Meier Galblum Haigh @mghaigh.bsky.social and Kenrya Rankin @kenrya.bsky.social “unpack the realities of AI, from access tools to authorship, labor, and institutional policy" on a new podcast episode from Grantmakers in the Arts. Listen now & read the transcript at linktr.ee/DisabilityCultureLab.

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Disability Rising Fellow and Black feminist scholar @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team recently wrote an op-ed for ESSENCE where they speak to the ways AI amplifies racist attacks against Black nonbinary, agender, and gender-variant people. Read now: linktr.ee/DisabilityCultureLab.

After caregiving, I went to grad school to "relearn my brain" and the past two years I've leaned into Disability Justice as I "relearn my body". DJ folks are connected to EVERYONE. Big thanks to @disabilitylab.bsky.social for this great shirt and ilanaa.p on IG for taking these photos!

I'm grateful for @disabilitylab.bsky.social's new venture, Disability Culture Currents, which explores the intersections of disability identity and culture through opinion, personal essay, and graphic storytelling. Tonight, I’m feeling so very seen by Robin Larisch's comic “Juiceless.”

Our fifth featured piece for the Disability Culture Currents launch is “Pooled Blood” by mav vega. Read the full article now at the link in our bio at tinyurl.com/DCCurrents.

Our fourth featured piece for the Disability Culture Currents launch is “Juiceless” by Robin E. Larisch, a nine-page poetry comic reflecting on the perceived value of productivity as it relates to disabled bodyminds. View the full comic now at the link in our bio at tinyurl.com/DCCurrents.

I was interviewed about how disabled people are impacted by ICE and other immigration policies by a Canadian news podcast. You can listen here. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Our third featured piece for the Disability Culture Currents launch is “Listen to Black Disabled People on the BAFTAs” by Jhónelle Bean. Read the full article now at the link in our bio at tinyurl.com/DCCurrents.

I didn’t even see this. LOOK ITS ME 💜

Our second featured piece for the Disability Culture Currents launch is “The War on Trans Folks Is Disabling” by our Executive Director, Meier Galblum Haigh @mghaigh.bsky.social. Read the full article now at the link in our bio at tinyurl.com/DCCurrents.

Our new online publication Disability Culture Currents is live! We’ll be exploring the intersections of disabiity identity and culture through opinion, personal essay, and graphic storytelling. Read four new articles and an illustrated story at tinyurl.com/DCCurrents or at the link in our bio.

For Disability Culture Currents launch week, we are honored to share a beautiful piece by Conchita Hernández Legorreta on the tragic passing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam: “Immigrant Justice Is Disability Justice Is Worker Justice: A Family Story." Read now at the link in bio or at tinyurl.com/DCCurrents.

Our sixth and final feature for Black Futures Month is Dr. KáLyn “Kay” Coghill, a community educator, storyteller, and advocate who works for Blacksky Algorithms. Dr. Kay lDr. Kay describes how Lucille Clifton’s poem ‘Won’t You Celebrate With Me’ speaks to Black disability liberation.

Our fifth feature for Black Futures Month is Jasmine Williams-Jacobs, Founder and Director of Black Remote She. Jasmine lists how Black disability liberation looks like communal care, sustained support systems, amplifying joy, and more.

Our fourth feature for Black Futures Month is Cara Reedy @discojourno.bsky.social, producer and Founder and Executive Director of Disabled Journalists Association. She describes Black disability liberation as elderhood and enjoying retirement — a place that many ancestors weren’t able to get to.

Our third feature for Black Futures Month is AJ Link, Director of Policy for New Disabled South. Re: Black disability liberation, he describes his determination to fight for a better future for Black disabled kin, thinking about parallels between now and the Reconstruction and Jim Crow apartheid.

Thank you @disabilitylab.bsky.social ! www.linkedin.com/posts/disabi...

Our second feature for Black Futures Month is Sadé Dozan, philanthropic strategist and Founder of Melanate: “Black disability liberation is not about inclusion into broken systems. It is about dismantling and transforming them so care, autonomy, and interdependence are the baseline.”

Our first feature for Black Futures Month is @LachiMusic.bsky.social. She is a legally blind recording artist and author. She describes Black disability liberation as Black disabled power and joy, and calls on the community to “amplify the flavor, grit, soul, and Big DIS Energy in our ranks.”

The Disability Justice Initiative @americanprogress.bsky.social is gathering stories from disabled voters about voting accessibility (particularly looking for folks from IN, MO, RI, TX, UT, & WY). Please complete this Google form if you're interested in sharing your story:

This Black History Month, we honor three Black disabled ancestors whose brilliance and care continue to shape our movement: Atinuke “Tinu” Abayomi-Paul, Leslie Lee III, and Teighlor McGee. May we carry their names, work, and love forward, and continue making Black disabled history, together.

We’re excited to welcome Sanzari Aranyak (they/them) as a Communications Associate! A Disabled, Trans, South Asian, and Southern artist, Sanzari will lend their talent to digital content production and help launch our Disability Source program. Learn more at DisabilityCultureLab.org.

Disability Culture Currents is launching March 2, 2026. This new publication will explore the currents of disability culture and identity through opinion, personal essay, and graphic storytelling. Launch week submissions are due by February 20, 2026. Visit tinyurl.com/DCCurrents to submit!

Being a Disability Rising Fellow for @disabilitylab.bsky.social is changing my life! I am going to be sad when it ends in June!

