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A multimedia and social impact consultancy centering disability justice.
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Today is World AIDS Day.

“An awareness day is not a strategy” is the US government's rationale for not publicly acknowledging World AIDS Day for the first time since the inaugural WAD in 1988.

#WAD2025
Graphic for World AIDS Day 2025 showing a Black woman standing on a higher red ledge reaching down to pull up a Black man on a lower red ledge, with the words ‘World AIDS Day | 2025’ on the bottom.
December 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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seemiaroll.bsky.social
Saturday was the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). I wrote about how the law helped make me who I am today and how losing it's protections may stifle the talent of generations of disabled individuals after me. www.the74million.org/article/weak...
Weakening the IDEA Threatens Millions of Disabled Americans Like Me
Ives-Rublee: Federal law made it possible for disabled students like me to go to school. Those opportunities may vanish for the next generation.
www.the74million.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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autisticadvocacy.org
Today is World AIDS Day. People with IDD are often left out of conversations about HIV and AIDS, but they do impact our community. Check out this post with parts of our plain language resource “A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Safer Sex.” Full resource here: autisticadvocacy.org/resources/pr...
Orange and white textured gradient background. There’s an illustration of a red awareness ribbon on the right side. Text reads: Today, December 1st, is World AIDS Day. To commemorate World AIDS Day and the impact AIDS has on our communities, this post has some parts of our plain language resource about HIV and AIDS. Orange and white textured gradient background. Text reads: What is HIV? HIV is a germ that makes it hard for your body to fight other germs. HIV kills off the parts of your body that fight off germs. This can make it very easy to get sick. Without treatment, people with HIV often get sick with diseases that people without HIV can fight off easily. Without treatment, people with HIV can easily die of diseases that do not make people without HIV very sick. How can you get HIV? Sex: HIV is an STI. This means you can get HIV through having sex. Sharing needles: by sharing needles, syringes, and other injection supplies with other people who have HIV if you inject drugs. During pregnancy: pregnant people who have HIV can give HIV to their fetus if they are not on HIV medication. While breastfeeding: breastfeeding people who have HIV can give HIV to their babies if they are not on medication. Orange and white textured gradient background. Text reads: What is AIDS? AIDS is a disease caused by HIV. When HIV gets inside your body, the HIV germs kill off certain cells in your body. These cells are called CD4 cells. CD4 cells help your body fight off germs. If a person with HIV does not get proper medication and treatment, the HIV germs will keep killing off CD4 cells. If a person’s CD4 cell count gets too low, the person can get very sick. If a person has HIV and their CD4 cell count gets too low, that person has AIDS. People with AIDS can get very sick. Not everyone with HIV has AIDS. People with HIV can take medication to stop themselves from getting AIDS. The best way to prevent HIV from causing AIDS is to test for HIV. That way, if someone has HIV, they will know they have HIV. Then, they can get medication to stop them from getting AIDS. Orange and white textured gradient background. Text reads: HIV Prevention. Using a condom or other barrier method is a good way to help prevent HIV and other STIs. Both internal and external condoms can help prevent you from getting or giving someone HIV. Dental dams and gloves can also help prevent you from getting or giving someone HIV. PrEP. PrEP is short for “pre-exposure prophylaxis.” “Prophylaxis” means “prevention.” “Pre-exposure” means “before you are exposed” to HIV. PrEP is a medication you take regularly to prevent getting HIV. PrEP can make your chance of getting HIV smaller, even if you do not use condoms. PEP. PEP is short for “post-exposure prophylaxis.” “Prophylaxis” means “prevention.” “Post-exposure” means “after you are exposed” to HIV. PEP can make your chance of getting HIV smaller. You take PEP after you might have been exposed to HIV.
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Santa Fe is linking wages to rental prices — a first in the U.S. — as officials try to slow displacement with soaring housing costs
Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach
Santa Fe is the first city in the U.S. to directly link wages to housing affordability, aiming to counter high rents.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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fightforprogress.org
EPA is reportedly exploring whether it can detect abortion pills like mifepristone in wastewater — a move critics fear opens the door to surveillance of private reproductive choices.
The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills
Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency found that they could develop methods to identify traces of the medication if necessary — a practice long sought by the anti-abortion movement.
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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These cuts would drastically harm the health and wellbeing of those with disabilities.

The Trump Administration’s Plans To Covertly Cut Social Security Disability Benefits www.americanprogress.org/article/the-... by @mollyww.bsky.social @seemiaroll.bsky.social via @americanprogress.bsky.social
The Trump Administration’s Plans To Covertly Cut Social Security Disability Benefits
An upcoming regulatory proposal would change the rules of Social Security disability programs to make it harder to qualify, particularly harming older adults.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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propublica.org
The programs will continue to receive grant funding, but only for one year.

“It is still a disruption to families,’’ Lisa McConachie of the Oregon DeafBlind Project said. “It creates this mistrust, that you are gone and back and gone and back.”
Education Dept. Reverses Decision to Halt Funds for Deafblind Student Programs
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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aclu.org
The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.
October 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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oniblackstock.bsky.social
🌱In our just-released op-ed for @statnews.com @cre8tivecadence.bsky.social & I share our thoughts on the critical need for community-centered governance in #generativeAI in both health care & public health, moving away from top-down approaches to ones that are from the ground up.

