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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles. Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This is a wonderful way to grieve: Alice worked tirelessly to raise awareness about why Palestine was a disability justice issue and to raise funds for Gaza.

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I woke up to the news that @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has passed away. I made sure to always give Alice her flowers when we texted or saw each other. I know she knew how much I loved her & appreciated the way she believed in & supported me. But I still wish I could tell her one last time.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/11/2025

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I keep seeing, "I saw someone post about being hungry yesterday so I gave them groceries" posts. Please don't post about keeping us fed for a pat on the back. We see those posts & it reminds us that people may help us & then ask friends for applause.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

If you're helping out folks who aren't getting SNAP next month (and possibly beyond), remember: 🧵

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Danielle @daniellemullen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Giving people things they don't actually need but things you believe they need can sometimes be worse than doing nothing at all. One way to start helping is to ask what they're really struggling with, what might make it less of a struggle, and give them time to think about it.

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MoCo Underground Writers Showcase @mocounderground.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This is a really important thread. Help is vital, but help with thoughtfulness, respect, and dignity makes all the difference for those who need it. These are really important suggestions.

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activist_angel ♿ She/They @activistangel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Mini thread. For those wanting to help fill the gap for people they may know who won't get SNAP benefits for November.

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hand_to_eye @delightw2023.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

If you're helping out folks who aren't getting SNAP next month (and possibly beyond), remember: 🧵

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

People really still believe cold weather makes you sick.

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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

You don’t need another productivity hack. You need language for why everything feels like too much and not enough at once. My AuDHD Workshop is a 5-week journey to explore and embrace your contradictions www.theautisticcoach.com/audhd-group-...

the audhd experience workshop - starts this november

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

If your protest is permitted by the very institutions you're protesting, it's not a protest.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

We see your maskless selfies at those "protests." We see you spreading COVID. We see you making it unsafe for immunocompromised folks (& everyone else). We see you supporting fascists who ban masks. We see you fighting for so-called justice while ignoring disabled people.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It's been seven years since I was awarded permanent disability (SSDI) and it'll only take three more years for me to have received enough in SSDI to match the annual salary of the judge who approved my case.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

People who've been oppressed for generations; who've had our history written [out] by white abled cishet men; who've been eugenicized, marginalized, ostracized, illegalized, institutionalized, traumatized, proselytized... We said this was coming. Maybe listen to us.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

They're killing disabled people. They're disabling people. They're killing disabled people. They're killing starving people. They're starving people. They're killing starving people. They're killing.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The thing about fascism, eugenics, genocide (etc) is they will always blame disabled people for not surviving fascism, eugenics & genocide. Some of you who will be pissed about this NYT thing are still going around using the line, "People dying from COVID had pre-existing conditions."

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Healthcare is rationed, and these decisions reflect the differential valuation of sick & disabled people: "Federal law deems most home- and community-based services as optional, so they are often targeted when states have to tighten their belts." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...

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Disabled Americans Fear What Medicaid Cuts Could Do to Them

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TheAutistech @theautistech.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

All technology is assistive. It's just not always accessible.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/07/2025

Outrageous. The White House is sidestepping Congress and halting up to $15 billion in NIH research funding, which would have gone to study diabetes, cancer & more. The order was issued through a four-sentence email sent to NIH directors from Office of Management & Budget Director Russell Vought.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Anything that helps a disabled person navigate life more easily & with fewer barriers is an accessibility aid. Including dishwashers, shower chairs, safe housing, no strings attached money & doing away with asset limits & benefits cliffs. Everyone deserves these things, period.

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Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · 17/11/2024

I have low vision and I rely on alt text and image descriptions to provide context about images on platforms like BlueSky. If you don’t know how to write #AltText yet, I have several guides on my website that can show you how— take the #AltTextChallenge! veroniiiica.com/how-to-write... (1/10)

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How To Write Alt Text And Image Descriptions

The ultimate guide on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired, written by someone with low vision who uses alt text

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

One like=one disability related thought for the anniversary of the ADA

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Queer women will be hit especially hard by the incoming Medicaid cuts and restrictions in Trump's tax law. That includes Sara Habein, a mother of two living in northern Montana, who recently learned that she has cysts in her brain. Read her story in the latest from me and @chabeli.bsky.social

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Over a million queer women rely on Medicaid. What happens if they lose it?

Lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be low-income, more likely to be parents and more likely to rely on Medicaid. They could fall through the cracks of Trump’s new tax law.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

[Abusive parent mention] When I was about to move from rural NC to California, my mother's husband tried to convince me (at her bidding) not to move here because there would be too many [progressive] people like me & I would get bored & upset that progressive change wasn't happening fast enough.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.

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🏴🚩 Trans Kafka (any pronouns) 🍉🍉🍉 IS A REAL HUMAN PERSON! @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A really really really important thing for cis people to understand is that the emphasis on sexual dimorphism, aka the "binary gender model" in humans is, quite literally, white supremacist propaganda. A deeply important brief thread. 🧵 (1/10)

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Yesterday my psychiatrist compared nonspeaking autistic kids to animals and said she is basically a veterinarian in case you need some anger this morning.

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Av 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) @the-fencer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

"Oh & then you forget what you were actually going to tell the person in the first place?" Me: ADHD

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Please stop using the word "mute" to describe people. It is ableist language.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Stranger: "What's it called when you're explaining something & you give context & history for every point to make sure people fully understand every aspect of what you're saying & you wrap all the points into one final statement & then you applaud internally?" Me: "Autistic?"

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

When you’re asked to consider disability justice, it’s never “instead of” a different cause. It’s a call to support every justice movement deeply & effectively. Climate change, capitalism, fascism, racism, transphobia, sexism, genocide, &c are disabling. They want to disable those who resist, too.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I'm so tired of people equating being disabled with being evil, undesirable, gross. The disability community has an amazing cultural history of justice work, community care, innovation, joy, and knowledge. When you use ableist slurs to describe something negative, you perpetuate harm against us.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

In addition to asking, "How are you overdoing?" I'm going to start checking my friend's batteries. So, you all, how are you overdoing today? And what is your current battery capacity? Do those align?

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"As the elevator stopped at every floor, one of the agents, a white man, joked that his ICE colleague, who had darker skin, had an immigration hearing coming up himself and didn’t know how to speak English, Murphy told me." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants

"They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Please gods can we not elect this man POTUS, he's so bad

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/07/2025

The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.

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Labor Department moves to end disability hiring goal for federal contractors

Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer plans to axe a longstanding, successful incentive program for disabled workers.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 18/07/2025

Let me be clear: I will have to terminate my insurance policy if this happens. I am already paying $700/month for a marketplace plan. Good thing Gavin's been pushing for more inpatient beds because it looks like I'm going to need one! That I won't be able to afford!

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ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows

A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"Disabled people can just move to a different country" Sure! I'll book a shipping container with my disabled riches, heaps of cash left after paying rent that's 95% of my income & special diet groceries my food stamps & the food bank doesn't cover.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Taking care of community by: - checking on a few friends a few times a week - wearing a mask - educating people about an issue - documenting state/fed harm - showing up remotely - sharing community support requests... ... makes a difference.

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Charis Hill | they/them @beingcharis.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Wearing masks is a vital part of community care. Without masks, you are not caring about your community. Without masks, community suffers & many are actively excluded. What kind of community are you building if you make it inaccessible to 1/4-1/2 of the people around you?

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