I was able to take a walk in my neighborhood today and came across these beauties.

Some interesting ideas for NYC transit, that would cost the same as making the existing buses free: transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...

Alice has been a pillar of our community. She will be missed.

Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”. Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety. My latest: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Anyone can go to immigration hearings to bear witness, offer support, and stand up for due process and the rule of law. We must keep showing up for our immigrant neighbors in whatever way we can. Always a pleasure talking with Ali Velshi! youtu.be/jHKWznvDMS4

We have @littlelobbyists.com families on the way to Washington DC right now, they'll be on the House-side of the Capitol tomorrow. We're going to make them see us before they vote to kill disabled children. If you can help cover the costs of this urgent action: secure.actblue.com/donate/littl...

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

"...we tend to suffer from what I think of as regulatory memory failure. We don't have a sense of what things were like before regulations went into play." We have enough to worry about these days; let's not add Victorian poisoning problems to the list. buttondown.com/theswordandt...

On Friday, soprano Sara Paar and violinist Lynn Bechtold will perform my *January: Brin’s Mesa* at Greenwich House Music School in NYC. The program will also feature works by nine other living composers. Info below: www.eventbrite.com/e/ten-by-thr...

New York might become the next state to pass legislation making us more vulnerable to contagious diseases. It’s in the works right now, so this is the moment to speak up. #publichealth #politics #nurses

I’m so sick of calling to beg for the right to exist in public, but here we are again. TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, March 26 please urge NY legislators to say NO to any mask restrictions in the NY State Budget. Speaker Carl Heastie (518-455-3791) Senate Maj. Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (518-455-2585)

If you want to help disabled people fight New York's proposed mask ban... wear a mask. If more people would mask up in solidarity, these important accessibility tools would be harder to ban. Help us normalize masking and protect your health in the process!

It's great to hear that these musicians who care about accessibility have found each other (and their audience!). I wonder if anyone is doing something similar in NYC? Please let me know about it if you are. www.kqed.org/arts/1397262...

It was nice to learn about this man today. Yes, the world is on fire, but small actions can turn into meaningful habits that save lives. www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...

Please read if you think mask bans are no big deal, that innocent people won't be irrevocably harmed.

New Yorkers, please call your state reps and ask them to oppose the mask ban. Don't assume it can't happen here. Don't give police the power to judge who has a "legitimate reason" to mask.

Abled friends: PLEASE wear a mask on public transit and in healthcare settings. Your solidarity (or lack of it) could determine whether we are allowed to exist at all.

If I could help non disabled people understand one thing about being disabled, it would be how important maintaining a baseline is. When you’re chronically ill, your baseline is everything. Even minor setbacks can be catastrophic, so we have to do a risk analysis before literally ANY activity 🧵

Hi, new followers! I'm a composer with a connective tissue disorder, ill since I was 18 years old, mostly homebound now. Here's a piece of my music to "get to know me": youtu.be/1FKYjKwDN5w?...

One of the single best things you can do for us on #InternationalDayofPeoplewithDisabilities is to wear a mask. Make public spaces safe for us again. Join us in demanding masks in healthcare. Refuse to leave us by the wayside.

US-based cis women: here are some steps to oppose the transphobia and gender-policing going on now in Washington.

On Friday, new-music superstars Tessa Brinckman and Kathleen Supové will perform works by eight living composers (including myself) in Brooklyn. More info here: tessabrinckman.com/calendar/and... #flute #piano

After years of being a very casual birdwatcher, I finally got the eBird app this year and started to record my sightings. I don’t get out nearly as much as I would like, but I’ve managed to see 72 species this year, all within a 1.5 mile area of Brooklyn.

Hi, new followers! I'm a composer with a connective tissue disorder, ill since I was 18 years old, mostly homebound now. Here's a piece of my music to "get to know me": youtu.be/1FKYjKwDN5w?...

Right now we’re in it but if you were to look back at this era w the benefit of a century it would be CLEAR that the pandemic, just like in 1918, accelerated fascism as it brought eugenicist ideas into the mainstream 🧵

I knew Ed Yong was great at "clarifying the unfathomable", but I didn't realize he can also be so funny. Watch this talk!

Thank you John Oliver for bringing attention to this! youtu.be/hq2s7RMRsgs?...

Your disabled friends are NOT ok right now. Covid is surging everywhere, no one is masking and mask BANS are spreading. We have no safe spaces anymore. Eugenics and ugly laws are being embraced and even celebrated. If you can - please mask up! www.disabledginger.com/p/we-are-wit... #NoMaskBans

Thank you to the Cello Museum for featuring my *Sisters Face West* duo for violin and cello. cellomuseum.org/nywc-august-...

How did we end up with such terrible elected officials? gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...

I just learned that my music was performed in London on a 26-hour concert back in February, that set the Guinness World Record for “Longest Acoustic Music Live-Streamed Concert”! Flutist Lucas Jordan played my *Iwa Ni*, the second piece in the video below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt5B...

Thank you to The Flute Examiner for featuring my piece *In Which They Are Received* for six flutes: thefluteexaminer.com/in-which-the...

Excellent explanation of why there is so much pressure on sick/disabled people to pretend we are safe, rather than any effort to actually make things safe.

"The findings underscore that the symptoms cannot be explained by physical deconditioning or psychological factors" Not news to those who study these conditions, but so many doctors form harmful opinions without reading the literature, it's worth repeating

BRACE New Music Choir will perform my song “On Being Interrupted” Sept 8th and 10th in Baton Rouge, LA. The piece is about women trying to be heard in male-dominated environments, and I'm told it's very "relatable" 😅 The concerts will be livestreamed from their Facebook page: fb.com/profile.php?...