#healthequity
Engage the community in generative AI for public health
Slower uptake of generative AI in public health provides a unique opportunity to embed community accountability before more of these models are fully scaled.
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August 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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seemiaroll.bsky.social
Disparate impact provides protection 4 some of the most vulnerable, including disabled ppl & Black & brown ppl. Folx have become masterful at writing policy that seems equal, but disproportionately impacts folx who've been historically marginalized. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
The Truth About Disparate Impact and Equity
The Supreme Court has reaffirmed disparate impact liability numerous times, and President Trump’s April 23 executive order does not inhibit private plaintiffs’ ability to file civil claims.
www.americanprogress.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Patty Berne, my comrade is now on the ancestral plane. Here are my remarks from Patty’s celebration of life

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Patty Berne,a Japanese-Haitian person with light brown skin, smiles playfully with love and light shining from their brown eyes. They wear an off the shoulder opalescent blue dress and an amethyst pendant. Their brown hair is pulled back into their signature two buns. Behind Patty is a pink background with radiant red and yellow flowers. At the top of the image, iridescent capital letters spell out “PATTY LIVES THROUGH US.” On the bottom right corner is Sins Invalid’s logo, a black rectangular box with white letters that read “Sins Invalid.”
August 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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"LGBTQ+ adults are twice as likely as non-LGBTQ+ adults to use Medicaid as their main insurance, according to the Williams Institute, and are more likely to experience food insecurity and rely on SNAP benefits."
July 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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vulgareconomics.bsky.social
Nearly everything ICE and CBP are doing as far as due process goes is just how police operate generally, and it would be nice if literally any reporter pointed this out
July 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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msf.ca
Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as...
Palestine: As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Over 100 humanitarian groups, including MSF, urge governments to act as starvation spreads in Gaza.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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19thnews.org
A Texas man is suing a California doctor over his girlfriend’s alleged abortion across state lines — the latest in a string of cases meant to test the laws that have helped people get care.
Telehealth abortion access could be challenged nationwide in new lawsuit
A Texas man is suing a California doctor over his girlfriend’s alleged abortion across state lines — the latest in a string of cases meant to test the laws that have helped people get care.
19thnews.org
July 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Happy Disability Pride Month!

Disability pride is for everyone who is:

Disabled/neurodivergent/chronically ill

For people who don't want to call themselves disabled or want a cure

People who don't think they're disabled enough for pride (you are)

For our co-conspirators
July 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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With deep sorrow, we share that Sins Invalid’s Co-Founder & Director, Patty Berne, joined the ancestors on May 29, 2025.

Patty’s brilliance, love, and vision shaped how we move, care, resist, and imagine. We honor her by continuing the work she led.

🖤 #PattyBerne #SinsInvalid
Image Description: Patty Berne,a Japanese-Haitian person with light brown skin, smiles playfully with love and light shining from their brown eyes. They wear an off the shoulder opalescent blue dress and an amethyst pendant. Their brown hair is pulled back into their signature two buns. Behind Patty is a pink background with radiant red and yellow flowers. At the top of the image, iridescent capital letters spell out “PATTY LIVES THROUGH US.” On the bottom right corner is Sins Invalid’s logo, a black rectangular box with white letters that read “Sins Invalid.”
June 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Sad to hear of the passing of #DisabilityJustice activist and visionary Patty Berne.

#SinsInvalid reminds us: “As we grieve, please care for each other in the ways Patty taught us:

Check in on a friend.
Cook a meal.
Support someone at the edge.
Practice Disability Justice in real time.”
A bright illustration of Patty Berne,a Japanese-Haitian person with light brown skin, who smiles playfully with love and light shining from their brown eyes. They wear an off the shoulder opalescent blue dress and an amethyst pendant. Their brown hair is pulled back into their signature two buns. Behind Patty is a pink background with radiant red and yellow flowers. At the top of the image, iridescent capital letters spell out “PATTY LIVES THROUGH US.” On the bottom right corner is Sins Invalid’s logo, a black rectangular box with white letters that read “Sins Invalid.”
July 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The Big, Ugly, Amoral Bill has passed the House. Still, we hold onto hope. The predicted premature deaths, the families left hungry & uninsured; these are not a foregone conclusion. We can & must invest in strategies that are already working & find new ways to support one another/our communities...
July 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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American exceptionalism.

"United States Appears Set to Skip World Health Assembly while China Sends Over 180 Delegates to Geneva"

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United States Appears Set To Skip World Health Assembly While China Sends Over 180 Delegates To Geneva - Health Policy Watch
The United States appears set to skip this year’s World Health Assembly at a historic moment when other WHO member states are expected to agree to a Pandemic
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May 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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"Nobody's free until everybody's free."

— Fannie Lou Hamer
May 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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This is the correct link: www.diningoutforlife.com/about/

H/t @oharrahg.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM