joanna spaghetti
@joannaspaghetti.bsky.social
She/her. Disabled spoonie, hEDS, Crohn's. Sociology, racial justice, disability justice. Nerd. Always learning. Finally got tired of how increasingly bad twitter has gotten.
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In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:
Honoring Alice Wong: Reprinting Bitch Magazine's Access Series
Alice Wong, who reshaped the world of disability media, joined our ancestors on November 14, 2025. The Flytrap is proud to reprint her curated Access Series for Bitch Magazine.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:
My @inaturalist.bsky.social Year in Review 2025! (Tl;dr I saw a lot of spotted lanternflies this year 😬)
www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/r...
www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/r...
rapunzel5's 2025 iNaturalist Year in Review
Joanna's highlights and stats from 2025 on iNaturalist
www.inaturalist.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
My @inaturalist.bsky.social Year in Review 2025! (Tl;dr I saw a lot of spotted lanternflies this year 😬)
www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/r...
www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/r...
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hello friends! i got enough for the last few days housing but never for a week, Crohn’s flare isn’t responding to meds, so i still need to raise 🚨 $475 rent by 11am tmrw and the rest for phone and other bills asap 🚨 AND i have an appt tmrw 😵💫 anything helps
ko-fi.com/katimcf
ko-fi.com/katimcf
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
hello friends! i got enough for the last few days housing but never for a week, Crohn’s flare isn’t responding to meds, so i still need to raise 🚨 $475 rent by 11am tmrw and the rest for phone and other bills asap 🚨 AND i have an appt tmrw 😵💫 anything helps
ko-fi.com/katimcf
ko-fi.com/katimcf
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Anyone remember that cease fire?
"Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue"
"Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue"
Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue, medics say
‘Severe lack’ in territory where Israeli strikes have killed more than 50 people and injured over 100 in recent days
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Anyone remember that cease fire?
"Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue"
"Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue"
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This piece by @thellpsx.bsky.social and @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social is the most beautiful tribute to Alice, from two friends who loved her.
Skip the articles in big media like the Times, which didn't even mention Alice's work with Crips for eSims.
If you don't know about Alice, check it out.✨
Skip the articles in big media like the Times, which didn't even mention Alice's work with Crips for eSims.
If you don't know about Alice, check it out.✨
llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever
Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us
by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
llps.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This piece by @thellpsx.bsky.social and @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social is the most beautiful tribute to Alice, from two friends who loved her.
Skip the articles in big media like the Times, which didn't even mention Alice's work with Crips for eSims.
If you don't know about Alice, check it out.✨
Skip the articles in big media like the Times, which didn't even mention Alice's work with Crips for eSims.
If you don't know about Alice, check it out.✨
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I invite folks to join me in honoring #TDOR by contributing to trans led life affirming & sustaining orgs Grammy’s Place: www.grammysplaces.net
My Sistah’s House: www.mshmemphis.org
Outlaw Project: www.theoutlawprojectinc.org
TransLifeLine: translifeline.org
Gender Liberation Movement: genderlib.org
My Sistah’s House: www.mshmemphis.org
Outlaw Project: www.theoutlawprojectinc.org
TransLifeLine: translifeline.org
Gender Liberation Movement: genderlib.org
Grammy's Place | Transgender Women | Birmingham, AL, USA
Safe housing for Black transgender women experiencing homelessness in a non-traditional, not religious based-communal housing community program. 18 and older, no drug testing or curfews. Grammy's Pla...
www.grammysplaces.net
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I invite folks to join me in honoring #TDOR by contributing to trans led life affirming & sustaining orgs Grammy’s Place: www.grammysplaces.net
My Sistah’s House: www.mshmemphis.org
Outlaw Project: www.theoutlawprojectinc.org
TransLifeLine: translifeline.org
Gender Liberation Movement: genderlib.org
My Sistah’s House: www.mshmemphis.org
Outlaw Project: www.theoutlawprojectinc.org
TransLifeLine: translifeline.org
Gender Liberation Movement: genderlib.org
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The CDC has updated its vaccine safety page to promote long-discredited claims about vaccines—namely that they cause autism.
