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Ashlee
@ashleemboyer.com
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deaf. multiply disabled. neurodivergent.

accessibility, disability, & software.
@semanticfish.com

Independent writing:
@semanticfish.net

Personal blog:
ashleemboyer.com

Independent research:
critical accessibility/disability studies.

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 14d
More formal post soon, but early share into the magic internet clouds:

Open to work! Prefer contract. Share any leads if you got ‘em. 💌

Specialize in web accessibility, design systems, developer experience.

Bachelors in software engineering, 10+ years experience, thorough, persistent, curious.
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Captions help please! 🙏🏻

I’m deaf w residual hearing, can’t make out the accuracy of the CC on this video due to so many overlapping voices.

youtu.be/2i9iAr3hWu4

It’s also missing some level of person distinction. Can anyone provide a more accurate transcript?

#Alt4Me #AltForMe
TPUSA student chapter - PNW
YouTube video by Office of the Indiana Attorney General
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November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Does anyone know where kids find the AUDACITY to tear up shit they didn’t pay any money for???! Buddy this is the only new couch I’ve ever purchased and it was thousands $$$ pls stop 🥲
Zoomed in view of two furry, brindle paws pressing into the arm of a couch, claws slightly extended in a brief stretch
November 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Anyone have an explain-like-I-take-everything-literally for flashbacks to traumatic memories?
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Turning 31 soon. The fucking turmoil I feel. I love aging as a disabled person, bc our mere existence is resistance. It’s also my 1st birthday without my beloved Grandma. I miss her so fucking much. It’s the worst pain I’ve felt in my entire life. It sucks having a near-holidays birthday.
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I’m reminded of Alice’s early 2024 medical emerg. People went SO FAR beyond boundaries… & contacted the hospital.

She later quotes s.e. smith on parasocial interactions: marginalized ppl will become more & more quiet online as their boundaries are crossed.

www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-...
Snippet from the linked article. I asked my friend Sandy, a fellow disabled organizer, to tweet a message asking everyone to respect my boundaries. Instead, as she told me a few days later, my phone “was bombarded by people who were offering to call medical providers, hospitals, and patient care lines. On Twitter I saw that folks had tweeted the hospital’s patient care line and the number for the ICU.” She continued, "There was also a hashtag with your name going around #UCSFMaskForAlice. Folks I had never spoken to messaged me asking for an update on your health status, and still others offering to plead to medical care providers on your behalf.” While some of those people likely had good intentions, I was still astounded by the audacity of people to speak on my behalf without my consent. Some of the egregious actions taken by total strangers reeked of saviorism, and others violated my privacy. To my surprise, some of the people who had excoriated me online about my last column were the same ones wishing me a safe recovery. Most people mean well when they hear a friend is sick, but this is the problem with parasocial relationships: The majority of the people who follow me online are not my friends.
November 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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today is also my birthday and it would be great if you contributed to this!!!!
sesmith.lol s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 8d
Today is my birthday. I would like many things but from you specifically I want $2,500 for @scarleteen.com's annual fundraiser, which is supporting staff & volunteer healthcare this year. We need $2,500 to unlock a $10,000 match and this would really make my day! Donate to my campaign page here.
Scarleteen Staff and Volunteer Healthcare Fund
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November 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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sesmith.lol
Today is my birthday. I would like many things but from you specifically I want $2,500 for @scarleteen.com's annual fundraiser, which is supporting staff & volunteer healthcare this year. We need $2,500 to unlock a $10,000 match and this would really make my day! Donate to my campaign page here.
Scarleteen Staff and Volunteer Healthcare Fund
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www.classy.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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thellpsx.bsky.social
llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever
Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us
by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Some abled parents of disabled people are the most violent ableists. They use their children as tools to demonstrate their heroism in shouldering the burden of taking care of a disabled person, think they’re incapable of ableism, and say the experience of a caretaker is the same as being disabled.
November 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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But in all seriousness, shit is about to get really fucking worse in Indiana. I deeply fear the upcoming legislative session.
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Hahaha all that brown nosing for what?? Looks like Braun isn’t Donny’s fave anymore 😂

www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
'Mike wouldn't be governor without me': Trump slams Gov. Braun, Senate as redistricting stalls
President Donald Trump criticized Gov. Mike Braun and Senate GOP leaders days after Sen. Rodric Bray announced the Senate won't meet to redistrict.
www.indystar.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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He’s pointing out accurate facts (to a point), but the hypocrisy isn’t what he has a problem with.

He has a problem with his antisemitism being less accepted than his racism, sexism, etc etc.

(disclaimer: I’m deaf — this is what i can gather from the uncaptioned videos in the thread)
dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 9d
Nick Fuentes, who has praised Hitler and is openly antisemitic, says Republicans are hypocrites for “tolerating cruelty and abuse” toward Muslims, Black people, and other minorities while drawing the line at antisemitism. He argues his own politics are simply the logical end point of that bigotry...
Nick Fuentes, who has praised Hitler and is openly antisemitic, says Republicans are hypocrites for “tolerating cruelty and abuse” toward Muslims, Black people, and other minorities while drawing the line at antisemitism. He argues his own politics are simply the logical end point of that bigotry. “If I went live on my show on Monday and I said ‘fuck Islam.’ I said these Muslims need to go home. Fuck them. They’re barbarians… they like to live in open sewage and bomb crap. You think any conservative would disavow me? Any of them? Any Republican? Do you think if I was known for saying that, I’d have any trouble getting into CPAC? Or the New York Young Republican gala? Or the GOP? Of course not. Because Laura Loomer has access to the White House and she says stuff like that. Ben Shapiro has access to Trump and he says stuff like that.”
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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crdjustice.bsky.social
Rest in power, Alice Wong.

A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor.

She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased.

We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward.
Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.
thrasherxy.bsky.social Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 10d
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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When my Grandma was on her deathbed & the hospital sent for a chaplain, I wished I could call on our disabled ancestors.

I pictured being surrounded by them & it brought me a bit of comfort. Alice Wong’s work shaped my thinking like this.

What a privilege to have existed at the same time as her.
November 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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"I insist on resisting with joy and finding pleasure where I can such as with my friends and two cats, Bert and Ernie. Yes, life is a complete dumpster fire, but I am reminded that I am not alone, that I am in this with many others." — Alice Wong, January 2025: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Disability advocate Alice Wong on resistance in the new year: ‘Life is a dumpster fire, but I’m not alone’
The activist, who received a 2024 MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, reflects on a moment that changed her life – and why she finds hope in sci-fi
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Please consider donating to Crips for eSims for Gaza in Alice Wong's memory. #ConnectingGaza

chuffed.org/project/crip...
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Alice Wong and @wkamaubell.bsky.social in conversation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rVg...
City Arts & Lectures presents Disability Visibility: Alice Wong in conversation with W. Kamau Bell
YouTube video by City Arts & Lectures
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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beyerstein.bsky.social
Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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May my friend @sfdirewolf.bsky.social rest in power. I will especially miss texting with her about Star Trek.

We were lucky, all of us, to have Alice and her warmth and enthusiasm.

www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
6,794 likes, 536 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at th...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Alice was a fierce advocate for Gazans, and I agree with Alex that she would have been glad to see donations to eSIMs for Gaza:
bsky.app/profile/alex...
alexanderchee.bsky.social Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 10d
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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This is a wonderful way to grieve: Alice worked tirelessly to raise awareness about why Palestine was a disability justice issue and to raise funds for Gaza.
alexanderchee.bsky.social Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 10d
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken
This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"
In Zohran Mamadani text, the words "Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down—Alice Wong" in orange font over a blue background
November 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM