Rayna Lamb - She/her
@purplegoddess.bsky.social
Wheelchair dancer, feminist, exhausted. Love books, musical theatre.
I knit, garden, read, roll my eyes at politicians, yell at ableists, avoid cold weather, back up people making the world better, etc. Trans rights are human rights. Ban cauliflower.
I knit, garden, read, roll my eyes at politicians, yell at ableists, avoid cold weather, back up people making the world better, etc. Trans rights are human rights. Ban cauliflower.
Pinned
A New Ballet by Underrepresented Artists
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This is a wonderful, original take on The Little Mermaid that I feel so lucky to be dancing in.
Please consider donating to this project and sharing this post, we need more disability stories in all of the arts, but ESPECIALLY in dance.
#disability #dance #ballet #FairyTales
Please consider donating to this project and sharing this post, we need more disability stories in all of the arts, but ESPECIALLY in dance.
#disability #dance #ballet #FairyTales
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RE todays rotten vaccine news...
A Pox on Fools arrives in May. It's a historical polemic that traces the serial falsehoods that drive today's anti-vax movement.
It's my most important work. And it needs help.
Pre-orders & 1st week sales make or break books. If you are interested...here's a link:
A Pox on Fools arrives in May. It's a historical polemic that traces the serial falsehoods that drive today's anti-vax movement.
It's my most important work. And it needs help.
Pre-orders & 1st week sales make or break books. If you are interested...here's a link:
A Pox on Fools by Thomas Levenson: 9798217155002 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology—from a leading science writer Since the...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
RE todays rotten vaccine news...
A Pox on Fools arrives in May. It's a historical polemic that traces the serial falsehoods that drive today's anti-vax movement.
It's my most important work. And it needs help.
Pre-orders & 1st week sales make or break books. If you are interested...here's a link:
A Pox on Fools arrives in May. It's a historical polemic that traces the serial falsehoods that drive today's anti-vax movement.
It's my most important work. And it needs help.
Pre-orders & 1st week sales make or break books. If you are interested...here's a link:
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Eugenics isn't bad because it's a bad word. It's bad because it leads to the mass death of the socially undesirable.
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Eugenics isn't bad because it's a bad word. It's bad because it leads to the mass death of the socially undesirable.
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This is really cool. I treasure feedback like this because I don’t really be having the literary clout & it’s heartwarming to know my stories are touching people. Someone posted this on insta.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is really cool. I treasure feedback like this because I don’t really be having the literary clout & it’s heartwarming to know my stories are touching people. Someone posted this on insta.
Fucking YES. I got some disability accommodations in high school, but my mother said this in my 20s at a social event -`When R was a child she was eligible for all sorts of support, but we said no, other children need it more than she does'.
I have moderate to severe cerebral palsy.
I have moderate to severe cerebral palsy.
I am also going to add , that part of the reasons we don’t means test is because of how often disabled people are abused by people in their own families .
That the PARENTS being rich doesn’t mean they actually take care of the kids and in fact often use that as control
That the PARENTS being rich doesn’t mean they actually take care of the kids and in fact often use that as control
I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Fucking YES. I got some disability accommodations in high school, but my mother said this in my 20s at a social event -`When R was a child she was eligible for all sorts of support, but we said no, other children need it more than she does'.
I have moderate to severe cerebral palsy.
I have moderate to severe cerebral palsy.
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Disabled people deserve healthcare.
Disabled people deserve housing.
Disabled people deserve food.
Disabled people deserve support.
Our ability to work and produce should not determine our value.
Disability is not a moral failing. Most people will experience it someday.
Disabled people deserve housing.
Disabled people deserve food.
Disabled people deserve support.
Our ability to work and produce should not determine our value.
Disability is not a moral failing. Most people will experience it someday.
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Disabled people deserve healthcare.
Disabled people deserve housing.
Disabled people deserve food.
Disabled people deserve support.
Our ability to work and produce should not determine our value.
Disability is not a moral failing. Most people will experience it someday.
Disabled people deserve housing.
Disabled people deserve food.
Disabled people deserve support.
Our ability to work and produce should not determine our value.
Disability is not a moral failing. Most people will experience it someday.
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Official #PoveratiXmas thread! 🎅🧵
Drop your wishlist links or paylink details with your Xmas wishes in the thread below with the hashtag #PoveratiXmas
Share widely and hopefully some #PoveratiXmasAngels will make some wishes come true!
Drop your wishlist links or paylink details with your Xmas wishes in the thread below with the hashtag #PoveratiXmas
Share widely and hopefully some #PoveratiXmasAngels will make some wishes come true!
November 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Official #PoveratiXmas thread! 🎅🧵
Drop your wishlist links or paylink details with your Xmas wishes in the thread below with the hashtag #PoveratiXmas
Share widely and hopefully some #PoveratiXmasAngels will make some wishes come true!
Drop your wishlist links or paylink details with your Xmas wishes in the thread below with the hashtag #PoveratiXmas
Share widely and hopefully some #PoveratiXmasAngels will make some wishes come true!
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Everytime I advertise a product being accessible to disabled people. I lose sales because able-bodied people feel like it isn't for them as well.
My products are for anyone that likes or wants them. You don't need to view yourself as disabled to want them too.
My products are for anyone that likes or wants them. You don't need to view yourself as disabled to want them too.
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Everytime I advertise a product being accessible to disabled people. I lose sales because able-bodied people feel like it isn't for them as well.
My products are for anyone that likes or wants them. You don't need to view yourself as disabled to want them too.
