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Disabled Cat lady (she/her) • Voter Protection/Law/Policy • DISCO = DISability COmmunity • 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ #ChronicPain #LGBTQ+ #DisabilityJustice #Spoonie #TransRightsAreHumanRights #DisabilityRightsAreHumanRights #DisabledLivesMatter
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DISCO Queen 💜🩷💙 @theediscoqueen.bsky.social · Nov 21
This is a very real thing 4 many ppl. If you need help w/SSDI, a few tips I learned along the way:
🔵 SSDI decisions are based on whether your symptoms substantially interfere w activities of daily living
🔵 They don’t assess what your condition is, but its symptoms/severity. 1/
#DisabiltyThreads 🧵
arkiemiasma.bsky.social ArkieMiasma @arkiemiasma.bsky.social · Nov 21
Social Security Disability testimony today:
⚫️ In 2023, ore than 30,000 people died waiting for approval of their claims
⚫️ More than 1.2 million Americans are waiting for an “initial” decision on their disability claim
⚫️ Many of the 1.2 million have been waiting for more than a year.
theediscoqueen.bsky.social
Don’t miss Sat., 12/6/25, w/ @diyabled.bsky.social, @10minutesaday.bsky.social, & so many talented artists from the #disability community having a virtual holiday art market & festival. Join on Zoom or visit the livestream! #DisabilitySky #DisabilityRightsAreHumanRights
Register here! 💜 👇
CRIPPING ART VIRTUAL HOLIDAY MARKET> JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF DISABLED ART. PERFORMANCE. COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATION! THE CRIPPING ART VIRTUAL MARKET IS A CHANCE FOR DISABLED ARTISTS TO SPOTLIGHT, SELL AND SHARE THEIR ARTWORK THIS HOLIDAY SEASON. COME AND CELEBRATE WITH COMMUNITY, MEET THE ARTISTS, AND ENJOY SOME BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK, WHILE TOGETHER WE HONOR THE LEGACY OF THE BELOVED ALICE WONG. LIVE EVENT 6-8PM EST / 5-7PM CST / 3-5PM PST DECEMBER 6, 2025 REGISTER FOR THE ZOOM: bit.ly/ CAVirtualHolidayMarket OR JOIN US ON YOUTUBE: bit.ly/YouTube_DIYabled
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
theediscoqueen.bsky.social
She Votes Illinois @shevotesil.bsky.social does so much to help a diverse range of voices be heard & support women, girls, femmes, & other marginalized communities. Please consider donating $5 if you can to help their awesome work! 💜#GivingTuesday #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #DiversityIsOurStrength
shevotesil.bsky.social She Votes Illinois @shevotesil.bsky.social · 21d
This #GivingTuesday, your voice matters and so does your support! She Votes IL fights for:

✅ Reproductive justice, maternal health, & menstrual equity
✅ LGBTQ+ rights & immigrant justice
✅ Voting access & civic engagement

Donate today to fuel advocacy & action → secure.actblue.com/donate/shevo...
Save the Date graphic for Giving Tuesday. Large red text reads ‘Giving Tuesday.’ Below it, light blue text says ‘December 2, 2025.’ Under that: ‘Support the voices of women, femmes, and girls in Illinois.’ Background is dark blue with scattered snowflakes. On the bottom left, there is a red QR code inside a yellow box labeled “SCAN.” On the bottom right is the She Votes Illinois logo featuring the shape of Illinois with the organization’s name in teal and red.
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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10minutesaday.bsky.social
As a #Disability led & focused nonprofit, we oppose #AssistedSuicide, but 2 states--Illinois & New York sent such bills to their governors to support or oppose. We need a veto from @govpritzker.illinois.gov. Please do 1 of the simple action items here. #DisabilityJustice #DisabilitySky 💜
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December 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
theediscoqueen.bsky.social
Really good arguments ab how #AssistedSuicide harms marginalized folks, like the #Disability community, from the Center for Racial & Disability Justice. #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityRightsAreHumanRights 💜

