Rayna Lamb - She/her
@purplegoddess.bsky.social
Wheelchair dancer, feminist, exhausted. Love books, musical theatre.
I knit, garden, read, roll my eyes at politicians, yell at ableists, avoid cold weather, back up people making the world better, etc. Trans rights are human rights. Ban cauliflower.
I knit, garden, read, roll my eyes at politicians, yell at ableists, avoid cold weather, back up people making the world better, etc. Trans rights are human rights. Ban cauliflower.
Pinned
A New Ballet by Underrepresented Artists
chuffed.org
This is a wonderful, original take on The Little Mermaid that I feel so lucky to be dancing in.
Please consider donating to this project and sharing this post, we need more disability stories in all of the arts, but ESPECIALLY in dance.
#disability #dance #ballet #FairyTales
Please consider donating to this project and sharing this post, we need more disability stories in all of the arts, but ESPECIALLY in dance.
#disability #dance #ballet #FairyTales
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Militant decency.
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Militant decency.
Nobody puts Charlie Brown in the corner.
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh, Charlie Brown, please don't let me be misunderstood
Oh, Charlie Brown, please don't let me be misunderstood
"One thing about living with Charlie Brown I never could stomach—all the damn vampires."
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Nobody puts Charlie Brown in the corner.
And an understanding of the meaning and importance of disability community and disabilty pride. My parents and family were my first ableist encounters as a disabled child.
Many disabled kids would benefit so much if parenting classes that focus on disability inclusion and the harms of ableism were widely available (so, free) to their parents.
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
And an understanding of the meaning and importance of disability community and disabilty pride. My parents and family were my first ableist encounters as a disabled child.
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I'm not going to share the book, but I just read the worst description of the skin colour of a Black person I've ever seen.
As a public service, I'm just going to say that Black skin can range from the palest yellow, through red, through a multitude of brown shades, all the way to really dark blue.
As a public service, I'm just going to say that Black skin can range from the palest yellow, through red, through a multitude of brown shades, all the way to really dark blue.
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I'm not going to share the book, but I just read the worst description of the skin colour of a Black person I've ever seen.
As a public service, I'm just going to say that Black skin can range from the palest yellow, through red, through a multitude of brown shades, all the way to really dark blue.
As a public service, I'm just going to say that Black skin can range from the palest yellow, through red, through a multitude of brown shades, all the way to really dark blue.
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It stops sorting your inbox into folders, btw, when you turn this off. As the inbox folders predate Gemini, this is a passive-aggressive attempt to make gmail a miserable experience unless you turn AI on, not a necessity.
Really, *really* inconvenient but makes me more determined to keep it off.
Really, *really* inconvenient but makes me more determined to keep it off.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
It stops sorting your inbox into folders, btw, when you turn this off. As the inbox folders predate Gemini, this is a passive-aggressive attempt to make gmail a miserable experience unless you turn AI on, not a necessity.
Really, *really* inconvenient but makes me more determined to keep it off.
Really, *really* inconvenient but makes me more determined to keep it off.
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance ... consider mutual aid to trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, genderqueer (and however else they identify!) people in your lives. We are struggling.
If anyone can help ... with the car broken down, I have to cancel care, Alan can't get jobs, and food costs go up cause of delivery Transit is barely a thing here & I am disabled+state stripped trans/nonbinary rights so I am denied access 2x over.
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Pay Karrie Higgins using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/KarrieHiggins and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance ... consider mutual aid to trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, genderqueer (and however else they identify!) people in your lives. We are struggling.
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A lot of you tell victims their stories are too much, that you can't bear to read them, that we should not even tell them. I was told recently I should turn my life into fiction to make it easier to read.
Yet you search for salacious details in the Epstein files.
Yet you search for salacious details in the Epstein files.
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A lot of you tell victims their stories are too much, that you can't bear to read them, that we should not even tell them. I was told recently I should turn my life into fiction to make it easier to read.
Yet you search for salacious details in the Epstein files.
Yet you search for salacious details in the Epstein files.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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All shares of this much-appreciated. Sorry if it's boring. Just another instance of me attempting to rehabilitate one of my books after my ex-publisher Unbound failed to pay me a large chunk of earnings from it, went into administration and took it temporarily out of print.
I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
All shares of this much-appreciated. Sorry if it's boring. Just another instance of me attempting to rehabilitate one of my books after my ex-publisher Unbound failed to pay me a large chunk of earnings from it, went into administration and took it temporarily out of print.
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By the way, it's November 19th, so that means it's International Men's Day. Yes, of course we get one too. Let's use it to do our best to be better men, to do better by the other men in our lives, and to bring up young men to be better than we've been. How are you doing, fellow menfolk?
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
By the way, it's November 19th, so that means it's International Men's Day. Yes, of course we get one too. Let's use it to do our best to be better men, to do better by the other men in our lives, and to bring up young men to be better than we've been. How are you doing, fellow menfolk?
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More than 270,000 malicious emails impersonating Services Australia and Centrelink have flooded Australian inboxes in one of the nation’s largest phishing campaigns in years, with the sophisticated attacks specifically targeting the country’s most vulnerable citizens www.smh.com.au/technology/c...
