@megancmoodie.bsky.social
disabled professor of anthropology, writer, mom, third-gen disability activist, knitter, collector of inventories of joy [ID: Middle-aged white woman with thick teal glasses and brown hair smiles without showing teeth. She rocks her Gen X jean jacket].
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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.
September 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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.
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This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like
September 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like
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🐌📖🎊🥳 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-...
anthology is filled with art, poems, and essays by so many amazing writers!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
September 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🐌📖🎊🥳 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-...
anthology is filled with art, poems, and essays by so many amazing writers!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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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
Please feel free to invite friends and allies!
RSVP here: ow.ly/6Gnw50WNS1E
#pwME #disability #Telehealth #MECFS #LongCovid
September 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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
Please feel free to invite friends and allies!
RSVP here: ow.ly/6Gnw50WNS1E
#pwME #disability #Telehealth #MECFS #LongCovid
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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...
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.”
www.motherjones.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Coming October 2025...
A labor of love, and in exquisite company. The Annual Review of Anthropology this year is gonna be a banger.
A labor of love, and in exquisite company. The Annual Review of Anthropology this year is gonna be a banger.
August 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Coming October 2025...
A labor of love, and in exquisite company. The Annual Review of Anthropology this year is gonna be a banger.
A labor of love, and in exquisite company. The Annual Review of Anthropology this year is gonna be a banger.
I am so proud I can hardly stand it: www.comstocksmag.com/article/youn...
Young Professionals: Camille Zapata - Comstock's magazine
Meet the rising stars who are leading the Capital Region from the heart
www.comstocksmag.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I am so proud I can hardly stand it: www.comstocksmag.com/article/youn...
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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...
Unmasking Mask Hate: The Racial-Criminal Pathologization of Dissent
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/07/13/u...
July 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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...
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...
ceur-ws.org
July 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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.
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July 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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.
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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...
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.
www.motherjones.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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...
Now, as I reported for @motherjones.com, the Trump administration is working to undo this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Can confirm from personal experience that ableism is also rife for disabled pregnant people in UK
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 🧵
For the past year, I’ve been looking into the topic of disability and pregnancy for @motherjones.com 🧵
Pregnancy is a minefield when you're disabled
Few OB-GYNs get disability training—and their disabled patients are far likelier to die.
www.motherjones.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Can confirm from personal experience that ableism is also rife for disabled pregnant people in UK
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More about the film here roxie.com/film/life-af...
Life After
In person Q&A with director Reid Davenport and guest speaker Alice Wong! In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about…
roxie.com
June 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
More about the film here roxie.com/film/life-af...
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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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June 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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...
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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!!!
June 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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!!!
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If you didn’t read this yesterday, you darn sure should today.
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...
The 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normies
Musk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that.
www.motherjones.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
If you didn’t read this yesterday, you darn sure should today.
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Trump’s views on disability
fits disturbingly well to the social Darwinist and eugenicist tendencies in the MAHA movement.
fits disturbingly well to the social Darwinist and eugenicist tendencies in the MAHA movement.
Donald Trump has long-espoused eugenicist and ableist beliefs.
For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Donald Trump's decades-long obsession with eugenics
A timeline of the president's thoughts on "good genes," IQ, and which disabled people should "just die."
www.motherjones.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Trump’s views on disability
fits disturbingly well to the social Darwinist and eugenicist tendencies in the MAHA movement.
fits disturbingly well to the social Darwinist and eugenicist tendencies in the MAHA movement.
Calling this “shocking” says a lot. Not news, Psychology Today. We’ve known this, ask any support group.
We have seen this in studies of cancer survivors and their spouses. Within hetero marriages, men are more likely to leave when their wives have cancer, versus the other way around.
Among heterosexual couples over age 50, research finds that divorce rates increase significantly when the wife develops a serious illness but the husband does not; however, no such increase is seen when husbands fall ill but wives do not. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/soci...
May 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Calling this “shocking” says a lot. Not news, Psychology Today. We’ve known this, ask any support group.
Beautifully argued and researched, Violet Affleck. A+ from this disabled professor!
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…
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May 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Beautifully argued and researched, Violet Affleck. A+ from this disabled professor!
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
Dude, I just cannot listen to WH spokeswoman Barbie anymore. It's like they took the meanest mean girl from high school, slapped her in an Emily Gilmore suit and told her to see if she could break the world record for smug. 🤮
May 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Dude, I just cannot listen to WH spokeswoman Barbie anymore. It's like they took the meanest mean girl from high school, slapped her in an Emily Gilmore suit and told her to see if she could break the world record for smug. 🤮
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My interview with Anne Ursu is up on Lit Hub!
“You truly cannot separate the personal experience of having this disease from the social experience of it.” @gavingrant.bsky.social and @anneursu.bsky.social on chronic illness, writing, and family.
Two Households, Both Alike in Indignity: An Interview with Anne Ursu
(I wrote this lying down. I sat at my old desk to write and it was a mistake so I had to lie down. Every time I rewrote this or sent Anne questions I was lying down. I dictated some of my questions…
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May 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My interview with Anne Ursu is up on Lit Hub!
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If your literary organization lost an NEA grant this week, I'd like to hear from you for a story I'm writing for the LARB.
DMs are open, email is adam@thefrontlist.org.
DMs are open, email is adam@thefrontlist.org.
May 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If your literary organization lost an NEA grant this week, I'd like to hear from you for a story I'm writing for the LARB.
DMs are open, email is adam@thefrontlist.org.
DMs are open, email is adam@thefrontlist.org.
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Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
May 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
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Pope Francis’ Popemobile, “the very vehicle from which he waved and was close to millions of faithful all around the world, is being transformed into a mobile health unit for the children of Gaza.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
The Popemobile of Peace: Pope Francis’ final gift to Gaza - Vatican News
Pope Francis requests that his popemobile be turned into a health clinic for the children of Gaza.
www.vaticannews.va
May 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Pope Francis’ Popemobile, “the very vehicle from which he waved and was close to millions of faithful all around the world, is being transformed into a mobile health unit for the children of Gaza.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...