Read this one. How do we heal from patriarchal womanhood?

Where's my autism mom community here? No one ever told me how I'd feel when she was 30+ and I turned 65. This is the (or my) aging disability parenting experience for higher support needs. leisahammett.substack.com/p/life-lesso... #autism #disability

This. Is. Excellent!:

@marshablackburntn.bsky.social 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family caregivers provide $600 billion in unpaid care every year, yet Congress is considering $880 billion in Medicaid cuts that would devastate HCBS programs. Sen. Blackburn🛡️ #ProtectMedicaid #HandsOffMedicaid #Tennessee #Disability #TennesseeCaregivingCoalition

#autism #disability #RFK image credit: play_spark

Heartbreaking. Disgusting. Shameful. Frightening.

My 30/y/o autistic daughter sells art that hangs in corporate boardrooms nationwide. She works. She pays taxes. Toliets independently. Yep, RFK, you didn't update your argument from 25 years ago. SHAME ON YOU. PS: Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay was writing poems two decades ago.

This is disrespectful and a flat out lie that further stigmatizes autism. It’s not a virus or a disease - it’s a neurological condition with a wide spectrum. Many Americans with autism work, pay taxes, and are living happy and healthy lives.

US Health Secretary RFK Jr claims autism is a "preventable disease." "We know it's an environmental exposure. Genes do not cause epidemics... You need an environmental toxin." Autism has a strong genetic component. Autism is not a "disease". Autism is not an "epidemic". RFK Jr is not a scientist.

"To every kid" and every adult....

Thanks RFKjr for setting the #autism awareness turned acceptance movement back 20 to 25 years. This is hurtful and damaging. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Must watch. #AI #CopyPasteSteal youtu.be/nwxtEvljUZU?...

Sometimes bodies and heads go awry despite our best intentions. New Substack post. —xL

@rosieodonell.bsky.social & her move to Ireland; mentions #Autism youtu.be/FbGydNsBsjA?...

Hope.

Dumbphones, unstacked Dang. This is good. Important.

Read. / @davidgate.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

For a @huffpost.com article, I'm looking to talk to librarians at every level about the Trump administration's attack on federal funding for libraries. DMs are open or email me: [email protected] #librarysky #booksky 📚

Last week's stack. Still relevant. Unfortunately. Random Thoughts as the World Burns: On DEI, hurt toddlers, schoolyard name calling, Elon, RFK, etc., etc. Rad art by @nullsie.bsky.social leisahammett.substack.com/p/random-tho...

I don't HATE. So, I'll say un-love? Despise? Anyways, I wrote an un-love, a I DESPISE you letter to Target today. My choices for something my disabled daughter truly needs, (the details are personal,) were MalWart, The Giant Online JungleA or Target. The later makes a good product for our purposes.

Reveling in Liminal Magic

María Magdalena Campos-Pons (born in Cuba, 1959) explores themes of migration, diaspora, and memory in a variety of media such as photography, drawing, painting, installation, and performance. Image from @gettymuseum.bsky.social Talk w/ the artist Sun. 3/23. Stunning image! #ArtAsResistance

New Substack out. Triggered memories while making art. Overcoming decades later & importance of any form of art making for all, especially now. leisahammett.substack.com/p/triggered-...

Glennon Doyle's new book debut early May. Coming to #Nashville late June. If pre-ordering, I encourage y'all to shop small, dears. Bookshop.org benefits local bookstores. ;) bookshop.org/p/books/we-c... #GlennonDoyle #AbbyWambach #WeCanDoHardThings #SupportIndependentBookStores

✨”Sanity is calm, even when [the brain] knows something is wrong.”#marthabeck #MarthaBeck #Anxiety #calm #Mindfulness

#Amazon boycott starts tomorrow! For this whole week (but forever is better)

#ParisPaloma & #resistanceChoir debut on #Colbert www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hya... #resistance #resist

Bottom line -Before Section 504, discrimination wasn’t just common—it was legally allowed. TN disability rights advocates concern over impact of Section 504 rollback Audio as well as written info -- www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-03-06/l... #504Rollback #DisabilityRights

Protect your peace.

insig.ht/MHzHhH4cuRb #mindfulness #meditation

cutting pediatric cancer research… www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/h...

Yes. ”An artist’s duty as far as I’m concerned is to reflect the times. I think that is true of painters, sculptors, poets, musicians—as far as I’m concerned it’s their choice."

☎️ ur US Rep today. 🙏🏻 We—Grace and I—stand to LOSE with cuts to Medicaid. This is serious.

“Honesty is the love child of courage and candor.”@chaninicholas.bsky.social

Luigi was like 7 weeks ago. LA fires began only 2.5 weeks ago.

Excellent reporting by @cbsnews.com and @kffhealthnews.org explaining the far reaches of #Medicaid www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is... #ProtectMedicaid

The Becoming @aehowardwrites.bsky.social

It's ccccold here in Nashville and there's a carpet of snow on terra firma. I thought our heat wasn't working when I awakened to a frigid house. I think the old furnace is working now. But it reminded me of how many of my morning five- things gratitude lists include heat. And, water.

I've read five and added a few more from this list to my Spotify.

Now if I can remember to tag this when I post my collages.

#Heart #OpenHeart #Valentine’sDay #Collage #collagista #collagist #MoleskinArts #MoleskinPocketDiary #DailyCollage #Selfcare #Calm #LoveOneAnother #gelliprint

The conscience is the poetry of the unconscious. —Freud

#BookRecommendations Working on reading all of #abbiwaxman novels and I want to read the 2nd Inciting Joy by #rossgay Lived and learned much from the first, here.

Yes.

I am heartened here this AM: seeing art, seeing it celebrated. Thank you, @bsky.app It's been lonely mostly leaving all but one Meta app (IG). #CelebrateArtists #ArtistsVoicesRising