Want to help make sure IL doesn’t pass a law like this? Visit www.10MinutesADay.org
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10minutesaday.bsky.social 10 Minutes A Day @10minutesaday.bsky.social · 8d
The Center for Racial & Disability Justice has an incredibly compelling op-ed in the Chicago Sun Times about why #AssistedSuicide laws are bad, & asking @govpritzker.illinois.gov to veto SB 1950. #DisabilityJustice #DisabilitySky #DisabilityRightsAreHumanRights tinyurl.com/4nk7e6ru
Dignity is the right to live — not pressure to die Across the country, and now in Illinois, lawmakers have advanced a so-called "medical-aid-in-dying" bill that promises compassion and choice. The language sounds reassuring: autonomy, dignity, self-determination. But for many disabled and marginalized people, the legislation represents the collapse of real options - not choice. In the early hours of Oct. 31, the state Senate pushed through the End-of-Life Options for Terminally III Patients Act through rushed, opaque circumstances, leaving disability organizations and impacted communities with no time to weigh in. Now it sits on the governor's desk. This is not how ethical policymaking works, and it reflects a larger pattern. When disabled voices are sidelined, the resulting policy cannot claim to protect autonomy or dignity. Polling shows while Americans value compassion and bodily autonomy, support for medically-assisted death drops sharply when people learn that disabled individuals often turn to it because they cannot access housing, care and other essentials. People want fairness not coercion disguised as compassion. Our research at Northwestern University's Center for Racial and Disability Justice shows disabled people, especially those who are poor, Indigenous, or people of color, are already offered help to die more readily than help to live. In Canada, some have been pushed to medically-assisted death after being denied home care or accessible housing. Similar pressures are emerging in the U.S. When disability, poverty and systemic neglect make life unbearable, that is not "autonomy" - it is abandonment. The rhetoric around medically-assisted death frames it as a tightly regulated option for terminal illness. In reality, safeguards are eroded. Research shows physicians routinely underestimate disabled people's quality of life, oversight is minimal, and there is no guarantee people receive palliative care or community support before being offered death. When governments and insurers fund dying more readily than living, we must ask: Whose dignity is being protected? These laws also undermines suicide-prevention efforts by carving out an exception that suggests disabled lives are less worthy of saving. Research from other countries shows troubling "suicide contagion" effects when the procedure is normalized. The answer is not expanding medically-assisted death but expanding accessible housing, community-based services, palliative care, mental health supports and disability benefits that allow people to live with dignity. Illinois may have rushed this bill through, but Gov. JB Pritzker still has a choice. And so do we. True compassion is measured not so do we. True compassion is measured not by how easily we allow people to die, but by how hard we fight for their right to live. Kate Caldwell, director, Research & Policy, Center for Racial and Disability Justice, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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shevotesil.bsky.social
Our new She Votes, She Reads is out for National Women Supporting Women Day. 💜

We’re diving into stories on immigration, single motherhood, healthcare inequities, & Black women in leadership.

Informed communities are powerful communities. Read the full roundup here: bit.ly/SVSR1201
A woman sits curled up on a couch with a red mug in one hand and a tablet in the other. The tablet displays a digital news page with headlines and text. She is wearing a cozy patterned sweater. Overlaid text reads “She Votes, She Reads: What Our Community is Reading. Get Informed. Stay Activated. December 1, 2025.” The She Votes Illinois logo appears in the bottom right corner.
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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shevotesil.bsky.social
This #GivingTuesday, your voice matters and so does your support! She Votes IL fights for:

✅ Reproductive justice, maternal health, & menstrual equity
✅ LGBTQ+ rights & immigrant justice
✅ Voting access & civic engagement

Donate today to fuel advocacy & action → secure.actblue.com/donate/shevo...
Save the Date graphic for Giving Tuesday. Large red text reads ‘Giving Tuesday.’ Below it, light blue text says ‘December 2, 2025.’ Under that: ‘Support the voices of women, femmes, and girls in Illinois.’ Background is dark blue with scattered snowflakes. On the bottom left, there is a red QR code inside a yellow box labeled “SCAN.” On the bottom right is the She Votes Illinois logo featuring the shape of Illinois with the organization’s name in teal and red.
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter).

My prayers go out to her and her family.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event

If you have a medical emergency in ICE custody, there’s a chance you will simply “disappear”

Or you could end up like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel who was deported to Costa Rica in a persistent vegetative state.

