Tonight, Portland! 🌿😍🌙✨☔️

Yes, this year is a leap year so we get an extra day and yes, on that day, magical February 29th at 7 pm I'll be reading from TOUCHING THE ART Powell's Books City of Books in Portland, in conversation w/Leni Zumas, join us!! Don't forget to wear a mask, let's take care of one another💞

I should post this everyday. There should be book club readings:

Leni Zumas

Things Fall Apart for Women (Again): Leni Zumas's Red Clocks radicalscholarship.com/2019/08/15/thi…

BERLIN!
Come read Adania Shibli’s MINOR DETAIL
OUT LOUD
in Arabic, German, and English
TOMORROW at 2pm.

For more read this by FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 CEASEFIRE NOW! on how the Gavin Newsom administration wants to disappear unhoused and disabled people from the streets and rebuild asylums
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/10/15/ret…

#CripTheVote

Margot Kushel MD National Homelessness Law Center
Housing California UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Disability Rights California Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

Disabled people are more than 25% of the population.
Stop with the disability awareness slogans.
We need ableism awareness.

Don't forget!: send us your preorder receipt of #TheFeministKilljoyHandbook by @saranahmed and we'll send you a FREE hat! tinyurl.com/feministkilljo… Enter by Oct 2!

.John Fetterman isn't ashamed of the disability accommodations he needs in order to do his job in the Senate.

As a disabled person who works in politics, I can tell you Senator John Fetterman is right, our politics is incredibly hostile towards disability.

Image from the DC event for Disabled Marriage Equality!

'We are gathered together to create radical change,' Steve Way says we are forced to play by a different set of rules and that ends right now.

#LoveTax #EndTheLoveTax #DisabledMarriageEquality

The fight for marriage equality isn't over according to disability advocates. Disabled people who rely on programs like SSI face steep penalties if they choose to tie the knot. I wrote about it 19thnews. 19thnews.org/2023/09/disabi…

I’m so pumped up to see my community and their ingenious demonstration drawing attention to the #LoveTax no one should have to face the decision of choosing between the rights of marriage or their survival. End the policies that keep us in poverty. #EqualityNow

This fellowship is for an early-career writer of fiction with no published book yet or MFA. Honoring author & former One Story Managing Editor Adina Talve-Goodman, our hope is to give a writer outside of the fold a significant boost in their career. No fee, no rec letters. Apply!

You all! Thank you to our volunteers, everyone who stood with us, Javier Zamora, Undocupoets, and the The Pulitzer Prizes board for expanding their requirements. Thinking of all migrant writers who will get to reap the justice of this! 🌞✨❤️

TONIGHT (9/11) @ 7pm — Family wounds, humanity’s failures, how to care for one another at the end, and how to make a new beginning. Alissa Hattman presents SIFT. In conversation with Leni Zumas.

powells.com/book/sift-9781…

Tomorrow, Portland! Celebrate Alissa Hattman's debut novel, SIFT, at @powells. 🌿✨🎉🌲

One of the most crucial articles you could read about #autism research: How ridding research of ableist framings of what autism is leads to greater scientific accuracy, not less. Please spread this link. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Support Powell's Books workers on strike today! 🖤💫🥁📚🎉 ILWU Local 5

📰BIG NEWS📰
We’ve added a 3rd option for supporting our Strike Fund: direct donations! Now, in addition to buying or selling books through our Powell’s Books Partner Link, where 7.5% goes to the Strike Fund, you can donate directly with a card or PayPal!

ilwulocal5.com/support

This weekend I challenge people to wear a mask, to not harass or question someone for wearing one, to think about the people around you who are living with COVID