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Her memoir is an incredible part of her legacy too. Thanks for this compilation. bsky.app/profile/amyt...

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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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I feel the same way. She was a compass for so many of us 💔💔💔.

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

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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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

Yet, I also find it telling that the eulogies only list accomplishments (what institutions & organizations extracted from them) and not the actual type of human being they were. I want to live in a world where how a person treats other people matters more than their accomplishments.

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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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Thank you. Yeah, it was off-putting, to say the least.

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Thanks. I've done a lot of tinkering over the last couple of yrs to help them work for me, especially at work.

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PS: Doctors can be visibly or invisibly disabled. Doctors can use mobility aids while caring for pts. In fact, more disabled doctors are needed in the profession, not less. Thank you.

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I don't feel that I need to disclose my personal health info at work, but I gave her enough info that she then quickly said, "Oh wow, I'm so proud of you for being able to be a doctor!" Shared to show the many forms ableism can come out in a 2 min interaction with a complete stranger.

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

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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And we're not even going to delve into genetics, epigenetics and intergenerational trauma that impacts one's health and inherent predisposition to certain diseases, again mostly outside of one's control.

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

On top of the fact that many ppl have chronic inflammation, trauma due to life circumstances, racism, systemic oppressive factors *outside their control* that impact their health. Don't be deluded into thinking you can "morally" protect yourself from serious illness.

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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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Amy Tan, MD @amytanmd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Thanks for this! Resourceful, as always.

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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

My thoughts are with EM. I hope you are surrounded with love and care. You matter. Your story matters.

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

Just like we in medicine must do better to provide trauma-informed care, the justice system must reckon with this too. The permitted use of sexist, victim-shaming tropes, the lack of awareness, let alone understanding of how trauma impacts actions in this trial will only deepen ingrained misogyny.

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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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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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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 · 07/05/2025

What nice euphemism for *allowing* the horse out of the barn.

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Yes. The lack of trauma-informed approach required is appalling.

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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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Thank you CBC, for this important coverage & analysis that is so needed: "Grant cautions it is important to remember that questions aren't evidence" www.cbc.ca/9.6749607

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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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