Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning

My friends are helping me to raise funds so I can afford basic necessities and start building my life. If you can, consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...

Guess who's coming home?! After over 15 years inside, I will be released in early February and look forward to being with my family and friends. I accomplished more than I could have dreamed while imprisoned. Imagine what I'll do when I'm free.

Political Imagination and Appeals to the Law w/ Nate Holdren (12/01/25) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, @nhold.bsky.social returns to the show to discuss the way law creates the bounds of “justifiable” violence and consecrates brutality, and why deportation is wrong, no matter the circumstances

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Teaser - Political Imagination and Appeals to the Law w/ Nate Holdren (12/01/25) Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/144753977 Beatrice speaks with Nate Holdren about how we approach the law in political stru

Extended teaser here:

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Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant | Penguin Random House Canada A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Panel”

To really understand the f*ckery that is privatised #healthcare, there's this compelling analysis by two of the hosts of the @deathpanel.bsky.social podcast (also highly recommended).

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#disability #chronicillness #ABpoli #Cdnpoli

Thanks for reading, Nate! 💕

The Body Illegible Capitalism has no future worth preserving…

“…value under capitalism isn’t measured by need or labor or intrinsic worth; it’s proven through the ruthless consistency with which markets ignore anything they cannot profitably circulate.”

Fantastic essay (as usual) from @reallandsend.bsky.social , really great introduction to value-form theory

The abruptly surrendered shutdown fight shows “the ACA predictably failing, under predictable pressures” (@reallandsend.bsky.social) and begs the question “What exactly are you defending when you defend the ACA?” (@philiprocco.bsky.social)

The ACA and the Looming Healthcare Crisis (11/24/25) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, we discuss how healthcare costs are expected to dramatically spike next year and how the structure of the ACA itself ensures we’re going to relive moments like the shutdown fight until we can replace it with something fundamentally better

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Teaser - The ACA and the Looming Healthcare Crisis (11/24/25) Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/144323282 Beatrice and Phil discuss how healthcare costs are expected to dramatically spike

First ~20min here:

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Incredible thread. Was also struck by this part of the @deathpanel.bsky.social Tribute to Alice @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and Leslie @leslieleeiii.bsky.social:

When Things Fall Apart w/ Kelly Hayes (Unlocked) This episode was originally released October 13th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a pa

Now unlocked: against a backdrop of the Trump administration’s attempted occupation of Chicago, we speak with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social about holding together in times of rising fascism and her new edited collection Read This When Things Fall Apart

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Another Way Out w/ William C. Anderson (Unlocked) This episode was originally released June 23rd for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patro

Starting today with @williamcson.bsky.social's @deathpanel.bsky.social episode: soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...

Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization

Block It! A Mini Toolkit for Interrupting the Abduction, Detention, and Deportation Machine, from @interruptcrim.bsky.social

www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

To honor Alice—and all our disability ancestors—is to keep building that connective tissue she described. To love fiercely, politically, on purpose. To ensure the filaments they left behind continue to glow in us, and through us, long after the world has forgotten their names. We won’t.

Alice helped us see that legacy as ballast. A grounding force. A reminder that none of us are doing this alone, and none of us ever were. The future we fight for is stitched together with the lessons and loves of those who came before.

Disability ancestors aren’t gone; they accompany us. In our organizing, in mutual aid, in the awkward joy of surviving another day that wasn’t designed for us. They’re in every access met, every gentle reminder to slow down, every firm refusal to abandon one another.

Her work was a reminder that memory is not passive. It’s an active practice of tending to the filaments she described—those blazing threads that glow warm with the people who shaped us. To tend them is to extend them. To extend them is to refuse the isolation the system relies on.

Alice showed us how to honor that inheritance: by activating it, by actively practicing the kind of solidarity that keeps us tethered to one another. By making more space, more access, more possibility—especially for those who are told they’re “too much” or “too complicated.”

When we talk about disability ancestors, we’re not talking about some distant, abstract lineage. We’re talking about people who fought, organized, wrote, dreamed, and survived alongside us. People who left us tools, strategies, jokes, tenderness, and a politic were responsible for carrying forward.

Alice reminded us that these bonds are world-making. They are the underground architecture that lets us survive a political order that treats disabled life as disposable. She insisted on holding disabled brilliance close, refusing the erasure capitalism demands.

In disability communities, grief isn’t episodic. It’s cumulative. It layers. It reverberates. We lose people who should’ve had decades more time—because the world is engineered to wear us down. And yet, in that same world, disabled people keep building life with one another anyway.

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

I am holding so much grief, but also so much gratitude that we lived in a world so shaped by her brilliance and creativity. Rest in power, Alice Wong. Your work changed us. Your vision will continue to lead us. Your memory is a blessing and a responsibility we must honor every day through action.

May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.

Alice leaves behind a body of work that will continue to shape movements for decades. But more importantly, she leaves behind communities and relationships she helped build and nurture—relations that will carry her clarity, her defiance, and her tenderness forward.

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

I’m devastated by this loss, and also profoundly grateful that I got to witness her work, her thought, and her example. She deepend how I understand disabled solidarity—what it demands, what it makes possible, and how much responsibility we owe to one another.

Alice moved through the world with a kind of political generosity that made people bolder. She noticed people. She uplifted new voices. She reached out with intention. She gave disabled folks permission to be angry, joyful, complicated, imaginative—to exist beyond the flattened roles we’re assigned.