MarrowEscape 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✡️

22 Jan 2025

New folks post! I’m a queer nonbinary lesbian married to the most beautiful woman in the world! I’m an historian, disability activist, avid reader, absolute nerd, and a Jewish✡️conversion student. I have 4 batshit insane dog children and I’m going to thrive in spite of this oligarchic hellscape.

12 Mar

“We” I feel so included!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money."

I totally get why people have binary thinking on this topic, but, at least to me, this is the easiest messaging problem in the world to crack (1/14)

There’s always some extra money for a new plane or a warehouse or somebody’s flight to Italy, but when it comes time to fund Medicaid, well golly gee, look at all these senators showing off their empty pockets on the tv! (13/14)

We got nothing! We’re broke! Can’t do it. Maybe next cycle, if you vote! It’s your fault, you know; you didn’t vote for enough of us and now we can’t do anything. Perhaps if you donated? (14/14)

I totally get why people have binary thinking on this topic, but, at least to me, this is the easiest messaging problem in the world to crack (1/14)

But if we defunded the entire military apparatus tomorrow, if we had zero undocumented residents in America, if we never gave a single cent in foreign aid again, we would still not have universal health care, affordable housing, mental health treatment, or any other economic safety net. (11/14)

If we wanted those things, we would have them by now. Or at any other period in history when we decided we didn’t want “other” people here. (12/14)

I totally get why people have binary thinking on this topic, but, at least to me, this is the easiest messaging problem in the world to crack (1/14)

We could give all undocumented people the same benefits Americans receive just by virtue of walking across the imaginary line and we’d still have plenty left over to actually take care of people in this country. (9/14)

We just don’t have the political will to do it. This is why populism takes hold. This particular tune is the same song that we’ve seen throughout American history - all that “America First” garbage keeping folks trapped in that binary. (10/14)

I totally get why people have binary thinking on this topic, but, at least to me, this is the easiest messaging problem in the world to crack (1/14)

It isn’t actually binary. Those in power would prefer you think so, because then they don’t have to do anything about any of it. The status quo is great for the kingmakers. (7/14)

But the reason folks don’t have good jobs or food or a mortgage isn’t because of undocumented people taking resources. (8/14)

I totally get why people have binary thinking on this topic, but, at least to me, this is the easiest messaging problem in the world to crack (1/14)

The reason we point to drugs and opiates and complain about the unhoused instead of creating real, affordable housing is because we don’t have the political will to do it. (5/14)

That’s it, that’s the whole reason. It isn’t because there isn’t enough money, or because you have to choose between a foreign country’s defenses and food on your table. (6/14)

I totally get why people have binary thinking on this topic, but, at least to me, this is the easiest messaging problem in the world to crack (1/14)

The reason we say “it’s about the mental health, not the guns” and then refuse to fund mental health is because we don’t have the political will to do it. (3/14)

The reason we say the problem is trade agreements and overseas manufacturing and refuse to make existence affordable is because we don’t have the political will to do it. (4/14)

I totally get why people have binary thinking on this topic, but, at least to me, this is the easiest messaging problem in the world to crack (1/14)

The reason we don’t have universal health care isn’t because we dump a ton of funding into our military. It’s because we don’t have the political will to do it. (2/14)

6 Jan

@giladedelman.bsky.social This particular section of your article can just as easily be explained with the word “fascism.” A bit baffled why you’re trying to shoehorn definitions here. Horseshoes are unnecessary. Fascism has always been in bed with capital.

mobilize.usA National Call to Action: White People Against ICE! Our Role in Showing Up in Solidarity · Showing Up for Racial JusticeThe whole country has watched ICE agents conducting violent raids across the country, sweeping up immigrants from their workplaces and homes. This weekend in LA, in response to a mass sweep by ICE of ...

10 June 2025

I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “A National Call to Action: White People Against ICE! Our Role in Showing Up in Solidarity” - sign www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

4 June 2025

Please please take a minute for this! It helps us to center disabled folks in our work and is so important, especially now since this bill may wipe us off the map…

ADAP@adapalabama.bsky.social

🚨 We need your input to shape our priorities for next year - your opinion counts!🚨 Take our survey! Head here: tinyurl.com/CommunityInput2025 (🧵 - 1/3)

mobilize.usKeep Every Neighbor Safe! white people organizing our own against anti-immigrant racism · Showing Up for Racial JusticeMother's Day weekend is a time of love and celebration, but masked ICE agents followed Trump’s violent strategy of racist division and [snatched a Worcester mother instead](https://www.cnn.com/2025/05...

14 May 2025

I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Keep Every Neighbor Safe! white people organizing our own against anti-immigrant racism” - sign up!

open.substack.comThe Right-Hand WomanSophie Gilbert, author of “Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves”, wrote the following in the Atlantic. She fucking nailed it.

Writing words for my own sanity again - I have @sophiegilbert.bsky.social and her brilliant article in the Atlantic this week to thank for my current primal scream into the void. On white womanhood and proximity to power:

bookshop.orgGirl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against ThemselvesHow Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

And Sophie Gilbert’s forthcoming book!

apple.newsThe World Porn Made — The AtlanticIt colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.

Article:

penguinrandomhouse.comGirl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert: 9780593656297 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksNamed a most anticipated book of Spring by Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Bustle, LitHub, Our Culture, Kirkus, AV Club and WNYC From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist...

18 Apr 2025

I cannot WAIT to read this after reading her incredible piece in the Atlantic. Some of the best writing I’ve read in a very long time.

Sophie Gilbert@sophiegilbert.bsky.social

I'm legally obligated to add that if you find it interesting you can preorder the book here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738003...

open.substack.comPulling Threads and Lonely MenThese converts are characterized by a simultaneous search for community and for answers.

7 Apr 2025

Some thoughts on the role of religion and its relationship to the endless complaints of young men. As usual, I try to not go full historian here and work to make my writing as accessible as possible.

3 Apr 2025

Today I had to write a bunch of public relations nonsense for the dumbasses in DC that reads like “We help the poor cripples achieve the American dream! And stop waste and fraud somehow! And BOOTSTRAPS!!! Workforce development!!!!!!!” Anyway yeah things in America are going great and this is fine

@repjasmine.bsky.social I just want to say, as a hot wheels myself, I approve your message. Fuck Greg Abbott, we don't claim him or his wheels, and he's a disgrace to the disability community. Keep doing what you're doing, because we need you. 🖤

I haven't exactly meant to disappear from social media for a month (🫢) but I've been working on getting my meds adjusted and am, after about 18 months of titrating, FINALLY off my SSRI and on the lowest dose before I'm done done. (Once it's at this level it no longer contains SSRI meds.)

This has made me feel like I am in a weird fog for a while now, and I didn't even realize it was happening, but I think despite the INSANELY VIVID DREAMS (gtfo out of my brain, weird horror movie shit, delete from RAM) I am finally starting to feel like myself. Which is to say, baseline cynic.

@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social

I work here! 👇🏻 We are a pretty amazing bunch and I work with some badass civil rights attorneys who will go to the mat for disabled folks. You should follow us, especially if you’re in AL like me!

ADAP@adapalabama.bsky.social

ADAP provides services that can help you and your family with a wide range of issues, including employment, social security, Medicaid waivers, voting rights, assistive technology, self-advocacy, and many more! Give us a call at 800.826.1675 or email us at adap@adap.ua.edu!

MarrowEscape 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✡️ reposted

Adam Parkhomenko

18 Feb 2025

16 Feb 2025

Eczema under my eye gave me a whole peeling lizard dry skin situation to the point where it is literally a bruise and I look like I got punched in the face. If you see me, I promise I am fine, and am going to tell everyone this happened fighting Nazis.

16 Feb 2025

I never stop hearing about the careful line we have to walk and the local politics and the blah blah blah where I live, and it’s always from people who can’t grasp that they’re literally coming for all of us. Some slower, some faster. But “disability leaders” love to throw us away.

This post is unavailable.

16 Feb 2025

Being disabled and nonbinary is especially weird because I work with people who really believe they’re special and will be saved somehow. We’re ALL undesirables. I promise. And even if we weren’t, we should fight fascism BECAUSE IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO, not because we’re under threat. Period.

MarrowEscape 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✡️ reposted

Faith K. Falkner

@faithfalkner.com

vandomvoiceacademy.comVandom Voice AcademyBeginner-Friendly Trans Vocal Training

Hey trans friends, Please check out my friend @vandomva.bsky.social's hustle if you're looking to start or continue voice training. Her rates are very reasonable and she's a patient teacher. Transition is a journey, and I feel exploring your range is good for confidence building and security.

Vandom Voice Academy@vandomvoiceacademy.bsky.social

GRAND RE-OPENING January 15 @ 8AM Pacific NEW HOURS 8AM-5PM Sunday-Saturday Book your free consultation at vandomvoiceacademy.com!

MarrowEscape 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✡️ reposted

A.R. Moxon

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

No fights are the wrong fight to pick. Pick every fight. Fight these fascist fuckers every time about everything. Fight them even when they aren't fighting. If they run away, chase them and keep fighting them until they beg to stop and then fight even harder.

We are a very normal country

I really think we should bring back tarring and feathering

Also, burning. In uh, effigy. Yep, just the effigies.

MarrowEscape 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✡️ reposted

G. Willow Wilson

@gwillow.me

It's wild how every single post that escapes containment follows the same escalating pattern. People who get it-->people who get it but make it weird-->people who don't get it-->people who not only don't get it, but somehow reach the conclusion that it says the opposite of what it says

I have been fighting with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama for a full week on a semaglutide prescription. They have not provided me with my benefits booklet, the medical criteria required, the correct formulary list, and refuse to do a peer-to-peer with my clinician.

Other than an appeal - next steps? Suggestions? Compounding pharmacies to recommend? I've reached the end of my expertise on dealing with these motherfuckers and, as usual, am all in on depose mode.

I have embraced my inner goth enby for V-Day (that we don’t celebrate tbh but it’s an excuse to look cute)

It's going to be so interesting seeing a lot of white disabled folks find out after fucking around for many years. I've worked with so many people who imagine that when they come after us, they'll come for *those* disabled people (i.e., anyone darker than a paper bag) and not *us.*

12 Feb 2025

“Like yeah we don’t want Black people to compete with us for jobs and we are too stupid to handle changing our language but we’re not RACIST racist, hey wait come back”

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

A lot of elite media types bought into anti-DEi/anti-trans talking points because they were promised they could do so without appearing as blatantly bigoted as Trump/Musk and they're terrified their cover is being blown

MarrowEscape 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✡️ reposted

Erin Reed

@erininthemorning.com

12 Feb 2025

Getting private word that a few hospitals that have paused care for trans youth are starting that care back up. If your hospital is one of them, please message me privately. Good to see the initial capitulation is receiving strong pushback.

vimeo.comWays & Means RM-617This is "Ways & Means RM-617" by Alabama Legislature on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

12 Feb 2025

Alabama passed their garbage “what is a woman” bill out of committee yesterday. For folks interested, link of hearing below ⬇️ Starts ~20min mark, bonus local badass Zephyr at 33min and representative badass Neil Rafferty at 36min.

leoweekly.comA resister's warning: Racists thrive on publicity[Editor's Note: This story is part of a package on local hate groups, which also includes articles about one white nationalist's strategy and the prevalence...

10 Feb 2025

“American exceptionalism has led us to believe that our country is somehow immune from the forces of radicalization that have swept over other countries. This ignores both our long history of violent racism and the fertile ground in which white nationalists currently operate.”