Robin LaVoie
robinklavoie.bsky.social
Robin LaVoie
@robinklavoie.bsky.social
Researcher, essayist, mom, caregiver, reader, fidgety meditator. Fan of bad puns, good storytelling, & random kindnesses.
Itslikethis.Substack.com
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July 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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They’re trying to silence us. They are trying to erase us. They are targeting our children. They are criminalizing our medical care.
So what do we do about it? Get loud, get proud, and keep showing up as our gorgeous, beautiful selves.
genderwildpress.com
#queerstories #transstories #trans
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GenderWild Press
stories with queer roots
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June 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Oh yay! A beach ball launched itself from the pickup truck ahead of me. It giggled & soared into the next lane. I passed it as it bounced back the way they had come.

Oh no! My side mirror showed its fun-filled freedom curtly crushed under the wheel of a semi-truck. I could almost hear the pop. 😩
July 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I’ve been creating audio voiceovers for my Substack posts for quite awhile, but I finally went back and added all of the voiceovers to a podcast RSS feed.

Instant 40+ episode podcast! 😆🎙️😎

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
It's Like This Podcast
Personal Journals Podcast · Life around here? It’s like this. Caregiving, autism, advocacy, midlife. Storytelling, essays, humor, and short fiction. A selected voice-over of my Substack publication. ...
podcasts.apple.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are required to do. sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...
Tell Congress: Unmask ICE!
Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are re...
sign.moveon.org
July 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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#AZ01 Dave Schweikert (R): Trump won by just 3.1%! ✅

~48,000 #ACA exchange enrollees are at risk
~39,000 Medicaid expansion* enrollees are at risk

*(aka "AHCCCS" or "Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System" which is perhaps the most awkward name for a Medicaid program I've seen)
July 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
For all those fighting the good fight against the rising oligarchy, and for those like me whose families care very personally about Medicaid (oh, yes, and all the rest)
A Waiting Game
May the odds be ever in your favor
open.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Sign our letter telling your U.S. Senators to VOTE NO on the Republican Big Bad Betrayal Bill and instead prioritize families and our economy over billionaires. #MomsSky action.momsrising.org/sign/SenateR...
Speak out against the harmful Republican budget & tax bill.
Sign our letter telling your U.S. Senators to VOTE NO on the Republican Big Bad Betrayal Bill and instead prioritize families and our economy over billionaires.
action.momsrising.org
June 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The Supreme Court's ruling today in the Skrmetti case affirms government overreach at its worst and is a direct attack on the rights of parents. It is a cruel decision that will only harm vulnerable children and their families. thehill.com/regulation/c...
thehill.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
@azindivisible.bsky.social
@standindivisible.bsky.social
Great patriotic turnout at Schweikert’s office this morning! #nokings
June 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Getting ready….!
#nokings
June 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
First Studio Gallery in Phoenix - Res!st : A Show of Resistance. First Friday artist reception 6/6/25 and 8/1/25 5-9 p.m.
June 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Scottsdale” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Scottsdale · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
www.mobilize.us
May 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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@kyratangren.bsky.social On Monday, May 12th, Avelo Airlines will begin deportation flights out of Mesa Gateway Airport Arizona. We’ll be protesting from 9-11am to let them know we don’t want these cruel, often illegal flights happening in our community. Details at www.gilbertgoodtrouble.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I love my small but mighty community in my Trump-leaning town - we will overcome! In Fountain Hills, AZ!!
May 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Sorry, no time to respond to RFK, Jr.’s misguided priorities & damaging rhetoric—I’m too busy fighting for the Medicaid services & educational access that allow my 25-yr-old autistic son & others like him (1 / 2)
April 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Should add that while RFK Jr. is talking about how autism destroys families, the Trump administration sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the father of an #ActuallyAutistic child to El Salvador and says without evidence that he's a member of MS-13.
April 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If you’re in AZ, families like mine who rely on Medicaid waiver services could use your help. Click to read the Weekly and contact your reps please.
Harming vulnerable families over political games and budget cuts. Bad ideas headed for a vote (because of course they are). Time to write veto requests for a heap of garbage bills, friends!
CEBV Weekly: April 14, 2025
Harming vulnerable families over political games and budget cuts. Bad ideas headed for a vote. Time to write veto requests for a heap of garbage bills.
buff.ly
April 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The restorative relief I feel after having two quiet, creative flow hours to work on personal writing is worth it even if I never get this piece done enough to publish.

I’ll remind myself of this next week when my brain tells me how much time I’ve “wasted.”
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April 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Fear has a way of being contagious.

But courage is also contagious.
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I can’t possibly fit all my anger on one sign…how can there be SO many things I care about that they are tearing apart?
Ready for #handsoff in Scottsdale!
April 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM