Mia Mingus
@miamingus.bsky.social
transformative justice. disability justice. pandemics. abolition. (she/her)
https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com
https://www.soiltjp.org
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Mia Mingus
@miamingus.bsky.social
· Jan 7
When you feel yourself becoming complacent or surrendering to hopelessness or apathy, remember that everything that exists today exists because someone(s) dreamt it up and decided to put in the work to make it a reality. We can create new ways of doing things, new ways of being, new worlds.
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Thinking again about this piece by @miamingus.bsky.social from 2022:
"I need you to care about disabled people’s lives more than you care about a vacation, a party or a celebration. A cornerstone of being disabled in an ableist world is isolation."
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/y...
"I need you to care about disabled people’s lives more than you care about a vacation, a party or a celebration. A cornerstone of being disabled in an ableist world is isolation."
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/y...
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence
[Image description: Photograph of a melting iceberg taken from above. White pieces of ice of varying sizes of all different shapes float over dark blue water. The ice is white, with shades of grey …
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December 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Thinking again about this piece by @miamingus.bsky.social from 2022:
"I need you to care about disabled people’s lives more than you care about a vacation, a party or a celebration. A cornerstone of being disabled in an ableist world is isolation."
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/y...
"I need you to care about disabled people’s lives more than you care about a vacation, a party or a celebration. A cornerstone of being disabled in an ableist world is isolation."
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/y...
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This is such a great point: “Finding people who want to provide trustworthy information to their communities could be one of the most useful ways to be of service (e.g. information about current and future pandemics, weather, or anything that affects oppressed communities).”
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This is such a great point: “Finding people who want to provide trustworthy information to their communities could be one of the most useful ways to be of service (e.g. information about current and future pandemics, weather, or anything that affects oppressed communities).”
Posted this on IG for my dear Alice last week.
"One of the things I’ll remember most about you was how you gave your love away so freely to those you cared about. You just gave. You just kept showing up and reaching out. You just loved."
www.instagram.com/p/DRQk9vhjxO4/
"One of the things I’ll remember most about you was how you gave your love away so freely to those you cared about. You just gave. You just kept showing up and reaching out. You just loved."
www.instagram.com/p/DRQk9vhjxO4/
December 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Posted this on IG for my dear Alice last week.
"One of the things I’ll remember most about you was how you gave your love away so freely to those you cared about. You just gave. You just kept showing up and reaching out. You just loved."
www.instagram.com/p/DRQk9vhjxO4/
"One of the things I’ll remember most about you was how you gave your love away so freely to those you cared about. You just gave. You just kept showing up and reaching out. You just loved."
www.instagram.com/p/DRQk9vhjxO4/
"For those who don't have community (and for those who do), I'd offer that a pod of a few or more folks can help in the years to come...Even those part of a strong community can find pods useful, esp during a time that will be rife w constant crises which may drain many community members’ capacity."
"Building a pod for ourselves + being part of others pods is a critical kind of community infrastructure we can invest in creating. The kind that is endlessly adaptable, hard to destroy and a kind of renewable resource we can draw from again and again."
www.soiltjp.org/blog/pods-fo...
www.soiltjp.org/blog/pods-fo...
December 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"For those who don't have community (and for those who do), I'd offer that a pod of a few or more folks can help in the years to come...Even those part of a strong community can find pods useful, esp during a time that will be rife w constant crises which may drain many community members’ capacity."
"Building a pod for ourselves + being part of others pods is a critical kind of community infrastructure we can invest in creating. The kind that is endlessly adaptable, hard to destroy and a kind of renewable resource we can draw from again and again."
www.soiltjp.org/blog/pods-fo...
www.soiltjp.org/blog/pods-fo...
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"Building a pod for ourselves + being part of others pods is a critical kind of community infrastructure we can invest in creating. The kind that is endlessly adaptable, hard to destroy and a kind of renewable resource we can draw from again and again."
www.soiltjp.org/blog/pods-fo...
www.soiltjp.org/blog/pods-fo...
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We're thinking about these powerful words from disability justice activist @miamingus.bsky.social, and reflecting on all the work we must do to keep fighting for Long COVID justice and #disabilityjustice!
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We're thinking about these powerful words from disability justice activist @miamingus.bsky.social, and reflecting on all the work we must do to keep fighting for Long COVID justice and #disabilityjustice!
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Everyone can have their three Christmas ghosts moment. But they have to earn it. Part of that is not just words but actions. @miamingus.bsky.social has a great group of columns on accountability and forgiveness. leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/h...
The Four Parts of Accountability & How To Give A Genuine Apology
START HERE Apologizing well is a fundamental part of accountability. It is a skill that we should all understand and practice consistently. You cannot take accountability if you do not know how to …
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November 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Everyone can have their three Christmas ghosts moment. But they have to earn it. Part of that is not just words but actions. @miamingus.bsky.social has a great group of columns on accountability and forgiveness. leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/h...
Maybe you have an accountability pod? Or a pod who you attend protests w or take action against fascism/injustice? A care pod to support elders or disabled friends? A cooking pod to cook meals for folks in your community? Or a pod for natural disaster(s)?
All are welcome + registration is free.
All are welcome + registration is free.
Looking forward to our last Pod Greenhouse of 2025 on Dec 6th, 12:30-3pm ET.
This is a virtual space for pod work: find support for yourself and/or support others. Meet new people or register with folks you know. Registration is free.
Registration + Access Info: www.soiltjp.org/our-work/gre...
This is a virtual space for pod work: find support for yourself and/or support others. Meet new people or register with folks you know. Registration is free.
Registration + Access Info: www.soiltjp.org/our-work/gre...
SOIL Pod Greenhouse Registration — SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project
www.soiltjp.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Maybe you have an accountability pod? Or a pod who you attend protests w or take action against fascism/injustice? A care pod to support elders or disabled friends? A cooking pod to cook meals for folks in your community? Or a pod for natural disaster(s)?
All are welcome + registration is free.
All are welcome + registration is free.
Looking forward to our last Pod Greenhouse of 2025 on Dec 6th, 12:30-3pm ET.
This is a virtual space for pod work: find support for yourself and/or support others. Meet new people or register with folks you know. Registration is free.
Registration + Access Info: www.soiltjp.org/our-work/gre...
This is a virtual space for pod work: find support for yourself and/or support others. Meet new people or register with folks you know. Registration is free.
Registration + Access Info: www.soiltjp.org/our-work/gre...
SOIL Pod Greenhouse Registration — SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project
www.soiltjp.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Looking forward to our last Pod Greenhouse of 2025 on Dec 6th, 12:30-3pm ET.
This is a virtual space for pod work: find support for yourself and/or support others. Meet new people or register with folks you know. Registration is free.
Registration + Access Info: www.soiltjp.org/our-work/gre...
This is a virtual space for pod work: find support for yourself and/or support others. Meet new people or register with folks you know. Registration is free.
Registration + Access Info: www.soiltjp.org/our-work/gre...
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"You interrogate your privilege, but never your abled privilege. You educate yourself about oppression, but never ableism."
@miamingus.bsky.social
@miamingus.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"You interrogate your privilege, but never your abled privilege. You educate yourself about oppression, but never ableism."
@miamingus.bsky.social
@miamingus.bsky.social
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I can't repost this enough times.
People think resistance comes naturally, but forget that most people need to be shown how. They need it modeled and more so than that they need to be shown that it is even possible. That is part of the power of protests and other public forms of resistance.
August 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I can't repost this enough times.
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I was reminded of this gorgeous article by @miamingus.bsky.social today. Its a short read but it describes everything I'm always reaching for, and often missing, in life as a disabled person
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/a...
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/a...
Access Intimacy: The Missing Link
There are many ways to describe intimacy. For example, there’s physical intimacy, emotional intimacy, intellectual, political, familial or sexual intimacy. But, as a physically disabled woman, th…
leavingevidence.wordpress.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I was reminded of this gorgeous article by @miamingus.bsky.social today. Its a short read but it describes everything I'm always reaching for, and often missing, in life as a disabled person
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/a...
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/a...
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A must read or reread:
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence by Mia Mingus leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/y...
@miamingus.bsky.social
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence by Mia Mingus leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/y...
@miamingus.bsky.social
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence
[Image description: Photograph of a melting iceberg taken from above. White pieces of ice of varying sizes of all different shapes float over dark blue water. The ice is white, with shades of grey …
leavingevidence.wordpress.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A must read or reread:
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence by Mia Mingus leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/y...
@miamingus.bsky.social
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence by Mia Mingus leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/y...
@miamingus.bsky.social
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🙌🏽 Indeed! "'Disability Justice' is Simply Another Term for Love" - Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/d...
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/d...
“Disability Justice” is Simply Another Term for Love
This was the opening keynote speech at the 2018 Disability Intersectionality Summit, in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Oct 13, 2018. The official video recording of this keynote can be found he…
leavingevidence.wordpress.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
🙌🏽 Indeed! "'Disability Justice' is Simply Another Term for Love" - Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/d...
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/d...
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"... We are all aging, we are all living in polluted and toxic conditions and the level of violence currently in the world should be enough for all of us to care more about [D]isability and ableism." - Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social
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Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice
My remarks from the 2017 Paul K. Longmore Lecture on Disability Studies at San Francisco State University delivered on April 11, 2017. To watch and listen to the video of my talk, click here…
leavingevidence.wordpress.com
July 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"... We are all aging, we are all living in polluted and toxic conditions and the level of violence currently in the world should be enough for all of us to care more about [D]isability and ableism." - Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social
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Just read @miamingus.bsky.social's blog post on access intimacy. It explains why so many of us living with #lupus were devastated by @lupus.org's decision to scrub the LGBTQ community, and the Black and Brown community from their website.
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/a...
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/a...
Access Intimacy: The Missing Link
There are many ways to describe intimacy. For example, there’s physical intimacy, emotional intimacy, intellectual, political, familial or sexual intimacy. But, as a physically disabled woman, th…
leavingevidence.wordpress.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just read @miamingus.bsky.social's blog post on access intimacy. It explains why so many of us living with #lupus were devastated by @lupus.org's decision to scrub the LGBTQ community, and the Black and Brown community from their website.
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/a...
leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/a...
will never get tired of seeing the #AccessIsLove gear out in the world
Did you know about the Access is Love store (built by
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social
, @miamingus.bsky.social + Sandy Ho)? My t-shirt has arrived and it’s my new fav. ❤️ Access IS love #a11y
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social
, @miamingus.bsky.social + Sandy Ho)? My t-shirt has arrived and it’s my new fav. ❤️ Access IS love #a11y
September 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
will never get tired of seeing the #AccessIsLove gear out in the world
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We paired it with @miamingus.bsky.social pod mapping guide. My caregiver is trans and I am severely disabled so we have talked a lot about our various needs and various risks while we are in this caregiving dynamic.
June 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We paired it with @miamingus.bsky.social pod mapping guide. My caregiver is trans and I am severely disabled so we have talked a lot about our various needs and various risks while we are in this caregiving dynamic.
The next Pod Greenhouse is Saturday, Sept 20th, 12:30-3pm ET
It's a virtual space, registration is free and you can register as an individual or as a group. There's more access info at the link below
Excited to see all who have already registered!
Register: www.soiltjp.org/our-work/gre...
It's a virtual space, registration is free and you can register as an individual or as a group. There's more access info at the link below
Excited to see all who have already registered!
Register: www.soiltjp.org/our-work/gre...
SOIL Pod Greenhouse Registration — SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project
www.soiltjp.org
September 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The next Pod Greenhouse is Saturday, Sept 20th, 12:30-3pm ET
It's a virtual space, registration is free and you can register as an individual or as a group. There's more access info at the link below
Excited to see all who have already registered!
Register: www.soiltjp.org/our-work/gre...
It's a virtual space, registration is free and you can register as an individual or as a group. There's more access info at the link below
Excited to see all who have already registered!
Register: www.soiltjp.org/our-work/gre...
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"Imagine being so harmed by an infection that everyone around you refers to as harmless that you can’t walk more than 500 steps a day. Imagine you have to plan your week around taking a shower (sitting down)."
The Pandemic Has Been a Portal (for a few of us)
It's true that most people keep choosing "normalcy". But the COVID conscious community is showing us a radical new way forward, that centers care
www.thegauntlet.news
July 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
"Imagine being so harmed by an infection that everyone around you refers to as harmless that you can’t walk more than 500 steps a day. Imagine you have to plan your week around taking a shower (sitting down)."
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Long covid is now the most common chronic health problem in children, even surpassing asthma.
😷 Here's what's happening this week in #LongCOVID research: bit.ly/3SAXcdz
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![A new National Institutes of Health RECOVER program study in JAMA Pediatrics found that around one in seven children under age six with a prior SARS-CoV-2 infection met the probable diagnostic criteria for Long COVID. Studying over 1,000 infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children, researchers revealed differences in how Long COVID presented between age groups. “Young children have been largely excluded from public conversations about the impact of COVID,” said co-author Megan Carmilani in a press release. “[This research] should be a wake-up call to providers and parents: babies and toddlers can develop Long COVID.” The authors also put together a resource designed for caregivers of children with Long COVID, which identifies Long COVID as “the most common chronic health problem in children.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:age5xvis2s2vy5qiz2tjxoc6/bafkreic7rge652pcbgtp5wssangl75iykbib6jsqzfa7ygqzcxpl7uhr2m@jpeg)
June 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Long covid is now the most common chronic health problem in children, even surpassing asthma.
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Absolutely wild how extremely far right rhetoric on Covid/disabled people, that liberals and leftists rightly attacked MAGA for in 2020, has now been mainstreamed to the point that leftists/liberals are further right on public health than most MAGA people were in 2020. Julia outlines it well here
Liberals joined conservatives to mainstream anti-vax beliefs about viruses and public health
Viruses are bad for kids' health. Public health is a collective effort. Liberals no longer believe either.
www.thegauntlet.news
June 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Absolutely wild how extremely far right rhetoric on Covid/disabled people, that liberals and leftists rightly attacked MAGA for in 2020, has now been mainstreamed to the point that leftists/liberals are further right on public health than most MAGA people were in 2020. Julia outlines it well here
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Watching this play out in real time has been mindboggling. At some point, liberals and progressives are going to have to reckon with this if we have any hope of making progress.
We should have listened to disabled and immunocompromised ppl.
We should have cared.
We should have listened to disabled and immunocompromised ppl.
We should have cared.
Absolutely wild how extremely far right rhetoric on Covid/disabled people, that liberals and leftists rightly attacked MAGA for in 2020, has now been mainstreamed to the point that leftists/liberals are further right on public health than most MAGA people were in 2020. Julia outlines it well here
Liberals joined conservatives to mainstream anti-vax beliefs about viruses and public health
Viruses are bad for kids' health. Public health is a collective effort. Liberals no longer believe either.
www.thegauntlet.news
June 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Watching this play out in real time has been mindboggling. At some point, liberals and progressives are going to have to reckon with this if we have any hope of making progress.
We should have listened to disabled and immunocompromised ppl.
We should have cared.
We should have listened to disabled and immunocompromised ppl.
We should have cared.
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I came across an older text "Access Intimacy: The Missing Link" by @miamingus.bsky.social a few days ago.
It's not often that something resonates with me so much, suddenly piecing together long-standing, vague feelings like a puzzle.
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It's not often that something resonates with me so much, suddenly piecing together long-standing, vague feelings like a puzzle.
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Access Intimacy: The Missing Link
There are many ways to describe intimacy. For example, there’s physical intimacy, emotional intimacy, intellectual, political, familial or sexual intimacy. But, as a physically disabled woman, th…
leavingevidence.wordpress.com
May 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I came across an older text "Access Intimacy: The Missing Link" by @miamingus.bsky.social a few days ago.
It's not often that something resonates with me so much, suddenly piecing together long-standing, vague feelings like a puzzle.
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It's not often that something resonates with me so much, suddenly piecing together long-standing, vague feelings like a puzzle.
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