Andrea Avery
@andreaavery.bsky.social
Author SONATA: A MEMOIR OF PAIN AND THE PIANO (Pegasus Books) and VISITING COMPOSER: A NOVELLA (**OUT NOW** from Miami U Press).
BA (🎹) MFA, Ed.D @ ASU
MD-born desert dweller. Editor. Thrifter. Cat lady.
Rheumatoid arthritis since 1989.
She/her.
BA (🎹) MFA, Ed.D @ ASU
MD-born desert dweller. Editor. Thrifter. Cat lady.
Rheumatoid arthritis since 1989.
She/her.
Pinned
Andrea Avery
@andreaavery.bsky.social
· Jul 1
🎶 Happy Publication Day to VISITING COMPOSER by @andreaavery.bsky.social!! 🎶
“Gorgeous, layered, and full of feeling, this brief trip out of time and into the hearts and minds of two psychically connected young composers is a delight.” –Gregory Spatz
sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...
“Gorgeous, layered, and full of feeling, this brief trip out of time and into the hearts and minds of two psychically connected young composers is a delight.” –Gregory Spatz
sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...
It’s my book’s birthday! And I am so glad and grateful it is in the hands of Miami
University Press. Dream publication experience …
@miamioh-press.bsky.social -press.bsky.social
University Press. Dream publication experience …
@miamioh-press.bsky.social -press.bsky.social
“Armadale,” Wilkie Collins’ tortured bromance novel, has no baronets but it has two (!) shipwrecks!
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“Armadale,” Wilkie Collins’ tortured bromance novel, has no baronets but it has two (!) shipwrecks!
I don’t think I could go totally back from smart phone, but is there an option for a not-that-smart phone? Like an iPhone with a 2010 level of AI but a really good camera?
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I don’t think I could go totally back from smart phone, but is there an option for a not-that-smart phone? Like an iPhone with a 2010 level of AI but a really good camera?
I am not convinced that “young, untested newbie who’s never governed anything” is automatically worse than “corrupt career politician who has never done any other job, and does it poorly.” Call me crazy.
November 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I am not convinced that “young, untested newbie who’s never governed anything” is automatically worse than “corrupt career politician who has never done any other job, and does it poorly.” Call me crazy.
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Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
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"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend."
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend."
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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Alice was the first person to ever encourage my creative writing. She was a thoughtful editor and a beloved mentor. I learned so much about activism just by watching her move through the world. May her memory be a blessing to us all.
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Alice was the first person to ever encourage my creative writing. She was a thoughtful editor and a beloved mentor. I learned so much about activism just by watching her move through the world. May her memory be a blessing to us all.
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A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
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I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
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Alice Wong ask that this be posted after her passing. Honoring that.
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Alice Wong ask that this be posted after her passing. Honoring that.
Somewhere someone is naming their cat GPT i just know it
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Somewhere someone is naming their cat GPT i just know it
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Get in the habit of bringing up accessibility at meetings, in stand-ups, and in demos. Bring up things you've done to address accessibility. Likewise, don't be afraid to ask, "Have we tested this on a keyboard?" or "What's the experience like on a screen reader?"
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Get in the habit of bringing up accessibility at meetings, in stand-ups, and in demos. Bring up things you've done to address accessibility. Likewise, don't be afraid to ask, "Have we tested this on a keyboard?" or "What's the experience like on a screen reader?"
Maybe don’t make an inedible toy (designated as a choking hazard and containing “compounds and polymer sprinkles”) and call it “Play-Doh scented butter” (even “butter-scented Play-Doh” would be marginally better, with a good graphic designer on the case) and put it in food-style packaging?
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Maybe don’t make an inedible toy (designated as a choking hazard and containing “compounds and polymer sprinkles”) and call it “Play-Doh scented butter” (even “butter-scented Play-Doh” would be marginally better, with a good graphic designer on the case) and put it in food-style packaging?
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
Thrifters, please stop bringing your non-thrifter husbands and boyfriends with you and letting them stand in all the wrong places while staring at their phone
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Thrifters, please stop bringing your non-thrifter husbands and boyfriends with you and letting them stand in all the wrong places while staring at their phone
If I had one of those limited edition 20-ounce Bearista cups and I filled it with 20 ounces of the instantaneously sold out Tillamook butternaise, could I sell that and retire
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
If I had one of those limited edition 20-ounce Bearista cups and I filled it with 20 ounces of the instantaneously sold out Tillamook butternaise, could I sell that and retire
This is brilliant!
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This is brilliant!
Hello to the writer at @Variety who tried a Kendrick Lamar/Sally Field mashup in the paragraph I just saw screenshotted on Threads, where they’re eating you for Girl Dinner but don’t worry. Gen X sees you
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Hello to the writer at @Variety who tried a Kendrick Lamar/Sally Field mashup in the paragraph I just saw screenshotted on Threads, where they’re eating you for Girl Dinner but don’t worry. Gen X sees you
Guess who’s back on her Wilkie Collins bullshit. Again.
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Guess who’s back on her Wilkie Collins bullshit. Again.
Bsky:Threads :: Teachers’ lounge:high school students
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Bsky:Threads :: Teachers’ lounge:high school students
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you're gonna be in a wheelchair a helluva a lot sooner than you'll be in a luxury yacht. talk about accessibility *NOW*
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
you're gonna be in a wheelchair a helluva a lot sooner than you'll be in a luxury yacht. talk about accessibility *NOW*
do you think SOME Manatees spell it Manaty #Kimberlee #Kimberly
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
do you think SOME Manatees spell it Manaty #Kimberlee #Kimberly
I know “poked the bear” is established idiom but when you say “Trump poked the bear last night” it sounds really dirty and nonconsensual and between that and RKF I just feel really worried about bears
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I know “poked the bear” is established idiom but when you say “Trump poked the bear last night” it sounds really dirty and nonconsensual and between that and RKF I just feel really worried about bears
The newspaper: Ah, ah, ah, not so fast, Mamdani could never be president because of the Constitution
Also the newspaper: Here’s why the whole “no third terms” thing in the Constitution is really a wide-open question
Also the newspaper: Here’s why the whole “no third terms” thing in the Constitution is really a wide-open question
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The newspaper: Ah, ah, ah, not so fast, Mamdani could never be president because of the Constitution
Also the newspaper: Here’s why the whole “no third terms” thing in the Constitution is really a wide-open question
Also the newspaper: Here’s why the whole “no third terms” thing in the Constitution is really a wide-open question
CNN reaction to Mamdani’s speech was wild. Tone-policing is all they got! He was loud! The way he used the microphone hurt their baby ears! He didn’t unite and include and invite everyone in! And it wasn’t just the conservative panelists. Duh, he’s the exterminator and you all are the cockroaches!
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
CNN reaction to Mamdani’s speech was wild. Tone-policing is all they got! He was loud! The way he used the microphone hurt their baby ears! He didn’t unite and include and invite everyone in! And it wasn’t just the conservative panelists. Duh, he’s the exterminator and you all are the cockroaches!