Leona Lee
@leonalee.bsky.social
Please Mask Up! Disability Rights, Affordable and Accessible Housing, and Disabled Debtors Cohort with the Debt Collective. https://debtcollective.org/working-groups/disabled-debtors-cohort/ and silly cats & Chicago stuff.
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, or as it is otherwise known, Theater Kid Olympics.
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, or as it is otherwise known, Theater Kid Olympics.
#Chicago #ChicagoHistory fans! I'm selling several books about Chicago history/great photographs, coming soon: more newspapers, articles, postcards, etc. I'm moving in a few weeks, this is your opportunity! www.facebook.com/marketplace/...
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#Chicago #ChicagoHistory fans! I'm selling several books about Chicago history/great photographs, coming soon: more newspapers, articles, postcards, etc. I'm moving in a few weeks, this is your opportunity! www.facebook.com/marketplace/...
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i believe it is peace for our time
November 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
i believe it is peace for our time
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
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Meet our new family member.
Rescuers found him living behind a liquor store near Livernois & 6 Mile.
They thought he was a girl because he was protecting and raising 3 sick kittens despite being only 6 months old himself. He’s not the mom or the dad, he’s the dad who stepped up 😭
Now he is home!
Rescuers found him living behind a liquor store near Livernois & 6 Mile.
They thought he was a girl because he was protecting and raising 3 sick kittens despite being only 6 months old himself. He’s not the mom or the dad, he’s the dad who stepped up 😭
Now he is home!
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Meet our new family member.
Rescuers found him living behind a liquor store near Livernois & 6 Mile.
They thought he was a girl because he was protecting and raising 3 sick kittens despite being only 6 months old himself. He’s not the mom or the dad, he’s the dad who stepped up 😭
Now he is home!
Rescuers found him living behind a liquor store near Livernois & 6 Mile.
They thought he was a girl because he was protecting and raising 3 sick kittens despite being only 6 months old himself. He’s not the mom or the dad, he’s the dad who stepped up 😭
Now he is home!
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Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
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I love Christmas window decorations
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I love Christmas window decorations
in case anyone has to deal with mildewy/moldy books, this worked for me: take off dust jacket as mold loves it underneath. place books in sealed ziploc bags, place in freezer for 2 days, then wear gloves /mask, try cleaning the dead mold with cotton balls/rubbing alcohol, return the possibly cont.-
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
in case anyone has to deal with mildewy/moldy books, this worked for me: take off dust jacket as mold loves it underneath. place books in sealed ziploc bags, place in freezer for 2 days, then wear gloves /mask, try cleaning the dead mold with cotton balls/rubbing alcohol, return the possibly cont.-
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If you don’t have plans for Thanksgiving & would like to hang with fellow CC folks over Zoom, @kalibutterfly.bsky.social & I invite you to join us for Craftsgiving. Join w/camera on or off. Free. Just a virtual space to enjoy good company with other folks living in reality.😷❤️Deets below.
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If you don’t have plans for Thanksgiving & would like to hang with fellow CC folks over Zoom, @kalibutterfly.bsky.social & I invite you to join us for Craftsgiving. Join w/camera on or off. Free. Just a virtual space to enjoy good company with other folks living in reality.😷❤️Deets below.
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I woke up to the news that @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has passed away. I made sure to always give Alice her flowers when we texted or saw each other. I know she knew how much I loved her & appreciated the way she believed in & supported me. But I still wish I could tell her one last time.
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I woke up to the news that @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has passed away. I made sure to always give Alice her flowers when we texted or saw each other. I know she knew how much I loved her & appreciated the way she believed in & supported me. But I still wish I could tell her one last time.
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Alice Wong's family & friends have invited Alice's "friends, community, & her many fans to contribute to Alice's GoFundMe to continue the legacy of her work." If you are able, please consider joining me in supporting Alice's ongoing work.
www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
Donate to Help finish Alice’s work, organized by yomi wrong
Our comrade, friend, collaborator and fierce Tiger Mischief Maker, Alice Wong, needs us.
As yo… yomi wrong needs your support for Help finish Alice’s work
www.gofundme.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Alice Wong's family & friends have invited Alice's "friends, community, & her many fans to contribute to Alice's GoFundMe to continue the legacy of her work." If you are able, please consider joining me in supporting Alice's ongoing work.
www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
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Santa Claus is coming to town 🎅
The iconic Allstate CTA Holiday Train will merrily roll along all eight rail lines this season, launching from the Midway Orange Line station Friday, November 28.
The iconic Allstate CTA Holiday Train will merrily roll along all eight rail lines this season, launching from the Midway Orange Line station Friday, November 28.
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Santa Claus is coming to town 🎅
The iconic Allstate CTA Holiday Train will merrily roll along all eight rail lines this season, launching from the Midway Orange Line station Friday, November 28.
The iconic Allstate CTA Holiday Train will merrily roll along all eight rail lines this season, launching from the Midway Orange Line station Friday, November 28.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Chicago folks giving helpful advice to Charlotte folks...
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For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Chicago folks giving helpful advice to Charlotte folks...
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RIP Alice Wong, author, #HumanRights activist, disabled warrior and fierce with it! Farewell @sfdirewolf.bsky.social
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If you haven't heard of Alice Wong, here's an interview from earlier in 2025 on her receiving a 2024 MacArthur ‘genius’ award.
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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If you haven't heard of Alice Wong, here's an interview from earlier in 2025 on her receiving a 2024 MacArthur ‘genius’ award.
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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 8:30 AM
RIP Alice Wong, author, #HumanRights activist, disabled warrior and fierce with it! Farewell @sfdirewolf.bsky.social
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If you haven't heard of Alice Wong, here's an interview from earlier in 2025 on her receiving a 2024 MacArthur ‘genius’ award.
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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If you haven't heard of Alice Wong, here's an interview from earlier in 2025 on her receiving a 2024 MacArthur ‘genius’ award.
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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“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 10:36 AM
“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:
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This is the first page of The Viral Underclass. I am so glad I got to give her a signed copy and that I also got to send her a copy of the Chinese translation when it was published. She was so excited to see her words translated into Chinese.
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This is the first page of The Viral Underclass. I am so glad I got to give her a signed copy and that I also got to send her a copy of the Chinese translation when it was published. She was so excited to see her words translated into Chinese.
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the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.
Disability Visibility anthology
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books, 2020) Click here for more about the anthology adapted for young people. Order paperback, e-bo…
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.
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Alice didn’t just advocate - she created platforms. #DisabilityVisibility became a lifeline, amplifying disabled voices, stories, and expertise in ways that were revolutionary. /2
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
Disability Visibility Project
"Creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture"
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Alice didn’t just advocate - she created platforms. #DisabilityVisibility became a lifeline, amplifying disabled voices, stories, and expertise in ways that were revolutionary. /2
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
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"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger