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Karrie has been in an extremely tough housing and medical situation for 5 years local to me, please help 🙏🏼

Iowa is actively the worst state for trans and nonbinary disabled people

Please donate anything you can to Karrie, so Karrie can leave Iowa! 💜

Pregnancy is a minefield when you're disabled Few OB-GYNs get disability training—and their disabled patients are far likelier to die.

Disabled people are 11 times more likely to die during labor/in the postpartum period than non-disabled people. Better education and smashing ableism is how we get out of this horrible stat.

For the past year, I’ve been looking into the topic of disability and pregnancy for @motherjones.com 🧵

My friend Samaa had her account banned in the middle of trying to feed herself, her husband, and their children. Please give what you can as they navigate this terrifying landscape.

I too have been unable to find critique on Sara Hendren’s work bc the ableds LOVE finding a liberal parent of disabled child to prop up and prioritize above ACTUAL DISABLED PEOPLE

Rua Williams and Liz Jackson are writing actual critical thoughts about non-disabled people getting to be “experts” on OUR culture and how they’re backed up by hegemonic systems like publishing!!

Pulling these threads together!! Yes!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Mutual Legitimization requires state actors “who make sense of and thus enable each other’s power.” This is how Sara Hendren — the nondisabled parent of a disabled child — managed to ascend alongside the Accessible Icon she became the face of. In this transaction, the state received a visual artifact that it could use to feed the illusion of progress. And because mothers of disabled children are appealing to state power as icons of conservative tradition, Hendren was granted the authority to uphold the status quo. Like the women we described in our Counterinsurgent Mother Figureheads piece, Hendren “parlayed a single attention grabbing moment into a lifetime of repute” when she capitalized on the growing ubiquity of the Accessible Icon. Notably was her high profile book that has come to dominate disability design syllabi and curriculum all over the world despite remaining virtually unknown amongst disabled organizers who are working on the ground.

Yesterday, after @fractalecho.bsky.social and I published our most recent piece, Jesse Rice Evans - a longtime Twitter acquaintance - reached out to express solidarity with our critique of Sara Hendren. I, in turn expressed frustration...

25 arrested while protesting GOP Medicaid cuts "You will kill me."

New blog from me at @motherjones.com: 25 people were arrested today during a Congressional hearing while protesting Medicaid cuts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Why Disability Studies Scholars Are Protesting a Prominent Textbook A group of authors see problems not just with this edition of the reader, but with previous editions as well.

I don’t have a lot of capacity to deal with this but I just found out the sixth edition of the Disability Studies Reader is out. Four years ago a bunch of disability studies scholars, activists & artists protested our inclusion in this textbook.

www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

We're at 33.3% to the goal for these to be made! Go pre-order then now!

If the goal isn't reached by the end of the month. I'll have to refund orders or give exchanges for preorders. Please keep sharing and supporting!!

Store details below!

Book giveaway for Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin May 14-May 28, 2025 Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from May 14-May 28, 2025. Enter for the chance to win an ARC of Black Flame by Gretchen Felk...

YOOOOOOO score an ARC of my next novel, BLACK FLAME, months before anyone else gets a chance to read it! Goodreads giveaway active for the next two weeks.

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Flo Mask Next level protection for the whole family.

FloMask has a 30% off coupon until end of Feb. to help people affected by the fires afford better masks (this is my go-to mask for travel or when I need a very good seal). Coupon is CaliStrong30 website is here: www.flomask.com they're on bsky @flomask.bsky.social if you need a mask check it out

Really struggling with the high AQI in the northeast today. I keep all the windows cracked for ventilation but it’s gotten too difficult to breathe!! CO2 v. AQI 🤔

Hey Bsky 🦋 I am hiring!! Looking for a PT tech-savvy person who likes marketing + comms, can provide technical support in/near NYC. $22/hr 20 hrs/week W2 position at CUNY! Fully remote apart from hiring requirements! sps.cuny.edu/about/direct...

Anything you’re doing without airborne pandemic precautions is counter revolutionary BTW!!

Indulging in a Woe-is-Me day where I cry and medicate and let myself express how hard things have gotten since I have been bedbound for the last 2-ish months. Everything is just too much today

Just, like. I am not the only person struggling with this.

I can’t really tolerate starting another social media from scratch. I am happy for y’all who can but realistically I got on twitter in 2009 before I had any clue I was sick. I just do not have the same/comparable capacity like I did then.

Tried to take my lunch break with my partner and get out of the apartment for a few minutes but by the time I got downstairs I blacked out and got such intense nausea I had to crawl back up to bed 🙃

Historically, NSFW creators and SWs are always the foundational users of any new social site, and historically, they're the first ones to get hidden/forced off once corporations start sniffin' around looking to make money. Use your dang moderation settings if NSFW bothers you and let folks be

A sea angel with its wings outstretched on a black background.

Photo of a baby sea slug with many branched cerata that end in white and orange tips like candy corn.

This gossamer worm is such a graceful and tireless swimmer, drawing its fiery tail behind it like a sparkler held away from a body.

Photo of a delicate jellyfish on a black background. It's center seems to glow, and there are four orange arches to its center and many thin translucent tentacles branching off the end of each one.

Anyone want to buy some really cool ocean art prints of critters I go out & find & photograph & edit & print & ship myself?

shop.noncompliantcyborg.com

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North Carolina Passes HB 237 and Bans Medical Masks in Public This discriminatory and ableist bill puts lives at risk and further isolates vulnerable people from society. It's pandering to anti-maskers who seek to punish disabled and high risk individuals.

These bans represent escalating fascism. They’re preying on people’s hatred for the disabled as well as their anger over mask mandates and covid policies.

The best way to push back? Wear a mask. Right now.

Call local lawmakers & tell them you won’t visit any state or county with a ban.

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More stuff to share here: I have moderate ME and work remotely with the support of my beautiful spouse. I’m still looking for wheelchair accessible housing in NYC! A kitchen I can use while sitting, actually 👀

Jesse Rice-Evans Open Source + Product Ops | Disabled Researcher + Writer

Hello Bsky pals! I’m Jesse (she/they), disabled icon 🤩♿️ retired educator turned housebound technologist. I redid my website recently where you can read my writing and learn about me: jessericeevans.com

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Hey 🦋 pals! I’m still looking for my Twitter mutuals but in the meantime I am still raising funds in support of my bestie! My wife just got fired but my oldest friend does not deserve to be hungry! Reposting is so valuable if you don’t have financial resources! t.co/ZD2jTXiSRk

For folks new to Bluesky looking to reconnect with #NEISvoid, here's a link to the feed (which you can pin to your toolbar for easy reference)

bsky.app/profile/did:...

I’m back. Against my will but here we are. I’m too sick to adopt a new platform but here we are. Sorry today is pretty bad