"I won't take away vaccines"

buns n’ beans

I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things

Unexpectedly found this on the tiny book stack at my nail salon! @sfdirewolf.bsky.social

@sfdirewolf.bsky.social shared a nice book write up for Margeaux Feldman's TOUCH ME, I'M SICK, out now from @beaconpress.bsky.social. She's also doing a giveaway & 7 winners will receive copies, so check out her newsletter & sign up to win! disability-visibility-newsletter.ghost.io/touch-me-im-...

"I believe AAC [augmentative and alternative communication] users can collectively bend conventional modes of communication, practice crip time, teach speaking people to slow the f*** down, and have us centered instead of at the margins." @sfdirewolf.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EXCITING DAY: I am going to the @harpercollins.bsky.social offices to meet w my editor, agent and publicist to talk about our big plans for my new book, IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH out in February!! www.harpercollins.com/products/in-...

Also this was was me going up the mirrored elevator to the 22nd floor to HarperCollins where I felt like I’d stepped into the set of Younger (which is totally ridiculous but binge-able for sure)

I’m in tears idk what else to say 1500 (about $2k) is being matched. 1390/4000 by Sunday.

How to support Crips for eSIMs for Gaza, which is STILL sending eSIMs and has seen a big increase in requests due to the criminal situation in the north: 🔗 bit.ly/eSimsRUs USD : bit.ly/venmo4esims GBP : www.paypal.com/donate/?host... cc: @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social

🏥🩺🩻The upcoming cuts to Medicaid will strain the healthcare system and other connected social welfare systems. What is your #DisabledRage? You can download, share, and wheat paste this graphic and more. disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

What’s your #DisabledRage? Download, share, and wheat paste these graphics created in partnership with Finnegan Shannon disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

Top 10 most-sighted butterflies in 2025’s Big Butterfly Count – in pictures

PSA: Please remember to wear a well-fitting mask when you’re at the pharmacy getting vaccinated (or are there for any other reason). I really appreciate anyone taking a step to protect themselves by getting vaccinated, but you put yourself at unnecessary risk if you don’t wear a mask while doing so.

✊ #DisabledRage #RageWithUs (glitter below)

Sometimes you gotta scream it from the telephone poles. (This is a collaborative art project with any ways to engage!)

#DisabledRage DemoGraphics for use!

🐌📖🎊🥳 I’m thrilled my piece, Snail’s Pace: The Art of Cripping Time is featured in THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, is available now! Edited by @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, this anthology is filled with art, poems, and essays by so many amazing writers! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/08/24/i... Check out my interview with Moaz Mansour of Gaza Online on the Disability Visibility Project blog! @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social

Please join @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and @thellpsx.bsky.social with the eSims project! If you feel helpless about what is happening right now, this is one way you can help! Please help keep lines of communication open for some of the people who need it the most right now!💖❤️

So necessary. Thanks to @sfdirewolf.bsky.social disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

The Pod Save America bros are setting up a "debate" about trans rights featuring anti-trans ghoul Matt Yglesias, apparently! No clue who the "pro-trans" side will be repped by, but I'm really worried that they're going to just find someone to get steamrolled.

The bros who got into a fight with @sfdirewolf.bsky.social for their podcast being ableist as hell are about to do one that’s transphobic as hell? I’m shocked. Shocked, I say.

This book is an excellent read for capturing the story just up to the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990). It pairs well with Disability Visibility, edited by @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, which provides contemporary perspectives. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617802...

You can also support Crips for eSims for Gaza, a collaboration between disability justice organizers @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social, @thellpsx.bsky.social, and @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, that crowdfunds to try to keep Palestinians in Gaza connected.

“Undocumented people are being kidnapped without access to their medications or treatments” #DisabledRage

People use food stamps to pay their grocery bill and use their money to pay their energy bill. Without food stamps, more people will have to choose. Heat or eat this month?

There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

By Jess Whattcott: “Still A Locked Door”: Mental Health Peer Advocates Remember Those Living in Disability Institutions disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/09/04/s...

The last three decades of efforts to build bridges, deradicalize, and address the root causes of gun violence will not prevent another CDC shooting. It will continue to happen until RFK Jr. is removed from power. It will never be safe to practice public health in RFK Jr.'s America.

