Oooh this looks amaaaazing! In looking them up, I found their allergen menu, which lets you filter out various common allergens (like gluten for me) and the accessibility of that makes me want to cry. I can't wait to try this place, thank you for the rec!

Super cute! And the dress being super cheap just makes it more perfect for finding adventures with less stress. 💖

Polkadots, crinoline, AND a fan?? What a fabulous outfit! I love the black buttons on the pink, too

Reminds me of the look of the magical bookstore in The Craft (1996). I wonder if they matched the vibes intentionally, or if I'm just projecting. 🤔

Thank YOU for writing such an amazing book! I keep gifting ebook copies to family and friends. I also referenced it multiple times (with full credit & links) in "Disability in SFF," a presentation I gave at @armadillocon.bsky.social. You articulated so many things I wish I'd had words for as a kid.

Ahhh, I just found your other convo in this thread about GF options, THANK YOU for sharing this photo!!! Might be time to start saving up...

bsky.app/profile/erin...

Just out of curiosity, have you tried the gluten free setting? I'd def. have to save up for this, but it's been hell being multiply disabled and having to add gluten sensitivity, aka "either you use all your energy to bake your own OR buy the tiny frozen loaves for 2-3x the cost of standard bread"

I'd say medical ethics and disability have a solid venn diagram overlap, so that's maybe something I could talk about too, even if the characters aren't necessarily dealing with long-term disability/chronic illness/neurodivergence/mental health conditions. Thanks!

Damn. Went looking for mental health themes in Babylon 5 (since people often don't talk about mental health conditions & neurodivergence as disability) and came across this. Kudos to JMS for respecting O'Hare's needs and privacy. After reading Visitor's Women in Trek, I can guess how rare that was.

Thanks for considering it, I appreciate your expertise! Hm. Interestingly, knowing that there may be only a few things to discuss makes it feel a little more accessible to me. 😂 And lower-stakes in general.

With some cursory searches, I haven't been able to find much about disability tropes/themes in Babylon 5. So I'm guessing either there isn't much in the show or nobody has publicly taken a disability lens to it yet. I'm not sure I'm the one to do that, considering limited spoons, but maybe.

I agree completely. It's part "tropes in media influence so much of what we believe to be im/possible" and part "but disability makes me uncomfortable and I don't wanna deal with that, so I prefer the trope where it's scientifically magicked away every time."

In her short book Against Technoableism @ashleyshoo.bsky.social demonstrates repeatedly why simpler tech is often safer & easier to repair w/o expensive corporate interventions. I listened to the book while struggling to repair my own manual chair & felt SO witnessed.

bookshop.org/p/books/agai...

All 135 pgs of Against Technoableism are relevant, but esp Chapter 6 arguing we'll see MORE disability for @ least 6 reasons. "Space is already disabling for humans. Just as the built environment on Earth is not suited for disabled bodies, space as an environment is not suited to ANY human bodies."

In her short book Against Technoableism @ashleyshoo.bsky.social demonstrates repeatedly why simpler tech is often safer & easier to repair w/o expensive corporate interventions. I listened to the book while struggling to repair my own manual chair & felt SO witnessed.

bookshop.org/p/books/agai...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

“Terminated USAID funding has also resulted in more than 164,000 additional child deaths from pneumonia, 125,000 additional child deaths from diarrhea, 70,000 additional adult and child deaths from malaria, and 48,000 additional adult and child deaths from tuberculosis.”

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

I often think abt how wheelchairs are seen as bad or "giving up" in a nondisabled gaze. I think it's bc they're comparing their walking experience to their assumptions abt my wheelchair. But I'm comparing "crutches=pain/injury/20 ft of movement" to "wheelchair=less pain/injury/I can go MILES!"