Grateful to @disabilitylab.bsky.social for my DISABLED JOY IS REVOLUTIONARY hoodie!🔥 Leaning into disabled joy as I attempt to recover from: bit.ly/AccessIntimacyAbuse Disability Justice 101, 7-9pm EST on Saturday: bit.ly/DJ101Jan LURNN: www.equitableforall.com/lurnn-with-me/ Please share widely! 🙏🏾

I’m joining The Op Ed Project’s workshop tomorrow and thursday! Really grateful that I am getting the opportunity to take this writing workshop through my disability rising fellowship! One of my goals of 2026 is to publish my first Op Ed! @disabilitylab.bsky.social www.theopedproject.org/seminars

We’re delighted to welcome @jessmoorematthews.bsky.social to the DCL Advisory Board! Founder and Chief Good Troublemaker at Backbone Digital Leaders, Jess identifies and scales the digital organizing technologies that make democracy more accessible to disabled organizers and voters.

We’re thrilled to share that Dessa Cosma (she/her) is joining Disability Culture Lab’s Advisory Board! Dessa is the Founding Director of Detroit Disability Power. She is committed to bridging the gap between disability inclusion and other social justice efforts to dismantle systems of oppression.

We’re excited to welcome Sadé Dozan (she/her/ella) to the Disability Culture Lab Advisory Board! Vice President of Advancement at Borealis Philanthropy, Sadé brings deep experience working at the intersection of disability justice, racial equity, narrative power, and movement infrastructure.

Jasmine Williams-Jacobs, Disability Rising Fellow and founder of Black Remote She, is featured in a recent article examining how Black workers continue to face unemployment rates almost double the national average. Read the article now: www.essence.com/news/money-c....

@caseydoherty.bsky.social masked up in our new merch! Get yours at Shop.DisabilityCultureLab.org

This sums it up. Thanks @disabilitylab.bsky.social and Jennae Petersen for making products that let us share our values with the world. Disability Justice = Abolish ICE!

@snoringdoggo.bsky.social rocking our new sweatshirt, just in time for the winter season! Head over to Shop.DisabilityCultureLab.org to check out our new merch drop!

@seemiaroll.bsky.social looking fabulous in our new merch! Grab yours now at Shop.DisabilityCultureLab.org!

This holiday season, make a statement with some great @disabilitylab.bsky.social merch. #chingalamigra

Announcing our new Cross-Movement Disabled Leaders and Organizers Bluesky Starter Pack! With just one click, you can follow the whole collection of leaders, organizers, and organizations listed. Share this far and wide! Have anyone to recommend? List them in the comments! go.bsky.app/7vLJSBW

Grateful today for the freedoms I have from my disabled ancestors' activism. My right to exist - at home, work, and school - is their legacy. Disabled lives are worth living. Disabled lives are worth protecting. The work continues. Thanks to @disabilitylab.bsky.social for the sweatshirt!

Happy International Day of Persons with Disabilities! As a person with visible and invisible disabilities, I always show up as my authentic self no matter what. So happy to be a disability rising fellow for @disabilitylab.bsky.social ! I hope my existence alone is a reminder that we belong here.

Support Disabled-Trans & Two-Spirit-Led Projects today and every day! @CrushColonialism.bsky.social, tinyurl.com/DisabilityProjectTLC, @FDMORG.bsky.social, and us at @DisabilityLab.bsky.social, are great places to start! Disabled Trans people deserve to thrive now.

Today, we call attention to the deep harm done to the Disabled Trans community every day, as well as the strength of Trans resilience. We must fight for Trans survival, Trans joy, and Trans community. Fight for the Trans people in your community, and donate to Trans people and organizations!

I graduated from the first part of my @disabilitylab.bsky.social fellowship today— intensive media training!

We at Disability Culture Lab deeply mourn the passing of Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social: activist, storyteller, cultural architect, and one of the brightest lights of our disability community. Please read @thesicktimes.org tribute to Alice, and donate to her GoFundMe & cripsforesimsforgaza.org.

Head over to Shop.DisabilityCultureLab.org to shop our Fall 2025 Merch Drop, Fashion Against Fascism Part II: Disability Justice = Abolish ICE! We’ve revamped some of our classics into new colorways and styles, perfect for the fall and winter. Feel free to tag us in posts when you wear our merch!

Excited for this incredible fall disabled merch drop with some amazing new artists. Check it out!

Head over to Shop.DisabilityCultureLab.org to shop our Fall 2025 Merch Drop, Fashion Against Fascism Part II: Disability Justice = Abolish ICE! We’ve revamped some of our classics into new colorways and styles, perfect for the fall and winter. Feel free to tag us in posts when you wear our merch!

Masks Are Community Care! The second part of our Fall 2025 Merch Drop, Fashion Against Fascism Part II: Disability Justice = Abolish ICE, is here! Grab your threads today at Shop.DisabilityCultureLab.org, and feel free to tag us when you wear our merch!

Our Fall 2025 Merch Drop, Fashion Against Fascism Part II: Disability Justice = Abolish ICE, is here! As ICE targets our communities, this merch line reminds us that disability justice and the fight to abolish ICE are rooted in collective care, liberation, & resistance. Shop.DisabilityCultureLab.org

Masks Are Community Care! The second part of our Fall 2025 Merch Drop, Fashion Against Fascism Part II: Disability Justice = Abolish ICE, is here! Grab your threads today at Shop.DisabilityCultureLab.org, and feel free to tag us when you wear our merch!

Our Fall 2025 Merch Drop, Fashion Against Fascism Part II: Disability Justice = Abolish ICE, is here! As ICE targets our communities, this merch line reminds us that disability justice and the fight to abolish ICE are rooted in collective care, liberation, & resistance. Shop.DisabilityCultureLab.org