I'm delighted to be part of this anthology with so many talented Asian artists, celebrating Asian women's magic!

Come listen to me and a bunch of other wonderful ladies* (I think they're all ladies) on Friday, October 3 at noon! @swsworlds.bsky.social @authorterribruce @tracytodd-author.bsky.social @lrrrocks.bsky.social @paulinechow.bsky.social @kdbwrites.bsky.social

Many of us depend on #telehealth, but essential telehealth provisions expire on Sept 30 in the US. @meactnet.bsky.social has a script to call/email your representatives re a bill to preserve telehealth: www.meactions.org/telehealth Please advocate by Sept 29th! #MEAction #pwme #disabilityrights

We’re proud to join #NationalVoterRegistrationDay on 9/16 as a Community Partner! Together, we’re celebrating democracy by helping every eligible American get registered & #VoteReady for 2025. Register or check your status: nationalvoterregistrationday.org/register-to-... #pwME #Disability

It’s worth noting that for many years doctors refused to wash their hands, not because there was a lack of evidence for it being a life-saving measure, but because it challenged established norms. We are seeing the same regressive phenomenon with masks now.

I’m excited to read at Yellow’s 1-Year CelebrASIAN (free & virtual) this Sun, 9/21 at 10am-1:30pm PT / 1-4:30pm ET / 6-9:30pm UK, w/ hosts Keith Mar & Maureen P. Medina Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/yellows-1-... Come build & find refuge in a space that celebrates & centers Asians! #AsianArt

Excited to be reading at the @pillowwriters.bsky.social salon this Thurs, Sept 18 @ 11am PT / 2pm ET Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... This salon celebrates the release of the second issue of The Pillow Writers Anthology, avail here: a.co/d/7EBcelQ Proceeds benefit @meactnet.bsky.social

There are several different Pillow Writer meetings, different time zones, different frequencies and different languages. All the necessary information on how to join us can be found here: pillowwriters.wordpress.com

I'm honored to be a part of this anthology along with so many beloved and talented colleagues.

Got a wee bit of exciting news. When well enough, I'm part of an international group of writers. Our second anthology has just been published. All proceeds go to @meactnet.bsky.social I'll remind you all later that this would make an ideal C-word present 😁 #LifeWriting #ME/CFS amzn.eu/d/8kZ5vCk

Want to support disability justice? Start by listening to disabled people. Then, actually *believe* what they tell you.

Returned here after a long break to find this lovely post. It’s my poem, “Legacy,” published in the stunning @thebkmagazine.bsky.social!

In honor of #SevereMEday, #MEAction is honored to share the Severe ME Artists Project 2025! www.meartistsproject.com/severe-me-ar... Over 100 of you submitted photos, drawings, writing, music and videos of your work for our 5th Severe ME Artists Project! #SevereME #UnitedForME #pwME

BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who requests them, regardless of age or underlying conditions.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

Immigrants make NYC one of the greatest cities in the world! #ImmigrantsBelong #GetICEOut #MoveOn

I'm so excited to be part of the Pillow Writers Anthology that will be featured at this salon! Please join us! @meactnet.bsky.social @meactionuk.bsky.social @meactionscotland.bsky.social #MEAction #pwME #MECFS #DisabilityPride #CripPoetry #DisabledWriters

Capitulation breeds capitulation, courage breeds courage.

Re: last repost: anti-vaccine activists talk about vaccines as a medical freedom issue. But what about everyone else's freedom to move through the world without contracting preventable disease? That's true bodily autonomy.

Living with severe #MECFS often means being bedbound. One community member shares practical tips, like bedside setups & sensory relief, to make daily life more manageable. 💙 Read more: buff.ly/nkcCa5r

Wonderful interview w @drdemetre.bsky.social on MSNBC. Refreshing to hear him call Kennedy's plans #eugenics and the language echoing #fascism. Brave man! Much respect to him and the other CDC docs who quit. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend/...

The Underwater Explorers & Rescuers Colouring and Activity Book is now available on Amazon! 🐟🦈🐡

I’m delighted to share that my poem “The Sparrows Shake Me, Wake Me” was published in Beyond the Veil Press’s new disability pride poetry, essay, & art anthology, In Praise of Despair. To purchase: a.co/d/jiG0Rqg #crippoetry #crippower #DiabilityPride #disabledpoets #disabilitypoetry #poetry

📝 Poem of the Day 04/23/25 🔗 Read "bartender at the end of the world" by Denise Buitre by heading to our website, or by visiting the link below! gnashingteethpublishing.com/potd042325/ #potd #poemoftheday #poets #poetry #writingcommunity #author #napowrimo #openforsubs

1/ Popping back in with another #fallvaccine update. 👇 In case you missed it, Friday (or soon after) the FDA is expected to license the Covid-19 vaccine. Word is that the label will be restricted to adults 65+ and people at high risk. But a few organizations have made different recommendations.

We're over halfway to our summer fundraiser goal! Monthly donations — at any amount! — are incredibly helpful to us as a small newsroom. Can you help us get 36 more monthly donations! New monthly donations over $20/month (or new one-time donations over $50) get a sick dad hat! bit.ly/49XO626

It’s #DisabilityPrideMonth, and I’m grateful to HAD for publishing my poem “Ode to My Cane" recently. @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ode... #MillionsMissing #meaction #meactionuk #meactionscotland #pwme #mecfs #crippoetry #crippower #disabledpoets #disabilitypoetry #poetry

It’s #DisabilityPrideMonth, and I’m grateful to Free the Verse for including my poem “Protesting from Bed” in their latest issue. It was inspired by the #MillionsMissing protest hosted annually by #meaction #meactionuk #meactionscotland #pwme #mecfs #crippoetry #crippower #protectmedicaid #resist

7/ 💥 Ask your representative to cosponsor H.R. 3906 now. It takes 2 minutes to speak up for ME/CFS research and medical innovation. 🔗 solvecfs.quorum.us/campaign/128753

🧵 1/ 🚨 Congress slashed $859 MILLION from a key research program that includes funding for ME/CFS and other critical health conditions. We need your help to restore it. #MECFS #CDMRP #HR3906 solvecfs.quorum.us/campaign/128...

By one of our members! “Similar Medicaid work requirements implemented in states such as in Georgia and Arkansas, have been ineffective in boosting employment and, instead, have led to coverage losses and increased poverty” www.medcentral.com/biz-policy/h...

More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people urge the Prime Minister to abandon the “inhumane and catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”. My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"It started with an “I voted” sticker. I stuck it on my cane, and soon came my first cane compliment, a jolt that echoed throughout my body. Could it be possible to be proud of my cane?" new ode today from M.S. Marquart!! https://www.havehashad.com/53j3e

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this. #Texas

You are invited to join us for #MIllionsMissing #DisabilitySOS on May 12th - two weeks from today! Join us in DC and online! All you need to know can be found here: www.meactions.org/millionsmiss... #MEAction will be sounding a Disability SOS at the nation’s capitol and across social media. #PwME

Help! @governor.ny.gov is trying to pass a mask ban in New York😱 Please call your NY Senator, Senate Majority Leader, Assembly Speaker, Governor Hochul & urge them to reject a mask ban & anti-mask legislation in the State Budget! #NoNYMaskBan #HandsOff Toolkit 😷 covidadvocacyny.org/stopmaskbanny

www.liberationline.org "The Liberation Line provides free mental health support calls to organizers.These are confidential, non-crisis, non-therapy phone calls facilitated by a trusted volunteer w/experience offering mental health support and who aligns with Palestinian and collective liberation."

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

So honored to contribute to this issue with so many amazing artists!

Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...

Our special Valentine's Day issue: "Love to the Mind and Body" is out now! Read the issue here: https://flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/special-valentines-day-issue/ . . . . #litmags #valentinesday #flashfiction #CNF #art #poetry #chronicillnessawareness #disabilities #mentalhealth