Mia Mingus
@miamingus.bsky.social
transformative justice. disability justice. pandemics. abolition. (she/her)
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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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"You interrogate your privilege, but never your abled privilege. You educate yourself about oppression, but never ableism."
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September 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"You interrogate your privilege, but never your abled privilege. You educate yourself about oppression, but never ableism."
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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
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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…
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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...
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You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence by Mia Mingus leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/y...
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You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence
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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...
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🙌🏽 Indeed! "'Disability Justice' is Simply Another Term for Love" - Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social
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“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…
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July 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
🙌🏽 Indeed! "'Disability Justice' is Simply Another Term for Love" - Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social
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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…
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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...
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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
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
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, @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
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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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Love this: "Where might we be if we interrogated the conditions that allow harm to take root + flourish? What more could be possible if we actively embodied connection + community? What could we win if we sought out concrete practices to close the gap between our professed values + our actions?"
"Isolation feeds into the oppressive systems that we’re seeking to dismantle...What happens at a larger scale is transmitted and manifests within our most intimate interactions, including the spaces that are seeking to dismantle violent systems." - Briana Perry
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Building Organizations by Building Community — SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project
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April 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Love this: "Where might we be if we interrogated the conditions that allow harm to take root + flourish? What more could be possible if we actively embodied connection + community? What could we win if we sought out concrete practices to close the gap between our professed values + our actions?"
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Sad but true. RFK Jr's wish is coming true—everybody's getting measles. Cases are rising & there's no end in sight www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jrs-wish...
RFK Jr.’s Wish Is Coming True: Everybody’s Getting Measles
The number of measles cases in the U.S. has risen to 884 across 29 states.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Sad but true. RFK Jr's wish is coming true—everybody's getting measles. Cases are rising & there's no end in sight www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jrs-wish...
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the construction of Cop City hinged on a compliant media that repeated false police claims and framing, private funders who see expanded policing as a safeguard for their capital, and state actors willing to serve those interests without question. none of that is unique to Atlanta!
April 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
the construction of Cop City hinged on a compliant media that repeated false police claims and framing, private funders who see expanded policing as a safeguard for their capital, and state actors willing to serve those interests without question. none of that is unique to Atlanta!
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Cop City is officially "opening" today. The movement against it carries so many lessons for people everywhere, because the issues are everywhere today: the un-democratic militarization and expansion of policing and state violence, backed by dark money private funding.
April 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Cop City is officially "opening" today. The movement against it carries so many lessons for people everywhere, because the issues are everywhere today: the un-democratic militarization and expansion of policing and state violence, backed by dark money private funding.
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Periodic reminder this is FDA-approved for men as well as women up to age 45!
It covers 9 strains of HPV so even if you’ve been exposed to some, it can protect you from others.
It works on strains that cause cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, throat and back of mouth cancer. Low-key medical miracle.
It covers 9 strains of HPV so even if you’ve been exposed to some, it can protect you from others.
It works on strains that cause cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, throat and back of mouth cancer. Low-key medical miracle.
A clinical trial run by the National Cancer Institute seems to confirm that a single dose of the vaccine used to prevent infection with the human papilloma virus is just as effective as two
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U.S. government researchers present 'phenomenal' new data on HPV vaccines
A new study seems to confirm that a single dose of the vaccine used to prevent HPV infection is just as effective as two — and, therefore, also helps to prevent cancer.
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April 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Periodic reminder this is FDA-approved for men as well as women up to age 45!
It covers 9 strains of HPV so even if you’ve been exposed to some, it can protect you from others.
It works on strains that cause cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, throat and back of mouth cancer. Low-key medical miracle.
It covers 9 strains of HPV so even if you’ve been exposed to some, it can protect you from others.
It works on strains that cause cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, throat and back of mouth cancer. Low-key medical miracle.
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Things that have extended the average lifespan of working people:
Unions
Healthcare (through unions, Medicare and Medicaid)
Universal public education
Labor laws
Environmental regulations
Social Security
If you seek to undermine all of these,what is your underlying objective?
Unions
Healthcare (through unions, Medicare and Medicaid)
Universal public education
Labor laws
Environmental regulations
Social Security
If you seek to undermine all of these,what is your underlying objective?
April 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Things that have extended the average lifespan of working people:
Unions
Healthcare (through unions, Medicare and Medicaid)
Universal public education
Labor laws
Environmental regulations
Social Security
If you seek to undermine all of these,what is your underlying objective?
Unions
Healthcare (through unions, Medicare and Medicaid)
Universal public education
Labor laws
Environmental regulations
Social Security
If you seek to undermine all of these,what is your underlying objective?
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This is an *active* current example of democrats helping to pass a law that will actively hurt people fighting civil rights and civil liberties in our current crisis moment. Either help the movement, get out of the way, or admit what side you’re on.
“The new charge would be a class B misdemeanor and apply if someone wears a mask or covers their face with the intent of concealing their identity while committing a class A misdemeanor or felony or immediately fleeing the scene”
They’re, of course, hanging this on Jews (WHO DO NOT WANT THIS)
They’re, of course, hanging this on Jews (WHO DO NOT WANT THIS)
Gov. Hochul, lawmakers strike deal on new crime of wearing mask while evading arrest
The deal between Hochul and the Legislature’s Democratic majorities clears a major hurdle to a final budget deal.
gothamist.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This is an *active* current example of democrats helping to pass a law that will actively hurt people fighting civil rights and civil liberties in our current crisis moment. Either help the movement, get out of the way, or admit what side you’re on.
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Imagine sucking so much that countries where you’re not on the ballot vote against you
April 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Imagine sucking so much that countries where you’re not on the ballot vote against you