The #Bright morning sun illuminates the morning dew on this #BlueSkyArtShow #DailyDahlia at the #CMBG #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #SmArtist #photography #photographer #Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #PhotographersOfBlueSky #FlowersOnBlueSky #PhotographersUnited

#flowers #bloomscrolling #flowerfeed #flowerreport #gardening #photography Zinnias are still blooming in zone 8b (for now…)

It is a BEAUTIFUL Saturday afternoon, 79°F! I'm a BIG college football fan but at halftime I venture out and see this lovely in sunlight! This is my namesake rose, My Caroline.🩷 #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling #Roses #Flowers #Garden #PhotographersonBluesky📷 #Photography 📷

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval "Chaque fleur est une âme qui s’épanouit dans la nature." - original French. Midday dahlia treat. A delicate beauty. #FlowersOnFriday #FloralFriday #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Michelle Obama on Black Women's natural hair #blackhistory365 #cannotbeerased #ourhistory

black girls can't ever just be. if it isn't church, a fear of being labeled fast, it's school rules. then it's trying to look professional. no wonder you see 50 year olds with blue hair. the girls don't get to do shit. hell, michelle obama JUST started wearing braids.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama has said that she will not even entertain the idea of running for president of the United States while the country remains so immature in its politics.

Speaking of our girlhoods, FB memories coughed up this gem: our 1991 Bates Academy 8th grade graduation! (l-r) My friend Deborah Trombly, me, late great social studies teacher Ms. Marsha Rogers & my friend Ingrid LaFleur (former Detroit mayoral candidate and Afrofuturist activist! look her up!).

Greetings from the dementia ward, where my mother told me today, "If you say you're going to make a cake, you better damn well make a cake, a big birthday cake for everyone." And honestly, it's not a bad operating principle.

My Yuletide camellias are starting to bloom, and they are so colorful and bring so much joy when other flowers are done for the winter, thanks to the landscape designer who helped me craft my small garden some 20+ years ago! #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"

Disabled activist and prolific writer Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed away. Below are her final words, I particularly love the line: “I’m honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way of the future” Rest in peace and power Alice.

I would not be doing any of what I am doing in disability justice and accessibility without the light of Alice Wong, her writing and her cultivation and nuturing of disabled voices. I know so many of us feel the same.

Alice dedicated her life to advocating for the global disabled community because no matter how many miles separated her from us, we were in community with her. She used #DisabilityVisibility to remind the world disabled people are here and matter, and she did it with love, rage, and humor.🐅

My heart is sore and wounded at the tremendous loss of Alice Wong, daughter, sister, friend, activist, author, editor, and firebrand. Alice had a heart burning with a desire for change, and I'll always keep her encouragement in my heart. Rest well, Alice. You've done what you set out to do.❤️‍🔥🐅

Were you looking for something a bit overwhelming? Here’s something for #BlueSkyArtShow #Bright that is fiery as well. #Flowers #FlowerReport 🌱 #Photography #EastCoastKin #OrangeSaturday #SaturdayOrange

Today's #sixonsaturday features roses of various colors that I had posted over the last year. 🌹🌹🌹 #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Cardoons 🌱 #BlueskyArtShow #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #Autumn #EastCoastKin

Stunning. Archives are everything.

Honoring Alice Wong's life and legacy with gratitude, in solidarity and sorrow, this morning. I was a fan; thinking of all who loved and knew her personally. Alice's words speak to us still. As a chronically ill person, I will keep listening. What a beautiful, bold, *brilliant* life well lived.

crying in the car trying to explain internet friends and death to my kids in ways I’ll never achieve right now Alice Wong, you were a marvel, a miracle, a force of nature, who taught me so much and lit so many fires under so many of us and showed the way. You will be so very missed, even from afar

This was a shock to wake up to. Alice Wong was an incredibly gifted writer who was fearless in her perspective. She also really loved Star Trek and her cats, and we'd message about both topics in ways that made you forget about the difficulties in our world. I hope she is raising hell somewhere.

we did not know Alice Wong, nor did we know Tinu Abayomi-Paul, but we admired their work from afar as a disabled person who never had the strength to really take up advocacy. It really sucks when a good life is taken from this world, especially in times when we need those lights to keep hope.

I hope it’s as comforting to you as it is to me to see the outpouring of love and appreciation for Alice Wong and her work. I hope she felt some measure of this in life. May we find our friends who deserve their flowers and remind them how we love them.

I will say something more later about the depths of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social’s love and friendship and knowledge and courage and bad assery. Alice Wong was a disabled Warrior Oracle and I am so blessed to know her. But for now all I got is Fuck 2025.

I am heartbroken to lose yet another person that helped me be the person I am today. When I was struggling immensely about 4 years ago, Alice Wong commissioned me to make a "Suck It Ableism" pin. I'll never forget her kindness and understanding. And the opportunity to work with her.

What??? Alice Wong was such a force. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project and so many different projects, writings, and programs dedicated to letting people with disabilities share narratives, tell stories, & just talk. Truly blessed to have had her in the world.

RIP Alice Wong, author, #HumanRights activist, disabled warrior and fierce with it! Farewell @sfdirewolf.bsky.social 😢 If you haven't heard of Alice Wong, here's an interview from earlier in 2025 on her receiving a 2024 MacArthur ‘genius’ award. 🏆 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I’m heartbroken to hear our warrior Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has passed. She was so important to me & welcoming of me. This is the great loss of a true fighter. May she rise to power as an ancestor, may we never forget her lessons & continue her work for disability justice.

Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work. Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.

She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.

Alice Wong LIVED.

Thank you for sharing the sad news. I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm so sorry for all our loss. Alice was one of a kind and an inspiration. We will all be worse for losing her, but I hope we can all learn from her courage and persistence, and carry on her legacy.

Waking up & holding two truths in my heart - The joy of seeing two childhood/teen icons last night. Learning of the death of a disabled friend & activist I was just emailing a week ago. To say my heart is tender right now doesn’t cut it. 1/2

I’ve now lost 3 disabled friends in the last almost 3 years - Tonia, Tinu, & now Alice. Being disabled in midlife means loss. Huge losses of community & love. And next month marks 10 years since my Grandma died. So yeah, my heart is tender. Extra tender. 2/2

RIP. She was amazing. I am so fucking sad.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

No. No. No. Waking up to the devastating news that Alice Wong has passed. I have no words yet, except to say that Alice was a powerful force for good in the world & I loved her. I posted the below just before her passing.

Wonderful writer & warrior.

I'm heartsick over the passing of Alice Wong. Rest peacefully, friend.

Alice Wong is among the stars. #RestInPower

Oh 💔. Rest in Power Alice Wong.

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

oh shit RIP alice wong

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles. Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.

‘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

Many thoughts about my cyborg bitch boss goddess accomplice Alice Wong & all the things she meant but there is a tendency for white disabled people to overshadow conversations about disabled BIPOC including in death. I choose to let Alice speak for herself & uplift those she wanted to represent her.

Alice Wong, writer and disability activist, has died. She was an educator and a communicator and a warrior who lit the way. I’m grateful to have crossed paths with her. Rest in peace.

"I'm honored to be your ancestor" - Alice Wong Thank you, Alice.