He died soon after.
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
theediscoqueen.bsky.social
But his emails…
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 27d
"House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that President Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims, among other messages that suggested that the convicted sex offender believed Mr. Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged."
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
theediscoqueen.bsky.social
The House is in session today. Guess what that means? The discharge petition will have 218 signatures. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein #ReleaseTheFiles #Epstein

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
The House finally returns, and so do Trump's Epstein files problems | Opinion
Trump's political viability rests in the hands of a criminal who recruited and abused teenage girls so Jeffrey Epstein could exploit them.
www.usatoday.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
theediscoqueen.bsky.social
Please let us know if you’d like to add your/your org’s name! Time sensitive! 💜 #Disability #AssistedSuicide #DisabilityJustice 👇👇👇
10minutesaday.bsky.social 10 Minutes A Day @10minutesaday.bsky.social · Nov 9
1/We have a sign-on letter asking JB Pritzker to veto IL SB 1950, which legalizes #AssistedSuicide. If you’re willing to advocate your org’s name (regardless of where you are), pls let us know, & we’ll get in touch. You can also email us @ [email protected]. #DisabilityJustice
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
theediscoqueen.bsky.social
As Virgina Guiffre said, this shouldn’t be about how he died, but how he lived, & from multiple accounts, he destroyed the lives of countless girls & young women. We lost Virgina in April. That’s more important than how a predator died, imho. #BelieveSurvivors #Epstein
joyfun.bsky.social JoyFun @joyfun.bsky.social · Nov 4
Who killed #Epstein?
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
theediscoqueen.bsky.social
One of Jeffrey Epstein’s companions submitted a drawing in the book Maxwell put together that indicates people knew about the abuse & says, “What a great country.” It’s America’s turn to do the right thing for #Survivors. 💜
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #MeToo #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #Resist
This is a drawing that was submitted for sex predator Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday book. It has a neon green background In black text at the top with a yellow background, it says, “Those who say they had "no idea" Epstein abused & trafficked girls: why did so many people reference his behavior in this book Ghislaine Maxwell compiled??!” There is a drawing from the birthday book showing Epstein giving balloons to children in 1983 (according to the drawing). The right side has a drawing of Epstein lying in the sun, surrounded by blonde-haired, topless young women and says at the bottom “2003 what a great country.” There is an arrow pointing to the drawing, & black text states, “A page in the book that was submitted to wish him a happy 50th birthday.” In black text on a yellow background, it says, “SURVIVORS DESERVE JUSTICE.” Under that, in black text, it says, “ #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles,” then at the right bottom, @TheeDiscoQueen@bsky.social.
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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theediscoqueen.bsky.social
Please help oppose SB 1950, a dangerous bill that would harm the #disability community & which was opposed by the disability rights orgs & community. The largest national minority shouldn’t go unheard. This bill greatly hurts efforts towards #DisabilityJustice. #AssistedSuicide #DisabilitySky 💜 👇
10minutesaday.bsky.social 10 Minutes A Day @10minutesaday.bsky.social · Nov 3
Around 3 AM on 11/1, Illinois passed an assisted suicide bill, SB 1950. We need support to ask @jbpritzker.bsky.social to veto it. #Disability orgs & advocates all opposed the bill but were unheard.
You can read more about it on our blog. #AssistedSuicide #DisabilityJustice 💜
Take action here👇
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November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
theediscoqueen.bsky.social
Please help oppose SB 1950, a dangerous bill that would harm the #disability community & which was opposed by the disability rights orgs & community. The largest national minority shouldn’t go unheard. This bill greatly hurts efforts towards #DisabilityJustice. #AssistedSuicide #DisabilitySky 💜 👇
10minutesaday.bsky.social 10 Minutes A Day @10minutesaday.bsky.social · Nov 3
Around 3 AM on 11/1, Illinois passed an assisted suicide bill, SB 1950. We need support to ask @jbpritzker.bsky.social to veto it. #Disability orgs & advocates all opposed the bill but were unheard.
You can read more about it on our blog. #AssistedSuicide #DisabilityJustice 💜
Take action here👇
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November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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10minutesaday.bsky.social
Around 3 AM on 11/1, Illinois passed an assisted suicide bill, SB 1950. We need support to ask @jbpritzker.bsky.social to veto it. #Disability orgs & advocates all opposed the bill but were unheard.
You can read more about it on our blog. #AssistedSuicide #DisabilityJustice 💜
Take action here👇
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November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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10minutesaday.bsky.social
If you’d like to read more about why IL’s & other #AssistedSuicide bills harm the #Disability community, visit the link below. #DisabiltyJustice #DisabilityRightsAreHumanRights #DisabilitySky 💜
Action Alert: The End-Of-Life Options Act in Illinois
On Friday, October 31, 2025, no treats were given by the Illinois legislature to the disability community—around 3:00 am, they voted to pass SB 1950, the "End of Life Options Act," an assisted s...
www.10minutesaday.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
theediscoqueen.bsky.social
There’s also only so far you can “stretch” food stamps that, on average, provide $187/month to recipients. That’s less than $7 a day. Food prices are also on the rise, & it’s a little late to suddenly tell ppl who may have spent their previous balances to “stretch” more. #SNAP #Resist #FoodStamps
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Nov 3
A lot of people are sharing articles about how to stretch your food budget or cook like our grandparents did to survive.

Our grandparents lived through the Great Depression.

If we’re having to resort to what they did… things are much worse than folks are willing to admit.
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
theediscoqueen.bsky.social
@10minutesaday.bsky.social & @diyabled.bsky.social are putting together a zine that covers voting tips for the #disability community. If you’re a disabled #artist & would like to help illustrate it, please get in touch below! #DisabilityJustice #VoteThemOut 💜💙👇👇👇
10minutesaday.bsky.social 10 Minutes A Day @10minutesaday.bsky.social · Oct 20
Are you a disabled artist? We’re looking for some members of the #disability community who’d like to help illustrate a zine about voting tips for disabled folks. If you’re interested, please reach out! #DIsabilityRightsAreHumanRights #DisabilityJustice #DisabilitySky 💜💙
This is a graphic that has a turquoise background. On the background, there are rows of ballot boxes that say, “VOTE” on them & which have a paper ballot sticking out of the top. The graphic is a call to action, & the text on it, which is bold & in red, says Call for Disabled Artists For Voting Tips for Disabled Voters Email: DIYabledGo@gmail.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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grief-enduring.bsky.social
Seeing a severe lack of masks at the #NoKings rallies. Highly disappointing. I was hoping to possibly make it out for the next one, but it'll be flu season plus covid, measles, etc. Looks like we're still struggling on the "all people" portion of "Until all people are free, no one is." #disability
October 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
theediscoqueen.bsky.social
👏👏👏👏👏 This. 👇
#NoKings #Resist #DisabilityRightsAreHumanRights #Disability #EndGunViolence
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Oct 17
Dr Oz says the US is “under babied”

Kennedy says declining birth rates are a national security threat

Neither will do a damn thing to control measles and infectious diseases that are disabling & killing kids

Neither will address gun violence which takes the lives of countless kids every year
October 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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shevotesil.bsky.social
Block Club Chicago has launched a new WhatsApp Channel to keep residents up to date on ICE activity, migrant coverage, & breaking immigration news.

The newsroom will share weekday recaps & real-time alerts directly to subscribers’ phones. Sign up today! blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/15/b...
Block Club Chicago Launches WhatsApp Channel Focused On Chicago Immigration News
Block Club’s new WhatsApp Channel delivers ICE updates, migrant coverage and breaking immigration news straight to readers’ phones.
blockclubchicago.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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10minutesaday.bsky.social
2/2 We’re hosting a virtual option
focused on the #Disabillity community for #NoKings tomorrow. Join us if you’d like support or just to be with other resisters. 💜💙
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Virtual No Kings. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Virtual No Kings. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
diyabled.us14.list-manage.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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petermorley.bsky.social
Agricultural secretary says that SNAP benefits will run out before November. These are the consequences of the Senate GOP and Donald Trump not negotiating for millions of people who depend on the ACA. They simply don’t care if people don’t get their healthcare or STARVE!
rollcall.com/2025/10/16/u...
USDA's Rollins says food stamp funding to dry up in two weeks - Roll Call
Nearly 42 million people could be left without monthly food benefits if the federal government doesn't reopen before funding runs out.
rollcall.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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raskin.house.gov
It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
October 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM