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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

My disabled life is worthy. (After watching Deaf President Now! I am totally ready to fuck shit up)

Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Vacillating between wanting to plan a spring block party for my neighborhood and wanting to plan an emergency preparedness seminar…por que no los dos?

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Building community is hard work, but I’m interested in doing it in intentional ways and proving that there is strength in love and care. This is what I have to hold onto now.

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

So thrilled to see horror well-represented in the Oscar noms with NOSFERATUBSTANCE. Tasty visual treats should get awards.

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

FYI I’m logged out of the META things but actually had to delete What’sApp and Messenger from my phone because it’s impossible to log out. Will I ever reinstall? Anyone’s guess!

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I’m logging out of my Meta-owned accounts starting midnight tonight and encourage others to do the same to send a message. We owe neo-Nazi megalomaniac corporations zero attention at a time when they badly want it.

[ID: on a background of America as if seen from a satellite with sporadic clusters of lights, white lettering reads: Lights out META. January 19-26, 2025. Log out of all META platforms for a week. FACEBOOK-INSTAGRAM-THREADS-MESSENGER-WHATSAPP-GIPHY-METAQUEST-RAYBAN META]

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My Favorite Films of 2024-ish 1. Flow 2. Love Lies Bleeding 3. A Different Man 4. Perfect Days* 5. The Zone of Interest* 6. Dahomey 7. The Substance 8. Femme

Posters for my top 8 films, screencapped from Letterboxd

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Real talk: navigating inaccessibility is a huge part of my planning process every single damn time I leave the house. Navigating basic needs shouldn’t be this hard.

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

So delightful to join Mo for this dive into one of my favorite films!

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the Curb @thecurbau.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

One more thing... if you are a film critic, and you can decide what you cover, I beg you: include shorts in that coverage. Interview filmmakers of shorts. Write about them. Make space for them. Show others that they're important.

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Compiling my best films of 2024, I am shocked how few horror movies are making it onto the list - do I need to cram in some last-minute viewing before I finalize? If so, what 2024 horror do you recommend?

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Vote for my enormously talented friends and their exciting panel!

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Matt Orion @orionmatt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

In our house, we don’t do Elf on a Shelf.

Captain Blake standing on a snake. They are both toys. Blake is from the movie The Fog. Christmas tree behind him even though it’s not a Christmas movie, you can still watch it on that day.

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Access:Horror @accesshorror.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Join us for Access:Horror Movie Night, a virtual event in partnership with the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center and Superfest - Friday the 13th, 4:30-6pm PT.

An orange and black poster composed of 6 squares in a 3x2 arrangement. The first square reads “Friday the 13th, 4:30-6:00 PT, ASL - CART - virtual - open audio description”. The second square has an image of two kids in “ghost” costumes aka white sheets with cut-outs for eyes holding hands. One of them holds a scary-faced balloon. The third square reads: “Presented by Access Horror and Superfest.” On the bottom row, the first square features a bubbling black cauldron. The second square reads, “ Ariel Baska, filmmaker and founder of Access Horror will kick off the event with a discussion of why horror is particularly effective in disability storytelling.” The last image features a wispy skeleton dancing, arms outstretched, with one leg kicking up joyfully.

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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

ladies, gentlemen, non-binary pals, may I present to you: the greatest flex of all time

the only quote on the IMDb quotes page for Béatrice Dalle

[asked how she seduced Rupert Everett] "Rupert is gay, but I am Béatrice Dalle."

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Down down down the road… down the witches’ road. After binging 9 hours straight, I can’t get that damn song out of my head. #SoQueerAndILoveIt

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I recently started a Substack to open up my process and my thinking about film and advocacy - this one is all about rejection.

open.substack.com

On Rejection, Reflection, and Generative Conflict

What we do now determines everything.

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving- remember to bring this up at dinner!

A 1950’s styled propaganda poster with a cartoonish futuristic white blonde man in blue and yellow kicking the Monopoly Man as he runs away with a bag with a dollar sign on it. The sign reads “Refugees didn’t take away affordable housing. Rich landlords and greedy politicians did.”

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hot take #1: It’s criminal the way they split up the song “Defying Gravity.” It utterly robbed it of its emotional power. Hot take #2: The film marks a definite improvement in the Nessarose storyline, with (finally!) an authentically disabled actor - can’t believe it took them this long.

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Time to defy gravity. I’m sure there will be hot takes aplenty on my return. #disabilitywicked #disabledandwicked

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Documentaries you can see me in tonight and throw popcorn at my face as desired: PATRICE: THE MOVIE (Hulu) HORROR ABLE (Tubi) ONCE UPON A TIME IN UGANDA (YouTube)

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The act of writing is the process of discovering what you really think. - David Hare Now, more than ever.

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Access:Horror @accesshorror.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Highly recommended and dropping on Shudder today: Jayro Bustamante’s lyrical RITA

A young girl with extraordinarily majestic feathered wings unfurled lies on a narrow bed with a small doll beside her. The image is swathed in blue light. The poster reads “Concordia La Casa Produccion” with the title RITA in large, all caps font. Below the image, the credits read: “Una pelicula de Jayro Bustamante, Giuliana Santa Cruz, Alejandra Vasquez, Andre Aldana, Angela Quevedo”

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Kitty Vicious @kttvicious.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Don't forget - Disability is an actively marginalized group that only those who die in an accident get out of being in. You will get old and frail. You will get injured. You will want things to be accessible and not be left to die as we do. Advocating for it now only helps you in the future.

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Shawneee @shawneee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Your ableism & eugenics will eventually be your own downfall. You can't pick & choose when you want to engage in it. Once you yourself become in any form or way disabled, you will be viewed as disposable, just like people you are willing to view as disposable now. #USA #disability #health #news

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“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans

In a candid discussion with INET's Lynn Parramore, Dr. Phillip Alvelda highlights the imminent dangers of long COVID, criticizing governments and health agencies for ongoing preventable suffering and ...

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Ariel Baska @justaskabaska.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

New to bluesky. Pledging to do better with alt text #alttextispoetry while also cuing up an old favorite:

Poster for The Dresser (1983) that shows Albert Finney in partial King Lear makeup in front of a mirror, staring off to the side suspiciously at Tom Courtenay bringing him a drink.

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