Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta
@suzanneforbes.bsky.social
Fat queer disabled retired artist with MECFS in Berlin. Still respirator masking and isolating. Trans rights FOREVER. Sex worker ally. She/her.
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Jean Bardot and Steffy the Rubber Doll by Suzanne Forbes drawn live at Montreal Fetish Weekend Aug 30 2008
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Jean Bardot and Steffy the Rubber Doll by Suzanne Forbes drawn live at Montreal Fetish Weekend Aug 30 2008
Here is my little Tennessee Walking Horse drawing for #pacing on gradient.horse showing how to color the legs.
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Here is my little Tennessee Walking Horse drawing for #pacing on gradient.horse showing how to color the legs.
Here is my horse on gradient.horse
yes I am extremely good at drawing horses, even tiny with a mouse with my non-dominant hand. I drew the right side legs in one color and the left side legs in the other so the horse would be pacing. lol a little MECFS/LC joke
yes I am extremely good at drawing horses, even tiny with a mouse with my non-dominant hand. I drew the right side legs in one color and the left side legs in the other so the horse would be pacing. lol a little MECFS/LC joke
February 10, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Here is my horse on gradient.horse
yes I am extremely good at drawing horses, even tiny with a mouse with my non-dominant hand. I drew the right side legs in one color and the left side legs in the other so the horse would be pacing. lol a little MECFS/LC joke
yes I am extremely good at drawing horses, even tiny with a mouse with my non-dominant hand. I drew the right side legs in one color and the left side legs in the other so the horse would be pacing. lol a little MECFS/LC joke
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Very excited for this event we're hosting next week!
Join us for a free webinar! The Sick Times editors @mileswgriffis.bsky.social and @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social — plus special guest speakers — will demystify the process of writing and pitching op-eds and essays on Long COVID. Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
February 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Very excited for this event we're hosting next week!
From the update about Savannah:
"If in 2026, 6 months after the Decode ME research results proving the genetic basis of energy-limiting disease were published in Britain to great public fanfare, a patient with Very Severe ME is being treated like this in a UK hospital, (cont'd)
"If in 2026, 6 months after the Decode ME research results proving the genetic basis of energy-limiting disease were published in Britain to great public fanfare, a patient with Very Severe ME is being treated like this in a UK hospital, (cont'd)
February 8, 2026 at 6:36 PM
From the update about Savannah:
"If in 2026, 6 months after the Decode ME research results proving the genetic basis of energy-limiting disease were published in Britain to great public fanfare, a patient with Very Severe ME is being treated like this in a UK hospital, (cont'd)
"If in 2026, 6 months after the Decode ME research results proving the genetic basis of energy-limiting disease were published in Britain to great public fanfare, a patient with Very Severe ME is being treated like this in a UK hospital, (cont'd)
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#pwME reminder that Savannah needs our help.
Please email the CEO of the hospital she is in, ben.travis@nhs.net, with just the title “Restore pain relief to Savannah NOW”
Also please keep donating to and sharing her fundraiser.
Please email the CEO of the hospital she is in, ben.travis@nhs.net, with just the title “Restore pain relief to Savannah NOW”
Also please keep donating to and sharing her fundraiser.
#mecfs #pwME
There's an update on Savannah's fundraiser and it is fucking grim.
The hospital have not changed course. Continuing to reduce pain meds. Still not reinstated antihistamine meaning Savannah's had no meaningful nutrition in 7 fucking weeks.
This is MURDER.
All 3 updates are from today.
There's an update on Savannah's fundraiser and it is fucking grim.
The hospital have not changed course. Continuing to reduce pain meds. Still not reinstated antihistamine meaning Savannah's had no meaningful nutrition in 7 fucking weeks.
This is MURDER.
All 3 updates are from today.
Donate to #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital, organized by Sam Pearce
Very Severe ME patient 23 year-old Savannah Victora-May is at … Sam Pearce needs your support for #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:23 PM
#pwME reminder that Savannah needs our help.
Please email the CEO of the hospital she is in, ben.travis@nhs.net, with just the title “Restore pain relief to Savannah NOW”
Also please keep donating to and sharing her fundraiser.
Please email the CEO of the hospital she is in, ben.travis@nhs.net, with just the title “Restore pain relief to Savannah NOW”
Also please keep donating to and sharing her fundraiser.
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beschäftigt sich mit der Psychologisierung und Stigmatisierung von ME/CFS sowie anderen marginalisierten Erkrankungen, Psychosomatikkritik und partizipativer Medizin. Mirja Lisa Nicolas ist seit mehreren Jahren selbst an ME/CFS erkrankt.
ourbodies.at/wessen-koerp...
ourbodies.at/wessen-koerp...
Wessen Körper, wessen Wissen? • OUR BODIES
Die schlechte Versorgung von Menschen mit ME/CFS zeigt, wie stark Medizin von ungleicher Machtverteilung geprägt ist. Macht neu verteilen heißt: Betroffene aktiv mitgestalten lassen. Von Mirja Lisa Ni...
ourbodies.at
February 8, 2026 at 2:19 PM
beschäftigt sich mit der Psychologisierung und Stigmatisierung von ME/CFS sowie anderen marginalisierten Erkrankungen, Psychosomatikkritik und partizipativer Medizin. Mirja Lisa Nicolas ist seit mehreren Jahren selbst an ME/CFS erkrankt.
ourbodies.at/wessen-koerp...
ourbodies.at/wessen-koerp...
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Staying alive is the best revenge. 🥰
#art #traditionalart #miniatureart #queer #trans #mice #mouse #cute #rodents #inspo #streetart #painting
#art #traditionalart #miniatureart #queer #trans #mice #mouse #cute #rodents #inspo #streetart #painting
February 8, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Staying alive is the best revenge. 🥰
#art #traditionalart #miniatureart #queer #trans #mice #mouse #cute #rodents #inspo #streetart #painting
#art #traditionalart #miniatureart #queer #trans #mice #mouse #cute #rodents #inspo #streetart #painting
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if a guy makes excuses for someone he just parasocially is attached to, he will do the same for those he actually knows
that guy is not safe to be around, bring others around, or work closely with, less b/c he is a predator than that you know he does not see abusers as unsafe to have around him
that guy is not safe to be around, bring others around, or work closely with, less b/c he is a predator than that you know he does not see abusers as unsafe to have around him
February 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
if a guy makes excuses for someone he just parasocially is attached to, he will do the same for those he actually knows
that guy is not safe to be around, bring others around, or work closely with, less b/c he is a predator than that you know he does not see abusers as unsafe to have around him
that guy is not safe to be around, bring others around, or work closely with, less b/c he is a predator than that you know he does not see abusers as unsafe to have around him
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If checking your news feed feels like an existential crisis, you're not alone. Sharing a laugh with like-minded folks helps you build resilience for living in stressful times, so join us 2/14 for Goin' Viral - a free online comedy show featuring @laurenflans.bsky.social & @ronplacone.bsky.social !
February 5, 2026 at 12:36 PM
If checking your news feed feels like an existential crisis, you're not alone. Sharing a laugh with like-minded folks helps you build resilience for living in stressful times, so join us 2/14 for Goin' Viral - a free online comedy show featuring @laurenflans.bsky.social & @ronplacone.bsky.social !
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This weird world we live where people want to live in pretend times where a novel corona viruses isn’t still absolutely destroying people (just not in active hospitalizations in the same numbers as before), but then people have to unpretend when their health is part of their job.
Australian Winter Olympic athletes wearing an N95 mask as they boarded the bus to head to the Opening Ceremony
👏👏👍👍
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February 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
This weird world we live where people want to live in pretend times where a novel corona viruses isn’t still absolutely destroying people (just not in active hospitalizations in the same numbers as before), but then people have to unpretend when their health is part of their job.
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Mask up, punks!
so many respirators on olympians faces; just because you’re not a professional athlete doesn’t mean that you n those around you don’t have something worth protecting too.
February 7, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Mask up, punks!
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proceeds go to @swop-usa.bsky.social and @redumbrellafund.bsky.social - here’s some of what’s been donated in the past bsky.app/profile/sine...
Bandcamp Friday!
i’ve posted about Soundtracks for Sex Work before, but did you know:
SSW has raised >$1k for SWOP USA & The Red Umbrella Fund, 2 orgs involved in SW advocacy & aid efforts?🖤🧡
you can add to that & get some 🔥🔥🔥 music for your collection:
icbcollective.bandcamp.com/album/soundt...
i’ve posted about Soundtracks for Sex Work before, but did you know:
SSW has raised >$1k for SWOP USA & The Red Umbrella Fund, 2 orgs involved in SW advocacy & aid efforts?🖤🧡
you can add to that & get some 🔥🔥🔥 music for your collection:
icbcollective.bandcamp.com/album/soundt...
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February 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM
proceeds go to @swop-usa.bsky.social and @redumbrellafund.bsky.social - here’s some of what’s been donated in the past bsky.app/profile/sine...
Having some real trauma days these days, on so many fronts, and just wanna put my oar in to say the people who say mute the things have a good point.
February 5, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Having some real trauma days these days, on so many fronts, and just wanna put my oar in to say the people who say mute the things have a good point.
