Rebecca Novick
@rebeccanovick.bsky.social
Theater maker, writer, troubler of waters. Mom of teens. Living with chronic illness.
#MCAS folks talk to me about how to help a flare. Woke up in the middle of the night with puffy eyes, swollen painful fingers, stomach bloating, flushed cheeks, etc. This morning my blood sugar and resting heart rate are unusually high too. Took an extra zyrtec but what else can I do?
May 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
#MCAS folks talk to me about how to help a flare. Woke up in the middle of the night with puffy eyes, swollen painful fingers, stomach bloating, flushed cheeks, etc. This morning my blood sugar and resting heart rate are unusually high too. Took an extra zyrtec but what else can I do?
Trans Kids Care Packages assembled and on their way to 16 kids in 7 states. A great way to spend this afternoon!
May 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Trans Kids Care Packages assembled and on their way to 16 kids in 7 states. A great way to spend this afternoon!
I really, really needed to read this today.
"Ability is, more or less, a temporary state. Each of us comes into the world helpless, and we leave it helpless.... It could happen to you tomorrow. If we make it so, life can be a broad path. There is room for all of us."
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Disability, Eugenics, and the Value of Human Life
The eugenicists Your worth is not tied to what you can do. Your worth is not tied to your health. Your worth is not tied to all the things you can do...
buttondown.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I really, really needed to read this today.
Berkeley #TeslaTakedown HUGE turnout, musicians, chanting crowd, kids, dogs, someone with a free Arnold Palmer sign, a fabulous guy doing on the spot screen printing of protest signs
March 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Berkeley #TeslaTakedown HUGE turnout, musicians, chanting crowd, kids, dogs, someone with a free Arnold Palmer sign, a fabulous guy doing on the spot screen printing of protest signs
Spent a fabulous hour with @karinakahazel.bsky.social at the www.stateofplay.space building absurd contraptions, laughing, jamming to eighties tunes, and generally enjoying how amazing clowns are.
March 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Spent a fabulous hour with @karinakahazel.bsky.social at the www.stateofplay.space building absurd contraptions, laughing, jamming to eighties tunes, and generally enjoying how amazing clowns are.
So so much is bad but look at these flowers from my garden #bloomscrolling
March 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
So so much is bad but look at these flowers from my garden #bloomscrolling
Why pray tell does my CGM refuse to report my blood sugar accurately when it is on my left thigh? Had to take off the new sensor and put a new one on my arm. They're so expensive!! I am cross.
March 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Why pray tell does my CGM refuse to report my blood sugar accurately when it is on my left thigh? Had to take off the new sensor and put a new one on my arm. They're so expensive!! I am cross.
Berkeley's Tesla protest had 200 + people and shut the Tesla store down: the staff left and locked the doors. Keep showing up!
February 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Berkeley's Tesla protest had 200 + people and shut the Tesla store down: the staff left and locked the doors. Keep showing up!
Join us for the 2nd week of protesting Elon Musk in front of Berkeley's Tesla store on Saturday at noon. Last week 300+ people were there, let's have even more showing up to say no to fascist takeover of our democracy.
actionnetwork.org/events/berke...
actionnetwork.org/events/berke...
Berkeley Tesla Protest
We are taking action at Tesla to protest Elon Musk and his illegal activities. ⚡ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk. ⚡ Stopping Musk will hel...
actionnetwork.org
February 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Join us for the 2nd week of protesting Elon Musk in front of Berkeley's Tesla store on Saturday at noon. Last week 300+ people were there, let's have even more showing up to say no to fascist takeover of our democracy.
actionnetwork.org/events/berke...
actionnetwork.org/events/berke...
Putting together a zoom book group to read books (nonfiction and speculative fiction) that fall into that fascinating fourth box "build alternatives". Who might be interested?
February 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Putting together a zoom book group to read books (nonfiction and speculative fiction) that fall into that fascinating fourth box "build alternatives". Who might be interested?
