Solace Sinclair
@thelightinyourshed.bsky.social
23 | it/its | disabled transsexual poet, writer, and multi-media artist | Founder and Editor in Chief of The Lilac Journal |
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Maybe you should try making music this year.
January 1, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Maybe you should try making music this year.
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Happy new year from Dominic, who has no concept of the passage of time and whose only resolution is to continue being an ungovernable gremlin
December 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Happy new year from Dominic, who has no concept of the passage of time and whose only resolution is to continue being an ungovernable gremlin
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“I’m honored to be your ancestor and believe that disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Hero of 2025: Alice Wong
The disability justice icon's last message: "Don’t let the bastards grind you down."
www.motherjones.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“I’m honored to be your ancestor and believe that disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution:
If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow.
If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious.
By making these choices, you will literally save lives.
If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow.
If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious.
By making these choices, you will literally save lives.
December 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution:
If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow.
If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious.
By making these choices, you will literally save lives.
If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow.
If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious.
By making these choices, you will literally save lives.
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Every time someone says "I can't write X, editors will never buy it" an angel loses its wings
Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades.
So maybe reconsider
Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades.
So maybe reconsider
January 1, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Every time someone says "I can't write X, editors will never buy it" an angel loses its wings
Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades.
So maybe reconsider
Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades.
So maybe reconsider
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I'm old enough to remember when smoking around others was socially acceptable, in restaurants, bars, workplaces etc. Secondhand smoke was everywhere.
We changed norms once we accepted that shared air = shared risk.
Airborne viruses are no different
We changed norms once we accepted that shared air = shared risk.
Airborne viruses are no different
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I'm old enough to remember when smoking around others was socially acceptable, in restaurants, bars, workplaces etc. Secondhand smoke was everywhere.
We changed norms once we accepted that shared air = shared risk.
Airborne viruses are no different
We changed norms once we accepted that shared air = shared risk.
Airborne viruses are no different
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New originals in the shop! Found them locked away in an old portfolio from 2022-2023! Thought they were lost, I’m very happy I found them. From my learning years. They are back on the shop, Here’s a few! 🔋🔋🔋
December 31, 2025 at 7:40 AM
New originals in the shop! Found them locked away in an old portfolio from 2022-2023! Thought they were lost, I’m very happy I found them. From my learning years. They are back on the shop, Here’s a few! 🔋🔋🔋
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Shoutout to my fellow maskers!
September 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Shoutout to my fellow maskers!
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Had a lyft driver this morning who: Was Masked, Thanked me for being Masked, and then Launched into telling me about how bad the flu is in London and NYC and how he's dreading going back to do airport shuttle drives with "unmasked coughers"
So if you're going somewhere tonight, wear a goddamn mask
So if you're going somewhere tonight, wear a goddamn mask
December 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Had a lyft driver this morning who: Was Masked, Thanked me for being Masked, and then Launched into telling me about how bad the flu is in London and NYC and how he's dreading going back to do airport shuttle drives with "unmasked coughers"
So if you're going somewhere tonight, wear a goddamn mask
So if you're going somewhere tonight, wear a goddamn mask
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It’s still not too late to wear a mask!
Covid and flu are raging. People are traveling for the holidays & getting sick in the process.
A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you.
It’s an investment in your health plus it shows solidarity with the disability community.
Covid and flu are raging. People are traveling for the holidays & getting sick in the process.
A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you.
It’s an investment in your health plus it shows solidarity with the disability community.
December 31, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It’s still not too late to wear a mask!
Covid and flu are raging. People are traveling for the holidays & getting sick in the process.
A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you.
It’s an investment in your health plus it shows solidarity with the disability community.
Covid and flu are raging. People are traveling for the holidays & getting sick in the process.
A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you.
It’s an investment in your health plus it shows solidarity with the disability community.
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My favorite are the people who say “I LOVE and SUPPORT disabled people!!!!” And then get mad when I ask them if they mask.
What’s the funniest reason someone got mad at you on Bluesky this year?
December 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
My favorite are the people who say “I LOVE and SUPPORT disabled people!!!!” And then get mad when I ask them if they mask.
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This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
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For a lot of people – particularly white, successful, middle-class people, the sort of people whose privilege is unconscious – it was their first encounter with the state's power to compel them to behave in a particular way regardless of their feelings. Their fury is at complacent privilege denied.
