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Kay Ulanday Barrett

@brownroundboi.bsky.social
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Boi Bawal 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇭♿️ disabled trans writer, snacker, & A+ napper — 2024 Disabled Futures Fellow, Stonewall Honor Book, Lambda Literary Finalist.

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
❤️ Books Upstairs, Dublin. #SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 19/08/2025
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Did you know that when a redwood dies and falls in the forest it can take over 500 years for the log to rot? For perspective, that is twice as long as the United States has been a country. There are rotting logs on forest floors that are older than our government.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
EPA ended a program that supports solar energy programs in marginalized communities. $500 million in funding earmarked for tribal projects was eliminated. tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/ene...
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EPA terminates $7B solar program, cutting $500M in tribal energy funding
The Environmental Protection Agency announced it will end the Solar for All program, eliminating more than $500 million in funding for tribal clean energy projects across the country.
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Abbi Holt @stickfiguregods.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
These folks have some resources. I’m so sorry your friend is dealing with that www.beyondbondboston.org/resources#po...
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Resources — Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network (BIJAN)
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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
What I actually want / to say all the time is Grief is the full-time job. For #NationalPoetryMonth Split This Rock is sharing poems from The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. Today's poem: "How to make salabat" by Kay Ulanday Barrett: bit.ly/40DG7Tc @brownroundboi.bsky.social #Poetry
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How to make salabat | Poetry Database | Split This Rock
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Symphony Space @symphonyspace.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Happy Pride from Selected Shorts! On this week's Pride-themed episode, Becca Blackwell, Mike Doyle, Michelle Beck, and @brownroundboi.bsky.social read works by @ivancoyote.bsky.social, Michael Cunningham, @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social, and Kay Ulanday Barrett. bit.ly/44btBxH
Headshot of Becca Blackwell.Headshot of Mike Doyle.Headshot of Michelle Beck.Headshot of Kay Ulanday Barrett.
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Kay Ulanday Barrett @brownroundboi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Hey loves, a friend in my network needs an immigration lawyer ASAP in the BOSTON AREA! Does anyone have any leads— could be paid or probono. CW: ICE round up & possible detention. Please lmk if you have any leads. Thanks so much ✊🏽🥄
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Kay Ulanday Barrett @brownroundboi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
some of you haven't fill out a tome of endless forms, waited hours to perform humanity, prove your worth, decency of healthcare, only to be shot down by an indifferent stranger. Then having to appeal multiple times to prove your worth for meds you need in order to survive... And it shows. #Medicaid
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thrilled to be moderating this amazing panel at AWP this year. If you'll be there, I invite you to join us! #AWP2025 #AWPLA #Filipinowriters #Filipinxwriters
Poster for a panel at the 2025 AWP conference in L.A. called Filipino Writers on Diasporic Subjectivity and Postcolonial Prosodies. Headshots of four Filipino writers against a dark green background. From left to right: Kay Ulanday Barrett, Oliver de la Paz, Kimberly Garza, and Alleliah Nuguid. The panel will be at the L.A. Convention Center, level 2, room 407, on Thursday, March 27th, at 10:35 AM, and moderated by Paula Mendoza.
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Kay Ulanday Barrett @brownroundboi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
some of you haven't fill out a tome of endless forms, waited hours to perform humanity, prove your worth, decency of healthcare, only to be shot down by an indifferent stranger. Then having to appeal multiple times to prove your worth for meds you need in order to survive... And it shows. #Medicaid
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San Alland (they/San) @san-alland.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
My video essay Writing From the Groin: How Non-disabled CisHet Monied White People Lock Themselves into Mediocrity. English narration with BSL, captions & audio description. Videos from brill disabled oracles including @alexhaagaard.bsky.social, @miamingus.bsky.social, @brownroundboi.bsky.social.
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"Writing from the Groin" video essay by Sandra Alland (BSL with AD and CC)
YouTube video by BOPTheatre
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The thing about nazis is that every iteration of them will be dumber and more evil than the last, because thats what you have to be to see the last version of them and go "oh yeah thats so cool"
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally. Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...
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Lake County library leaders expect to see more challenged books
A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, according to the American Library Association. Challenges lead to censorship.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
They want us to be afraid. They want us to hesitate. They want us to fear their next move. Fuck that shit. We are just getting started fighting.
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Here are some nice mushrooms
Four tiny splitgill mushrooms grow from the underside of an upturned stick found in a snowy forest. Three mushrooms form a crowded group and their gills radiate across their caps like tiny bursting fireworks

All photos by me
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Caught a guy peeing on my cybertruck. You're wasting your time idiot, it was already covered in piss from all the other people who did that today
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 23/02/2025
Disenfranchising women is a key project of Christian nationalism.
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The Christian Nationalist Plot to Disenfranchise Women Voters
The SAVE Act, which purports to fend off the phantasmal threat of voter fraud, would throw millions of women off the voting rolls.
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Just 4 MORE DAYS to submit your full-length prose manuscripts in all genres! These collections may be short stories, novellas, essays, memoir, or a mixture thereof. www.sundresspublications.com/news/2024/11...
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp'
Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.
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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 10/02/2025
trump left the superbowl because he was offended kendrick slandered pedophiles
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Mavelous @fashionmaven1908.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Looks like there were some more overt parts that weren’t onscreen:
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Jack Kogod @unsilent.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This is boring as hell. We need Kendrick to call Trump a pedophile.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Weird how all the people upset by the Kendrick performance are almost all incredibly unsettling guys with a myriad of accusations against them anywayyyyys guess they don’t like rap or something
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IATSE // #IASolidarity @iatse.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW IS UNION MADE! Shout out to Kendrick Lamar, and all the performers and behind the scenes workers that made this go off without a hitch!
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
During Kendrick's halftime show a man unfurled a Palestinian flag and was chased off stage and eventually tackled and removed by security.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue" - Kendrick Lamar
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Kay Ulanday Barrett @brownroundboi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Cis people sending care & prayers rn is vague & dangerous. #Transgender lives are under direct attack— We need cis accomplices. We need tangible action, mutual aid. We need you to disrupt politicians, put your privilege on the line. We need more than prayers, center our actions & our survival.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that. The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct. What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 05/02/2025
This is AMAZING news! Fuck Amazon www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...
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Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon
"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.
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Politics In The Wild @politicsinthewild.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
SHUT DOWN CONGRESS NOW.
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Melissa Hung @melissahung.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Writers, if you ever wrote for the Shondaland magazine/website, I just found out that it's gone. So here's your reminder to always make clips when you publish. Off to dig up mine so I can fix the dead links on my website...
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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
now that's how you write a headline www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
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Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This !!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
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Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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All The Federal Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders
We put them all in one place.
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FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Callers swamp Senate offices in Trump's first weeks, leading to busy signals and full voicemail
Callers are getting busy signals and voicemail inboxes are full at many U.S. Senate offices. People are trying to reach out and voice their opinions on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, executiv...
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FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Unions Push Back on Elon Musk’s Campaign Against Federal Workers (Gift Article)
The campaign by the nation’s largest federation of unions is called the Department of People Who Work for a Living, a play on Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
According to my CDC sources, the bird flu situation is worsening, with many cases being underreported. Numerous individuals are exhibiting flu-like symptoms, yet the Trump administration has warned that anyone who releases information about the bird flu will be fired.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Sen. Schiff presses Kash Patel to look at the Capitol Police officers behind him. Patel doesn't. "I want you to look at them if you can, if you have the courage … and tell them you're proud of what you did. Tell them you're proud that you raised money off of people that assaulted their colleagues."
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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