Melissa Cosgrove

Every revolution needs at least one Roxanne. The rest of us can bring snacks and spreadsheets.

A woman stands in a dimly lit room, looking upward toward soft light streaming through a round window. Dust and mist catch the light in visible rays, surrounding her in a quiet, reflective atmosphere. The image accompanies the essay “Glass Houses I: What happens when sight becomes relation” on cosgrove.substack.com.

We think of being seen as vulnerability, and seeing as power.
But what if they’re the same thing?

Glass House I explores the quiet reciprocity between sight and exposure — the way illumination reveals us all.

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Black background graphic with white text that reads: “If you want to see how domination owns time, look at Palestine. Time there is measured not in days or years but in waiting: waiting at checkpoints, waiting for permits that never arrive, waiting for power or water to return after deliberate cuts, waiting to starve, waiting to die. An entire people’s future is held on someone else’s clock.” Below the text: “Melissa Cosgrove, developing The Care Paradigm” with a small colorful circular logo at the bottom.

News about the Flotilla today is not just geopolitical — it’s temporal. This is about who claims time.

I wrote The Tempo of Relation to name precisely that: how dominance accelerates fracture, how relation returns time to us.

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Hahahaha.... to the psych I would say that pattern recognition across disciplines is a special interest of its own. 😉

A pair of lavender glasses held together with silver duct tape rests on a rose-gold laptop. The laptop’s screen is cracked and frayed at the edges, glowing with a blurred music app in the background. Soft light falls across the scene, emphasizing the sense of makeshift survival and persistence.

Duct tape on glasses. A broken laptop screen. A frayed charger. Sometimes survival and creation share the same tools.

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

This is amazing — your resilience is inspiring, Amanda!

I've also been unemployed since then (though still working on personal projects) as well. My advice is this: you are not the problem. You are probably an excellent hire, but the truth is that this is the worst market in our lived history. And they don't want us to know that, either. Stay strong!

The arc doesn’t bend on its own — true. What bends it is often the unseen labor of care, rupture, and repair. That’s the part of justice I’m writing to name.

Black cat sitting on a bed

Today’s writing partner, Archer. 🐈‍⬛ 📝

More modern art. 🖼️

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Today Without Electricity The day my book proposal went out and my power went off

I’m writing this in the dark. Our power was shut off today with a $602.19 price tag to turn it back on. This is what collapse feels like in real time.

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Hehehe I suspected as much. No worries! 😌

This is modern art.

Yay chronic illness, amirite??

I been sayin’ this 😭

It's beautiful... I also hate it.

When truth isn’t sacred anymore, every exit looks like a payoff. 🤔 That’s fascism’s ultimate rupture.

Why “Avoiding Labels” Is Ableist Why Refusing Labels Protects Power, Not People

Hey, it’s Sunday morning. Here’s a thought: avoiding labels isn’t neutral — it’s ableist.

→ bit.ly/46HLqVo
#Neurodiversity #Ableism #DisabilityRights

Why “Avoiding Labels” Is Ableist Why Refusing Labels Protects Power, Not People

“Avoiding labels” protects power, not people.

In workplaces, in schools, in families — silence is rewarded because care is costly.

I wrote about why neutrality isn’t neutral in my new piece:

cosgrove.substack.com/p/why-avoidi...

#Ableism #Neurodiversity #DisabilityRights #AutismAcceptance

The Democratic Party Can’t Save Us Why We Must Build What the Constitution Never Gave

The Constitution held no care. Not for food, not for shelter, not for health, not for survival. It was only built to exclude.

The Democratic Party cannot save us because it is tethered to that foundation.

#AmericanPolitics #DemocraticParty #Constitution

New essay →

a person wearing a blue hoodie and sunglasses stands in a crowd of people . ALT: a person wearing a blue hoodie and sunglasses stands in a crowd of people .

Painfully embarrassing.

This administration doesn't want you to think so, but they lose constantly. Especially when people stand up to their bullying. They are not inevitable, they actually suck at this.

They’re all pedophiles. Not just the ones exposed, but the ones who knew, who stayed quiet, who chose power over children.

It's weird how Tylenol caused autism (first diagnosed in 1943) before it was even invented (1955). What a clever drug.

Black lives still don’t matter. And that’s the ugliest truth of this.

Disney thinks relation can be bought with a trailer. But repair isn’t transactional; it’s relational. Until they learn that, the cracks will only widen. I’ll be here with my popcorn, watching them fall right in. 🍿

Today, as an autistic person, I will not be engaging with discourse on the “cause” of autism. Thank you.

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticVoices #Neurodiversity #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #DisabilityJustice #Neurodivergent

Biden’s Failure of Care What Harris’s memoir excerpt reveals about care, power, and the weight women are left to carry

Kamala Harris’s 107 Days drops today.

I wrote about her Atlantic excerpt — why Biden’s choice wasn’t just reckless, but a failure of care. Loyalty demanded is rupture. Care is the measure of leadership.

Linked below ↓

cc: @kamalaharris.com

#Care #Politics #Leadership #107Days #KamalaHarris