Curious: How many disabled comic book artists do I have in my blue sky? 😍
@megancmoodie.bsky.social
disabled prof in anthropology, writer, third-gen disability activist, collector of inventories of joy, meganmoodie.github.io [ID: Middle-aged white woman with thick teal glasses and brown hair smiles without showing teeth. She rocks her Gen X jean jacket].
Far too often, people with MCS are dismissed by clinicians and researchers. We have a lot of knowledge — and this must be acknowledged. Check out The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast with Aaron Goodman and guest @megancmoodie.bsky.social
• dismissal + psychologization • lived experience as knowledge • researcher–community collaboration Listen: www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/epis... Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/k4aNnImGMd4 #MCS #multiplechemicalsensitivity #chemicalsensitivitypodcast
MCS—When Lived Experience Becomes Knowledge in Medicine: Megan Moodie, PhD - The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast
What happens when people's lived experience with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is dismissed in medicine? And how can it become a vital form of knowledge?In this episode, Aaron Goodman speaks wit...
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Over two years ago, the magnificent Beth Mazur ended her life while visiting me. I miss her. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/s...
May I End My Life With You?
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Heading to #NoKings in San Francisco today? I'm helping a researcher conduct a 20-city academic survey of protesters. I'll be at Civic Center 12–3pm. Looking for a few volunteers. No experience needed, stay as little or as long as you like. DM me if interested!
So I never posted this here, but in December, a wild thing happened with a small bit of patient activism I’d been working on for years. You can read about it here: open.substack.com/pub/meganmoo...
Responding to the Response: 38K Views on Instagram
Our short video, "L-Dopa and Neurological Complications of hEDS," found its people
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Tension explores how rapid development in the Western Himalayas affects the minds and bodies of the Gaddi people through the multifaceted state of distress they call “tension.” 🗓️ 19th March 2026 🔗 buff.ly/EGRuIBP 📍SOAS University of London @soasuni.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
In comments of the quoted thread, @fractalecho.bsky.social says: "In my book I call this the Disability Diversion where all criticism of techno fascism is deflected with appeals to technosaviorism." "Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI" by Rua M. Williams
Disabling Intelligences
This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.
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Dylan MacKay@dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe need to come up with a name for the technique where disability is used to advance tech, like AI, that tends to harm equity and often people with disability, it is so transparent and infuriating. Is disabilitywashing a term yet?
Official pub day is tomorrow!! (But I know folks have already received copies). @briwok.bsky.social & I have some book events in the pipeline, so watch this space. #GraphicMedicine
Lisa Diedrich@lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8mo agoIt's happening!! Pub date of Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine is just 2 weeks away. Order now with code NR26 & get 30% off @psupress.bsky.social! #GraphicMedicine www.psupress.org/books/titles...
When I saw pictures of Liam Ramos with his Spidey backpack and bunny hat, I felt an overwhelming responsibility as someone who works in superhero comics. Please do check out the art in #Comics4Liam and visit comics4liam.com to support Liam and groups helping other immigrants like him. ❤️💪🐇
Comix Action@comixaction.com · 8mo agoFriends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
Essential context for what is happening in Portland and Trump's declaration of war against us. Note that it's *local law enforcement* accusing the feds of incitement.
Mock@mock541.bsky.social · 12mo agoGift 🎁 link
This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like
🐌📖🎊🥳 I’m thrilled my piece, Snail’s Pace: The Art of Cripping Time is featured in THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, is available now! Edited by @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, this anthology is filled with art, poems, and essays by so many amazing writers! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Join us for a call party to contact our elected officials about upcoming telehealth legislation on September 17th at 12 pm PT/3 pm ET. Please feel free to invite friends and allies! RSVP here: ow.ly/6Gnw50WNS1E #pwME #disability #Telehealth #MECFS #LongCovid
It’s up to the discretion of RFK Jr to define what ”medically frail” is when it comes to potential Medicaid work requirement exemptions—which may play a huge role in deciding which chronically ill and disabled people could qualify. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. is getting personal authority over who to kick off of Medicaid
“It's just a way of cutting people off of coverage and then blaming them for it.”
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Coming October 2025... A labor of love, and in exquisite company. The Annual Review of Anthropology this year is gonna be a banger.
All new guest essay for the Disability Visibility Project by Leah Harris and Liat Ben-Moshe: Unmasking Mask Hate: The Racial-Criminal Pathologization of Dissent disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/07/13/u...
If you want to read about the legal structure (i.e. lack of consumer protection) that puts people at the mercy of this perfunctory, dangerous theater of expertise, some colleagues and I wrote this a few years ago. Based in first-hand knowledge: ceur-ws.org/Vol-2657/pap... ceur-ws.org/Vol-2657/pap...
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A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)
In 2013, the Obama administration introduced a goal for federal contractors to work towards having 7 percent disabled employees. Now, as I reported for @motherjones.com, the Trump administration is working to undo this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Labor Department moves to end disability hiring goal for federal contractors
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer plans to axe a longstanding, successful incentive program for disabled workers.
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Can confirm from personal experience that ableism is also rife for disabled pregnant people in UK
Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · last yr.Disabled people are 11 times more likely to die during labor/in the postpartum period than non-disabled people. Better education and smashing ableism is how we get out of this horrible stat. For the past year, I’ve been looking into the topic of disability and pregnancy for @motherjones.com 🧵
Bay Area folks, I'm going to be moderating a panel on August 10 for the documentary film "Life After," which explores how "right to die" can be very ableist. The great @sfdirewolf.bsky.social will be on the panel with director Reid Davenport. Tickets here ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/185...
Life After - Sun 10 Aug 12:30 PM - Roxie Theater
Buy tickets to Life After at Roxie Theater on Sunday, August 10, 2025 12:30 PM
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I've previously written about the harms of mask ban, and we'd very much like to do a scene report featuring people who are masking in a place with a mask ban! We can discuss ID (potential for first name only). Pls repost!!!
If you didn’t read this yesterday, you darn sure should today.
Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · last yr.For the July/August issue of @motherjones.com, I dived into Elon Musk's relationship with Aspie supremacy and how it's promoted online. This ideology, coined by the late autistic blogger Mel Baggs, also dehumanizes autistic people with high support needs. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...