My products are for anyone that likes or wants them. You don't need to view yourself as disabled to want them too.
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I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever
December 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever
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There are more disabled people who are pretending to be healthy so that you don’t judge us or think us incapable than there are healthy people pretending to be disabled. If you find yourself questioning whether someone is really disabled, you’re doing the work of the oppressor. #disability
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
There are more disabled people who are pretending to be healthy so that you don’t judge us or think us incapable than there are healthy people pretending to be disabled. If you find yourself questioning whether someone is really disabled, you’re doing the work of the oppressor. #disability
I don't celebrate Xmas, and I am vvv over all of the public Xmas stuff by mid-December, but I really love most Xmas carols and songs. In The Bleak Midwinter, The Holly and the Ivy, The First Noel for traditional songs and Fairy Tale of New York for secular songs
What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song?
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I don't celebrate Xmas, and I am vvv over all of the public Xmas stuff by mid-December, but I really love most Xmas carols and songs. In The Bleak Midwinter, The Holly and the Ivy, The First Noel for traditional songs and Fairy Tale of New York for secular songs
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What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song?
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
December 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song?
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
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It is Black Friday, but it is also Fund Me Friday.
In honor of Link, who remains unjustly banned, I am carrying on the tradition of Fund Me Friday. Drop your mutual aid links beneath this post and I will repost them for as long as I can.
In honor of Link, who remains unjustly banned, I am carrying on the tradition of Fund Me Friday. Drop your mutual aid links beneath this post and I will repost them for as long as I can.
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It is Black Friday, but it is also Fund Me Friday.
In honor of Link, who remains unjustly banned, I am carrying on the tradition of Fund Me Friday. Drop your mutual aid links beneath this post and I will repost them for as long as I can.
In honor of Link, who remains unjustly banned, I am carrying on the tradition of Fund Me Friday. Drop your mutual aid links beneath this post and I will repost them for as long as I can.
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If you need a little light relief today, check out this website 😆 Properly gave me a chuckle.
Make sure you click on all the links for the best experience! My favourite bit was a glimpse into #AndrewLloydWebber‘s bank account 🤣🤣🤣
andrewlloydwebsite.neocities.org
Make sure you click on all the links for the best experience! My favourite bit was a glimpse into #AndrewLloydWebber‘s bank account 🤣🤣🤣
andrewlloydwebsite.neocities.org
ANDREW LLOYD WEBSITE
andrewlloydwebsite.neocities.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
If you need a little light relief today, check out this website 😆 Properly gave me a chuckle.
Make sure you click on all the links for the best experience! My favourite bit was a glimpse into #AndrewLloydWebber‘s bank account 🤣🤣🤣
andrewlloydwebsite.neocities.org
Make sure you click on all the links for the best experience! My favourite bit was a glimpse into #AndrewLloydWebber‘s bank account 🤣🤣🤣
andrewlloydwebsite.neocities.org
Seriously. I started taking dance lessons in my 40s, singing lessons this year at 51, and performed in my first professional (small, but we had funding to PAY performers) ballet for 3 weeks this month. Acting lessons are on the cards depending on my energy levels.
Addendum to this excellent post:
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Seriously. I started taking dance lessons in my 40s, singing lessons this year at 51, and performed in my first professional (small, but we had funding to PAY performers) ballet for 3 weeks this month. Acting lessons are on the cards depending on my energy levels.
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Bigotry is a symptom of precisely zero mental illnesses.
Fascism too.
Leftists have got to unpack their saneism.
Fascism too.
Leftists have got to unpack their saneism.
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Bigotry is a symptom of precisely zero mental illnesses.
Fascism too.
Leftists have got to unpack their saneism.
Fascism too.
Leftists have got to unpack their saneism.
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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Just gonna say that the entire US White House press corps could set themselves up for a similar moment of satisfaction if they could be arsed.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Just gonna say that the entire US White House press corps could set themselves up for a similar moment of satisfaction if they could be arsed.
Fellow Aussies and Kiwis. We need to up our sausage sizzle game... 😋😋😋
Leaving Oslo today and I was finally able to find a hot dog on lefse (potato flatbread) with shrimp salad and crispy onions for breakfast at the airport.
Verdict: delicious
Verdict: delicious
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Fellow Aussies and Kiwis. We need to up our sausage sizzle game... 😋😋😋
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new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
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Today, Little Lobbyists honors #AliceWong, a ferocious advocate for disability justice and disability culture-maker who died on November 14 at the age of 51. Alice was a larger-than-life figure in the disability community and a friend to Little Lobbyists
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November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Today, Little Lobbyists honors #AliceWong, a ferocious advocate for disability justice and disability culture-maker who died on November 14 at the age of 51. Alice was a larger-than-life figure in the disability community and a friend to Little Lobbyists
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Militant decency.
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Militant decency.
Nobody puts Charlie Brown in the corner.
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh, Charlie Brown, please don't let me be misunderstood
Oh, Charlie Brown, please don't let me be misunderstood
"One thing about living with Charlie Brown I never could stomach—all the damn vampires."
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Nobody puts Charlie Brown in the corner.
And an understanding of the meaning and importance of disability community and disabilty pride. My parents and family were my first ableist encounters as a disabled child.
Many disabled kids would benefit so much if parenting classes that focus on disability inclusion and the harms of ableism were widely available (so, free) to their parents.
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
And an understanding of the meaning and importance of disability community and disabilty pride. My parents and family were my first ableist encounters as a disabled child.
