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Cara Liebowitz

@loudmouthonwheels.bsky.social
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"I'm a real tough kid, I can handle my shit, they said babe you gotta fake it til you make it and I did." -I Can Do It With a Broken Heart by Taylor Swift Disability rights activist, teacher, #Trekkie, boccia player and forever #Swiftie.

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Cara Liebowitz @loudmouthonwheels.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the best books I've read in the last few months. If you like urban fantasy type stories, you're going to want to snatch this one up.
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Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled @bcidbrooklyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NCIL Action Alert! Take Action to Support the Bipartisan House Resolution Reaffirming the Right of Disabled People to Live in Their Communities!
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Advocacy & Action Center - National Council on Independent Living
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Cara Liebowitz @loudmouthonwheels.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
One of the best books I've read this year!
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Jim C. Hines @jimchines.com · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 300 million books to children. In honor of her passing, I'm making my middle grade book TAMORA CARTER: GOBLIN QUEEN free through the end of the week if you use coupon code ThanksDolly at payhip.com/b/JI8X Grab a copy for a kid who might enjoy it.
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Tamora Carter: Goblin Queen (e-book)
A middle-grade fantasy from the author of the Goblin Quest trilogyOne night after roller derby practice, twelve-year-old Tamora Carter discovers a pair of goblins digging through the dumpster behind t...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/07/2026
Nice. (In other news the Humble Bundle of my stuff benefitting @wck.org is running for five more days, for everyone not in a Commonwealth country: www.humblebundle.com/books/john-s... )
The bundle has raised $30,069 for charity!
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12/03/2026
Today is the 36th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl and disabled people are still fighting for basic rights in a society that's actively working to undermine them, surrounded by systemic disablism. (This is a corrected thread TY to the person who flagged that I said 26th, not 36th!)
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The Iconic Civil Rights Protest You Don't Know | American Experience | PBS
Meet the protesters who crawled their way into history—and changed how all Americans live.
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Cara Liebowitz @loudmouthonwheels.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Today is International Wheelchair Day and the start of Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month! My wheelchair opens up my world. Ask me anything about CP or being an ambulatory wheelchair user here! #CerebralPalsyAwareness #AmbulatoryWheelchairUsersExist
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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
#JournoRequest: I’m looking to interview Black women with Tourette syndrome about specific difficulties they face, diagnostic disparities and feeling unseen — And yes, also the BAFTA incident. Email me at sluterman at 19thnews dot org or DM if interested.
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Disability Rights Advocates @dralegal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
DRA is hiring for a Directing Attorney in our #NewYork office! This is an incredible opportunity to build and litigate some of the most blockbuster #DisabilityRights cases that are happening in this country. Spread the word or apply today! dralegal.org/jobs/directi...
DRA logo + "DRA is hiring! Directing Attorney, New York. https://dralegal.org/jobs/"
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?” 1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore. 2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions. 3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.
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Emily Ladau @emilyladau.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
My husband and I set reminders for ourselves labeled “drugs” and “ice.” Drugs as in ibuprofen, ice as in cold pack from the freezer. Only realized how ridiculous it was when both reminders went off. Sigh. Anyway…abolish ICE.
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Cara Liebowitz @loudmouthonwheels.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Less than three chapters in to SLAYERS OF OLD by @jimchines.com and I'm already in love. Magic, humor, a bookshop I want to live in, what's not to love?? Will update after I finish. Which may be tonight. Sleeping? What sleeping?
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🌑🌌 3BodyProblem Child 🌌🌑 @nerdydro.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Yet somebody at MSNBC got fired for pointing out the hate that ole Charlie gave.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/08/2025
Why are some still spreading misinfo that "masks only work when everyone wears one," & use it as an excuse not to mask as "no-one else is." It isn't all or nothing. While it's safer when more mask because there's less virus in the air, a well-fitting mask protects you even if no-one else masks.
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Cara Liebowitz @loudmouthonwheels.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Either there's significantly less Swifties over here or the algorithm hasn't picked up on my love and devotion to Taylor Swift and either is plausible.
