Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

"we're going to tell you that you were our second choice in an attempt to make you feel better, but it will in fact make you feel worse" I dedicate this t-shirt to multiple PhD scholarship applications.

Caregiver wellbeing has very little to do with the support needs of the ppl they support. It has more to do with the social support that they receive; the attitudes they take towards their caregiving; & the services and supports that they can access. At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2016/08/when...

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:

schedule for this coming week! small chance Tuesday could be later as I'm out at yet more doctors appointments just before.

Instead of doing a consumerism on "Black" Friday, consider supporting small businesses, dropping a few coins in someone's ko-fi or go fund me, sign up for their patreon instead. Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today. QRP with your links!

this is the single best email I've ever gotten. Dear Callie, Apologies

I think I'm going to manage two days in a row out of the house. this has been achieved by: not getting out of bed until 5pm on the second day (rehearsal I have to attend is in the evening). it remains possible that the PEM will hit me later in the week but I'll take it this time to feel like myself

schedule for this week! bit different to usual as I have some extra stuff on at the start of the week, but I'm looking forward to getting back to a better rhythm. <3

this. also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation. do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?

It also implies that “Writer” is a medical condition, which would explain a lot.

Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

80,000 draft words and 4.5 years in, lying here feeling dreadfully unwell, I think it has just clicked that the thing that links all the media forms in my thesis together is not "interactivity" so much as it is the act of play. if only I could sit up right now or write about it. 😂

What is wrong with you people??

no stream schedule for this week folks as I'm unwell - currently unable to be anywhere other than bed for very long. hoping I'll have points where I can get to the desk this week, but being kind to myself & so playing it by ear <3

This is a great obit, and I appreciated Alice’s fight for Palestinians in Gaza being highlighted. I also want to give a shout out to Miles for asking permission to cite my post when technically you don’t have to do that re media law but still an ethical thing to do.

very much enjoying the Foundry bug that is randomly turning members of the party into my myconid familiar when they try to roll.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

November 13th-19th is Trans Awareness Week.

The irony here is painful. Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name. But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased. Exactly how disabled people often are.

watching this week's smosh reddit stories, I'm wondering if anyone in larp/analog game studies has been looking at relationships with AI in terms of bleed, becoming too engrossed in the fantasy/roleplay, that kind of thing. feels like there's crossover & ways to look at it compassionately here.

Losing Alice feels like the ground shifting beneath us—I'm devastated—but to have known & shared even part of this life with her was an honor. She was one of the most fearless, generous & visionary disability activists. It’s impossible to measure how much she shifted the world—I feel it everywhere.

Losing Tinu last year and now Alice. I am heartbroken. There's been way too much loss in the disability community. So many people are now gone. Too many to list. Both Tinu and Alice both helped shape the person I am today. I wouldn't be alive without their help & support.

In the last chapter of Alice’s memoir, “Year of the Tiger,” she wrote her own future obituary. The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with: “Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”

I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever

this hurts. Alice's work has been so instrumental in helping me develop as an activist, scholar and human. the world is a dimmer place without her here; I can only hope, as others do, that we can shine in her example and make the world all the brighter.

combining the humanities, social sciences, and climate science into our new School of AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

being chronically ill is very much a full time job right now, physically and mentally and emotionally. GP and I have found something measurably wrong for the first time in nearly a decade and good grief that messes with your head after being told over and over that "nothing is wrong". it's a lot.

*checks* My method for damn near near thirty years and counting.

With alt text.

no stream today folks, fatigue and pain are kicking my ass and doing anything other than lying down is beyond me right now. see you tomorrow for co working <3

delighted to report that I was successfully vampirised today. third time lucky. I will say that heating my elbow appeared to do absolutely nothing, and the only hydration difference I made was super hydrating the day *before* as well as the day of. honestly feels like we just got lucky this time.

Just want to gently throw it out there that if you are feeling overwhelmed right now it’s ok to log off. Everyone is emoting deeply onto the timeline and you’re not obligated to witness it in an endless scroll. Take a break if you need to. Protect your heart. ❤️

tomorrow I am having a third attempt at getting blood drawn. my veins are notoriously shy and the nurses have failed to find veins the last two times. I am fed up and taking *no* chances this time - have started my usual hydration regimen a day early, will be heating my elbows right before, etc.

stream schedule for this coming week! we're diving fully into looking at the history of safety tools in TTRPGs in co-working, and launching the factory schematicannon in Create mod on Friday. follow & get notifs at: www.twitch.tv/melodioustear

Random thoughts on ICE trauma porn: For years Black folks on social media have been asking people to not share videos of police violence. Now people are sharing videos of ICE violence. Terrible, traumatic moments in people’s lives shared often without consent.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

😂 No. You can’t solve the health fall out from uncontrolled circulation of a novel virus and a poorly managed pandemic by flogging people harder to get back to work. #BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

Tomorrow we're holding a Town Hall event (with lunch provided!) to discuss the proposed merger with Greenwich University. All Kent UCU members have been sent an email about it, but do bring your non-union colleagues. It's being held in Grimond Lecture Theatre 1 and on Teams.

Seeing all of the election results and feeling something almost like hope.

If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...