@stephanvernier.bsky.social we'd be compatriots! I am for this
February 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
@stephanvernier.bsky.social we'd be compatriots! I am for this
Appreciating TCG and @robkendt.bsky.social 's timely laying out of ominous changes to NEA funding. www.americantheatre.org/2025/02/10/n...
New NEA Guidelines Require Compliance With Trump’s Anti-DEI, Anti-Trans Orders
Other updates include a cancellation of Challenge America grants and a new emphasis on patriotic ‘America250’ projects.
www.americantheatre.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Appreciating TCG and @robkendt.bsky.social 's timely laying out of ominous changes to NEA funding. www.americantheatre.org/2025/02/10/n...
Really appreciate this as I try to shed the urgency habit:
February 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Really appreciate this as I try to shed the urgency habit:
I found our other senator! Guys this showing up at their offices shit is working.
Senator Schiff (as Dems filibuster the nomination of Project 2025 author Russ Vought): “The moment you say it’s ok to violate the law to shut down USAID you have said it is ok to violate the law and shut down anything.”
February 6, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I found our other senator! Guys this showing up at their offices shit is working.
Protesting at Senator Padilla's office (they wouldn't let us in despite the POURING rain). We presented our demands to a staffer who came outside.
February 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Protesting at Senator Padilla's office (they wouldn't let us in despite the POURING rain). We presented our demands to a staffer who came outside.
Join me and my rabble-rousing friends at Senator Padilla's SF office tomorrow at 4. We want him to stand up and publicly resist however he can!! Indivisible is organizing these senator visits in every state. Join ours, create your own or sign up for another one!
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Demand Senator Padilla Fight With Us Against Trump & Musk · Indivisible
We are facing a crisis and we need all Members of Congress to fight back. Join your friends and neighbors in telling Senator Padilla that we demand he use every tool at his disposal to fight back agai...
www.mobilize.us
February 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Join me and my rabble-rousing friends at Senator Padilla's SF office tomorrow at 4. We want him to stand up and publicly resist however he can!! Indivisible is organizing these senator visits in every state. Join ours, create your own or sign up for another one!
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
NYS Attorney General Tish James warned all New York State hospitals—including NYU Langone—that if they deny gender-affirming care to transgender adolescents they could be violating the anti-discrimination laws of the state.
NYS Attorney General Tish James warned all New York State hospitals—including NYU Langone—that if they deny gender-affirming care to transgender adolescents they could be violating the anti-discrimination laws of the state.
February 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
NYS Attorney General Tish James warned all New York State hospitals—including NYU Langone—that if they deny gender-affirming care to transgender adolescents they could be violating the anti-discrimination laws of the state.
NYS Attorney General Tish James warned all New York State hospitals—including NYU Langone—that if they deny gender-affirming care to transgender adolescents they could be violating the anti-discrimination laws of the state.
Literally the first time I've even seen a picture of this senator. I hope Senator Padilla gets louder and takes some real action. California can't have a useless, deadweight senator.
This story is still crystallizing, but water from California dams were released towards the Central Valley with little to no notice to the communities, so dangerous and unnerving. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
U.S. Sen. Padilla demands answers about Trump’s ‘troubling’ water release orders
U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla demanded answers from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth regarding a Trump administration order to release water from two dams.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Literally the first time I've even seen a picture of this senator. I hope Senator Padilla gets louder and takes some real action. California can't have a useless, deadweight senator.
Reposted by Rebecca Novick
Can we please remember that very recently South Korea showed us all what we should do when the president does illegal shit
February 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Can we please remember that very recently South Korea showed us all what we should do when the president does illegal shit
Hell yes California!!!
President Trump issued an executive order to find out what education funds he can legally rescind based on curriculum he doesn’t like. Existing law already answers that question —nothing.
January 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Hell yes California!!!
Today was my first day of following my new rule that I can't look at social media till I'm done with work. My god, I can't even begin to catch up with the horrors of today. What the fuckity fuck......
January 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Today was my first day of following my new rule that I can't look at social media till I'm done with work. My god, I can't even begin to catch up with the horrors of today. What the fuckity fuck......
Reposted by Rebecca Novick
Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
January 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.