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Kate M
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Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: 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 2:05 AM
I just tried calling my (Dem) senator and got a "my office is closed please call back tomorrow" automated message and no voicemail option. I've never had that happen before? (But, small sample size tbf.)
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I... whaa... at LC we have archival collections measured in the millions of items.
October 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I'm SO in!
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Caroline is a friend and one of my favorite MG writers! So happy to see her books get love, especially from other writers I follow!
September 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
But I also very much subscribe to "not every piece of content for every consumer." I was able to deal because of the storytelling, the competence porn aspect, and the distance from my own areas of concern/difficulty/trauma. It won't be that way for everyone! And that's totally valid.
September 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I'm also from Pittsburgh. Honestly, if it weren't for that and Noah Wyle I wouldn't have picked up the show /because/ it's a medical drama. But it's good storytelling and phenomenal acting, so I stayed. The medical part isn't like House or Grey's - it's realistic medicine, not DRAMA and genius >
September 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I also feel very aware that this show is intentionally created as a reaction to the dismissal, disregard, and hate directed towards healthcare workers in the wake of the pandemic that is a separate type of complaint from the valid issues that disabled and CI folks have with workers/the system >
September 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM