Color photo of Suzanne, a fat, pretty older femme. She is white, has glasses, wears a dramatic swooping blue wig and fancy blue clothes. She is lying on a pingpong table in a park with an AirFanta 4Lite in front of her. Photo by Geiler Scheiss.

May 12th is #MECFSAwarenessDay.
Wearing blue for the (now ended?) #GoBlueForME #GoBlueForMECFS campaign. So grateful to @geiler.scheiss for taking these beautiful pictures of me and for wheeling me down my street to the park. Please follow @berlin-buyers-club.bsky.social , @meactnet.bsky.social!

An artistic portrait in blue and purple hues shows a woman in side profile from the chest up. Her figure is partly hidden by thick, cloud-like haze, and her silhouette includes images of tall wild grass and evergreen trees. Overlaid text reads: “Opera Mariposa’s Benefit + Awareness Month for the ME | FM Society of BC.” The image also includes two butterfly logos: a red one for Opera Mariposa, and a blue, purple, and teal one for the ME | FM Society of BC.

Screencap of Open Medicine Foundation's May 12th newsletter, featuring a teal title bar reading, Amplifying community voices, above a series of photos of people including Stephanie who are holding signs. The signs read, "ME/CFS is...the disease with the lowest quality of life. Everything you used to love, makers you sick(er) now. Living in pain and fear. Bargaining, frozen on the outskirts of time and reality. Something anyone can get." Below that, newsletter text reads, "For ME/CFS Awareness Day, individuals around the world used their limited energy to take part in OMF’s social media campaign—sharing photos of themselves holding signs that complete the sentence: “ME/CFS is…” Each message is deeply personal and a powerful reminder that this disease can no longer be ignored. We invite you to visit our Community Voices page to see these moving posts. Please take a moment to read and share them with others. Every voice shared helps make ME/CFS visible."

Against a watercolour background of light blue, purple and teal is an image of a blue teacup and purple flowers. Next to Mariposa's red swallowtail butterfly, text reads, You are cordially invited to our Blue Sunday tea party social fundraiser, hosted by the ME | FM Society of BC. Join on Zoom, or follow along on socials. Sunday, May 18th at 1 pm PT / 4 pm ET. Register and find accessibility information: BlueSunday.OperaMariposa.com. Bring tea & a snack. Celebrate in community. Donate to support a great cause.

Cartoon protest art with detailed, dark lines depicting the Statue of Liberty sinking to her crown in bright red liquid. She holds her torch high above an ocean of red next to the words " I am one of the #Millions Missing. Save our Support Systems". S.O.S is boldly shown in red above her head. #MeActions logo is in the top left corner.

For more about some of the initiatives I've contributed to for May Awareness, check out:

@openmedf.bsky.social
@meactnet.bsky.social
@operamariposa.bsky.social
@mefmsocietyofbc.bsky.social
@berlin-buyers-club.bsky.social
@franhaddock.bsky.social
@christinabaltais.bsky.social #GoBlueForMECFS

8️⃣ Because restrictive symptoms + societal inaccessibility can be profoundly isolating, & people should know that they’re not alone - in dealing with these illnesses, or in fighting for change year round.

#MillionsMissing #MECFSis #MEBCCommunityStrength #GoBlueForMECFS #DisabilitySOS #BlueSunday2025

@millionsmissingfr.bsky.social
@meactnet.bsky.social
#GoblueforMecfs
#MEAwarenessDay
#WorldMEDay
#MillionsMissing #MillionsMissingFrance #MECFS #EMSFC #JeDisEM #journeeinternationaleEM

Vergissmeinnicht in rundem durchsichtigen Anhänger an Silberkette

#goblueformecfs #mecfs #mecfsawarenessday

Picture of Judy kissing a blue giraffe cuddly toy and a blue washing basin.

Together with my friend the blue giraffe I'm going blue for ME/CFS today, to raise awareness for this neglected & misunderstood illness. See #goblueformecfs

Didn't manage an outfit this year, but improvised with eyeshadow, a cuddly toy & a feather

#MEAwarenessDay

Art by myself and available ;)

All being well today is my #goblueformecfs day. It's MECFS awareness month and the awareness day falls on May 12th so I'm trying to do a big makeup and costume look too get photos to use for this