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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️

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indie journalist Signal: Lygia.65 (editor, producer, en ES & EN) cover: Latine, LGBTQ+, health stories +more #DisabilityJustice. disabled. queer. #LongCovid + #ME. lygianavarro.com contributing writer @discojourno.bsky.social & @thesicktimes.bsky.social

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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 15/09/2025
Great job opp! @narrativegigs.bsky.social @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Tell Instar, the private equity company that owns Windmill mushrooms, to recognize the union their workers elected. Sign the petition today and boycott the hell out of Windmill mushrooms! act.seiu.org/a/windmill_i... #BoycottWindmillMushrooms
A graphic want a red background with the words "Sign the petition TODAY and BOYCOTT THE HELL OUT OF WINDMILL MUSHROOMS!
 And pictures of Windmill Farms brand mushrooms below
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 03/09/2025
This amazingly brave LGBTQ+ refugee and her baby arrived in Canada today, and will need lots of financial help to get trauma treatment and settled in. Please donate!!!
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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 03/09/2025
This piece is our first in a series on the impacts of H5N1 on humans — especially Latine farmworkers. If you have professional expertise or hands-on knowledge about any aspect of H5N1 to share with our reporter, please email her at [info at lygianavarro dot com].
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 03/09/2025
The flurry of 70 human infections over the course of 11 months, followed by an abrupt halt, makes scientists wonder how many people may have had H5N1 since February without the public being informed. Read more from @lygianavarro.com: bit.ly/45NqwF8
Collage graphic showing a chicken on the left, with an orange filter, a cow on the right, in black and white, and a cutout of a farmworker’s silhouette in the center. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Despite waning headlines, bird flu is still a threat. Here’s how you can help farmworkers. By Lygia Navarro.”How you can help farmworkers: 

First, educate yourself and your community about how bird flu spreads. Many of the same tools we’ve used to protect ourselves from COVID-19 also work against H5N1. Additionally, keep your cats indoors and don’t consume raw milk products. And be sure to keep many high-quality masks on hand (with a minimum N95 filtration per the CDC), and do a fit test.

You can also monitor wastewater H5N1 surveillance data to see when infections may be increasing in your area. But keep in mind that these data are not a perfect indicator of human cases, as animals also contribute waste to public sewer systems.How you can help farm workers: 

Donate money to mask blocs, some of which provide N95s and other PPE to farmworkers around the country.

Donate funds to community health clinics in rural agricultural areas, which serve as safety nets for farmworkers.

If you speak Spanish or other languages farmworkers may speak in your community, offer your language and translation abilities to your local mask bloc to do outreach to farmworkers or translate written information.

Seek out ethical food providers, and inquire about whether their workers have access to paid sick time, PPE, information about H5N1, and testing.How you can help farm workers: 

If you live in a community with farmworkers, print out H5N1 info sheets from the CDC, and ask to post them in public locations like libraries, health facilities, schools, immigrant-run grocers, dollar stores, and anywhere else where community members might gather. Include information about accessing H5N1 testing — call your local county public health department for more guidance on this.

U.S. readers, ask your elected officials at the state and federal level to take action on H5N1 — especially if you have a representative on the House Committee on Agriculture or senator on the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 13/08/2025
Friends are helping/sponsoring a trauma-survivor queer Cameroonian refugee moving to Montreal shortly with her child. She has really been through torture fleeing through numerous countries to reach Canada. PLEASE donate if you can.
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Donate to Help an LGBTQ Refugee and Her Son Get Started in Canada!, organized by Anne Raeff
Help an LGBTQ refugee and her son get started in Canada! We… Anne Raeff needs your support for Help an LGBTQ Refugee and Her Son Get Started in Canada!
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National Association of Science Writers (NASW) @sciencewriters.org · 05/08/2025
THURSDAY: Whether you're a current freelancer, considering adding or transitioning to freelancing work, or have an interest in hiring and working w/freelancers, come say hello at the member social hosted by volunteers Jennifer Huber + Ellen Kuwana. Join the August 7 Event: www.nasw.org/events/...
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Networking social: Freelancer meetup
Virtual networking social: Freelancer meetup Presented by the NASW Freelance Committee Date: Thursday, August 7 Start time: 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific Event access link: https://www.nasw.org/virtual-events-auditorium (NASW member login required)
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
These CA tomato pickers make 86¢ per bucket. The worker runs back to try and make as many buckets as they can. Because of the hot weather they often only work 4 to 5 hours a day, so every bucket counts towards paying their bills. #WeFeedYou
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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Anyone in So Cal know a solar panel vendor you liked?
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Post-Viral Trials @postviraltrials.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is some of the most exciting observational research into post-viral illness. At the end, @virusesimmunity.bsky.social says that positive results would lead them to try to pursue trials with immunotherapies like FcRn inhibitors, B cell targeting therapies, and IVIg.
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 01/08/2025
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Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
#maskedatconferences
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It’s not too late to start masking. You don’t have to do it alone. You won’t be the lone masker. There’s an engaged Covid cautious and disability community who will help you. There’s local mask blocs who provide respirators to those who can’t afford them. Covid is still here, and masks work!
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National Press Club Journalism Institute @npcinstitute.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Over 6 months, our Public Health Reporting fellows @tedalcorn.bsky.social, Jamal Jordan, @eleanorklib.bsky.social, @lygianavarro.com & Amanda Seitz explored underreported public health challenges. Watch highlights from their ambitious reporting projects: www.pressclubinstitute.org/event/public...
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Video & Highlights: Lessons from our inaugural Public Health Journalism Fellowship cohort - Journalism Institute
As the inaugural Public Health Reporting Fellowship comes to a close, the 2025 cohort will share details from their ambitious reporting projects.
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 30/07/2025
The amount of people chilling outside during what used to be called summer (now known as "wildfire season" in Canada) just rawdogging heavily polluted air ... not thinking about the future.
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 30/07/2025
This is deeply disturbing but sadly unsurprising. The govt is trying by all means it can to access personal information about those it wants to get rid of -- including threatening and harassing a Latine educator.
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Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua
Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 30/07/2025
#DisabilityStudies teaching job in Winnipeg for people with a PhD -- open to all applicants, it seems, but Canadian citizens and permanent residents given priority
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Probationary Instructor III in Disability Studies, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Disability Studies Program
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths
NEW YORK—Claiming that the humanizing of occupied peoples is not what the newspaper stands for, The New York Times issued an apology Tuesday for reporting on Palestinian deaths. “Our thoughtful and ac...
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 30/07/2025
¡Muchas gracias, Demian!
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 30/07/2025
Marginalized people are at much higher risk of #LongCovid, which is why (at least in my city), I often see BIPOC, working class folks wearing masks more often than the rest of the general public. They know firsthand the threat they face. #MaskUp, folks.
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 24/07/2025
Join us tomorrow!
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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We have a great MEpedia update for you! - Our articles have been viewed 55+ million times! - We recently created German & Spanish versions of our TEN most popular pages. Check it out: me-pedia.org More info: www.meaction.net/2025/07/22/m... #pwME #MECFS #wiki #myalgicE #longCovid
Red/orange background with inner white box with text. A bullhorn is in the bottom corner and #MEAction logo at the top. Text: Science updates - MEpedia! MEpedia articles have been viewed 55+ million times! We recently created German and Spanish versions of our ten most popular pages! Please help support our important work!
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 24/07/2025
How can the rest of the world be going about our lives?!?
