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NPR @npr.org · 16/11/2025

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

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Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

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

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

There are so many wise words that I've highlighted in her memoir, "Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life". Rereading the Intro just now and sharing this glimpse into her incredible character and spirit. I am forever grateful that she left us with her legacy and principled guidance.

Photo of my personal copy of the paperback version of "Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life" by Alice Wong, along with a bookmark, sticker and autographed bookplate (and note) she sent to me a few yrs ago, sitting on a pearlescent mosaic-top side table.

Text excerpt from Introduction of Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong, 2022:
"Memoirs are valuable because remembering allows us to access our imagination and power. I have willed myself into existence time and time again, and the power of memory is linked with the ability to manifest one’s future. Tiger Power (and caffeine) fuels my travel through portals—it takes a lot of big cat energy to leap into unknown situations, roar against injustice, claw open new spaces, make stealthy moves, and swipe at all who annoy me across the multiverse. For now, I am here at this moment with you and will hold on for as long as I can.
A lot of things remain that I want for me, and there are even more things I want for us. Manifestation requires desire, ambition, sensitivity, and creativity. Each book or story by a disabled person holds a piece of a spell…eventually when enough pieces come..."

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together and fit, there will be a collective harmonic conjuring. Ripples of energy propelled by momentum, our truths undeniable and irresistible, our messages reverberating far and wide with hidden frequencies just for us. By conjuring our power and manifesting infinite dreams together, the world will finally see us as we are." Alice Wong, 2022

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I have not wanted to believe this for the 30 min since announced. Alice Wong was at the top of a very short list of ppl who truly made the world a better place; a fierce oracle who inspired, rallied, personally supported in dark moments +spoke up for so many of us in the disabled community. 💔 RIP

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Pls help me prep for some education sessions I'll be giving; want to see what public perceptions are: Without looking it up, what do you think the average life expectancy for a Canadian is? Have you heard of the term "healthspan"? What do you think the healthspan of the average Canadian is? 🙏🏽

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

OMG. The world has lost a truly amazing, compassionate, and talented human being. My condolences to his family and friends. How devastating a loss to the Edmonton community, and the AB medical community. RIP Darren. 💔💔💔

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Jack - amatica health @jackamatica.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🔬Interesting new brainstem and cerebellum study in Long COVID - new imaging findings A new brain imaging study of Long COVID patients reveals major damage in key parts of the brain responsible for movement, balance, and automatic body functions like heart rate and sleep Let’s break it down🧵

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Not all heroes wear capes. Incredible work from @putrinolab.bsky.social. They have created a *FREE* manual for clinicians treating chronic illnesses associated with infections. #LongCovid #MECFS #LymeDisease and many others.

Title of the news: Mount Sinai publishes 1st US guide for infection-linked chronic illnesses

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 12/08/2025

Starting Sept. 1, B.C.’s Medical Services Plan is capping all online group medical visits to just 20 patients, to “ensure there can still be a one-on-one interaction between each patient and physician,” the Health Ministry told The Tyee.

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Funding Changes Might Leave BC’s Long-COVID Patients in the Lurch | The Tyee

The province has one main clinic offering care to more than 5,200 online patients.

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

At 1st read, thought this was abt actual humans being dehumanized in the name of productivity. Realizing AI is just extending what has been all along: Extract what you can. Discard. Rinse. Repeat. And that's how we have society that only puts worth on ppl's productivity and not their humanity.

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

It is so difficult and so confirmatory of the systems we are trapped in that you must watch people, organizations & institutions eulogize one of your abusers (an openly known "secret") as though they were a saint. And the suffering without accountability, in silence, continues.

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

PSA: This afternoon, a visitor at one of the health facilities in which I work, and while I was rounding on my patients, came up to me and asked, "Who are you? Are you using THOSE (pointing at my forearm crutches in pic) because you *actually* need them, or is it for some sort of performance?" (🤯)

Pic of iridescent rainbow carbon fibre wrapped aluminum forearm crutches with orange ferrules and black & orange accents propped against a car door.

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I've been a palliative care & family physician for 20+ yrs. Marathon runners, organic food eaters, cross-fitters + whatever else is considered a virtuous "healthy" lifestyle have all unfortunately been subjected to (for many, early) life-limiting diseases, despite this. No one "deserves" illness.

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Ryan Voutilainen @yvrwxwatcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

#TSUNAMI Watch has been issued by the National Tsunami Warning Center and it includes #BC Notification Zones A, B, C, & D. If it materializes, expect it to begin around 2205 Langara BC and at 2330 PDT at Tofino. For more and updates: go to tsunami.gov #BCtsunami #BCstorm

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

To think & act as though you're entitled to comfort, is in fact privilege. Ppl must examine themselves & the world around them: who is materially at actual risk (of dying, losing health, autonomy, freedoms, losing their careers/livelihoods) in the given context, and why is your comfort worth more?

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Steve Rice @steverice.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

TW: SA Today's hockey trial in Canada underlines once again victims of sexual assault are not valued in society. The system is designed to protect perpetrators, mostly men, while harming the assaulted, mostly women and girls. This must change. Believe the victims.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Oh and for all the armchair legal experts with their "Well, actually..." this is a reminder that not guilty does not mean innocent. You do not get found innocent in a Canadian criminal trial. ✌🏻

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Misogyny lives on, strong and clear.

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I'm seeing this play out in every day interactions with every day people, empowered by the fact that world leaders are exemplifying this, even on a Sunday night: letting bullies get their way only creates more tantrums, heightened entitlement, and more injustice. WHY are we doing this?????

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Having started in medicine in 1999, and now in my 20th year of medical practice, I will state with full conviction that I really do miss the days where getting vaccines for preventable infections (some that had once been eliminated) was just plain common sense & uncontroversial. #VaccinesSaveLives

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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

You can’t fight fascism without disability justice. Fascism creates more disability, which then sees us as replaceable and our deaths as excusable. You can’t fight for humanity without fighting for disabled people.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Covid is a social justice issue. For many of the most vulnerable, the pandemic never ended. People decided to 'go back to normal' because it's what they wanted, not because it was over. Society's unwillingness to address Covid means those of us who care must work twice as hard to avoid infection

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

As a trauma survivor, a lot of what is covered here re memory and trauma including dissociating, fragmented memories, and emotions very much resonates with my ongoing experience of this. Hope this is considered strongly by the judge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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How trauma can affect memory and court testimony | CBC News

Under cross-examination, E.M., the complainant in the world junior hockey sex assault trial underway in London, Ont., has alleged she suffered trauma that has clouded her memory after the June 2018 ni...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

You can’t “try harder” your way out of disability You can’t “healthy diet” your way out of disability Many conditions are completely debilitating & the people suffering from them end up disappeared Non disabled people can’t face the reality of chronic illness, so they choose not too #WorldMEDay

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Bill Prady @billprady.com · 09/05/2025

Cardinal Robert Prevost has requested everyone use the name Pope Leo XIV when addressing him. No one seems to have a problem with using the name he’s chosen despite it not being his birth name. Seems like a courtesy we might extend to everyone if they request it.

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Essentially, women aren't allowed to make decisions and act for themselves; they must comply with sexist societal expectations AND worry about how it will make men react. Women aren't allow any autonomy. That's what I'm getting from Dan Brown, defence lawyer.

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

So let me get this straight, no woman is allowed to decide for themselves whether to have a drink, buy themselves drinks, dance, or just interact with men in general, because this could *cause* sexual assault by men to occur, for which *she'd* be to blame? 🤬🤬🤬 #MisogynyAtItsFinest #HockeySATrial

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Every Stanley Cup playoff article in sports media should be linked to an article covering the hockey sexual assault trial. These are two sides of the same coin.

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

That the defence team can throw out all sorts of demeaning and sexist suggestions *with no evidence* that these suggestions in fact occurred in cross examination and just put them out there in public, is how the status quo and system holds up misogyny. So many repugnant layers of it.

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

TW: sexual assault Older white man questions why a naked intoxicated woman in a room full of big hockey player guys would process her fear & emotions re that night over years and have more specific descriptors vs a few days after. Revolting misogyny in all of this.

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Anyone else having a +hard time w/ the awful juxtaposition with the hockey sexual assault trial happening at the same time as the Stanley Cup finals, watching ppl "worship" the unofficial national sport (and its players) while the disgustingly misogynistic (at best) hockey culture is laid bare?

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👊🏼🇨🇦🔥 @bhardie.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Call your liberal MP to ask what they are doing to uphold their election promise to enact the calls to justice for MMWG And if you voted Conservative, know that you are complicit by way of your vote. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Look at these faces. Tell me what they all have in common. And what the REAL reason behind the grotesque immigration crackdown is REALLY about.

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Connie @bethechange1682.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Sharing this because we can all end up living in poverty by a diagnosis or an accident

"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character.
This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor.
But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw.
Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live."
-Sarah Kendzior

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

There are a few issues that are disturbing in this. Why does our system allow for this? Undemocratic, costly, and also a system that doesn't even need to be "manipulated" or have one actually suffer consequences, that rewards those who can't take a valid NO for an answer (ie bullies).

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Sending strength to the complainant testifying in the current hockey sexual assault trial. I am so very disturbed and disgusted by the deeply ingrained dehumanizing misogyny shown in evidence of events so far. How do we as a society change so that it isn't perpetuated over & over again?

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Pls stop calling it "Western" secession/separation/alienation. The PRAIRIE provinces minus MB are stoking this. Western PRAIRIES separatist mov't is most accurate. Signed, a born & raised and now back to West Coast BC'er who left AB after 21 yrs, who lived in QC right after their referendum.

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"The UCP’s reforms reflect a deeper shift toward the strategies pioneered by Trump...: leveraging dark money, undermining trust in elections, weaponizing recalls, disenfranchising opponents, suppressing voter turnout and empowering radical populist movements." thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"If you or any other Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere." Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

That’s why they want to control the change. For a minute there, we were on the precipice of huge social progress. And they weren’t in the driver’s seat, which is why they’re so eager to destroy things to get back in control.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Liberals up one seat in QC, now at 169. 3 more to majority. But OMG, Matt Strauss, the anti-covid containment MD and convoy supporter, was confirmed elected. #CanadaVotes2025

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Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com · 29/04/2025

Alt: The McGill DGPH is hiring! Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Global and Public Health. Help build a vibrant new department. Deadline: May 28, 2025. More information: mcgill.ca/global-public-health

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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/04/2025

by electing Aaron Gunn, Canada has in its incoming parliament, a man who is not only comfortable with but versed in exploiting others' trauma to advance an agenda to punish those same people

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

insisting that he and his government fulfill this promise is how we will win. use this. be relentless. “we have to take care of each other” is a new idea in Canada hold him to it

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 29/04/2025

Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their election victory. The bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.

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