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Volume 19, Issue 1 – Summer 2025 – Wordgathering

Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Sep 1

WOOOOOOT

Wordgathering @wordgathering.bsky.social · Sep 1

We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”

Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.

Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/

Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.

#CripLit #CripArts

Volume 19, Issue 1 – Summer 2025 – Wordgathering

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Wordgathering @wordgathering.bsky.social · Sep 1

We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”

Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.

Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/

Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.

#CripLit #CripArts

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Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Jul 27

New poem on WienerBlog

CW: fascism, grief, loss, violence

dianerwiener.com/2025/07/27/n...

www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Jul 27

A Reading List for Disability Pride Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

We asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in honor of Disability Pride Month, observed ann...

www.clmp.org

Celebrate ADA 35 Years (1990-2025) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). + #ThanksToTheADA Campaign + ADA Anniversary Tool Kit, Logos and Themes + Add Your ADA 35 Event

Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Jul 26

Celebrate the ADA at 35

adata.org/ada-timeline...

#ADA@35

Celebrate ADA 35 Years

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Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Jul 6

New poem on WienerBlog, “Ephemeral Restoration,” with an epigraph from—and with gratitude to—June Jordan.

Mostly, the paintings, of late, have been my offered poems. But here’s a written poem.

CW: Difficult topics include war, death, loss, grief

dianerwiener.com/2025/07/06/e...

AAPD Medicaid Defense Hub - AAPD

Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Jul 2

www.aapd.com/Medicaid/

Fight for Medicaid

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Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Jun 26

One month from today, the ADA will be 35 years old.

Let's make sure it keeps on.

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Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Jun 20

Blessed Solstice

What Is Juneteenth? | HISTORY

Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Jun 19

www.history.com/articles/wha... What Is Juneteenth? | HISTORY

Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.

www.history.com

Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Jun 1

I'm made of rainbows all year. Not just in June. Ask anyone.

Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Jun 1

Yasssssssss

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Wordgathering @wordgathering.bsky.social · Jun 1

We are delighted to inform you that the Spring 2025 book reviews and review essays special supplement of Wordgathering is now “live.” Our next full issue (Summer 2025) will be published in early August or late July. Huzzah!

wordgathering.com/vol18/vol18i...

Volume 18, Issue 2s – Book Reviews and Review Essays Special Supplement – Spring 2025 – Wordgathering

Volume 18, Issue 2s – Book Reviews and Review Essays Special Supplement – Spring 2025 – Wordgathering

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Reposted by Diane R. Wiener (she/they)

Wordgathering @wordgathering.bsky.social · Jun 1

We are delighted to inform you that the Spring 2025 book reviews and review essays special supplement of Wordgathering is now “live.” Our next full issue (Summer 2025) will be published in early August or late July. Huzzah!

wordgathering.com/vol18/vol18i...

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Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · May 26

I remember you, I honor you, and I thank you.

Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · May 24

I am honored to share that I learned this morning my CNF piece, “Slingshot,” will be published in Beyond Words Literary Magazine’s father-themed anthology in Dec.

Originally pub’d in eMerge: emerge-magazine.com/slingshot/

CW: Mental illness, suicide, violent human & nonhuman animal death, racism.

Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · May 4

May the fourth and the Schwartz be with you.

Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Apr 24

Yom HaShoah

Never Again

As In:

Never Again FOR ANYONE

We remember

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...

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Jess1234 @jrs81.bsky.social · Mar 28

You might already be following these, but please take a look at these and consider following. I also write this info on small cards and leave them everywhere I go. You can also checkout handsOFF2025.com
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Hands Off!

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Lindsay Lee Wallace @lindsayleewallace.bsky.social · Mar 28

RFK Jr's move to eliminate the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled & aging people stay at home instead of being institutionalized, is disastrous.
I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).

Graduating From Dead Mom University

In this op-ed, Lindsay Lee Wallace explores grief, and how no amount of success in school or work could protect her from it.

www.teenvogue.com

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Mar 29

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.

In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist

Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · Mar 28

The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Mar 28

Bluesky loves links! We don't downrank, and major publishers report that we're sending more link traffic than other sites.

Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly.

theblue.report/week/

The Blue Report

The top links on Bluesky, updated hourly

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Diane R. Wiener (she/they) @dianeoctopod.bsky.social · Mar 20

Blessed Ostara

Happy Vernal Equinox