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Nicole Zelniker
@nicolezelniker.bsky.social
🌈Author, spoonie queen, bicon
😌Opinions are mine & probably correct
📚Repped by Daniele Hunter
🇵🇸BLM, Free Palestine, et. al

https://linktr.ee/nicolezelniker
Happy #DisabilityDecember! We’re doing a disabled, bookish shmivaway for 🍉 on IG, so check that out👀

Bsky hates my videos, but IG also has 5 spoonie books that changed my brain chemistry. The books:

📚On The Bright Side
📚So Let Them Burn
📚If We Survive This
📚Time & Time Again
📚Sick Kids In Love
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So I published a novella this past October where the MC falls for his best friend's twin he *really* can't like and tbh I think Kai is instantly attracted to Ray's ever-present awkwardness and obvious anxiety because that's pretty immediate😅
What made your MC really start to fall for their love interest in your book/wip? #WritingPrompt
November 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I'm going to be so mad at myself later but oh well🤭
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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In fact, let’s do this. Comment with what you’re looking for and I’ll try to recommend a read from a Palestinian author for you from my reading list. I’ll do my best to find you a match.
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
#WIP posting of my new MC making snowmen with her best friend, with them very quickly figuring out that you can't really make lasting snowmen in North Carolina (based on a true story).
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
@kadedishmon.bsky.social sent me and @marissaeller.bsky.social our books in the wild and I just love having agent siblings🥹❤️

Bookstore is Scuppernong Books! Support them for Small Business Saturday! And also @inkedingraypress.bsky.social is having book bundle sales!
November 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My cat when I first fostered her in Feb. 2021: FOOD it's MINE I will EAT IT no matter WHAT IT IS I eat BROOKLYN TRASH

My cat almost five years later: You give Artemis TRADER JOE'S Artemis only eats FANCY FEAST for a fAnCy LaDy it must be GRILLED FISH PREFERRED
November 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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If you’re looking for a meaningful way to acknowledge today, head to my 🔗 to give. Diana is fundraising for her mom’s cancer treatment, Mo'tasem is hoping for essentials for him and his fiancé, and Basel needs help with funds for a new tent. Remember, Palestinians are indigenous, too❤️
Sending love to my Indigenous and Native friends and mutuals this week.

Friends, please remember this is a day of mourning for many of our Indigenous and Native neighbors for a very good reason. Please be respectful of that, and them.
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Truly news to be thankful for. @cairnational.bsky.social and Mohammed’s family worked tirelessly to see their child freed.

Now Mohammed, a U.S. citizen & Floridian, can enjoy a 16th birthday celebration with his family and begin to heal.

Justice for Sayfollah. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
Israeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
You've just died.

The 6th picture in your gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
If you’re looking for a meaningful way to acknowledge today, head to my 🔗 to give. Diana is fundraising for her mom’s cancer treatment, Mo'tasem is hoping for essentials for him and his fiancé, and Basel needs help with funds for a new tent. Remember, Palestinians are indigenous, too❤️
Sending love to my Indigenous and Native friends and mutuals this week.

Friends, please remember this is a day of mourning for many of our Indigenous and Native neighbors for a very good reason. Please be respectful of that, and them.
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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November is Native American Heritage Month, and tomorrow is Native American Heritage Day, so I’m sharing three vital organizations to donate to, now and year-round. I’ve made my donations; where are you giving today? 🫶🏻
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Knowing how accessible the Wicked crew made that set means none of y'all have an excuse. Marissa Bode is iconic and also put more disabled actors in disabled roles please and thank you.

Sincerely, a disabled viewer of said movies💚💕
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Jon M. Chu must be so proud of himself for casting Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero. Like, man knew what he was doing.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Freelance photojournalist @davedeckerphoto.bsky.social was arrested while reporting on an immigration protest outside an ICE facility in Miami on Nov. 22.

He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
Photojournalist arrested at Miami immigration protest, gear seized
Freelance photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies while documenting anti-deportation protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
pressfreedomtracker.us
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Next week, we're launching a Disability December giveaway for Gaza on Instagram, so get ready!

Starting Dec. 1 through Dec. 15, folks can donate $5 or more to any of the Palestinian fundraisers at my 🔗 or Venmo nicole-barnard-5. Check out the IG post and follow the folks we're fundraising for❤️
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
On my Wicked ish to say how freaking cool it was to sit in a theater, assist devices et. al, and see Marissa Bode's Nessarose. Too, that they made the set so accessible is so exciting knowing it will make an impact on accessibility even out of Hollywood.

And also, No Good Deed. That, too.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Things I've Googled recently as a writer:

‣Love Island season seven release date (I have never watched the show)
‣What does drinking alcohol feel like (I'm too chronically ill to know)
‣Queer age gap novels (not my genre, but good for them)
‣What wolves are native to Poland
‣Montana geography
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November 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I love my state❤️
Still out in the streets in Raleigh... FUCK. I C E
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Alternatives are local food pantries, homeless shelters, and domestic violence shelters, as well as your local mutual aids.
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Representatives from the Chapel Hill Carrboro City School system shared their support for immigrant families as Immigration and Customs Enforcement ramped up federal enforcement in the Triangle Tuesday.
CHCCS Shares Support For Immigrant Families, Says Absences Increased - Chapelboro.com
Representatives from CHCCS shared their support for immigrant families as ICE activity ramped up in the Triangle Tuesday.
chapelboro.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM