My last newsletter post is already at 344 reads with 3 days till my next post, so if able, please consider supporting my work with a 1-time contribution or monthly subscription, as able, as I would love to be able to afford to exist to continue to do Disability Justice work!🫂
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For the first time in our 9-year history:
WE ARE HIRING!
We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits!
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
“The day I decided to enter this race was the day that RFK Jr. was nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services,” Dr. Andrews said. “He’s been my professional archnemesis for decades, and any other pediatrician in this country would say the same thing.”
All Anti-Trans Bills Defeated in Deep-Red Nebraska
transitics.substack....
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Join us Thursday 23 April at 6 pm BST for an #AuthorInterview with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social about her book An Honour and a Privilege. Collaborative short stories including reflections on the craft from each writing team. Inspiring and unmissable! #WomenWritersNet #WritingCommunity
Black Sinners fans, please consider submitting all of your brilliant essay ideas to this call for abstracts by Friday, May 15, 2026, as this looks like it will be an amazing Sinners Reader: The Blues, Black Horror, and the Jim Crow South anthology, as edited by Black English prof, DuEwa M. Frazier!🔥
Come work with us!
WANTED: Lead Collections Manager. Smithsonian NMNH Botany is looking for a Supervisory Museum Specialist to manage the United States National Herbarium and a top-notch collections team. For more information, visit USAJOBS (www.usajobs.gov/job/864499200). Applications due in two weeks (1 May 2026).
The Black State of the Games Industry Survey is up! It'll be open till May 6th, 2026 and should take 20 minutes maximum of your time. Only requirements are that you're a Black Game Developer over the age of 18! 🎮🎮🎮
forms.gle/teLH4p9rAokS...
Jane Bolin
On this day in 1908, Jane Bolin was born. Bolin, America’s first black woman judge, said this about women’s rights in 1958: “Those gains we have made were never graciously and generously granted. We have to fight every inch of the way — in the face of sometimes insufferable humiliations.” #WeTheMen
Astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch in their orange astronaut suits as they sit inside the side of a helicopter after it has landed
LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me
"LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts ....
This one is worth it.
First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important.
#ArtemisII
Beginning this month the City of San Antonio will provide monthly updates about requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the San Antonio Police Department.
Read More👉 ebx.sh/YVaDNU
New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...
Your uniqueness is what makes you special, leaning into that is how you can reach real success. Uncover and develop the side of you that draws people to you in a way that no one else can offer. You'll carve out such a brilliant space for yourself.
Agencies don't care about that.
#creatorAdvice
Horrified to hear @evanier.bsky.social had a mountain of original comic book art stolen from his home. Here's his list of the missing pages, some so famous the images pop into my head from the titles and issue numbers alone. Please reach out to him with any leads. www.newsfromme.com/wp-content/u...
The honeybee industry is key to our agricultural production, and deeply troubled, and in need of basic research that individual bee operators can't afford--a classic case for public R&D. And Trump tries to shut down the govt's #1 bee lab, completely randomly, and probably illegally.
“People are afraid to stand up to the government & no one talks.”
DHS’ plans to build a border wall in the Rio Grande is ‘a matter of life & death,’ reports ray levy uyeda. The imperiled river sits at the center of the Trump admin’s efforts to expand the border wall against the community's desires.
They don't have top level talent to choose from. White supremacy breeds mediocrity.
Last week: It's not that the drought was unpredictable. It is that the drought was predicted, and that the planning systems in place were calibrated to conditions that are no longer stable.
Buying direct from authors -or small presses- is a great way to support us. But there isn't a store with everyone's direct links on it so... Direct Sales Thread!
Indie Authors,
Describe your books, drop a graphic & a link to your direct store/ small press! (eg. Payhip/ Kofi/ Itchio etc)
🌈📚🪐💙🏳️⚧️🧠
In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.
My take on a Universe Size Comparison. On and off, this took several months to make!
Check it out of you have 10 minutes and be sure to put your 🎧 on for the full experience
youtu.be/2D9vHQOaauM
(New and improved, reupload!)
If anyone out there works for an org that wants to fund co-operative education and peer support, we are already doing this work for free, but would do more of it if we had funding!
Mari Copeny is in the super mega urgent homestretch! Her event is in ONE day and she still has to account for 52 more baskets! Everyone put their hands on deck in whatever way you can!
#urgent #showupformari #easter #goodfriday #mutualaid
Hey folks, I know I know a few graphic designers who do logos, who's open for commissions and what are your rates?
Get a mammogram if a) you should and b) you can. It’s not the MOST fun thing ever, but it’s definitely not the worst, and all of the techs I’ve had have been just lovely and kind.
“Politicians need to make more of an effort to reach voters who have a learning disability. But I also think that voters who have a learning disability need to find out more about politics and how to vote.”
Four people are leaving for the MOON tomorrow. In a normal world, this would be massive news.
@grahamdalorian.bsky.social took the kids to NASA this weekend, and it was understandably the talk of Johnson Space Center, but I've heard absolutely nothing outside of that.
This is a fucked up timeline.
Hey, if you work in food (media, restaurants, cooking, bev, broadcast, science, academia, biz, nearly anything), & you're an immigrant to the US, & you're under 38 years old—you REALLY ought to apply for the Vilcek Foundation’s Creative Promise in Culinary Arts prize! vilcek.org/prizes/vilce...
