Camille Buckner
@camillebuckner.bsky.social
My pen is huge & I love sentences. And words. Like wombat & elixir. People & planet over profits. Build new systems. Equity. Inclusion. Justice. #BLM #LandBack #DefundHate #LongCovid (3/2020) #MECFS #Poetry #AcademicSky 🍉😷
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Two Poems By Camille Buckner | Mid-Atlantic Review
These poems are published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce. Bag of Bones Stewing in Pearls of Wisdom...
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A spot of good news! The Mid-Atlantic Review published 2 of my poems in the Amplifying Disabled Voices section.
Writing helps me process this #LongCovid hellscape. ❤️ to all with #ChronicIllness, always. I see you. I hear you. I’m with you. #Disability #Poetry
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Writing helps me process this #LongCovid hellscape. ❤️ to all with #ChronicIllness, always. I see you. I hear you. I’m with you. #Disability #Poetry
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“You all, we all, deserve the everything & more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive & unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.” -Alice Wong RIP💔
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“You all, we all, deserve the everything & more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive & unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.” -Alice Wong RIP💔
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.
Disability Visibility anthology
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books, 2020) Click here for more about the anthology adapted for young people. Order paperback, e-bo…
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November 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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I know this is hard for commercial journalism to understand but LGBTQ ppl are not heard as virtue or vice signalling devices. We’re just ordinary ppl trying to live in peace as right wing politics tries to make our lives harder.
Before you write a story about us, visit an ordinary gay bar…
Before you write a story about us, visit an ordinary gay bar…
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I know this is hard for commercial journalism to understand but LGBTQ ppl are not heard as virtue or vice signalling devices. We’re just ordinary ppl trying to live in peace as right wing politics tries to make our lives harder.
Before you write a story about us, visit an ordinary gay bar…
Before you write a story about us, visit an ordinary gay bar…
NO. Shame on you. Stand with the survivors. Believe them. Respect them. Give them justice. Accountability NOW for ALL perpetrators. #ReleaseTheFiles #ReleaseTheTrumpsteinFiles
Leavitt on Epstein: "This is truly a manufactured hoax by the Democrat Party"
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
NO. Shame on you. Stand with the survivors. Believe them. Respect them. Give them justice. Accountability NOW for ALL perpetrators. #ReleaseTheFiles #ReleaseTheTrumpsteinFiles
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Father of two, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, senselessly killed by ICE
He had no criminal history, just traffic tickets. He was a soft-spoken man who left his quiet village years ago for economic opportunity in the US and worked long hours to support his two children.
www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
He had no criminal history, just traffic tickets. He was a soft-spoken man who left his quiet village years ago for economic opportunity in the US and worked long hours to support his two children.
www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Father of two, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, senselessly killed by ICE
He had no criminal history, just traffic tickets. He was a soft-spoken man who left his quiet village years ago for economic opportunity in the US and worked long hours to support his two children.
www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
He had no criminal history, just traffic tickets. He was a soft-spoken man who left his quiet village years ago for economic opportunity in the US and worked long hours to support his two children.
www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
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As many as 267,000 U.S. veterans will lose their healthcare because Congress has failed to extend the health care tax credit, which expires soon.
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
267,000 U.S. Veterans to Lose Their Coverage without Health Care Tax Credit
As many as 267,000 U.S. military veterans are set to lose their health coverage next year because Congress has so
americanscovered.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
As many as 267,000 U.S. veterans will lose their healthcare because Congress has failed to extend the health care tax credit, which expires soon.
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
💚 OPEN LETTER TO @zackpolanski.bsky.social 💚
Long Covid is a crisis being silenced. Government denial is harming lives & livelihoods.
We call for bold system change: patient-led care, biomedical research, centres of excellence & hope for those left behind.
Full open letter 👇
Long Covid is a crisis being silenced. Government denial is harming lives & livelihoods.
We call for bold system change: patient-led care, biomedical research, centres of excellence & hope for those left behind.
Full open letter 👇
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
Here we go again (w alt text)
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Here we go again (w alt text)
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Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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It’s time to live another day as a radical extremist with unpopular opinions, like that all humans deserve food, healthcare, bodily autonomy, civil rights, a home, and clean air.
November 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It’s time to live another day as a radical extremist with unpopular opinions, like that all humans deserve food, healthcare, bodily autonomy, civil rights, a home, and clean air.
Great column by @lollardfish.bsky.social #GenAI #ChatGPT
“We can stop. We can pause. We can demand something better. And we must. Because there is a body count.”
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“The environmental implications are ghastly.”
“We can stop. We can pause. We can demand something better. And we must. Because there is a body count.”
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“The environmental implications are ghastly.”
That's why I wrote this: www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Great column by @lollardfish.bsky.social #GenAI #ChatGPT
“We can stop. We can pause. We can demand something better. And we must. Because there is a body count.”
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“The environmental implications are ghastly.”
“We can stop. We can pause. We can demand something better. And we must. Because there is a body count.”
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“The environmental implications are ghastly.”
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There’s also Quinn Harberl, a blind protester in Portland who they dragged by his feet.
Multiple agents grabbed the 4 foot 6 man and dragged him, nearly smashing his head into the ground
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Multiple agents grabbed the 4 foot 6 man and dragged him, nearly smashing his head into the ground
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They pick on the weak.
They pick on the vulnerable.
They want it to look like an intimidating show of force.
There’s also something more nefarious behind it…. Which is that they’re counting on society to not care if a disabled person gets *more* disabled.
We need you to care.
They pick on the vulnerable.
They want it to look like an intimidating show of force.
There’s also something more nefarious behind it…. Which is that they’re counting on society to not care if a disabled person gets *more* disabled.
We need you to care.
“I think they wanted to make a point,” said Quinn Haberl, who is 4-foot-6 and legally blind. “So they picked the weakest person they could find and made a big show out of it.”
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
There’s also Quinn Harberl, a blind protester in Portland who they dragged by his feet.
Multiple agents grabbed the 4 foot 6 man and dragged him, nearly smashing his head into the ground
bsky.app/profile/broa...
Multiple agents grabbed the 4 foot 6 man and dragged him, nearly smashing his head into the ground
bsky.app/profile/broa...
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The northern Wisconsin Franciscan Sisters Of Perpetual Adoration sign the deed of their grounds and retreat center over to the Lac Flambeau Ojibway Nation. A return of the land back to the rightful owners.
November 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The northern Wisconsin Franciscan Sisters Of Perpetual Adoration sign the deed of their grounds and retreat center over to the Lac Flambeau Ojibway Nation. A return of the land back to the rightful owners.
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
(Published February)
(Published February)
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
(Published February)
(Published February)
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People often push the disabled to take risks with our health.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
People often push the disabled to take risks with our health.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
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"The man with the most power has expended enormous energy targeting those with the least." -Zohran Mamdani
Honor Sylvia’s legacy. Be the light.
#SylviaRivera 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Honor Sylvia’s legacy. Be the light.
#SylviaRivera 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"The man with the most power has expended enormous energy targeting those with the least." -Zohran Mamdani
Honor Sylvia’s legacy. Be the light.
#SylviaRivera 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Honor Sylvia’s legacy. Be the light.
#SylviaRivera 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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Turns out that voters don't like the party that invades them, starves them, and arrests them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Turns out that voters don't like the party that invades them, starves them, and arrests them.
While Trump parties Gatsby-style.
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Forty million people are poised to lose food access. Nearly three quarters of a million federal workers are furloughed. Corporations are laying off tens of thousands at a time. We face the worst unemployment crisis since the pandemic. Farmers are broke.
Today the stock market reached a record high.
Today the stock market reached a record high.
November 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
While Trump parties Gatsby-style.
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
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This week, ACA marketplaces announced huge increases in monthly premium payments. Insurers have the ability to raise premiums by that much due to a rule change that was quietly implemented by the Trump administration earlier this year.
Trump Blames Obamacare for Premium Hikes His Own Policies Created
Trump is calling for a cheaper, more effective health care system. Medicare for All fits both of those criteria.
truthout.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This week, ACA marketplaces announced huge increases in monthly premium payments. Insurers have the ability to raise premiums by that much due to a rule change that was quietly implemented by the Trump administration earlier this year.
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"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world, is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." —David Graeber
Art by Kate DeCiccio (Imagination Card - www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...)
Art by Kate DeCiccio (Imagination Card - www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...)
October 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world, is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." —David Graeber
Art by Kate DeCiccio (Imagination Card - www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...)
Art by Kate DeCiccio (Imagination Card - www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...)