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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 9h

7-8PM UK time, I’m giving this Keynote Performance for Lancaster Uni’s conference ‘Animals in Translation: AI, Ethics and the Future of Interspecies Dialogue’. It’s also an AV translation of an original artwork I was commissioned to make. #xl8 🌊 Conf livestream links: wp.lancs.ac.uk/animalsintra...

Text says: ‘On Oceanic Terms, On Memory’s Conditions

In the near-future, an unforeseen incident with profound consequences for the future of life on Earth occurs in the Indian Ocean. Inciting circumstances involve a family of blue whales and a group of billionaires invested in the proliferation of artificial intelligence. What if a stenographer from the Court of the Global Majority, herself raised underwater and a key witness, were to relay details of the happening—now known in English as the Mass Marine Linguistic Event—to an audience of translators whose work has been intrinsically tied to its creation?’

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW CALLOUT ALERT! We are seeking Indonesian speculative fiction in Bahasa Indonesia and English for publication in khōréō’s Volume 7 in 2027. The callout is open from now until November 5, 2026, details on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

Open call for Indonesian Speculative Fiction in Translation

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

✨ TOMORROW❗️ A Radical Proposal: Why literary translators should see themselves as workers and how building solidarity will lead to better working conditions across the industry, and ensure a more vibrant, diverse, and sustainable literary ecosystem not only for translators but readers too.

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Join me TUE, Sept Sept 29, 12-1.30PM UK time, for ‘And They Made Themselves A Land of Belief’, a writing wshop on disbelief as ill/disabled people, & ancestral + future sources of resistance. In collab w Resting Up Collective + ORT gallery. #CripSky #CripLit 🤍 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/and-they-m...

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'And They Made Themselves A Land of Belief' | Crip Resistance II

Join us for a generative writing workshop with acclaimed writer and artist Khairani Barokka, exploring disbelief placed on the unwell body

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're so so thrilled to announce our finalists list for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. We can't thank you all enough for spreading the message, applying, and sharing your words with us.

The 2026 ALOCASIA

Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers Finalists List

Jaq Hack

Fiona Jin

Tara Labovich

Wylde J. Parsley

Mary Beth Becker

Haley Bossé

Chrysanthemum Brook Watkins

Mikhaela Woodward

Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin

Christopher Phelps

Supported by funding from Accelerate Resilience L.A., a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

lads, is it bad when bookstores are getting their windows smashed in?

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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'And They Made Themselves A Land of Belief' | Crip Resistance II

Join us for a generative writing workshop with acclaimed writer and artist Khairani Barokka, exploring disbelief placed on the unwell body

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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

From the hell of Gaza, 15-year-old Abood is begging you to help save him. Abood suffers from sudden seizures & epilepsy & urgently needs his essential Keppra medication. His family cannot afford to buy it. Any support could bring him treatment & hope. chuffed.org/project/1844...

Another picture of Abood with a text :
I'm Abood from Gaza, save my life

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

[Repost due to site changes] My commissioned creative piece for feminist film archive Cinenova is up now—it’s on three beautiful short films by late anti-nuclear activist Sandra Lahire. Hope it brings more ppl to her work, relevant now as ever. #FilmSky cinenova.org/writing/on-h...

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Cinenova - On Half-Lives

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Health been healthing, but just want to pop on here to say: forever and always, Free Palestine.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Guest editor Graciela Maglia presents a selection of fiction and poetry translated from Creole languages of the Caribbean, including Martinican Creole, Haitian Creole, Palenquero, and more, plus a photo essay focused on the Colombian Palenquero community: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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The Creole Continuum of the Greater Caribbean - Words Without Borders

Graciela Maglia introduces “Creole Languages of the Caribbean,” featuring literature translated from Palenquero, Haitian Creole, and more.

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There is still time to register for our ‘Natures in #Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation‘ conference, 1-2 October, @Lancaster University! wp.lancs.ac.uk/animalsintra... Keynotes: Ursula Heise Khairani Barokka César Rodríguez-Garavito Eva Meijer Şebnem Susam-Saraeva. 🌍🌱🐬

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Conference

Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation Lancaster University, UK 1-2 October 2026 Conference funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and BRAID Abstract submissi…

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Afraid of Encounters (He/Him) @isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For those who are wondering wtf is going on in my country, Indonesia, right now. Today we are also having a protest at the capital.

Instagram post from @buruhperempuan:
DEAR SEABLINGS AND INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS, INDONESIA IS NOT OK. PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO INDONESIA. BIG PROTESTS ARE HAPPENING IN INDONESIA. WE REALLY NEED INTERNATIONAL MEDIA TO WATCH WHAT'S HAPPENING AND REPORT IT TO THE WORLD.

Instagram post from @buruhperempuan:
HERE ARE 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION HERE:
- AN EARTHQUAKE OCCURED IN FLORES, WHILE FOREST FIRES ARE BURNING IN SUMATRA, PAPUA, AND KALIMANTAN
- THE PEOPLE OF PATI ARE DEMANDING THE PASSAGE OF THE ASSET FORFEITURE BILL
- WORKING CLASS CITIZENS ARE DEMANDING A LABOR LAW THAT PROTECTS AND PRIORITIZES WORKER'S RIGHTS
- THE STATE BUDGET (APBN) IS BEING USED IN WAYS THAT MARGINALIZE CITIZENS' BASIC RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE AND EDUCATION
- THE INDONESIAN RUPIAH CONTINUES TO WEAKEN, WHILE LARGE SCALE CORRUPTION CONTINUES TO OCCUR.

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Always great to have more ecopoetry that understands historical perspectives; delighted this is out and to have blurbed it! Congratulations, Tim.

Cover of Wildness Unafraid, a blue book with an illustration of a bird and a moon on it. Background of book is blue fabric.

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Mekong Review @mekongreview.com · 28/08/2026

What's happened in Tibet and Nepal is devastating. Our hearts break for the families who have lost loved ones and for those who will need to rebuild their lives completely. Many tragic stories will be told, and we hope the artists and journalists who tell them will speak the truth bravely.

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Aku cinta Jakarta! My riotous, mean, alive, and ever-surprising hometown. Thank you Nathalie Handal and WWB for having me. #xl8

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In today’s installment of Nathalie Handal’s “The City and the Writer,” Khairani Barokka (@mailbykite.bsky.social) speaks of Jakarta as a bustling epicenter of resilience and togetherness. Read about a city in perpetual motion and conversation on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

An abstract blue background with a portrait of Khairani Barokka in the upper right. Black text reads:
The City and the Writer
In Jakarta with Khairani Barokka
By Nathalie Handal
“Every time I return, even if I’ve been there not so long ago, traversing the city I notice so many changes go by. Being in motion has allowed us to observe and remember those changes, to cement continually new forms of nostalgia.”

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

1000 days of the US-funded genocide. 1.9 million Palestinians surviving in tents. Sameer Project continues its work despite grave risks and drastic falls in donations. According to this image, they have raised $25 mill so far. It will take $75 billion to rebuild Gaza. chuffed.org/project/help...

Text on image:
That line represents $25 million, which is around how much we have raised in two years.
Can you see this almost invisible, thin sliver of a line?
The rest of this 'pie chart'? $75 billion
This is the difference between what we have raised and conservative estimates on the cost of rebuilding Gaza. The Sameer project and Translating Falasteen

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’ll be on the Celebrasia panel Telling Stories: Fact and Fiction,with Will Harris, Ivy Ngeow, and Nicola Dinan. Join us! Arches Lane Theatre, Battersea Power Station, London Sunday, September 13 • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrasia...

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celebrASIA Panel: Telling stories, fact & fiction

New for celebrASIA 2026, we are hosting a series of expert panel talks exploring storytelling, food, fashion, heritage and culture.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I work hard to incorporate Tribal policy into my general public policy classes because too often the field forgets that Tribal Nations exist. Using this and the Miccosukee this semester as useful cases.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

‘Fluency in English and either Dari or Pashto is essential; fluency in all three languages is highly desirable.’ #xl8

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

They’re saying it’s because of money while they have some 200 million £ in reserve. It’s a full on attack on the humanities

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A pleasure to have read and blurbed Tolulope Oke’s debut, ENCOUNTERS. ‘it does not matter that we stress the wrong syllables when our tongues tremble from the tyranny at home, trying to enter a country that despises us.’ - from ‘Language Forgives Us More than the World Does’

Cover of Tolulope Oke’s ENCOUNTERS, a light cream cover with a city grid map on it.

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Fundraiser for laid-off staff of Asian American Writers’ Workshop. The Margins has supported Asian writing community for so many years, am so sorry to hear about this: chuffed.org/project/1583...

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Laid Off Workers' Safety Fund

On Aug. 4, 2026 the remaining staff at AAWW received layoff emails from the newly-announced Interim Executive Director Ed Lin.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You can help Hammam's family survive Israel's genocidal siege by sharing & donating. They're homeless & sick with intestinal & skin diseases from destroyed sanitation & healthcare. His disabled brother Abood has a broken leg & urgently needs surgery, & his mother needs meds for asthma:

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Support for the Nurse and My Brother Abood

Hi! My name is Hammam Al-Shanti.

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Honoured to be giving a keynote performance at this, alongside a new visual artwork. You may guess my viewpoints. #xl8

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San Alland (they/San) @san-alland.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Pals! I'm back & have (limited) stock of these! Can post anywhere. PayPal, UK bank, CAD e-transfer. Email cachin AT blissfultimes DOT ca. Audiobooks for Anything Not Measurable, Sore Loser, Stairs & Whispers. Some audio for Proof of a Tongue and Blissful Times. www.blissfultimes.ca/books #booksky

Image: Covers of all the books listed above. Brown top left: Stairs and Whispers Deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka and Daniel Sluman. Red top middle: Blissful Times (a ruler runs down the right side). Blue top right: Proof of a Tongue, poems by Sandra Alland (self portrait with underwater camera). Blue bottom left: Anything Not Measurable Is Not Real, stories by Sandra Alland (with a hand-drawn sailboat by Stuart Ross). Yellow bottom right: Sore Loser, a chronic pain and illness zine on queer disabled grief by Etzali Hernández and Sandra Alland (main title handwritten with a finger dipped in ink).

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

E is a really amazing young person who has had to swim against the current of so many things, and has shown up in solidarity again and again even when struggling so much herself - please do help if you can www.gofundme.com/f/help-e-a-l...

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Donate to Help E, a lesbian woman of colour, with UK visa costs, organized by East and Southeast Asians North East

E is in urgent need of support with visa costs so that she … East and Southeast Asians North East needs your support for Help E, a lesbian woman of colour, with UK visa costs

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Poet Ahmed Sarsour fled Sudan for Gaza, only to find himself trapped in another war zone. Project Sarsour, to help him and his family survive, is nearly funded. If you have anything to spare, pls consider donating, or sharing: chuffed.org/project/1440...

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Project Sarsour

Hello everyone,

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

12. Beyond anything about the film as a film, it was a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice to film the Trojan Horse sequence in occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara, without the consent of the indigenous population.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is such a wonderful, insightful, and fun conversation! And if you can't make it tonight, it'll be up on AWP's YouTube channel in perpetuity. Enjoy!

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Kelela’s newest album is such a gorgeously gentle vibe. Reminds me how amazingly consistent she’s been as an artist over the years. And an example of someone making a sound that’s both doing something new and quintessentially her own.

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Teaching Creative Writing for @bcltuea.bsky.social again this week, and I truly love what discussions on crip time can gift the translator as creative writer. We are all so hard on ourselves as artists, so much of the time, and need reminders of why we came to this freedom. #CripLit #xl8

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Congratulations to all the winners—translators, authors, publishers, and readers 📚

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alice, cowboy umarell @yolowoho.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"Lamine Yamal waved a Palestinian flag from the top of a bus during Barcelona’s La Liga title parade in May…[Prime Minister Pedro] Sánchez defended him publicly. Javier Bardem took a Palestinian flag handed to him by a fan in the stands during Spain’s match against France & held it up on camera."

Existence is resistance, he said. Spain stands with Palestine. None of that is incidental to who Spain is right now, as a team and a country. It’s the most visible thing about them to a lot of the world watching.

That’s why, by the time the final kicked off, people in Gaza City were already picking a side, and it had nothing to do with who had the better midfield. They said so directly, to reporters, over the sound of a war still going on around them. They were with Spain because Spain had stood with them. A government can’t buy that kind of allegiance with a phone call to an ambassador. A team earns it by making a choice in public, when it costs something to make it.

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Looking fwd to seeing you all, in a gentle writing environment. 🤍🙏🏼

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Irish translator and scholar @ellenfcorbett.bsky.social explores how some Irish writers have resisted or deferred the translation of their work into English — given the minoritisation of the Irish language and its 'definitely endangered' status. Read the full essay here:

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Against English: The Irish Poets Who Have Refused Translation

Irish translator and scholar Ellen Corbett explores how some Irish writers have resisted or deferred the translation of their work into English — given the…

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A reminder: The US, by being the largest historical CO₂ emitter, has caused $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990. A quarter of this impact is felt domestically, but it disproportionately affects poorer countries.

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US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

And many thanks to @jamestatehill.bsky.social for organizing!

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

For Disability Pride Month I partnered with @awpwriter.org @mailbykite.bsky.social, Rob Macaisa Colgate, and Emily Rapp Black for a free virtual talk! The conversation airs on YouTube on Thurs, July 23 at 7:00 pm ET and we hope you'll join us in crip community! www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine...

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We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space

Join The Writer’s Desk for a special virtual event to commemorate Disability Pride Month! “We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space” premieres on July 23 with authors Khairani Barokka, Emi...

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’m part of the *fun*, frank ‘We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space’, w @sfmontgomery.bsky.social, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Emily Rapp Black. From how publishing treats disabled art to unexpected reality TV talk. On YouTube THU July23, 7PM ET. #CripLit www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine...

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We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

‘Materials here are intended as solidarity solace for educators who might find themselves inventing wheels alone while their administrators, trustees, and bosses unrelentingly hype AI and nakedly enthuse the negative consequences for educator labor.’

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 09/07/2026

DATE: Saturday, July 25, 2026 TIME: 7-9 pm EST Given how Alice Wong's activism helped me to feel pride in my disabled personhood, I am hosting a workshop to celebrate her legacy!🔥🔥🔥 Free sign-up here, if needed!🫂 forms.gle/PTamAHjBDvJu... Monetary contributions welcome, if able!🙏🏾 PayPal @kjagoo

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Taking Alice Wong's Advice for Disability Pride

For this Disability Pride month, please join us on Zoom to celebrate the legacy of the late Alice Wong, as we learn together in community!✨

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