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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 14/07/2025
@jortsthecat.bsky.social I'd love to talk, but your DMs are closed. Would you mind to contact me? My DMs are open.
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
#JournoRequest Seeking anyone “paying attention to H5N1 on a professional level”—see thread!
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/
a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants
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Putrino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I'm glad to see @BuzzFeed running educational content about tick- and vector-borne illness like #lyme, but I must disagree with Dr Shapiro, who is quoted in this article, that an infected tick *has* to be on for 24-36 hrs to transmit Lyme Disease. The apple.news/A2smoGgDsQfO... 1/
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Tick Experts Are Revealing The 6 Things They'd Never, Ever Do Outdoors, And Everyone Should Really Listen Up — BuzzFeed
Climate change is making tick-borne illnesses more common, which makes tick prevention strategies even more critical.
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𝚙𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚋𝚛𝚊. @palabranahj.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Help us improve with your opinion and get a chance to win amazing NAHJ swag! Fill out this survey ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 10/07/2025
@juliametraux.bsky.social 🙏
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 10/07/2025
Thanks so much, Heather!!
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 10/07/2025
@betsyladyzhets.bsky.social @mileswgriffis.bsky.social @heatherhogan.bsky.social would you all mind to share on your private socials, too, please and thank you?! 🙏
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@mattfrieman.bsky.social @scottehensley.bsky.social @cobey.bsky.social @thijskuiken.bsky.social @theindpanel.bsky.social @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social @pandemiccenter.bsky.social @putrinolab.bsky.social @hazie.bsky.social @hlniman.bsky.social @ufw.bsky.social (PLS SHARE IF TAGGED!)
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@breathing4justice.bsky.social @publichealthaction.bsky.social @meactnet.bsky.social @crankyqueer.org @camaradademian.bsky.social @sociovirology.bsky.social @lhmoncla.bsky.social @torrelavelle.bsky.social @duckswabber.bsky.social @melodyschreiber.com @peacockflu.bsky.social (PLS SHARE IF TAGGED!)
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 10/07/2025
@juliametraux.bsky.social @covid19disease.bsky.social @discojourno.bsky.social @angelamswinca.bsky.social @karlaliliana.bsky.social @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social @imanibarbarin.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @longcovidjustice.org @cidrap.bsky.social @bhanlon15.bsky.social (PLS SHARE IF TAGGED!)
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 10/07/2025
I would really love to talk with you -- on or off the record, anonymously if needed. My DMs are open, and you can also reach me by email: info@lygianavarro.com or via Signal: Lygia.65. Again, this is re H5N1 for @thesicktimes.bsky.social. PLEASE SHARE this thread!! (4/4)
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 10/07/2025
state/local/federal/CDC public health officials, nonprofit employees who work with or around rural/farmworker communities, state/USDA/etc agriculture officials, physicians, epidemiologists, and anyone else I forgot to mention. If you're paying attention to H5N1 on a professional level (3/4)
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 10/07/2025
The thing about that date (Feb 2025) is that the fed government claims there have been no new human cases since February 2025, but I'm hearing that surveillance and testing is extremely lacking. I'm interested in talking with anyone with H5N1 knowledge, too -- scientists, farm owners, vets (2/4)
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 10/07/2025
PLEASE SHARE! I'm reporting on #H5N1 #BirdFlu (#AvianInfluenza #HPAI) for @thesicktimes.bsky.social, & want to talk to farmworkers or people who work with them re impacts of H5N1 on farmworkers. I'm especially interested in hearing re human cases since Feb 2025. Sources can be anonymous! (1/4)
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
You can support Alaa and her children here.
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Help me save my family and escape from Gaza to Eygpt
My name is Alaa, and I am a mother of three precious children: Musa, who is 12 years old, and my twin daughters, Ella and Ellen, who are 8 years old. Before October 7th, our lives were filled with hop...
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
People of color are the majority in LA, where race deeply informs life and death. Several national publications can’t publish black or brown writers because they push out us of their newsrooms or never hire us to begin with – which is also intimately tied to what’s happening in LA and the nation.
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
50% of people in LA descend from Latin America. More than 50% speak a language other than English at home. 0% of them get to write in your favorite magazines. Despite hollow promises to diversify staff, magazines continue to drown out the voices of the very people you should be reading rn.
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 25/06/2025
Thank you so much, Tania. That section continues to represent my life and perspective.
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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 25/06/2025
Thank you for sharing my piece, @taniaspencer.bsky.social ❤️. Sadly I fear that it will be timely for many years to come.
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@switchyardtulsa.bsky.social
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Lights automatically turned off at 5p. When daylight dimmed, people — including children who were separated from their parents — made do in darkness overnight. Agents used flashlights. This space is not to detain people on any capacity (lights turn off because no one is supposed to be there).
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