Nisa Malli
@nisamalli.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, and policy wonk www.nisamalli.com https://nisamalli.substack.com
“Only one type of person has ever questioned my ADHD, and that’s adults who have spent their lives wrestling with very similar traits. They’ve worked very very hard to convince everyone that they’re normal” - @pennyred.bsky.social lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-great-...
The Great ADHD Myth.
Apparently, THE SYSTEM is to blame. For everything else, there’s Elvanse.
lauriepenny.substack.com
Today at @thesicktimes.org: We republished a great piece by @whoevenreads.bsky.social about bookstores promoting masking and COVID-19 consciousness! thesicktimes.org/2026/06/05/i...
Indie bookstores promoting masking and COVID-19 consciousness in 2026 - The Sick Times
The trajectory of COVID-19 awareness may not go exactly as many expect, and in the meantime, bookstores are one of the community spaces that can offer a transition point to a different possible future...
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One of the favorite features I've ever written was about complicated grief and mourning culture for Bitch Magazine, with stunning accompanying art. I am so unspeakably delighted that we reprinted on @theflytrapmedia.com today.
Mourning Should Have No Expiration Date
The United States is a nation that avoids the subjects of death, dying, and grief as much as possible.
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Operating actively against the industrialized clock of never-ending productivity is part of disability justice. It’s also a way to protect the time and space necessary to reconsider and reconfigure relations. medium.com/@biancawylie...
tech isn’t the future it’s just capitalism faster
responding with slowness in relations
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Back at the @uoftcovidrehab.bsky.social international forum for and afternoon of research evidence presentations:
Rehabilitation Science Research Network for COVID@uoftcovidrehab.bsky.social · 5mo agoIn our first Research Evidence Session of the day, Kara Patterson shares a research update on gait and balance in people with Long COVID #COVIDrehab
Feeling a little like it is 2017, I will be live-posting from the @uoftcovidrehab.bsky.social conference today (10-5 EST)!#longcovid
Rehabilitation Science Research Network for COVID@uoftcovidrehab.bsky.social · 5mo agoToday is the #COVIDRehab Forum! Follow along for updates on presentations, panels, and more. Download the program and posters for the #COVIDRehab Forum at rehabcovidnetwork.med.utoronto.ca/2026-interna...
New essay out on desirability + deformity, marriage rights in disability, “silver divorces” and partner abandonment in illness: theimpairingcurse.substack.com/p/do-us-part
Do Us Part
In the first months of our relationship, long before I got sick, my once lover told me she would never marry.
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"Stag photographed with wire wrapped around antlers” by the incomparable Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca for today’s Poetry Pause @canadianpoets.bsky.social
New essay out on desirability + deformity, marriage rights in disability, “silver divorces” and partner abandonment in illness: theimpairingcurse.substack.com/p/do-us-part
Do Us Part
In the first months of our relationship, long before I got sick, my once lover told me she would never marry.
theimpairingcurse.substack.com
For @thesicktimes.org, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...
These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times
While most of the music industry has moved on, COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders.
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I miss the mid 2010s internet when I could post a complaint thread on how new purposebuilt rent in my city is 25% higher than private landlords renting condos and every building offers 2 months off instead of lowering $$ and housing policy wonks/economists would jump into the thread to explain why.
theimpairingcurse.substack.com/p/dont-worry... oh @nisamalli.bsky.social HIT with this piece
Don't worry kitten
This week I saw a meme of a ceramic kitten with the caption “abolish ICE” and it felt enragingly emblematic of the current iconography of babyfication: the desire to present as unequivocally innocent ...
theimpairingcurse.substack.com
Last year, the universe sent me a message: it told me to start going to queer raves, and so I did. It’s been a good time! I wrote a retrospective on 2024, the year I discovered that I like dancing, plus reflections on parenting, music, fascism, fashion, and trans joy: okayfail.com/2024/my-year...
My Year of Raves
In my third year of being trans, I discovered that I like dancing. This was a surprise. Dancing is meditative, therapeutic – healing even. Now I try to go dancing as often as I can. This the story of ...
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New essay out on babygirls, babyfication, adhd babies, trauma babies, adulthood, adulting, t-boys, girlhood, hot girl summers, responsibilization and responsibility, conditional whiteness, and why our present moment is more Watership Down than Beatrix Potter: open.substack.com/pub/theimpai...
Don't worry kitten
This week I saw a meme of a ceramic kitten with the caption “abolish ICE” and it felt enragingly emblematic of the current iconography of babyfication: the desire to present as unequivocally innocent ...
open.substack.com
“He spoke in the idiom of today’s New York, with its neighborhoods of more recent arrivals. He went on Subway Takes and passed out sweets for Diwali in Jackson Heights, and showed up at the queer dance party Papi Juice to ask for votes.”
zeldman@zeldman.bsky.social · 9mo ago“When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York.” @theguardian.com @mollycrabapple.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #opinion #nyc #socialism
“Diligent injury prevention doesn’t address the root cause of Rec League Dysmorphia. The ghost of my adolescent self will always be there, beating me to the ball, unencumbered concepts such as paying for health insurance & Microsoft Teams”@outsidemag.bsky.social www.outsideonline.com/culture/love...
What My Rec League Taught Me About Aging, Ego, and Letting Go
On aging, denial, and the injuries that come from believing you’re still invincible.
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"For me, podcasts were patient companions who didn’t mind repeating themselves...They kept me company when I was too sick to leave the house." @nisamalli.bsky.social tells us about the cognitive impacts of Long COVID, and how she used podcasts to recover. this.org/2023/12/19/h...
How TV podcasts helped me regain my memory after Long COVID
When my girlfriend of six years broke up with me by text, followed by a short call, I couldn’t comprehend it. It wasn’t grief, shock, or denial. My brain, damaged from 16 months of Long COVID, couldn’...
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Every single page of @arabellesicardi.bsky.social’s House of Beauty so far has contained a horrifying interesting fact I did not know about the beauty industry and also now I can’t stop thinking about how evil the term “beauty” “industry” is.
It’s v apt that a video on how Zygmunt Bauman’s book Liquid Modernity predicted the modern situationship that brought me back to text-based social media but here we go. Because where else can I gripe that actually Bauman predicted the modern situationship in his lesser known sequel Liquid Love?