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Cara Liebowitz @loudmouthonwheels.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I don't do sensitivity reading for intellectual disability but signal boosting this!
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
If you're going to be at this Nassau County NY No Kings event and plan to be masking also for health reasons (there's a covid wave). Please get in touch with me for a @motherjones.com piece, as I'd like to connect you with @artiscuriskis.bsky.social who will be there. www.mobilize.us/progressived...
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NO KINGS: Mineola/Garden City · Progressive Democrats of America
🚨 On **Saturday, June 14th**, we’re taking to the streets! Join us as we RALLY and MARCH to say: NO thrones! NO crowns! NO KINGS!! 🚨 ▪️11:30am: Rally at Nassau County Court House ▪️12pm: March to Nas...
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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Sarah Blahovec @sblahov.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Oliver is a finalist for Alexandria's Cutest Pup! He's one of 15 chosen out of over 100 entries. Vote for Oliver! Voting is open until May 19, and you can vote once per day: alexandrialivingmagazine.com/pets/meet-th...
Oliver, a cream colored dog with tan ears, sits happily in front of a field of tulips.
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Cara Liebowitz @loudmouthonwheels.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I've been begging for another book in the Locked In universe for ages, @scalzi.com. 😛 Also would love to see another Indexing book from Seanan!
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I'm sure someone has already said this more eloquently, but autistic folks who don't pay taxes are still valuable human beings, and people with criminal records should still not be disappeared to foreign extra judicial prison sites. Inherent human worth is the hill.
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Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled @bcidbrooklyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Our homes, NOT nursing homes!!!  Members of BCID, DNY ADAPT and allies gathered in midtown Manhattan on April 14, 2025 calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to stop the transfer of state provided home care to a private, for-profit hedge fund. (Photos by Erik McGregor)
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Perioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.
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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
HT make Bluesky better than Xwitter--PERMANENTLY. Choose your account's "Settings" (gear icon) from menu; pick "Accessibility" from next choices; check "Require alt text before posting" from next choices. Presto! Instant DEI! Your photo posts can now be read by lowsight/blind people like me FOREVER!
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Melissa Fields, Fiercely Autistic @mzzmelicita.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
No one should ever have to live in fear of being kicked out of their own home. This is what I am facing now bc of mean family who don't care abt their disabled sister, me. melissaautisticfields.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/i...
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I Refuse To Give In…I Need Help, Or I WILL Be Unhoused As Of May 25th!
I took a nap, and woke up coughing and choking. I didn’t even have a bad dream, but the stress and worry I am currently under is doing a real number on me both physically and mentally. It was…
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Reminder: photos of protests & you want as many people as possible to see & share them? Alt text If you want to add context about a cool sign someone was holding in a pic? Alt text If you want to be part of the fight against the elimination of disabled ppl from work & public life? Alt text
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cjheart81.bsky.social @cjheart81.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
gofund.me/c0c10569
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Donate to Wilfredo's Car: A Tool for Independence, organized by Diane Pichardo
Accessible Car Needed for Wilfredo – Loving Dad & Engineer Help Wilfredo Get… Diane Pichardo needs your support for Wilfredo's Car: A Tool for Independence
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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 01/04/2025
The coronavirus vaccine is not specifically supposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus. It's meant to make your experience having coronavirus less severe and hopefully prevent you from dying as people did in large numbers early in the pandemic.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
As an American Jew I cannot express how much less safe I feel living in a country where people can be snatched off the street and institutions can be bankrupted for making Dear Leader mad
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Sarah Blahovec @sblahov.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Seeing so much content around either "how to prepare to flee the US" or "how to prepare for fadcism." The content is very good but it's so frustrating for me because neither are realistic for my disabled and chronically ill self and loved ones.
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Emily Ladau @emilyladau.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Here's a hot tip: if you don't know what the relationship is between two people, don't make assumptions--especially not out loud. Brought to you by the bookstore employee who said to my fiancé: "we can move things out of the way...for your sister, obviously." She lost our business real quickly.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Forcible institutionalization of disabled people is part of our mass incarceration system.
