My colleague and co-author Dr. Mona Minkara is a blind #chemistry professor. She worked with other science professors to make braille periodic tables! Each table uses tactile dots to show the element's essential info!  www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0XR...

Happy Year of the Fire Horse

www.beyondwordsmag.com/online-store... Excited and honored to have my CNF piece, "Slingshot," reprinted in the Beyond Words anthology, Father Stories: Narratives of Fatherhood.

Blessed Imbolc

Happy and blessed Winter Solstice

Today's a federal holiday because on the eve of the 20th century machinists, carpenters, and people who worked in mills, mines, and factories joined together to fight for better wages and a day to honor working people. If you're enjoying the holiday today, thank the labor movement.

WOOOOOOT

We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.” Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible. Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/ Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication. #CripLit #CripArts

New poem on WienerBlog CW: fascism, grief, loss, violence dianerwiener.com/2025/07/27/n...

Celebrate the ADA at 35 adata.org/ada-timeline... #ADA@35

New poem on WienerBlog, “Ephemeral Restoration,” with an epigraph from—and with gratitude to—June Jordan. Mostly, the paintings, of late, have been my offered poems. But here’s a written poem. CW: Difficult topics include war, death, loss, grief dianerwiener.com/2025/07/06/e...

www.aapd.com/Medicaid/ Fight for Medicaid

One month from today, the ADA will be 35 years old. Let's make sure it keeps on.

Blessed Solstice

www.history.com/articles/wha... What Is Juneteenth? | HISTORY

I'm made of rainbows all year. Not just in June. Ask anyone.

Yasssssssss @mikenorthen.bsky.social @stevekuusisto.bsky.social @razubal.bsky.social

We are delighted to inform you that the Spring 2025 book reviews and review essays special supplement of Wordgathering is now “live.” Our next full issue (Summer 2025) will be published in early August or late July. Huzzah! wordgathering.com/vol18/vol18i...

I remember you, I honor you, and I thank you.

I am honored to share that I learned this morning my CNF piece, “Slingshot,” will be published in Beyond Words Literary Magazine’s father-themed anthology in Dec. Originally pub’d in eMerge: emerge-magazine.com/slingshot/ CW: Mental illness, suicide, violent human & nonhuman animal death, racism.

May the fourth and the Schwartz be with you.

Yom HaShoah Never Again As In: Never Again FOR ANYONE We remember

You might already be following these, but please take a look at these and consider following. I also write this info on small cards and leave them everywhere I go. You can also checkout handsOFF2025.com go.bsky.app/6dCw92a

RFK Jr's move to eliminate the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled & aging people stay at home instead of being institutionalized, is disastrous. I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊

Bluesky loves links! We don't downrank, and major publishers report that we're sending more link traffic than other sites. Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly. theblue.report/week/

Blessed Ostara Happy Vernal Equinox

If we normalize AI's mental illness before our own, I will become so evil.

Happy International Women's Day to all the misogynist mansplainers and the rest of us.

Happy 18th birthday, Wordgathering! <3

wordgathering.com/vol18/issue2... @watermancenter.bsky.social

Eat the Rich, says Winnie the Pooh

you guys look at what I’m stitching 🍴🍯

Truly, deeply, endlessly grateful to @courtludwick.bsky.social and @romyewing.bsky.social for their conversation in @wordgathering.bsky.social about my short story collection What Blooms in the Dark (@emergejournal.bsky.social). 🌺 wordgathering.com/vol18/issue2...

Yayyyyyy

“Parable of the Sower Offers More than Prophesy” Yes, calling Octavia E. Butler merely prophetic discredits her astonishing brilliance. www.pastemagazine.com/books/scienc...

medium.com/@sbearbergma...?

Congress? Hello—federal workers here. We are struggling to fight all of this on our own.

At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

80 years ago, Auschwitz was liberated. Never forget. #HolocaustRemembranceDay www.bbc.com/news/article...

dianerwiener.com/2025/01/26/f... [ID: Thumbnail of WienerBlog banner: A photograph of green-glasses wearing white Ashkenazi Jew Diane. Image digitally updated with many bright colors and variously abstracted patterns, created using Procreate for the iPad.]

This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

What are the mediocrities going to do when they find out that “DEI” isn’t their problem? I’m curious.

Pamela Hemphill, who served 60 days in prison for her role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, said she did not want a pardon. “Absolutely not,” Hemphill said. “It’s an insult to the Capitol Police.” nyti.ms/4hmt67M

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

I'm auditioning as the designer of the 2028 election campaign logo, what do you think?