

2 years

As antidote to this miserable weather, here's Frida with her rainbow ears cruising down Oxford Road, Manchester. Video alt text: fluffy white poodle with rainbow ears is standing up at the front of a trike, being cycled down a quiet road with cycle lanes on either side.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

My neighbour didn't vote for the labour candidate in our ward because of how said candidate had parked their car fully on the pavement recently. Walking and cycling does matter to local elections.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

In our chapter 'disabled environmentalisms' we build on @SaraNAhmed 's feminist killjoy to introduce the disabled killjoy. Disabled people constantly have to fight for access and inclusion and to not be discriminated against. And in doing so become the problem. The killjoy.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

6 months

Yes I can't transport a fridge, an armchair, and 16 bags of concrete by trike. But equally I wouldn't be able to transport myself, my husband, my dog, and my cello all together in a small hatchback car...

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Hi @NetworkRailMAN I'm a disabled cyclist and often used the previous Sheffield stands. I can't use this type of cycle stand with either my bike or trike. What provision will you be making for disabled people in cycle parking provision?

Andy Smedley

@ardsmedley

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@WalkRideGM So this is what is replacing the Sheffield Stands in front of Piccadilly station. Some sort of double decker arrangement. What does #cycling Twitter think? @tricyclemayor @HarryHamishGray @MCRCycleSam

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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8 months

I've been able to eat marmite on toast for the first time in about five years. #DisabledJoy

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Just saw a young girl biking home from high school. Part of me was 'woo go girl' but most of me was 'fuck we need to do so much more to keep you safe' as she biked along a painted cycle lane on an A road.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

4 months

Just resharing in case anyone is feeling 'New Year, New me, New PhD'. Funding opportunity specifically for a disabled person interested in undertaking a PhD on accessible transport design, policy, or practice. Let me know if you're interested 😊

Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

5 months

Do you have lived experience of disability and are interested in undertaking a PhD on accessible transport design, policy or practice? If so, message or email me. At UoW we have an opportunity to apply for a fully funded PhD fellowship. #PhD #DisabilityTwitter Please RT

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1 year

Blocked by a local councillor for pointing out that all entrances to green spaces should be accessible to disabled people. Manchester is fine ✌️

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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10 months

Four years married to my best (human) friend We've taken the "in sickness and in health" vow really seriously ❤️❤️❤️ @caglarkoksal

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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4 months

For my civil case the witness submitted a statement. Folks, it matched my account.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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1 year

Inclusive cycling infrastructure is a feminist issue.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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2 months

I actually love this stat. I spend the majority of my work hours thinking about LTNs and it turns out that the majority of people living in them don't even know what they are. Very humbling.

Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

2 months

"58% of people did not even know they lived in an LTN" 😂😂😂

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1 month

Me: fuck this is the worst flare up I've had for ages. why is this happening to me 😭😭😭 Me 4 hours earlier:

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5 months

Sad to announce my NHS clinic letters have changed from referring to me as a "pleasant young lady" to a "pleasant lady".

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10 months

Meeting my husband at Piccadilly. It's great that there's much needed high density cycle parking. It remains upsetting that they've removed cycle parking (sunken Sheffield stands) that I could use and left me no option that's compatible with a trike.

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6 months

I wrote for @DisVisibility about the abuse I experience as a disabled person & how more-than-leaky bodies like mine show the value of interdependence & challenge those enabled by regimes of power.

What Are You Looking At? Ableist Abuse in Public Spaces

What Are You Looking At? Ableist Abuse in Public Spaces Harrie Larrington-Spencer TW: Tube feeding, ableist abuse, eating, starvation “What the f*ck is that on her face?”…

disabilityvisibilityproject.com

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@tricyclemayor

7 months

Neutral language is incredibly important here as we wouldn't want to speculate on responsibilities. For example what was the shop wearing?

Manchester City Centre Police (GMP)

@GMPCityCentre

7 months

#INCIDENT | Officers respond to collision in the city centre. At around 1pm today (Monday 16 October) police were called to reports of a collision involving a bus and shop in Piccadilly Gardens. Read more here:

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6 months

Today I was congratulated for sitting in a pub having a drink with my feeding tube in situ. 1. Fuck off 2. Fuck off

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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3 months

@CycleExmouth I gave up avocadoes in 2009

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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1 year

Today in disabled. @DPDgroup_news driver aggressively demanding I (disabled person) collects my life sustaining and heavy medical equipment from their van. When I can't and don't they leave. Taking my life sustaining medical equipment with them.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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Cargo bikes cut congestion and pollution | Letters

Letters: Shane Topley and Ashleigh Phillip respond to Adrian Chiles’s article about the cost of the bikes increasingly seen on city streets

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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The absence of disabled people (who make up 23% of the UK population) in walking, wheeling, cycling conversations is stark. We are a huge minoritised group & our absence shows engrained bias by ableds that we can't be active, or they are the experts in supporting us be active.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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1 year

Saddens me that so many (anonymous) accounts arguing against inclusive active mobility on my tweets identify as disabled or as supporting disability rights. Disabled people need transport equity. And this includes active travel.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

7 months

To be clear. I absolutely do not want ableds asking me intrusive questions about my life as a disabled person.

Richard Kramer 🇺🇦

@RichardKSense

7 months

● Today, the Government launched a new campaign, developed in partnership with disabled people, aiming to start conversations about the everyday assumptions that disabled people face about their lives and capabilities with the simple call to action #AskDontAssume

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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6 months

Just two galz voluntarily leaving the house after dark last night. Celebrating two weeks without having an infection after a solid 3 months unwell.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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7 months

Unfalteringly Pro trans Pro trains

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

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10 months

I'm definitely not a confident person. But my audacity in thinking it's ok to take Frida to every single occasion is outstanding. Conferences? ✅ Meetings? ✅ Fancy dinners? ✅

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What I think of cycling:

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Hi @NetworkRailMAN neither of the two types of cycle racks put in at Piccadilly are suitable for disabled people using adapted cycles. Where am I supposed to park my trike now?

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

1 year

Really excited that the trike library I raised money for will be homed @StationsSouth on the fallowfield loop. Money funding e-trike, storage & engagement. Community rides & borrowing available. Get in touch with them to organise something that suits you. @WalkRideGM 1/

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer

@tricyclemayor

4 months

Are you a disabled person who cycles or would like to cycle? We @Active_ATA & @Wheels4Well want to know your priorities for future research on disability and cycling. Use this link to register your interest in participating: Password: cycling Pls RT