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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her)

@sandragaillambert.bsky.social
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Writer. Disability! Aging! Queerness! Lesbian Desire! Adventures in the Wilds of Florida! NYT, Sun, Orion, Narratively. My Withered Legs and Other Essays. A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17/12/2025
Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Ten years ago today we were married at Paynes Prairie! Wild horses joined us on the trail. Happy anniversary, my love.
Two older white women holding hands and showing love on their faces. One is standing and the other is seated in a power chair. In the background is a lake.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Here's the "Queering the Narrative" ReadOUT schedule! This is our chance to gather together in person. In Florida. Within a month after the inauguration. I get to be on the "Celebrate the power of queer storytelling as a force for change!" panel.
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ReadOUT — OUT Arts & Culture
An annual LGBTQ+ Literary Festival which spotlights the creativity, knowledge and expertise of LGBTQ+ authors through panel discussions, a keynote address, readings and more
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Disabled writers talking all things writing/publishing in a magazine with a disabled editor-in-chief! I'm thinking this is not a coincidence. @sonyahuber.bsky.social, @keahbrown.bsky.social, Jessie Male, and M Leona Godin are in brilliant conversation. @jamestatehill.bsky.social is the new editor.
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The Big Conversation: Writing (and Publishing) Disability (Free)
Jessie Male, Keah Brown, M. Leona Godin, and Sonya Huber discuss the joys and challenges of writing nuanced and complex experiences of disability.
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IATSE // #IASolidarity @iatse.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Unions, because it’s VERY unlikely three ghosts will appear and scare your boss into doing the right thing.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
End-of-year publishing stats and reflections.
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Rejections, What Rejections? My 2024 End-of-Year Writing Stats
Each year I compile a reckoning of my writing life as told through acceptances and rejections.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Nikki Giovanni has died. Remembering her political clarity, radical curiosity, and humor will be useful strategies of resistance.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Writing Prep: Scrubbed the grease layers on my thirty+ year old electric stovetop and replaced the drip pans and heating elements. It's now inspiringly shiny! #writing
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
My South Arts Literary Arts Grant is submitted! Even this fairly straightforward (I probably filled it in all wrong.) process nearly broke my writer brain. Big respect to all the grant writers. There are a couple more days until the deadline. www.southarts.org/grants-oppor...
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Literary Arts Grant | South Arts
As part of its Literary Arts Initiative, South Arts is excited to announce grants for literary arts projects for writers and publishers. These grants deepen our commitment to amplifying literary tradi...
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
On being bitter and petty post-election—my latest Substack newsletter. sandragaillambert.substack.com
An image of a forest floor with the mound of a grave covered in pine straw. The text in the foreground says (How are you doing? How'ya doing? How's your paperwork? Don't forget the "disposition of the body" form. We wouldn't want blood relatives sweeping in and taking you off to the family plot. Are you back to . . . SANDRAGAILLAMBERT.SUBSTACK.COM
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
An afternoon stroll after a morning of pretending to write.
Two smallish alligators, one smaller than the other, sunning by the water on a concrete embankment.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The temperature is "plummeting" tomorrow here in Florida. So I switched out my summer earrings for the winter ones. Yes, earrings are a source of power ever since, at twelve, I risked a spanking to get my ears pierced. My body, my body.
A blue bowl with many pairs of earrings scattered in it. The bowl is on a wooden dresser top with a black flowered scarf and behind it is the view of the lower half of a jewelry cabinet with more earrings hanging from the drawer pulls.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My wife makes me coffee every morning. AND brings it to me in bed.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
ND Stevenson's latest Substack, "Travel Light," was this week's bolster. (@gingerhaze.bsky.social)
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I'm Fine I'm Fine Just Understand | ND Stevenson | Substack
Quiet comics about gender, mental health, and getting older. Click to read I'm Fine I'm Fine Just Understand, by ND Stevenson, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/10/2024
I wrote "How Heeding Disabled People Can Help Everyone Survive Crises" and for a second there it really looked like policymakers and government folks understood what i was poiting at. Guess not tho. slate.com/technology/2...
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How Heeding Disabled People Can Help Everyone Survive Crises
An expert on the social and cultural implications of technology responds to Aliza Greenblatt’s “If We Ever Make It Through This Alive.”
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This was a week of woodland strolls and garden visits with other writers and their dogs. And a phone call with a too-long absent poet friend. We laughed so hard we leaked as is our wont. Small, sweet moments are making me sturdy and ready.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Our dog died in May and we sure aren't ready to "replace" her—as if. But our town does have a dog hospice program (the mostly permanent fostering of elderly, health-compromised dogs) that might be a good fit for us. Do any of you have experience to offer? I miss my writing companion.
A small brown and white terrier standing among spread out papers and a computer on a bed.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Over on Substack, I'm writing about publishing an essay collection. Here's the latest post.
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Everything but the Cover: Part Three of Publishing an Essay Collection
by Sandra Gail Lambert
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
I have a cover!
A book cover. The text says “My Withered Legs and Other Essays, Sandra Gail Lambert.” The text is surrounded by a loose circle of purple petals. The background is dark brown and looks like a tree trunk.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
Cossmass Infinities published a story of mine! www.cossmass.com/stories/the-...
Muted image of a person poling a boat over water. There are many moons in the sky. The text says Cossmass Infinities, Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
University of Georgia Press has a pub date for My Withered Legs and Other Essays—March 1, 2024! Now we can plan the launch party.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
After a yellow pad flurry of sorting the notes from my writing retreat, I have now taken the good pain pill. I'll be here in bed eating licorice wheels and watching old episodes of Grimm. Hurrah for the high of less pain.
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Sandra Gail Lambert 🧑🏻‍🦼 🌈 (she/her) @sandragaillambert.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
After five days away, the look that greets me.
Brown and white terrier curled up on a purple blanket.  The eyes could be interpreted as sad.
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