Cybercriminals unleash fake Centrelink scam on vulnerable Australians
More than 270,000 malicious emails impersonating Services Australia and Centrelink have flooded Australian inboxes.
www.smh.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
More than 270,000 malicious emails impersonating Services Australia and Centrelink have flooded Australian inboxes in one of the nation’s largest phishing campaigns in years, with the sophisticated attacks specifically targeting the country’s most vulnerable citizens www.smh.com.au/technology/c...
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Teleporters, apply within (my house)
November 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Teleporters, apply within (my house)
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I have a lifetime to think about what a world without Alice in embodied form looks like. To have loved and been loved by her was one of the greatest privileges of my life. I will carry her spirit with me always.
Many thoughts about my cyborg bitch boss goddess accomplice Alice Wong & all the things she meant but there is a tendency for white disabled people to overshadow conversations about disabled BIPOC including in death. I choose to let Alice speak for herself & uplift those she wanted to represent her.
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I have a lifetime to think about what a world without Alice in embodied form looks like. To have loved and been loved by her was one of the greatest privileges of my life. I will carry her spirit with me always.
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Alice wrote so many wonderful things. Thinking of this essay today.
"The cycle of living and dying is a reminder that we do not exist as humans divorced from one another and nature."
"The cycle of living and dying is a reminder that we do not exist as humans divorced from one another and nature."
In Praise of Peaches - Orion Magazine
Sometimes a peach is just a peach. But sometimes it's a portal.
orionmagazine.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Alice wrote so many wonderful things. Thinking of this essay today.
"The cycle of living and dying is a reminder that we do not exist as humans divorced from one another and nature."
"The cycle of living and dying is a reminder that we do not exist as humans divorced from one another and nature."
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Love your disabled kin while we're here.
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Love your disabled kin while we're here.
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
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It’s #transgender Awareness week.
More than 100 years ago, #transgender surgeries and support were happening, and #trans people were organizing against N*zis. Plus c’est change…
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
More than 100 years ago, #transgender surgeries and support were happening, and #trans people were organizing against N*zis. Plus c’est change…
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
THE INTERMEDIARIES | Kirkus Reviews
The fight to affirm gender.
www.kirkusreviews.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It’s #transgender Awareness week.
More than 100 years ago, #transgender surgeries and support were happening, and #trans people were organizing against N*zis. Plus c’est change…
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
More than 100 years ago, #transgender surgeries and support were happening, and #trans people were organizing against N*zis. Plus c’est change…
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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To one and all she seemed best friends with her cousin, the Spanish duchess Crystal Pepsi, but behind the smiles, in the world of court politics, they were the most deadly of adversaries
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
To one and all she seemed best friends with her cousin, the Spanish duchess Crystal Pepsi, but behind the smiles, in the world of court politics, they were the most deadly of adversaries
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If you’re a survivor of sexual abuse… it is a tough time to be online.
It’s ok to take breaks. It’s ok to cry. It’s ok to rage.
Whatever you’re feeling is valid.
I like to remind myself what Gisele Pelicot said… “shame must change sides”
We’re going to make the abusers feel shame now.
It’s ok to take breaks. It’s ok to cry. It’s ok to rage.
Whatever you’re feeling is valid.
I like to remind myself what Gisele Pelicot said… “shame must change sides”
We’re going to make the abusers feel shame now.
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
If you’re a survivor of sexual abuse… it is a tough time to be online.
It’s ok to take breaks. It’s ok to cry. It’s ok to rage.
Whatever you’re feeling is valid.
I like to remind myself what Gisele Pelicot said… “shame must change sides”
We’re going to make the abusers feel shame now.
It’s ok to take breaks. It’s ok to cry. It’s ok to rage.
Whatever you’re feeling is valid.
I like to remind myself what Gisele Pelicot said… “shame must change sides”
We’re going to make the abusers feel shame now.
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"Guillermo del Toro was so intentional about EVERYTHING" and yet hardly anybody is talking about how he put more disability and illness into the story than exists in the OG Frankenstein texts!! 😶🌫️
I want to yap about it!!
I want to yap about it!!
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
"Guillermo del Toro was so intentional about EVERYTHING" and yet hardly anybody is talking about how he put more disability and illness into the story than exists in the OG Frankenstein texts!! 😶🌫️
I want to yap about it!!
I want to yap about it!!
We have this in Australia too.
USAians, if you don’t already know about Too Good To Go, you should check it out.
It’s a free app that works with local restaurants & bakeries to help them sell (at steep discounts) unsold food at the end of the day—and helps you find cheap good food
apps.apple.com/us/app/too-g...
It’s a free app that works with local restaurants & bakeries to help them sell (at steep discounts) unsold food at the end of the day—and helps you find cheap good food
apps.apple.com/us/app/too-g...
Too Good To Go: End Food Waste App - App Store
Download Too Good To Go: End Food Waste by Too Good To Go on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Too Good To Go:…
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November 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
We have this in Australia too.