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Update: we now have a blog post with info about the masks and items in CHRL’s inventory! affecttheverb.com/2026/chrlpop...

CHRL in the summer | Affect

CHRL, short for the COVID and Health Resource Library, is back with an APANO Open Studios pop-up.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Good night everyone. Please let your NYC friends know about the People's Public Library Art Fair and Celebration happening THIS Saturday. The event is free and all ages. app.smore.com/n/1mxna

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People's Library & Art Celebration

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Getting to Open Studios (8188 SE Division St, cross street 82nd): - Venue is directly on bus line 72, about a block away from bus line 2. The MAX Green Line stops about 15 minutes away. - Limited street parking available nearby.

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Access info: - The event is on the ground floor and ADA-accessible. - Bathrooms are single-stall and all gender. - While Open Studios is a mask-required event, people may unmask to eat in between, as snacks will be available. - An air purifier will be running next to the CHRL table.

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Vilissa Thompson @vilissathompson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

PDX: the COVID + Health Resource Library (CHRL or “choral”) is popping up again at APANO’s Open Studios on Friday 6/26! It’s a mask-required drop-in style BIPOC art space to “experiment, play, explore creativity, and cultivate connections.”

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We're now 10 days away!! Can't believe that the Conference will happen next Fri., 6/5! Share far & wide - encourage your folks to be a part of this FREE & diverse space for #disabled voices! rampyourvoiceconference2026.eventbrite.com #Disability #2026RYVConference #RampYourVoiceConf

Top: Light purple background with the following text in dark purple font - 10 Days to Go.

Bottom: Brown skinned Black femme smiles. Text next to her reads: “The Ramp Your Voice! Conference” Remembrance & Honor | Remembering Who We Are As We Press Forward. Save the Date - June 5, 2026.

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

You've probably seen the word #Landback somewhere and instantly had some feelings. It sounds blunt, which is part of why a lot of people tend to have an instant reaction or jump to some very problematic misconceptions about what it means. So, let's talk Landback, from my POV and work.

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 17/05/2026

What can your coffee power this week? Food, medicine, shelter, and more for these six families & a camp of fifteen more. Current emergency: the scarcity everyone's facing. So long as most of the sparse goods entering are commercial, families need FUNDS to eat. Hit "weekly/monthly" on that coffee!

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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4WheelMe @4wheelworkout.blacksky.app · 16/05/2026

I don’t want wp to be sad. I want them mad. Angry. Sadness leads to pity and sometimes learned helplessness. Angel leads to action.

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Elea Chang @elea.fyi · 14/05/2026

[ taps the sign exhaustedly ] I’ve spent the last 2 months scrambling to keep Affect going and we could use a bit of funding help while we have access to all of…$4943 in our bank right now. We haven’t fundraised much before, but now we’re officially our own 501c3 & would love any / all support!

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Affect @affecttheverb.com · 14/05/2026

And, as a small bonus and thank you, early donors that give $10 or more can claim a Chronic Chaos era temporary tattoo! They take about 3 days to fully develop and last 1-2 weeks.

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Photo of a Latinx woman taking a selfie while her arm shows the chronic chaos era temporary tattoo

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Affect @affecttheverb.com · 14/05/2026

If our Disabled And Here interviews or images have resonated with you or just been useful for your work, contributions would go a long way for us! We also launched the COVID + Health Resource Library program a few months ago and would love to get back to pop-ups and collabs with nonprofit friends.

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Affect @affecttheverb.com · 14/05/2026

Affect has been going through it in the last couple months, as we’ve had to suddenly transition out of fiscal sponsorship and emergency incorporate to continue existing. But! We’re now officially our own 501c3 and fundraising. affecttheverb.com/donate

Affect creates media campaigns and resources that amplify multiply-marginalized folx and embody disability justice.

Support Affect the Verb

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Today, I talk with @tanuja.bsky.social about rupture and repair in our movements. This is the first of two episodes about conflict, how we process it, and how we can keep our relationships and organizations strong.

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Rupture and Repair Under Fascist Conditions

“Disagreement can be a beautiful, beautiful thing,” says Tanuja Jagernauth.

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Near-SH0T-CALLERS-BRAWLERS @nearsh0t.blacksky.app · 19/03/2026

Check this out! I’m super proud to be a part of this!!!!

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Elea Chang @elea.fyi · 18/03/2026

This is the kind of future that would encourage me to actually go outside more. I get an aesthetically awesome mechanized chair that comes with built-in shade and snacks? Yes, please.

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Affect @affecttheverb.com · 18/03/2026

Our series finishes just before our dear Alice’s celebration of life and would-be birthday next week. Possible Futures was created in memory of and dedicated to Alice Wong. We carry forward her love, her rage, and her dreams of what could be. (And she would have LOVED Ty’s mobility chair.)

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Affect @affecttheverb.com · 18/03/2026

Closing out Disabled And Here: Possible Futures is @nearsh0t.bsky.social, who brings us to a world where disabled people are stewards of nature, hydropower, and biothermal technology. Meet Ty: affecttheverb.com/2026/ty-inte...

Illustration of a Black woman Elder sitting in a grand mobility chair embroidered with vines, fruit, and foliage. The padded chair has robotic feet and is connected to a hydroponic garden, with a leafy canopy roof. The woman reaches up to grab a passion fruit off the canopy. She wears a headscarf, long locs, choker, ankle-length tube dress, and sandals.

Photo of Ty, a Black agender person, outdoors while wearing a wide-brimmed striped hat. They also have cat eye glasses, shoulder length locs, and a pink and black Kirby shirt. A quote by them overlays the bottom of the photo, “I wanted to imagine a world where we don't treat nature as an obstacle, but as a companion to our community. That would still exist and has existed, but here I wanted to push it to the extreme...
Because of the ways in which nature helps us in this future, we would be the keepers and teachers of the knowledge these plants provide.”

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Truthout @truthout.org · 12/03/2026

Freedom for Immigrants is launching an interactive map designed to help families locate detained loved ones, find legal and community resources, and better understand the expanding U.S. immigration detention system.

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New Interactive Tool Helps Families Locate Loved Ones in ICE Detention

The map, created by Freedom for Immigrants, compiles information and resources for those impacted by ICE.

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Elea Chang @elea.fyi · 11/03/2026

I love the idea of future technology being a mere tool that fosters more community and access.

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The Disabled And Here: Possible Futures series was made in memory of and dedicated to Alice Wong. 💜 This illustration in particular is very Alice, as she was a frequent hostess who loved to make and share food with people.

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To check out the illustration in full or to download and use with attribution: affecttheverb.com/gallery/disa...

Teleporting in for hotpot | Disabled And Here stock collection

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“I think one of the things that happens very often when you’re disabled is becoming physically isolated from your community. Online communication is so helpful…but there’s something deeply irreplaceable about your friends coming to your house or vice versa, sharing a meal, laughing together.”

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Disabled And Here’s third Possible Future was drawn into being by @dooberlane.bsky.social, as a time and place where teleportation could be accessible and bring friends together more often. Meet the illustrator, Michelle Zhuang: affecttheverb.com/2026/michell...

Illustration of three disabled friends gathering for hot pot.

On the left, a Black and Asian transmasculine individual beams into their friend’s home with a bag of fruits and vegetables. They wear glasses and a glucose monitor with a hologram display on their hip, and the teleportation device above them announces, “Arriving from: Chicago.” Next to the teleporter, a South Asian non-binary person walks over with their quad base cane. On the right, an East Asian woman sits at a height and width-adjustable table in her power wheelchair, raising a hand in greeting while a cat rests contentedly in their lap.

On the table is a steaming pot of hot pot soup base and a small assortment of meats and vegetables.

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Because the Disabled And Here: Possible Futures series was created out of love and grief for Alice, we focused on disabled dreams of what could be and less on usual stock imagery “practicality.”

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As always, the new image is now available for download and usage under Creative Commons attribution (Sunmi for Disabled And Here): affecttheverb.com/gallery/disa...

Healing soak | Disabled And Here stock collection

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Sunmi explains, “In my ideal, gender-liberated future, everyone can have a personal hot tub or go to fully accessible saunas to ease their physical pain and relax. In this illustration, I imagined that through an ergonomic, magical bath with special features and healing water.”

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Vilissa Thompson @vilissathompson.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Disabled And Here’s second glimpse into a Possible Future comes from Sunmi (IG: sunmi_comics), drawing from their experiences with Korean saunas and taking it to the magical, fully healing level. affecttheverb.com/2026/sunmi-i...

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March 1st is Disability Day of Mourning (DDoM). DDoM centers disabled people who are victims of filicide. DDoM is the influence behind me creating In Mercy’s Shadow. Listen to this episode of @angryblacklady.blacksky.app & I regarding #disability & true crime. rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/01/29/i...

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In Mercy's Shadow: The Mercy Narrative in True Crime (Podcast)

Vilissa Thompson on erasure, ableism, and the stories true crime refuses to tell.

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Vilissa Thompson @vilissathompson.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

In my house, discussing Black brilliance is a 365 matter. This year, I'm dropping the Who Made It Possible? series. #Accessibility colliding with Black (& Women's) History? Give it to me! Playlist ➡️ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackInventors #Access #Disability

A Black Man with loosely curly Afro walk with sunglasses and white cane. The background is green, red, and yellow blocking that reads - “WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE? BLACK INVENTIONS THAT IMPROVED ACCESS”

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Melissa @capnleela.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The first of the new Possible Futures series of illustrations for @affecttheverb.com is live! affecttheverb.com/gallery/disa...

Mutual care apothecary stall | Disabled And Here stock collection

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Elea Chang @elea.fyi · 25/02/2026

This series was borne out of grief *and* love for Alice. I’m excited that we’ll actually finish publishing in time for Alice’s birthday.

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Affect @affecttheverb.com · 25/02/2026

Liz says, “I am still learning and internalizing Alice’s expansive understanding of disability as abundance; as time travel; as a portal to new worlds. I think these new worlds are within us and Alice’s words and way of being encourages me to tap into them…” affecttheverb.com/2026/lizarti...