The CDC shooting is being fundamentally misunderstood - by journalists and public health professionals (maybe less the public) - as a tragic byproduct of the anti-vaxx movement that's existed for 30 years. It's not. The Trump administration, including RFK, uses individual acts of violence as a tool.

NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...

Please read what my @yalesph.bsky.social colleague @colincarlson.bsky.social and @publichealthguy1.bsky.social have written about the CDC shooting.

"I did it because I believe dissent is a democratic duty, not a liability. But in my home state of California, Democratic leaders are pushing a bill that would make dissent harder, riskier and in some cases punishable."

Excellent op-ed by Lily Greenberg Call on AB715 the proposed bill that threatens free speech and academic freedom in California classrooms. She was the only Jewish Biden appointee to resign because of the US backing of the war on Gaza bit.ly/45mINc9

“…understands that all bodies are unique and essential, that all bodies have strengths and needs that must be met. We know that we are powerful not despite the complexities of our bodies, but because of them.”

I went back and listened to @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ’s 2017 conversation with Patty (linked from Alice’s post below) and it’s so, so beautiful. Listen for reflections on disability and aging, being an elder, developing a fond friendship with your body: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2017/11/26/e...

I have only just now learned of her, and your self. I want to truly thank you for the work you do for the disabled community. Patty sounds like a wonderful and remarkable person. I wish I could have known her. Hers seems like a life well lived. May she have the rest now that she justly has earned.

Was reminded about this article I wrote at the behest of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social a few years ago. I love this piece on ♿️ and #gardening. www.eater.com/23763380/joy...

Also! If you don’t know @sfdirewolf.bsky.social —she is my amazing friend who has always supported me and so many others; funny, joyful, wise, fierce, and a brilliant writer: Alice Wong ♿️ #disabilityrights www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/10/02/b...

Recs from #WorldCon panel on #Disability: Disfigured @amandaleduc.bsky.social Ultimate Guide to Sex & Disability @corysilverberg.bsky.social Disability Visibility, Disability Intimacy @sfdirewolf.bsky.social We’ve Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents by Eliza Hull Crip Camp @netflix.com

A resource I wish I could've shared for a question abt how to research what #disability terminology is good/harmful: The NCDJ created the ✨Disability Language Style Guide✨ for common usage & guidelines that sourced their info from many communities + AP style guide usages. ncdj.org/style-guide/

I teared up to learn @snarkbat.bsky.social wrote the Capitol Crawl into a Marvel Avengers Academy comic—vital #DisabilityHistory that I didn't learn about till I was in my 30s—and now Charles Xavier was canonically THERE. 😭 Working it into worldbuilding, and trusting your audience to look it up!

Was grateful for advice from @anniecarlauthor.bsky.social on how writers can share #disability details w/o infodumping: "Do it! Blow it up. How's that situation going to blow up and what comes out of that?" Showing the harm. And Rebecca pointing out you can have a character rant about it!

Think it was Rebecca pointing out the FBI's crime reports debunk stereotypes/ableist fears abt people w mental and physical disabilities as criminals—statistically we're FAR more likely to be the ones suffering, the victims/survivors. I 100% loved the rec for Disfigured by @amandaleduc.bsky.social!

I appreciated @snarkbat.bsky.social encouraging writers to seek out and pay sensitivity readers, even when we're #disabled writers ourselves, because there are such variations even within groups who share similar disabilities. "Ask questions for any character who's outside your personal experience."

Rebecca A. Demarest on horror and #WritingWhileDisabled: "When you're disabled you know fear really well... You become immune to it a bit, but it's still there. 'Oh, that's gonna be terrifying. Sounds like a Saturday.' Use your personal history to approach horror in a new and fresh way." #WorldCon

"Exploring Disability & Autonomy in Horror" at #WorldCon w @anniecarlauthor.bsky.social @snarkbat.bsky.social & Rebecca Demarest was great! The stream only started 1/2 thru for me, but I loved it. Centering the huge diversity in the #disability community, the largest minority group in the world.

Crips for eSIMS for Gaza is run by Asian disabled writers @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social, and have done so much good. disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/c...