The page links to a number of studies, including one by anti-vax allies of Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
The page links to a number of studies, including one by anti-vax allies of Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
CDC Changes Vaccine Safety Page to Promote Vaccine Misinformation
It is the latest move by Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services to attack vaccines.
www.importantcontext.news
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The CDC has updated its vaccine safety page to promote long-discredited claims about vaccines—namely that they cause autism.
The page links to a number of studies, including one by anti-vax allies of Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
The page links to a number of studies, including one by anti-vax allies of Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
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615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...
blockclubchicago.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
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NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
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For those not on Instagram, here is the statement from Alice Wong’s family:
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
For those not on Instagram, here is the statement from Alice Wong’s family:
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almost 5pm and I’m still stuck at $330 left to go for food, meds, and replacing my glasses, and i only have a few meal shakes left! can anyone match $15 or $20?
ko-fi.com/katimcf/
ko-fi.com/katimcf/
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
almost 5pm and I’m still stuck at $330 left to go for food, meds, and replacing my glasses, and i only have a few meal shakes left! can anyone match $15 or $20?
ko-fi.com/katimcf/
ko-fi.com/katimcf/
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While Alice has become an ancestor, her work continues! If you want to share her wisdom with others, you can purchase copies of her books for your local library, share her dazzling array of digital media from DVP, or donate to her legacy fund: www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
Donate to Help finish Alice’s work, organized by yomi wrong
Our comrade, friend, collaborator and fierce Tiger Mischief Maker, Alice Wong, needs us.
As yo… yomi wrong needs your support for Help finish Alice’s work
www.gofundme.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
While Alice has become an ancestor, her work continues! If you want to share her wisdom with others, you can purchase copies of her books for your local library, share her dazzling array of digital media from DVP, or donate to her legacy fund: www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
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I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
boltsmag.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
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This is the GoFundMe that will support Alice’s family and ongoing projects: www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
Donate to Help Alice Stay In Community, organized by yomi wrong
Our comrade, friend, collaborator and fierce Tiger Mischief Maker, Alice Wong, needs us.
A… yomi wrong needs your support for Help Alice Stay In Community
www.gofundme.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is the GoFundMe that will support Alice’s family and ongoing projects: www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
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NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
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Not ready to talk about Alice yet.
For now, please share the eSims project she worked on with @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and @thellpsx.bsky.social.
chuffed.org/project/crip...
For now, please share the eSims project she worked on with @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and @thellpsx.bsky.social.
chuffed.org/project/crip...
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
chuffed.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Not ready to talk about Alice yet.
For now, please share the eSims project she worked on with @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and @thellpsx.bsky.social.
chuffed.org/project/crip...
For now, please share the eSims project she worked on with @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and @thellpsx.bsky.social.
chuffed.org/project/crip...
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This is a project Alice helped to organize - just made a donation in her honor, and I hope some of you will too.
November 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is a project Alice helped to organize - just made a donation in her honor, and I hope some of you will too.
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I owe ~$1500 (see image) to the hospital for my 10/20/2025 procedures. Donations to Help Hope Live=TAX DEDUCTIBLE. I can't access funds w/out medical receipts!
W/ACA premiums skyrocketing, I will be uninsured by 01/01 & need to raise $500 for that ...
helphopelive.org/campaign/159...
W/ACA premiums skyrocketing, I will be uninsured by 01/01 & need to raise $500 for that ...
helphopelive.org/campaign/159...
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I owe ~$1500 (see image) to the hospital for my 10/20/2025 procedures. Donations to Help Hope Live=TAX DEDUCTIBLE. I can't access funds w/out medical receipts!
W/ACA premiums skyrocketing, I will be uninsured by 01/01 & need to raise $500 for that ...
helphopelive.org/campaign/159...
W/ACA premiums skyrocketing, I will be uninsured by 01/01 & need to raise $500 for that ...
helphopelive.org/campaign/159...
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
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What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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The Uninhabitable United States
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Uninhabitable United States