Nisa Malli
@nisamalli.bsky.social
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Writer, researcher, and policy wonk www.nisamalli.com
https://nisamalli.substack.com
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New essay out on desirability + deformity, marriage rights in disability, âsilver divorcesâ and partner abandonment in illness:
theimpairingcurse.substack.com/p/do-us-part
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Do Us Part
In the first months of our relationship, long before I got sick, my once lover told me she would never marry.
https://theimpairingcurse.substack.com/p/do-us-part
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New essay out on desirability + deformity, marriage rights in disability, âsilver divorcesâ and partner abandonment in illness:
theimpairingcurse.substack.com/p/do-us-part
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Do Us Part
In the first months of our relationship, long before I got sick, my once lover told me she would never marry.
https://theimpairingcurse.substack.com/p/do-us-part
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Jessica Lee McMillan
about 1 month ago
"Stag photographed with wire wrapped around antlersâ by the incomparable Tolu Oloruntoba
@tolu.ca
for todayâs Poetry Pause
@canadianpoets.bsky.social
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New essay out on desirability + deformity, marriage rights in disability, âsilver divorcesâ and partner abandonment in illness:
theimpairingcurse.substack.com/p/do-us-part
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Do Us Part
In the first months of our relationship, long before I got sick, my once lover told me she would never marry.
https://theimpairingcurse.substack.com/p/do-us-part
24 days ago
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alex ross perimenopause
about 1 month ago
For
@thesicktimes.org
, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...
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These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times
While most of the music industry has moved on, COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders.
https://thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/these-artists-are-making-concerts-safer-with-covid-19-precautions/
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I miss the mid 2010s internet when I could post a complaint thread on how new purposebuilt rent in my city is 25% higher than private landlords renting condos and every building offers 2 months off instead of lowering $$ and housing policy wonks/economists would jump into the thread to explain why.
about 1 month ago
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Jane Shi | çźçŹé« echolalia echolalia is out now
2 months ago
theimpairingcurse.substack.com/p/dont-worry...
oh
@nisamalli.bsky.social
HIT with this piece
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Don't worry kitten
This week I saw a meme of a ceramic kitten with the caption âabolish ICEâ and it felt enragingly emblematic of the current iconography of babyfication: the desire to present as unequivocally innocent ...
https://theimpairingcurse.substack.com/p/dont-worry-kitten
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9 months ago
Last year, the universe sent me a message: it told me to start going to queer raves, and so I did. Itâs been a good time! I wrote a retrospective on 2024, the year I discovered that I like dancing, plus reflections on parenting, music, fascism, fashion, and trans joy:
okayfail.com/2024/my-year...
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My Year of Raves
In my third year of being trans, I discovered that I like dancing. This was a surprise. Dancing is meditative, therapeutic â healing even. Now I try to go dancing as often as I can. This the story of ...
https://okayfail.com/2024/my-year-of-raves.html
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New essay out on babygirls, babyfication, adhd babies, trauma babies, adulthood, adulting, t-boys, girlhood, hot girl summers, responsibilization and responsibility, conditional whiteness, and why our present moment is more Watership Down than Beatrix Potter:
open.substack.com/pub/theimpai...
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Don't worry kitten
This week I saw a meme of a ceramic kitten with the caption âabolish ICEâ and it felt enragingly emblematic of the current iconography of babyfication: the desire to present as unequivocally innocent ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/theimpairingcurse/p/dont-worry-kitten?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
about 2 months ago
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âHe spoke in the idiom of todayâs New York, with its neighborhoods of more recent arrivals. He went on Subway Takes and passed out sweets for Diwali in Jackson Heights, and showed up at the queer dance party Papi Juice to ask for votes.â
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âDiligent injury prevention doesnât address the root cause of Rec League Dysmorphia. The ghost of my adolescent self will always be there, beating me to the ball, unencumbered concepts such as paying for health insurance & Microsoft Teamsâ@outsidemag.bsky.social
www.outsideonline.com/culture/love...
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What My Rec League Taught Me About Aging, Ego, and Letting Go
On aging, denial, and the injuries that come from believing youâre still invincible.
https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/love-humor/rec-league-aging/
3 months ago
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This Magazine
5 months ago
"For me, podcasts were patient companions who didnât mind repeating themselves...They kept me company when I was too sick to leave the house."
@nisamalli.bsky.social
tells us about the cognitive impacts of Long COVID, and how she used podcasts to recover.
this.org/2023/12/19/h...
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How TV podcasts helped me regain my memory after Long COVID
When my girlfriend of six years broke up with me by text, followed by a short call, I couldnât comprehend it. It wasnât grief, shock, or denial. My brain, damaged from 16 months of Long COVID, couldnâ...
https://this.org/2023/12/19/how-tv-podcasts-helped-me-regain-my-memory-after-long-covid/
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Every single page of
@arabellesicardi.bsky.social
âs House of Beauty so far has contained a horrifying interesting fact I did not know about the beauty industry and also now I canât stop thinking about how evil the term âbeautyâ âindustryâ is.
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Itâs v apt that a video on how Zygmunt Baumanâs book Liquid Modernity predicted the modern situationship that brought me back to text-based social media but here we go. Because where else can I gripe that actually Bauman predicted the modern situationship in his lesser known sequel Liquid Love?
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