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Diane R. Wiener (she/they)

@dianeoctopod.bsky.social

Neuroqueer Ashkenazi hylozoist, #DisabilityJustice activist & educator, poet, CNF author, artist, musician, SWer EIC @wordgathering.bsky.social #BLM #TransLivesMatter #QueerLivesMatter #CripLit #CripArts dianerwiener.com wordgathering.com

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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.

01.09.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1104    ๐Ÿ” 265    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

Awesome. Thank you!

02.09.2025 00:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

WOOOOOOT

01.09.2025 02:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Volume 19, Issue 1 โ€“ Summer 2025 โ€“ Wordgathering

We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now โ€œlive.โ€

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

01.09.2025 02:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

New poem on WienerBlog

CW: fascism, grief, loss, violence

dianerwiener.com/2025/07/27/n...

27.07.2025 15:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

27.07.2025 11:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

adata.org/ada-timeline...

#ADA@35

26.07.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New poem on WienerBlog, โ€œEphemeral Restoration,โ€ with an epigraph fromโ€”and with gratitude toโ€”June Jordan.

Mostly, the paintings, of late, have been my offered poems. But hereโ€™s a written poem.

CW: Difficult topics include war, death, loss, grief

dianerwiener.com/2025/07/06/e...

06.07.2025 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AAPD Medicaid Defense Hub - AAPD

www.aapd.com/Medicaid/

Fight for Medicaid

02.07.2025 02:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

Let's make sure it keeps on.

26.06.2025 21:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Blessed Solstice

20.06.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What Is Juneteenth? | HISTORY Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.

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

19.06.2025 16:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

01.06.2025 13:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yasssssssss

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

01.06.2025 03:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Volume 18, Issue 2s โ€“ Book Reviews and Review Essays Special Supplement โ€“ Spring 2025 โ€“ Wordgathering

We are delighted to inform you that the Spring 2025 book reviews and review essays special supplement of Wordgathering is now โ€œlive.โ€ Our next full issue (Summer 2025) will be published in early August or late July. Huzzah!

wordgathering.com/vol18/vol18i...

01.06.2025 02:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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

26.05.2025 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am honored to share that I learned this morning my CNF piece, โ€œSlingshot,โ€ will be published in Beyond Words Literary Magazineโ€™s father-themed anthology in Dec.

Originally pubโ€™d in eMerge: emerge-magazine.com/slingshot/

CW: Mental illness, suicide, violent human & nonhuman animal death, racism.

24.05.2025 14:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

May the fourth and the Schwartz be with you.

04.05.2025 13:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yom HaShoah

Never Again

As In:

Never Again FOR ANYONE

We remember

24.04.2025 01:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

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
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28.03.2025 19:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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).

28.03.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8082    ๐Ÿ” 2834    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 230    ๐Ÿ“Œ 108
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RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDAโ€™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 โ€œundermined.โ€

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nationโ€™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 โ€” but said Kennedy wishes โ€œsubservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.โ€

29.03.2025 01:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32523    ๐Ÿ” 13435    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1211    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1143

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. โœŠ

28.03.2025 23:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3857    ๐Ÿ” 1265    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 104    ๐Ÿ“Œ 49
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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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28.03.2025 18:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13574    ๐Ÿ” 2590    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 352    ๐Ÿ“Œ 184

Blessed Ostara

Happy Vernal Equinox

20.03.2025 22:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

18.03.2025 04:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 215    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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.

transequality.org/news/freedom...

18.03.2025 04:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

08.03.2025 18:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy 18th birthday, Wordgathering! <3

02.03.2025 03:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
โ€œSpruce Cones for Everybodyโ€: Reflective Conversations with Christopher C. Audette โ€“ Wordgathering

wordgathering.com/vol18/issue2...

@watermancenter.bsky.social

25.02.2025 03:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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