Aside from the sheer entitlement of a man who had a FORTY year career in Harvard and is whining about things changing, there is something about how much the pandemic has radicalized so many people. Simply being asked to mask seems to have broken some people’s minds entirely.
The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid.
I’m not making this up.
I’m not making this up.
December 31, 2025 at 6:24 AM
For a lot of people – particularly white, successful, middle-class people, the sort of people whose privilege is unconscious – it was their first encounter with the state's power to compel them to behave in a particular way regardless of their feelings. Their fury is at complacent privilege denied.
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An acquaintance shared an IG post about how she is very sick with influenza but had to get on an airplane anyway to take her kids to Disneyland for Christmas. No masks. Somehow she painted herself as the victim for being sick on the plane. Everyone sent her sympathy. Peak liberal privilege
December 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
An acquaintance shared an IG post about how she is very sick with influenza but had to get on an airplane anyway to take her kids to Disneyland for Christmas. No masks. Somehow she painted herself as the victim for being sick on the plane. Everyone sent her sympathy. Peak liberal privilege
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I’m proud of myself, and of others here, for getting through another year where being Covid-informed has meant being ridiculed, gaslit, dismissed or bullied. We shall keep going
December 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I’m proud of myself, and of others here, for getting through another year where being Covid-informed has meant being ridiculed, gaslit, dismissed or bullied. We shall keep going
sorry for being so inactive here my mental health simply cannot handle using social media for more than work these days
April 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
sorry for being so inactive here my mental health simply cannot handle using social media for more than work these days
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All of our acceptance emails have been sent out! If you are awaiting to hear back about your submission make sure to check your spam folder!
April 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
All of our acceptance emails have been sent out! If you are awaiting to hear back about your submission make sure to check your spam folder!
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Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.
March 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.
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if you’re thinking of watching the bad bad baby man say bad bad things, please heed my suggestion to do literally anything else with your time
March 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
if you’re thinking of watching the bad bad baby man say bad bad things, please heed my suggestion to do literally anything else with your time
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A message from our Team to the trans community regarding the state of politics in relation to trans existence.
Stay tuned for further announcements, and if you submitted to our first issue, look towards your email in the coming 2 weeks to hear of the status for your submission!
Stay tuned for further announcements, and if you submitted to our first issue, look towards your email in the coming 2 weeks to hear of the status for your submission!
March 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A message from our Team to the trans community regarding the state of politics in relation to trans existence.
Stay tuned for further announcements, and if you submitted to our first issue, look towards your email in the coming 2 weeks to hear of the status for your submission!
Stay tuned for further announcements, and if you submitted to our first issue, look towards your email in the coming 2 weeks to hear of the status for your submission!
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Hell of a time to be writing a new novel whose entire central message is “you should have empathy and stand up for your principles regardless of the reward because it’s the right thing to do” while our allies abandon that left and right
March 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hell of a time to be writing a new novel whose entire central message is “you should have empathy and stand up for your principles regardless of the reward because it’s the right thing to do” while our allies abandon that left and right
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You were conned into infection, and you took the bait, hook, line, and sinker. Accept your mistake and correct course, before it's too late. Reinfection damages accumulate. You will regret living in denial.
COVID IS NOT OVER. NOT BY A LONG SHOT.
COVID IS NOT OVER. NOT BY A LONG SHOT.
March 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
You were conned into infection, and you took the bait, hook, line, and sinker. Accept your mistake and correct course, before it's too late. Reinfection damages accumulate. You will regret living in denial.
COVID IS NOT OVER. NOT BY A LONG SHOT.
COVID IS NOT OVER. NOT BY A LONG SHOT.
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There are too many pressing problems now that too many people aren’t comfortable discussing: climate/collapse, COVID, bird flu, fascism, etc. I get it. I want peace of mind, too. But you can’t grapple with a problem without first facing it.
February 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
There are too many pressing problems now that too many people aren’t comfortable discussing: climate/collapse, COVID, bird flu, fascism, etc. I get it. I want peace of mind, too. But you can’t grapple with a problem without first facing it.
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Pre Registration for Trans Grief Support Group closes TOMORROW!! at 5pm PST! make sure to pre register before then so you receive the join link!
February 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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