Camille Buckner
@camillebuckner.bsky.social
My pen is huge & I love sentences. And words. Like wombat & elixir. People & planet over profits. Build new systems. Equity. Inclusion. Justice. #BLM #LandBack #DefundHate #LongCovid #MECFS #Poetry #AcademicSky😷🍉🏳️⚧️
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Two Poems By Camille Buckner | Mid-Atlantic Review
These poems are published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce. Bag of Bones Stewing in Pearls of Wisdom...
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A spot of good news! The Mid-Atlantic Review published 2 of my poems in the Amplifying Disabled Voices section.
Writing helps me process this #LongCovid hellscape. ❤️ to all with #ChronicIllness, always. I see you. I hear you. I’m with you. #Disability #Poetry
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Writing helps me process this #LongCovid hellscape. ❤️ to all with #ChronicIllness, always. I see you. I hear you. I’m with you. #Disability #Poetry
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
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Kishwer Falkner giving a masterclass in the way fascists dehumanise minorities to foment hatred/eradication of them.
Transphobia is fascism.
Transphobia is fascism.
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Kishwer Falkner giving a masterclass in the way fascists dehumanise minorities to foment hatred/eradication of them.
Transphobia is fascism.
Transphobia is fascism.
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there is no natural golden ratio of abled to disabled ppl, and no upper cap on what percentage of population can be disabled. if you sicken and injure enough ppl, and destroy accessibility of public life in a hostile and unsupported society so a wider and wider range are excluded, the skys the limit
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
there is no natural golden ratio of abled to disabled ppl, and no upper cap on what percentage of population can be disabled. if you sicken and injure enough ppl, and destroy accessibility of public life in a hostile and unsupported society so a wider and wider range are excluded, the skys the limit
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
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Day 1072—Why does ME/CFS score so low in quality of life? Because it stunts one's ability to perform daily activities. You can't function. You can't attend functions. Try as you might to carefully pace, PEM crashes are inevitable—and severe. So you remain. Alive but not living; barely even here.
August 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Day 1072—Why does ME/CFS score so low in quality of life? Because it stunts one's ability to perform daily activities. You can't function. You can't attend functions. Try as you might to carefully pace, PEM crashes are inevitable—and severe. So you remain. Alive but not living; barely even here.
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The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.
And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
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It’s tiresome and repetitive but I think it may be imperative every time fascism tells this fundamentally antisemitic lie that every Jew who knows even a bit of what’s what—I know a bit—says explicitly “this isn’t for me. It’s against me & everyone human.”
Statement from U.S. AG Pam Bondi:
“Today’s settlement marks another victory in the Trump Administration’s fight to ensure that American educational institutions protect Jewish students and put merit first…
“Today’s settlement marks another victory in the Trump Administration’s fight to ensure that American educational institutions protect Jewish students and put merit first…
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It’s tiresome and repetitive but I think it may be imperative every time fascism tells this fundamentally antisemitic lie that every Jew who knows even a bit of what’s what—I know a bit—says explicitly “this isn’t for me. It’s against me & everyone human.”
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November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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🗣️Gender-affirming care saves lives! #TransRightsAreHumanRights🏳️⚧️
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🗣️Gender-affirming care saves lives! #TransRightsAreHumanRights🏳️⚧️
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This bodes well for myself as this is currently hanging in my kitchen.
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This bodes well for myself as this is currently hanging in my kitchen.
Wise words. COVID is not over. There are only so many hits the body can take before it short circuits. #LongCovid is a living hell.
We need systemic change in how #COVID-19 is managed to stem the spread and ongoing harm.
We need systemic change in how #COVID-19 is managed to stem the spread and ongoing harm.
COVID-19 has not disappeared. It continues to spread, disable, and disrupt lives - yet national strategies still appear to fail to acknowledge its persistence or the need for stronger infection prevention... open.substack.com/pub/joepajak...
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Wise words. COVID is not over. There are only so many hits the body can take before it short circuits. #LongCovid is a living hell.
We need systemic change in how #COVID-19 is managed to stem the spread and ongoing harm.
We need systemic change in how #COVID-19 is managed to stem the spread and ongoing harm.
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Every reporter covering this story needs to make something very, very, explicitly clear:
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Every reporter covering this story needs to make something very, very, explicitly clear:
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
This is a great read. Sharing is caring. #CovidIsNotOver
“Your body is keeping score.”
Full article: whn.global/covid-isnt-a...
“Your body is keeping score.”
Full article: whn.global/covid-isnt-a...
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This is a great read. Sharing is caring. #CovidIsNotOver
“Your body is keeping score.”
