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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚
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I put the sewer into connoisseur. 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. https://linktr.ee/ddemchuk
It’s worth checking out the Glenda Jackson/Susannah York adaptation of Genet’s The Maids; Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (among many others); and Todd Haynes’s Genet collage Poison
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Reposted by David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚
Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Farfalle 007 #pastatime
November 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Reposted by David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚
If you don't know Alice, it's hard to fully express what her loss means to the radical disability community.

She fought for us—for all of us—both with profound grace and bared fucking teeth. Her work cut a pathway to the future, and we must continue it.

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The Disability Visibility Project is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. What does the DVP do? Believes that disabled narratives matter …
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November 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
These are all wonderful Meg 🤗
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If you haven’t seen them:
La Llorona
Aniara
Sputnik
Fréwaka
Thesis
Mermaid Legend
November 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
(I know, that's a lot of information in just thirteen words, and we'll leave it at that)
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM