Kenrya Rankin (she/her)

📣 Call for the DisCo: we're making a Bluesky starter pack of disability justice orgs to follow! Have some recommendations? Tag their accounts in the comments and send this post to your friends! #disability #accessibility

I'm leaving with something!

Text reads: Welcome, Jen D. Rafanan, Senior Creative Advisor for Disability Culture Lab. Image shows a light-skinned woman with dark hair, pink lipstick, and a twinkle in her eye.

You’ve seen the designs, now meet the creative mind behind them! Jen D. Rafanan has officially joined Team DCL as Senior Creative Advisor, where she will support design work across all our programs and fee-for-service work.

Learn more about Jen at jdr-creative.com.

Photo within a Photo: I am standing next to the white blossoms of my crepe myrtle tree, wearing sunglasses and a black tank top that reads "Protect Trans Disabled Youth." In the smaller photo, I am wearing the same tank double and standing with my favorite farmer's market vendor and my sister, all of us smiling and wearing sunglasses.

As a vibrant blue spot in a red state, I invite you—especially my fellow Floridians—to join me in openly advocating for trans disabled youth! Rocking my "Protect Trans Disabled Youth" tank top, designed by the talented Jen D Rafanan for @disabilitylab.bsky.social. As an ally, I cannot stay silent.

Text reads: Disability Culture Lab presents: Disability Culture Cabaret: Pride Edition. July 30, 2025 at MetroBar. Are you a disabled and queer performance artist in the DMV? Apply by July 11 to help us celebrate disabled and queer joy and brilliance! Image description: Background is a gradient in the colors of the Disability Pride Flag (red, yellow, blue, green and gray). There are also three dancing figures in various combinations of brown, pink, orange, and black.

Are you a proud disabled and queer performance artist in the Washington, D.C. area? Apply by July 11 to help us celebrate disabled and queer
joy and brilliance!

So excited to share a bit of disabled joy with this collection, 'cause we all need it right about now. ✨♥️🫂 #DisabilitySky

Red background with white text on read reads: "tell your friends. our access to vaccines is under attack." below: "Submit a public comment to the FDA by May 23: We all need access to updated COVID boosters " "Our template makes it easy (link in bio). Comment at tinyurl.com/FDAVaccineMeeting" Yellow People's CDC in lower right corner.

Red background with white text reads: "Vaccine Access is under attack" Under it: "The CDC currently recommends the COVID vaccine for people 6 months and up. But the Wall Street Journal reported that HHS is considering no longer reccomending COVID vaccine access to pregnant people, and children. Robust scientific evidence shows that updated COVID boosters provide important protection against severe illness for all age groups." Below "Comment by May 23 tinyurl.com/FDAVaccineMeeting" People's CDC logo is in lower right.

Red background with white text reads: "Vaccine Access is under attack" Below it: "The FDA recently approved the Novavax, but with no scientific basis, restricted it to people over 65 and 12-64 with certain health conditions. These unfounded limitations likely could extend to all COVID vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna). We need to tell the FDA to make COVID vaccines available for all. Use our template (link in bio) and comment by May 23." And small text: "Comment by May 23 tinyurl.com/FDAVaccineMeeting" People's CDC logo is in lower right.

Our access to COVID vaccines is under attack. It’s more important than ever to make our voices heard by making public comment to the FDA by May 23 at 11:59 PM EST. Use our template available on our substack at peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...

I am begging anyone with the ability to commission articles in my industry: let trans people write about what is happening to us right now.

Yes! I heard it at the top.

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Sending hugs! I know the agony of migraine very well. 🫂

Can You Take Tylenol and Meloxicam Together? Meloxicam and Tylenol are both used to relieve the pain and inflammation of arthritis. They may be taken together with some precautions.

Yup! www.verywellhealth.com/meloxicam-an...

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Come work with my amazing team at Disability Culture Lab! www.disabilityculturelab.org/jobs

Donate to Urgent: Assist a Senior Facing Housing Insecurity, organized by Sharon Corpening At 64 years old and battling chronic pain, I'm facing a critical de… Sharon Corpening needs your support for Urgent: Assist a Senior Facing Housing Insecurity

Please help support a disabled elder in need of relocation funds so she can access the support she needs to thrive. Every dollar helps. #Disability #MutualAid

www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-ass...

White nonbinary trans masc human sits in an orange chair, wearing a black sweatshirt that reads "Disabled Joy Is Revolutionary" in purple ink, in front of a sign that says, "Todays Herd Happy Hour will feature Disability Culture Lab." Black woman with faux locs and a gray and black sweater sits beside them.

White nonbinary trans masc human sits in an orange chair, wearing a black sweatshirt that reads "Disabled Joy Is Revolutionary" in purple ink, in front of a sign that says, "Today’s Herd Happy Hour will feature Disability Culture Lab."

Black woman with faux locs wears gray and black sweater and sits in an orange chair and a sign that says, "Today’s Herd Happy Hour will feature Disability Culture Lab."

All together, now! @mghaigh.bsky.social and @kenrya.bsky.social dropped by Woolly Mammoth Theater to chat with patrons about about Disability Culture Lab's work and vision for disabled futures. Fun times!

People with disabilities need and deserve access to abortion to exercise full autonomy over our own bodies and lives on our terms. Check out our paper on disability and abortion access created with the National Partnership for Women & Families:

Become an ASAN member! We’re proud to announce the release of our new and improved membership options! These monthly membership plans come with special perks, along with a membership-exclusive supplement to the ASAN…

It's our job to make sure our community gets accessible, up-to-date info on important issues, and funding for our rapid response comes from our grassroots — people like you. Join us: autisticadvocacy.org/join

What We Believe - Autistic Self Advocacy Network Our Motto: What is “Nothing About Us Without Us”?“Nothing About Us Without Us” means that autistic people need to be involved whenever autism is discussed. When non-autistic people make decisions…

Self-advocacy means taking control of our own lives. We want to make sure that autistic people are included in all conversations about autism, whether those conversations are about our own lives or about autistic people as a whole in our society.

Trans liberation and disability justice are one fight. No body or mind left behind.

Workers with disabilities continue to benefit from expanded workplace flexibility, but are suffering from Trump’s attacks | National Partnership for Women & Families Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released annual data about disabled people in the U.S. workforce showing a continued upward trend through 2024. However, inequities remain for disabled people, pa...

Disabled people were 35% as likely to be in the labor force compared to nondisabled people in 2024. Disabled women were less likely than men to be in the workforce. Read @npwf’s latest analysis on disability employment trends: npwf.info/4gWMlEy

That man in the White House is saying NO MASKS. But masks are our lifeline, our community care, our frontline against fascism. Would you want a DCL shirt with any of these messages?

1️⃣  Resist Fascism, Wear a Mask
2️⃣ Mask If You Hate Fascists
3️⃣ Masks Are Community Care

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Was literally just saying the same thing during this Sandler skit.

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Image features torn paper strips in the colors of the Trans and Disability Pride Flags (blue, white, pink, green, yellow, red, and dark gray. A transparent black square sits over the colorful background. Light blue text reads: “Trans liberation and disability justice are one fight. We work as one community to protect our rights and freedom, including our civil rights under Section 504. We refuse to leave transgender and gender nonconforming people behind or treat their civil rights as a bargaining chip. And we reject anyone who believes justice can be achieved for disabled people at the expense of trans people.” There are also logos for American Association of People with Disabilities, Disability Culture Lab, National Disabled Legal Professionals Association, and New Disabled South.

Trans liberation and disability justice are one fight.

Backseat Freestyle

If you're screaming at a hospital about teen trans care, keep screaming.

New York attorney general tells hospitals to continue transgender care after Trump’s executive order New York Attorney General Letitia James is telling hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive orde...

A/P [Feb 1] -- After a NYT report that NYU's gender clinic had begun cancelling appoints, NY Atty Genl Letitia James warned hospitals they would be violating state law by stopping GAC. The move sets up a collision between threats to cut federal funding and states.

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Fantastic list! I feel like I know exactly who you are, lol. (Me, you’re me.)

Lady Gaga at The Grammys 2025: "Trans people are not invisible. Trans people deserve love, the Queer community deserves to be lifted up. Music is love. Thank you."