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National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities @nacdd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Dismantling the Administration for Community Living (ACL) threatens to undo years of progress that have improved access to services for older adults and people with disabilities. Read our full statement here: bit.ly/ACLStatement
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 25/03/2025
I am completely okay if a person is upset by an ableist comment.... But i want the same people to be just as mad for ending inclusion programs that make buildings accessible, documents viewable, and information obtainable for people living with disabilities.
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Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled @bcidbrooklyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
BCID advocacy meeting TODAY, Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Join us on Zoom for our monthly BANG! (Brooklyn Advocacy Network Group) meeting.  forms.gle/HxacMhgRcPUD6Xkc9
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Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled @bcidbrooklyn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
BCID advocacy meeting this Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Join us on Zoom for our monthly BANG! (Brooklyn Advocacy Network Group) meeting. 
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BANG! (BCID Advocacy Network Group) meeting registration via Zoom on Wed., March 19th, 2024, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Please fill out this form to register for the meeting. The Zoom link for the meeting is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5415176236?pwd=dyat0elq7bv5HitbCzwVtMjNUUHY5b.1 Meeting ID: 541 517 6236 Passcode: kk9xXq See you soon!
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Cara Liebowitz @loudmouthonwheels.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
As someone also obsessed with tuberculosis, though more from a sociological and disability studies perspective, I agree with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social that everything is, in fact, tuberculosis.
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Emily Ladau @emilyladau.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It's the anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, a demonstration to push for passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. And I, for one, think another spectacle like this is long overdue. www.history.com/news/america...
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When the 'Capitol Crawl' Dramatized the Need for Americans with Disabilities Act | HISTORY
The 1990 protest demonstrated the barriers that inaccessible buildings create for people with disabilities.
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Sarah Blahovec @sblahov.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
NEWS: Today I launched the Accessible Voting Booth Blog, where I will share disability voting rights news and policy analysis. I'll also be starting a newsletter, although I'm taking a bit more time to research newsletter platforms. www.sarahblahovec.com/accessible-v...
The Accessible Voting Booth Blog logo, with a mint green background and a navy blue ballot box.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Andrew Cuomo, in addition to being a serial sexual harasser, knowingly sent people with Covid into old folks homes, leading to a massive rate of infection and death for the elderly. Read and share the @propublica.org story about how Andrew Cuomo killed your elders.
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“Fire Through Dry Grass”: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It.
A nursing home in Troy, New York, followed the governor’s order to accept patients being treated for COVID-19. Six weeks later, 18 residents were dead of the disease.
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Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It's #InternationalWheelchairDay and the perfect day to promote my book where a young wheelchair user fights literal and metaphorical demons to save her family, her town, and the day. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
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The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines
In this debut spooky adventure, Jerry and her trusty wheelchair move into a creepy motel at the edge of the woods where nothing is as it seems. When her mom...
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Cara Liebowitz @loudmouthonwheels.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you haven't read the Velveteen Vs stories, you're missing out! Easily digestible and a hell of a lot of fun while also being a seething critique of corporate culture.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Medicaid and Medicare are not the same things and I’m begging you to learn the difference and use the right one.
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Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Rosarium Publishing is open to submissions for their PLANET BLACK JOY anthology. We’re looking for spec-fic stories between 3-7k words about joy and pleasure by women and nonbinary folk who identify as Black, African, or Afro-descendent. Deadline is July 1. rosariumpublishing.com/planet-black...
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Planet Black Joy
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Emily Ladau @emilyladau.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In light of airlines suing USDOT to (*checks notes*) continue breaking wheelchairs and putting disabled people at risk without consequences, here's a 2023 video I filmed with Vice that shows the hell that is flying as a wheelchair user (Spoiler: my wheelchair was broken.) youtu.be/MRntgEiTHIY?...
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Flying Has Become Hell for Passengers with Wheelchairs
YouTube video by VICE News
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/02/2025
NEW: The Trump admin is considering destroying 160 million COVID tests, worth half a billion dollars. This would be a horrible waste. COVID is still around, and causes high levels of illness and deaths throughout the year. Tests are expensive. The government should send them to people for free.
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