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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3h

Here's one of Alice Wong's pearls of Activist Wisdom from Year of the Tiger: "Make your shit as accessible as possible from the outset & keep refining your practices as you learn & grow."

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3h

All eyes on Georgia & Tennessee (& @taniel.bsky.social's feed).
Y'all got this.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3h

JUST IN: we have the early vote from Roswell, Georgia.

GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson trails Dem challenger Mary Robichaux, 58% to 42% so far.

That's out of 8,949 votes counted. In November, the early vote was roughly half of the ballots, and (as you'd expect), the GOP was stronger on Election Day.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3h

Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.

Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’

Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3h

JUST IN: we have the early vote from Roswell, Georgia.

GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson trails Dem challenger Mary Robichaux, 58% to 42% so far.

That's out of 8,949 votes counted. In November, the early vote was roughly half of the ballots, and (as you'd expect), the GOP was stronger on Election Day.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3h

Notable that 9 deans at UVA have asked BoV to pause selection of 10th pres. They write, "Among the reasons for mistrust are concerns about an appointment of a new pres w/inadequate vetting & due diligence & w/o a clear foundation of institutional legitimacy."

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Nine deans ask U.Va. Board of Visitors to pause selection of 10th president

The deans said that naming a president should be paused until the Board can establish the “conditions of trust” necessary for the next president to succeed.

www.cavalierdaily.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 4h

Yes. “Unfair advantage” is being wielded by powerful people & interests against less powerful & vulnerable people. This power play connects attacks on DEI, trans folks, & disabled people.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 9h

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 9h

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 15h

Sharing again my piece on what Alice & her work meant and means to me. #SuckItAbleism www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/ali...

Alice Wong: #SuckItAbleism — Lisa Diedrich

Alice Wong was an incomparable force for disability justice and community, and the heartfelt outpouring of love and appreciation for her and her work on social media today shows the profound personal ...

www.lisadiedrich.org

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 15h

On giving Tuesday, please join me if you can in helping continue Alice's work.
gofund.me/8bedd2620

Donate to Help Continue Alice's Work, organized by yomi wrong

Our comrade, friend, collaborator and fierce Tiger Mischief Maker, Alice Wong, has transitioned.… yomi wrong needs your support for Help Continue Alice's Work

gofund.me

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Noticed this too & have replied to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before to encourage use of alt text. I’ve been rereading Alice Wong’s Year of the Tiger & she says it best, “Make your shit accessible” by using plain language, image descriptions, transcripts, live caption. #CripTheVote

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

all the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social replies are asking his team to go back to using alt text (which they did during the election, but abruptly stopped)

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

all the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social replies are asking his team to go back to using alt text (which they did during the election, but abruptly stopped)

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely, flowing move from back to front for the USWNT, but, wow, Italy not offering any resistance at all. Caught spectating.

Our Game Magazine @ourgamemagazine.bsky.social · 1d

We could get used to this

Our Game Magazine @ourgamemagazine.bsky.social · 1d

We could get used to this

Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 1d

From WHAT'S LEFT IS TENDER: a poem in honor of my former partner who passed from AIDS-related opportunistic infectons and in gratitude of the AIDS poets who shaped so much of my formation as a gay man and poet. Monette taught me about the power of queer anger, and it has suffused my work.

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After Paul Monette

they pricked you enough times until there was nothing left to draw but from the remaining vein of obscenity you held in abeyance for so long they kept claiming it was starting to take over the whole of you like a virus like a fucking virus that they cannot even call by a proper name other than one conflated with a set of conditions less opportune than their profitmaking their prescription pad that even the oracles couldn't decipher because we are a brotherhood bound to be kept in the dark and dying in the dark unless we break silence like they break bodies and soon you won't be in the streets with me and I will have to carry your wit as memory as weapon because it was always sharper sharp enough to cut the cosmos and grab gods by the white of their throats damn it I tried to shake the tinnitus of that damn vitals monitor but it is all I can hear aside from the time you told me I was worth more than the pain that you now know better than anyone who comes by with vases full of things that will live longer than you and fail to comfort me when I am left alone with them and this sheet you have imprinted with your sigil for me to carry like a banner into war when I have tried so long to flee from it and the graves that hold so many of the unnamed who died alone so no more of this life of luxury this life of pacifism because they continue to pronounce our death but our right is refusal our right is to survive when we were already supposed to be in the ground

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Critical & devastating work by @thrasherxy.bsky.social & Afeef Nessouli documenting what they call the "racialized LGBTQ+ employment crisis for front-line Black & brown workers" in HIV prevention & care globally. #WorldAIDSDay #IllnessPolitics
theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time

By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.

theintercept.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

For World AIDS Day, ACT UP New York has created posters as part of their Healthgate campaign, which capture the deadly consequences of creepy RFK Jr as head of HHS.
Dismantling Healthcare = Death!
You can download the posters here: actupny.com/act-up-ny-an...
#WorldAIDSDay
#IllnessPolitics

Lime green poster of a creepy-looking medusa-like RFK Jr with pink eyes & snakes coming from his head. HEALTHGATE is written in pink block letters across his chin. Text below reads:
RFK, Jr: THE PUBLIC MAN-MADE DEATH
As of Nov 5, 2025, it is estimated that USAID's dismantling has already caused the deaths of 630,000 people, 420,000 children.
Defunding health and science--and leaving HIV, TB, and vaccine-preventable illnesses untested, unprevenbted, and untreated--kills.
ACT UP
LEARN THE FACTS
DISMANTLING HEALTHCARE = DEATH

Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d

👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Aging with complex chronic illnesses and disabilities at home

Hi! My name is Julia Métraux, and I am Mother Jones' disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging ind...

docs.google.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

AIDS is at the center of all my work. Here is a piece on Robert Glück's beautiful hybrid memoir About Ed.
#IllnessPolitics
#WorldAIDSDay

www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-note...

Bob and Ed’s Tomb — Lisa Diedrich

One question Glück explores in  About Ed  is how to write aboutness—a quality that combines nearness with a certain imprecision.

www.lisadiedrich.org

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, this is an exciting opportunity for folks working on dissertation projects in Medical Humanities, jointly organized by two of the top programs!

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 1d

Applications are now open for our 2026 International Medical Humanities PhD Summer School!

The Summer School is held jointly with the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at @liu.se.

Apply by 16 February 2026 👉 tinyurl.com/Phd-summer-s...

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 1d

Applications are now open for our 2026 International Medical Humanities PhD Summer School!

The Summer School is held jointly with the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at @liu.se.

Apply by 16 February 2026 👉 tinyurl.com/Phd-summer-s...

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 1d

World AIDS Day. We remember.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

This book by Megan Burke might be a good place to start.
bsky.app/profile/lisa...

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Apr 6

Highly recommend Megan Burke’s BECOMING A WOMAN: SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR & THE POLITICS OF TRANS EXISTENCE. Burke draws on Beauvoir’s existentialist ethics of ambiguity to argue for trans first-person authority (trans FPA) & the “commitment to gender self-determination” as social practices.

BECOMING A WOMAN: SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR & THE POLITICS OF TRANS EXISTENCE by Megan Burke. Cover has a photo of Beauvoir with a trans flag draped over her shoulders like a shawl on a black background.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

We're talking existentialist bad faith here & Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex especially.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

On World AIDS Day, reposting this piece on David Wojnarowicz, politics, & gestures that draws on one of my snapshots of illness-thought-activism in time in my book Indirect Action.
#IllnessPolitics

www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/on-...

On David Wojnarowicz, politics, and gestures — Lisa Diedrich

This is the final weekend for the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art of the work of David Wojnarowicz, “History Keeps Me Awake at Night.” I can’t recommend the show enough, especi...

www.lisadiedrich.org

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t help but think about Olivia Nuzzi’s “This Old Man” NY Mag piece.
#IllnessPolitics

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics.

That’s…not the problem.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

So much bad faith here, on the part of the student & the university.

gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

In my book Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism, I write about the #MillionsMissing protests as demonstrating, quoting Judith Butler in Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, "what it means to mobilize vulnerability in concert." #NietHersteld does this too.
manifold.umn.edu/projects/lln...