Diane R. Wiener (she/they)

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.

Awesome. Thank you!

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.

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New poem on WienerBlog

CW: fascism, grief, loss, violence

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A Reading List for Disability Pride Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses We asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in honor of Disability Pride Month, observed ann...

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Celebrate ADA 35 Years Celebrate ADA 35 Years (1990-2025) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). + #ThanksToTheADA Campaign + ADA Anniversary Tool Kit, Logos and Themes + Add Your ADA 35 Event

Celebrate the ADA at 35

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#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

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AAPD Medicaid Defense Hub - AAPD

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Fight for Medicaid

One month from today, the ADA will be 35 years old.

Let's make sure it keeps on.

Blessed Solstice

What Is Juneteenth? | HISTORY Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.

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

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

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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!

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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

Hands Off! Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...

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Graduating From Dead Mom University In this op-ed, Lindsay Lee Wallace explores grief, and how no amount of success in school or work could protect her from it.

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).

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”

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. ✊

The Blue Report The top links on Bluesky, updated hourly

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.

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Blessed Ostara

Happy Vernal Equinox

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

FREEDOM TO FLY: Take Action to Protect Trans Passport Access | A4TE The U.S. Department of State has opened public comment periods on three important passport applications, and we must flood all three with our opposition to anti-trans changes before it's too late.

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

Happy 18th birthday, Wordgathering! <3

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