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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Hit me with your favorite poets, poems, and collections, please. I need more. Longing, love, grief, revolution. I love: Natalie Diaz, Ada Limón, Louise Glück, Mary Oliver about love but not as much about nature, Li-Young Lee, Rilke, June Jordan, David Whyte, Jane Hirshfield, etc.

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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

👋 please share

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The push for austerity in government- even and especially by local-level Democrats, is fascist. Our community deserves robust public services. We pay for them, and they are best delivered at scale without profit considerations. Local DOGE-like efforts should be met with a fight.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 22/04/2025

I am begging anyone with the ability to commission articles in my industry: let trans people write about what is happening to us right now.

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frank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

current WIP linocut, going to have a big printing day tomorrow. This one is either called "birth" or "I smash your skull", not sure yet #art #printmaking

A linoplate cut to show a stylised crow cracking into a human skull. out of the skull emerge curling plant tendrils

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

My feed here is mostly horrible news. Algorithm, oh algorithm, please send me more poetry and revolutionary writers 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Fasted from 8pm Wednesday to 10am today to prep for a surgery. Truly wild. Good news? Doesn’t seem to be pre-cancer (again) or cancer! Bad news? It’s other things that suck. But now I know! Waiting on pathology to confirm 🙏🏽🙏🏽

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Woke up tearful after nightmares. Realized today is the day I can’t eat all day (it already has me sick 🫠), and tomorrow is the surgery where I am considered high risk for being put under anesthesia due to heart complications/ dysautonomia. Been a decade in a morning.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

What in the ever loving fuck is going on with the lesbian sciences (astrology)???? This week is so wild!

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago.” COVID put me in a wheelchair, motherfucker. It definitely exists. bit.ly/4iJo46y

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CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.

“Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary," federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It bears repeating: please consider that liberalism & fascism are codependent- not opposing- forces.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Every time I listen to julien baker for any length of time, I come away feeling like I have something inside of me I need to scream into a microphone

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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 25/03/2025

legends walk among us

Susan Kegeles, PHD whipping a nasty little ratman into shape.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My 10yo sent me a screenshot of these lyrics w/ a link to this song and said, “America partly crushed my dreams of being an astronaut. This song helped and now it went from three quarters to half crushed.” open.spotify.com/track/4blPH3...

Screenshot of song lyrics that say, “But I don’t want to see the stars
If they’re just one more piece of land for us to colonize”

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Seeing one of the specialists at the Long COVID Center & none of the doors to the building are accessible to folks like me in a wheelchair. I finally make it in, only one member of the staff is masking, & they ask me to remove my mask for a temp check. AYFKM, COVID put me in this chair. Do better!

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

My 10yo reading aloud to me about the protagonist from his book getting bitten by a pig, and my kid- misunderstanding my confusion at someone being bitten by a pig- says, “You know, like, the animal, not a cop!” lol

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Moving along in my #stainedglass journey. It’s such a privilege to be able to learn new skills (esp as a person with #MECFS), and I will never, ever take it for granted! Floral design is up next 🌸🌺🌹

Photo of cut stained glass depicting a crescent moon with a lotus and star inside of it to form a complete circle

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Disability isn’t what i would choose if I had been given the choice. It has given me indescribable physical and existential pain and made my body foreign to me. But my body is still where I want to love all the things it has taken me so long to love. onbeing.org/poetry/the-h...

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I connect through safety, intimacy, warmth, and reciprocity- things I used to experience solely in my own body and, later, with a partner and eventually, with my community. Now, constant pain is an entity I must listen to and navigate, appease, create a home within.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I regularly test for EBV, COVID, and other viruses to ensure my body isn’t under invisible attack. I suffer from recurring UTIs, cellulitis, hives, and other painful maladies. Constant pain creates distance between me and my body bc I don’t connect through pain.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Things I can easily do one day are completely out of reach the following days/weeks/months so that I can never quite settle in to my own body’s rhythms. I have to pay constant attention to biometric units like HR, HRV, & lactate levels.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I feel disability dysphoria keenly- the sensation of foreignness in one’s own body experienced while becoming or being disabled. My body doesn’t feel foreign to me solely bc I am a different shape. It feels foreign to me bc what I can do with my body changes everyday.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It helps me a little to reframe the thoughts I instinctively have about my ever-changing body as some sort of pleasantry or new experience I’ve been offered instead of as a tangible driver of disability dysphoria. It doesn’t change anything, but it helps a little.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I’ve put on 25lbs (from 135 to 160lbs) since becoming disabled and unable to exercise. I was quite fit before, so I feel every pound in myriad ways. But sometimes I think about my ancestors and how luxurious it may have been for them to be my shape from lack of hard labor? 🧵

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Reading this made me tear up for all the babies who are about to be treated even worse by this g’dforsaken state apparatus.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I don’t know what I expected to feel when the time came to make a decision on euthanizing my 13yo dog, but it wasn’t as heavy as what I am feeling.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

One of my best gfs said today, “It’s always lonelier when there is a supposed to, or a could be, and it keeps not being,” and damn.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Lucy’s Fried Chicken Lambert’s Fancy BBQ Patrizi’s (if it still exists?) Fonda San Miguel Jeffrey’s Walton’s Fancy & Staple East Side Pies Polvo’s Elizabeth Street Cafe Bouldin Creek Cafe

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

As my ME has evolved from moderate (originally severe 3yrs ago!) to mild (still use a wheelchair etc but I am fine working & engaging w/ friends & family!), I find that my body can tolerate gluten again and HOLY SHIT am I ecstatic about this specific development lolololol

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Yassmin Abdel-Magied @yassmin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Feel like you know nothing about Sudan? I sat down with the team at Prospect Magazine to talk about the conflict, and why it’s NOT a forgotten war, but an invisibilised one: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

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Sudan’s ‘war of opportunity’, with Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Is Sudan really the “forgotten war”? Former broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied breaks down the situation and explains which countries are positioning th...

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Every single person in the Houston area should be horrified at the contents of this article, esp in the face of broad federal funding cuts. No one is coming to save us. The third-largest, most diverse city in the nation soon won’t be able to treat & provide drinking water. abc13.com/post/houston...

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Houston-area's biggest drinking water facility failing, officials scramble for money to replace it

The head of Houston Water says our region's largest drinking water facility, servicing up to 75% of residents, is on the brink of failure.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I am a true lover girl for books in this exact way

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Doing this job in the middle of a eugenicist pandemic as a disabled person who is also a caregiver to someone dying of cancer is the heaviest object lesson in the value of community bc we really do only have one another in this g’dforsaken country. World. Today was a tough one. 2

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Difficult to articulate the amount of pressure we are under at the local government level to quantify the potential impacts of trump’s funding cuts to services we provide for our communities. People are going to die preventable deaths. Pollution & profit will reign (even more). 1

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The single act you can take with the biggest anti-fascist impact is wearing an n95 in public. Illness and disability most harm communities that fascists target: trans, disability, BIPOC, immigrant, &c. COVID, avian flu, and TB are bullets. Your maskless face is the gun. Give/get mask mutual aid:

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Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc

MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.

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Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com · 15/02/2025

They bombed the Black communities we created. We were all in one place and they took the land and built highways, railroads and airports over it, whenever we began to thrive.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Today in stained glass class, our instructor said, “I need you all to put down the dykes now,” (a type of pliers), and I said “Never,” and heard another gal snort laugh, and that’s how we discovered two of us were queer lol

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It’s not perfect, but it’s my first piece.

Photograph of a small stained glass heart made from two half moon- shaped, beveled pieces of clear glass and one square coral striated piece of glass turned so that the point of the square is the base of the heart and the two bevels form the rounded top curves. There are visible errors in the soldering.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Walked into my stained glass class and there is a box labeled “grief” on it, so. I am in the right place.

Photo of a stained glass workshop with miscellaneous pieces of stained glass art and tools lying around. In the background is another table with a box on it labeled “grief” in red marker

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I jokingly asked him where he learned to be so sweet when someone is struggling bc we both know these are all direct quotes from me, comforting him when I am the one who is too sick to get out of bed. Big, big feelings about the levels of loss my poor baby sees up close. (2/2)

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Sobbed last night thinking of the texture of my dad’s shirts, if that’s any indicator of how I’m holding up watching him die slowly. My 10yo pet my hair and said, “It’s okay to have big feelings. It’s hard to watch someone we love be so sick. It’s okay, mama, it’s okay,” 😭😭😭 (1/2)

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My dad is an object lesson in slowness as a paradigm. If there’s one thing that man’s gonna do no matter how late he’s running or who is waiting, it’s smoke a cigarette before he gets in the car and after he gets out

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My 10yo to me: What’ll it be today? Happy sounding sad lesbian music or sad sounding sad lesbian music?!

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Nearly sideswiped today by a car with a window sticker that just said “EPSTEIN” really huge with the phrase “didn’t kill himself” tiny underneath. Very strong branding going on there.

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T Bird (she/they/ma’am) @tbirdtko.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Wow universe damn tell it to me harder I guess! First song on the playlist getting in the car this morning lol open.spotify.com/track/5HdwWM...

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Marriage Is For Old Folks

Nina Simone · I Put A Spell On You · Song · 1965

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