Full article: whn.global/covid-isnt-a...
“Your body is keeping score.”
Full article: whn.global/covid-isnt-a...
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If no one in your timeline is grieving the loss of Alice Wong today then you’re not hearing from enough disabled people or even people who listen to disabled people.
That’s a massive segment of society to which you will likely belong some day. Might want to turn an ear toward them sooner than later
That’s a massive segment of society to which you will likely belong some day. Might want to turn an ear toward them sooner than later
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If no one in your timeline is grieving the loss of Alice Wong today then you’re not hearing from enough disabled people or even people who listen to disabled people.
That’s a massive segment of society to which you will likely belong some day. Might want to turn an ear toward them sooner than later
That’s a massive segment of society to which you will likely belong some day. Might want to turn an ear toward them sooner than later
Believe Survivors.
“What we’re fighting is a system that was built by predators for predators.”
#EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct
“What we’re fighting is a system that was built by predators for predators.”
#EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct
and when this all comes out a lot of people are going to be surprised who did what to GIRLS & BOYS. CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS.
I’m making this because the gaslighting being done by “apologists” is INSANE and it’s meant to make us feel that way.
Please vote for the Epstein Transparency Act
I’m making this because the gaslighting being done by “apologists” is INSANE and it’s meant to make us feel that way.
Please vote for the Epstein Transparency Act
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Believe Survivors.
“What we’re fighting is a system that was built by predators for predators.”
#EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct
“What we’re fighting is a system that was built by predators for predators.”
#EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct
“You all, we all, deserve the everything & more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive & unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.” -Alice Wong RIP💔
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“You all, we all, deserve the everything & more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive & unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.” -Alice Wong RIP💔
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.
Disability Visibility anthology
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books, 2020) Click here for more about the anthology adapted for young people. Order paperback, e-bo…
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November 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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I know this is hard for commercial journalism to understand but LGBTQ ppl are not heard as virtue or vice signalling devices. We’re just ordinary ppl trying to live in peace as right wing politics tries to make our lives harder.
Before you write a story about us, visit an ordinary gay bar…
Before you write a story about us, visit an ordinary gay bar…
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I know this is hard for commercial journalism to understand but LGBTQ ppl are not heard as virtue or vice signalling devices. We’re just ordinary ppl trying to live in peace as right wing politics tries to make our lives harder.
Before you write a story about us, visit an ordinary gay bar…
Before you write a story about us, visit an ordinary gay bar…
NO. Shame on you. Stand with the survivors. Believe them. Respect them. Give them justice. Accountability NOW for ALL perpetrators. #ReleaseTheFiles #ReleaseTheTrumpsteinFiles
Leavitt on Epstein: "This is truly a manufactured hoax by the Democrat Party"
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
NO. Shame on you. Stand with the survivors. Believe them. Respect them. Give them justice. Accountability NOW for ALL perpetrators. #ReleaseTheFiles #ReleaseTheTrumpsteinFiles
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Father of two, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, senselessly killed by ICE
He had no criminal history, just traffic tickets. He was a soft-spoken man who left his quiet village years ago for economic opportunity in the US and worked long hours to support his two children.
www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
He had no criminal history, just traffic tickets. He was a soft-spoken man who left his quiet village years ago for economic opportunity in the US and worked long hours to support his two children.
www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Father of two, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, senselessly killed by ICE
He had no criminal history, just traffic tickets. He was a soft-spoken man who left his quiet village years ago for economic opportunity in the US and worked long hours to support his two children.
www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
He had no criminal history, just traffic tickets. He was a soft-spoken man who left his quiet village years ago for economic opportunity in the US and worked long hours to support his two children.
www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
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As many as 267,000 U.S. veterans will lose their healthcare because Congress has failed to extend the health care tax credit, which expires soon.
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
267,000 U.S. Veterans to Lose Their Coverage without Health Care Tax Credit
As many as 267,000 U.S. military veterans are set to lose their health coverage next year because Congress has so
americanscovered.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
As many as 267,000 U.S. veterans will lose their healthcare because Congress has failed to extend the health care tax credit, which expires soon.
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
💚 OPEN LETTER TO @zackpolanski.bsky.social 💚
Long Covid is a crisis being silenced. Government denial is harming lives & livelihoods.
We call for bold system change: patient-led care, biomedical research, centres of excellence & hope for those left behind.
Full open letter 👇
Long Covid is a crisis being silenced. Government denial is harming lives & livelihoods.
We call for bold system change: patient-led care, biomedical research, centres of excellence & hope for those left behind.
Full open letter 👇
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
Here we go again (w alt text)
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Here we go again (w alt text)