Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness
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#Queer and #trans #disabled people have always had to find new paths for our survival
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#PandemicsAreChronic
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#PandemicsAreChronic
❤️T4T❤️Mask4Mask❤️ #FBLC
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
Carl welcomed me as new external expert to Strategic Working Group at Div of AIDS with driving tour of culinary options in Bethesda. Never acted like I had any less knowledge or insight than SWG members who ran global HIV research networks. 1 of the best experiences of over 30 yrs of HIV activism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Carl welcomed me as new external expert to Strategic Working Group at Div of AIDS with driving tour of culinary options in Bethesda. Never acted like I had any less knowledge or insight than SWG members who ran global HIV research networks. 1 of the best experiences of over 30 yrs of HIV activism.
Carl created a seat for this loudmouth HIV activist at Strategic Working Group of the Division of AIDS when it didn’t have community rep focused on prevention. Meant groups I repped helped set policies & funding for 5 global research networks. A true mensch. Huge loss, along with Jeanne Marrazzo.
Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."
Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Carl created a seat for this loudmouth HIV activist at Strategic Working Group of the Division of AIDS when it didn’t have community rep focused on prevention. Meant groups I repped helped set policies & funding for 5 global research networks. A true mensch. Huge loss, along with Jeanne Marrazzo.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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It's up to us to make sure this story is not forgotten, because this admin will do everything within their power to make sure kids don't hear about it in school.
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It's up to us to make sure this story is not forgotten, because this admin will do everything within their power to make sure kids don't hear about it in school.
This is yet another example of terrible care at a supposed #LongCOVID Clinic and is even more disappointing given that mt Sinai’s @putrinolab.bsky.social helped to invent GOOD long COVID care.
Ppl w #LongCovid in nyc: avoid the Mt Sinai clinic in union square.
It is not connected to the one lead by David Putrino. The union square is run by a nurse who is pushing SSRIs as the only possible Covid treatment & if you don’t want them they refuse to offer anything else.
And they insult you.
It is not connected to the one lead by David Putrino. The union square is run by a nurse who is pushing SSRIs as the only possible Covid treatment & if you don’t want them they refuse to offer anything else.
And they insult you.
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is yet another example of terrible care at a supposed #LongCOVID Clinic and is even more disappointing given that mt Sinai’s @putrinolab.bsky.social helped to invent GOOD long COVID care.
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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To help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves,” Nayland Blake has a few (or 100) thoughts. Assignments include installing shelves on the street and making a sculpture that “produces the pleasure of being ignored.”
100 Assignments From Nayland Blake
While these assignments will not turn someone else into me, they will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
To help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves,” Nayland Blake has a few (or 100) thoughts. Assignments include installing shelves on the street and making a sculpture that “produces the pleasure of being ignored.”
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A few contradictory thoughts about Mamdani and Trump yesterday, 5 pros and 7 cons. 1/14
November 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A few contradictory thoughts about Mamdani and Trump yesterday, 5 pros and 7 cons. 1/14
NYC: get to Canal Street, raid happening
Canal St raid happening now - Canal & Lafayette
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
NYC: get to Canal Street, raid happening
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Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success
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I know y’all love y’all husbands but can yall please leave them at home this holiday season. Just put on they football game or something cause this aimlessly standing in the middle of store aisles like you on time out is crazy.
November 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I know y’all love y’all husbands but can yall please leave them at home this holiday season. Just put on they football game or something cause this aimlessly standing in the middle of store aisles like you on time out is crazy.
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Zohran Mamdani to release PSA video, "How to talk to your deranged racist MAGA uncle at Thanksgiving dinner."
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Zohran Mamdani to release PSA video, "How to talk to your deranged racist MAGA uncle at Thanksgiving dinner."
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Trump praised Zohran Mamdani as good for NYC before Chuck Schumer did. Think about that.
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Trump praised Zohran Mamdani as good for NYC before Chuck Schumer did. Think about that.
Reminder
reminding the military that they have a duty to disobey illegal orders seems like the kind of message that might upset someone who is giving the military illegal orders.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Reminder
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
Cassidy: "The president is proposing that we take the $26b that would be going to insurance companies if we just do an extension and give it directly to the American people in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase healthcare on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer."
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
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#NYC! If you’re hungry we’re out here with free hot meals until 2pm. NW Corner of W Houston and LaGuardia Place. Chicken, beef, vegan, all halal
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#NYC! If you’re hungry we’re out here with free hot meals until 2pm. NW Corner of W Houston and LaGuardia Place. Chicken, beef, vegan, all halal
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Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
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And engage in actions like masking to help keep disabled people here
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
And engage in actions like masking to help keep disabled people here
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Any day is a good day to learn about Audre Lorde and her solidarity with CUNY student activists who changed their schools forever and for the better.
Part of the Black and Latina Women’s Educational Activism collection in www.nyccivilrightshistory.org
Part of the Black and Latina Women’s Educational Activism collection in www.nyccivilrightshistory.org
December 4, 2023 at 6:43 PM
Any day is a good day to learn about Audre Lorde and her solidarity with CUNY student activists who changed their schools forever and for the better.
Part of the Black and Latina Women’s Educational Activism collection in www.nyccivilrightshistory.org
Part of the Black and Latina Women’s Educational Activism collection in www.nyccivilrightshistory.org