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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸

@plscallmeky.bsky.social
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29 | disabled | influential; autistic advocate, published author, lactation consultant, TEDx Speaker, what’s next ? | Co-Founder @ Autistics Unmasked | they/them

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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
if someone went onto tiktok and started speaking gibberish with an accent not their own, claiming that it was the native language they would get cancelled. so why is it okay that people get on and make videos claiming for it to be ASL when they’re using objectively wrong and even nonexistent signs??
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The reality of being autistic is losing all types of relationships... friendships, romantic partners, jobs... having absolutely no idea what you did & never being given a chance to even understand because no one is willing to communicate with you because "you know what you did"
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
remember when SNAP benefits weren’t going to get distributed for november and a bunch of people and communities organized and mobilized to get people fed? yeah what happened to that
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
the autistic neurotype has never been as “rare” as clinicians make it out to be. it’s just been very strategically and systemically under and misdiagnosed.
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
neurodivergence is not just autism and ADHD.  neurodivergence is also mental health disabilities, including the ones that are demonized.  bipolar disorders schizophrenia  dissociative disorders  personality disorders including yes, narcissistic personality disorder
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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The latest & first episode of 2026 of Black Girl Diagnosed is now available on apple podcasts the video premieres tonight at 6pm on YouTube I Spoke with @plscallmeky.bsky.social this is a conversation about accessibility, parenting while autistic & more! Be sure to tune in 🩷
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Black Girl Diagnosed - Ky Kennedy
YouTube video by Black Girl Diagnosed
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
my kiddo just said something smells like a snowflake falling. hmmmm synesthete 🤔
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Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
On #tdih in 1969, Black Panther and revolutionary Fred Hampton was assassinated by the FBI and the Chicago Police Dept. Hampton was chair of the Illinois state chapter of the Black Panthers. He believed fascism was the greatest threat to the black community.
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
i wonder if DEIA initiatives will ever make a comeback
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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 15/11/2025
First Tinu. Now Alice Wong. Man this sucks.
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
for some it makes us fight harder
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The Soggy Boggy Witch 🪻🌱🧹 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸♿🏳️‍⚧️ @antidramallama.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Holy. Shit. DO NOT DO THIS. If you have the spoons, and believe in advocating for the disabled, please call Delta customer service and suggest strongly better training for flight crew on service dogs. I'm so sorry, Ky. That's scary because it's dangerous! #Disabled #Disability #ServiceDog #Delta
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
to the delta flight attendant who waited until she thought i was asleep before reaching down to pet my service dog— please don’t do shit like that. distracting a service dog can be life threatening to their handler. i promise you, even if he doesn’t look like it he is working
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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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Black Disability Politics Audiobook on Libro.fm
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long...
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
being accused of stonewalling when you’re actually just an autistic experiencing situational mutism
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
it’s the last few days of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. if you have a tiktok come join me in about 5 minutes while i find some remote jobs for folks! handle is @ pleasecallmeky ☺️
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
as an adult, autistic eloping might look like storming out of a room during an argument
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One Who Knows @onewhoknows2.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
And be aware of deafness - it’s invisible also.
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
you have to expect for disabled people to exist anywhere you do. it’s not enough to just have a sign that says “service dogs welcome” if the door to your store is too heavy for a service dog to open
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Prime Radiant 🐎🔥 @destinyguardian.blacksky.app · 29/10/2025
Facts. And I am so sick of the talking in circles bullshittery.
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Prime Radiant 🐎🔥 @destinyguardian.blacksky.app · 29/10/2025
I've been waiting for the "far left" to show up. We are the answer we're looking for. 💛
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Prime Radiant 🐎🔥 @destinyguardian.blacksky.app · 29/10/2025
Long live anarchism. ✊🏾💛✨
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
what am i learning as SNAP benefits run out? that in times of crisis we can rely on our neighbors. there are still good people in the world. and if people pulled together everyday the way they are right now to feed their neighbors we wouldn’t need the government to help us at all
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
btw I go live on tiktok several times a day to help people find remote job listings that aren’t just customer service jobs. my handle is the same as here (plscallmeky) ☺️
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
since the start of this year i’ve been helping to support a newly postpartum mom through her lactation journey in the midst of an active genocide. we are now trying to help her & her family leave gaza to rebuild their lives. please read this campaign, share & donate if you can gofund.me/a94ddad2b
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Donate to Help The Alhassanat Family Rebuild, organized by Ky Kennedy
Hello family, friends and allies -- My name is Ky (or some of you may know me by Dove). … Ky Kennedy needs your support for Help The Alhassanat Family Rebuild
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
putting some version of “obviously this doesn’t apply if you’re disabled” at the end of what you say doesn’t make what you say any less ableist
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Autistics Unmasked | Nonprofit @autisticsunmasked.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
and if you think tylenol causes autism, don’t forget the first person to get a documented, clinical diagnosis was born before tylenol existed
Today it's expected that the federal administration is going to make an announcement claiming to have found a "cause" for autism and their plan for what to do about it. Members of AU's team had a discussion about what sort of statement we wanted to make and came to this conclusion: those of us who are impacted by this sort of rhetoric (actual autistic people) have known for a very long time that this was coming.Despite research proving time and again there is no one "cause" for the autistic neurotype, people still want something to "blame". The real epidemic here is ableism. The amount of time and energy presumably spent on naming autism a "public health crisis" should be spent on solving actual public health crises (such as the overwhelmingly horrifying reality of black maternal mortality rates) and finding ways to support autistic people, not "cure" them. We have no interest in entertaining this announcement but what we do want is the unredacted Epstein files
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
my husband and i have been together 11 years today 🥹
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
allow me to re-introduce myself 🤗 for those who are new here, my name is Ky! after several years of facilitating workshops & speaking at events through my nonprofit & Boston’s Disability Commission, i’m excited to offer my services more broadly! check out pleasecallmeky.com to learn more!
image of me, a black feminine presenting person with curly black hair, wearing a black and white maxi dress. i am standing on a stage with the word TEDx behind me. text overlay reads “meet ky, they/them. autistic & ADHD (+), has hEDS and PNES, 29, mom of 3, ambulatory wheelchair and service dog user, published author & TEDx speaker, queer, co-founder of Autistics Unmasked
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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Why Black Autistic Women Must be seen, heard, safe & protected in autistic spaces ♾️
Turquoise background with text that reads : Visibility fights
Erasure
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
US veterans staging a sit in at union station in dc until the military occupation of the district ends. but no news coverage whatsoever.
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
i love going to trainings where the facilitators implement practices that i’ve implemented into my trainings. it helps me feel like a stronger facilitator, knowing that what i do works and other people do it too
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
i hate getting writers block. i’ve been writing a memoir for over a year now and i feel like scrapping it and starting over bc it feels so disorganized rn and i feel like it’s not going the direction i want
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
i’m excited to be taking asl classes finally. not only so i can use it in my personal life but also so that hopefully i can do my own interpreting when i do workshops and keynotes
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✨vyoletkyss✨ @vyoletkyss.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Hell yeah! 🤟
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
i’m finally taking ASL classes 🥹
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
how are we supposed to endure 3 1/2 more years of this
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
i should have made a living on the app formerly known as twitter back when i went viral every other day
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
looking for a job these days SO many websites are written by AI and they don’t even try to hide it.
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
ooohhh what am i up to now
ISA symbol where the wheelchair is purple and the person is brown with a black afro. the wheelchair has a gold infinity symbol in the wheel
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
my oldest this morning: “mom is the earth still confused?” (talking about climate change) 🥺
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
whenever i think about the trust my service dog and i have built over the years i cry a little
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
okay sen. booker! i been waiting for these civil rights style protests
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Autastic® @autastic.com · 27/04/2025
Community request. Comment for the greater good or DM your referrals. I'll add them to our upcoming service directory, The Gold Book, as well! #AskingAutistics
Post screenshot. Text: "looking for a non judgemental nonprofit that does debt management plans (NOT debt consolidation!). Are there any that work with specifically autistic/adhd folks?"
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
new disability milestone! today i rode in my first WAV (wheelchair accessible vehicle) sitting in my power chair 🥹
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
i say it all the time when i teach my classes but this weekend i was reminded that anyone anywhere can become disabled at any time. just when i thought i had a handle on my existing disabilities, i acquired a new one. seeking support/advice/words of encouragement as i navigate a new diagnosis: PNES
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
check out my new wheels!!! 👩🏾‍🦼‍➡️😭
power wheelchairjoystick and control panel for power wheelchair
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
okay then i want my student loans taken off my credit report. matter fact just get rid of credit scores
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Ky 🛸 • Disability Advocate 🆘🇺🇸 @plscallmeky.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
*those babies are autistic!!! *my
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