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This is an underdiscussed issue in left spaces where it is unfortunately still socially acceptable to discriminate against sex workers. Rather than being treated with respect & nuance they are made a prop by terf groups & Christian rescue orgs, it's maddening. Decriminalization now. Support SWers
I have a big story about sex workers coming out next week and they are salt of the earth heroes doing the Lord’s (public health) work, it’s enraging how much stigma is heaped upon their humble dreams of survival compared to the whims of the depraved ruling class
cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
February 5, 2026 at 6:08 PM
This is an underdiscussed issue in left spaces where it is unfortunately still socially acceptable to discriminate against sex workers. Rather than being treated with respect & nuance they are made a prop by terf groups & Christian rescue orgs, it's maddening. Decriminalization now. Support SWers
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ICYMI my friend @transqueerfem.bsky.social needs your support. She's an incredible trans/travesti writer, educator, translator and activist in Brazil. Her mom has cancer and she's been unable to work while taking care of her.
Please give whatever you can spare: ko-fi.com/haileykaas
Please give whatever you can spare: ko-fi.com/haileykaas
Buy Hailey Kaas a Coffee
Become a supporter of Hailey Kaas today!
ko-fi.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
ICYMI my friend @transqueerfem.bsky.social needs your support. She's an incredible trans/travesti writer, educator, translator and activist in Brazil. Her mom has cancer and she's been unable to work while taking care of her.
Please give whatever you can spare: ko-fi.com/haileykaas
Please give whatever you can spare: ko-fi.com/haileykaas
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Hey fellow Canadians, if you've been watching people raise emergency rent funds for Minneapolis and thinking "I would pitch in but we don't have Venmo" here is a fundraiser taking Paypal!
This fundraiser was so successful that I’m doing another one! The extra funds that were set for the first family went towards the second family’s total rent need. Let’s keep it going!
I am now raising rent funds for another Minneapolis family who has been impacted by ICE. For this family, the remaining need is $775.
Can we make this happen for them today? I believe in us & will post receipts!
V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater
Please help and share!
Thank you 💖
Can we make this happen for them today? I believe in us & will post receipts!
V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater
Please help and share!
Thank you 💖
February 5, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Hey fellow Canadians, if you've been watching people raise emergency rent funds for Minneapolis and thinking "I would pitch in but we don't have Venmo" here is a fundraiser taking Paypal!
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Für eine stark #LongCovid Betroffene: Könnt Ihr eine/n Arzt/Ärztin mit echter Kompetenz für LC bzw. #MECFS im Raum #Linz und Umkreis in #Österreich empfehlen? Am besten eine Praxis, die voll mit der ÖGK abrechnen kann.
#ChronicIllness #PostCovid #MECFS #TeamVernunft #TeamScience
Gern auch Repost.🤝
#ChronicIllness #PostCovid #MECFS #TeamVernunft #TeamScience
Gern auch Repost.🤝
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Für eine stark #LongCovid Betroffene: Könnt Ihr eine/n Arzt/Ärztin mit echter Kompetenz für LC bzw. #MECFS im Raum #Linz und Umkreis in #Österreich empfehlen? Am besten eine Praxis, die voll mit der ÖGK abrechnen kann.
#ChronicIllness #PostCovid #MECFS #TeamVernunft #TeamScience
Gern auch Repost.🤝
#ChronicIllness #PostCovid #MECFS #TeamVernunft #TeamScience
Gern auch Repost.🤝
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NDR 2 Spezial - Thema heute: ME/CFS
ME/CFS – für hunderttausende, alleine in Deutschland, eine Diagnose, die das ganze Leben verändert.
www.ndr.de/ndr2/epg/NDR...
🔗 zum Interview mit Prof. Dr. Carmen Scheibenbogen @scheibenbogen.bsky.social
www.ndr.de/ndr2/vollsta... www.ndr.de/ndr2/vollsta...
ME/CFS – für hunderttausende, alleine in Deutschland, eine Diagnose, die das ganze Leben verändert.
www.ndr.de/ndr2/epg/NDR...
🔗 zum Interview mit Prof. Dr. Carmen Scheibenbogen @scheibenbogen.bsky.social
www.ndr.de/ndr2/vollsta... www.ndr.de/ndr2/vollsta...
NDR 2 Spezial: ME/CFS - die unerforschte Krankheit
ME/CFS – nur fünf Buchstaben. Aber für hunderttausende bedeuten sie eine Diagnose, die das ganze Leben verändert.
www.ndr.de
February 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
NDR 2 Spezial - Thema heute: ME/CFS
ME/CFS – für hunderttausende, alleine in Deutschland, eine Diagnose, die das ganze Leben verändert.
www.ndr.de/ndr2/epg/NDR...
🔗 zum Interview mit Prof. Dr. Carmen Scheibenbogen @scheibenbogen.bsky.social
www.ndr.de/ndr2/vollsta... www.ndr.de/ndr2/vollsta...
ME/CFS – für hunderttausende, alleine in Deutschland, eine Diagnose, die das ganze Leben verändert.
www.ndr.de/ndr2/epg/NDR...
🔗 zum Interview mit Prof. Dr. Carmen Scheibenbogen @scheibenbogen.bsky.social
www.ndr.de/ndr2/vollsta... www.ndr.de/ndr2/vollsta...
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February 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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As well as recipes, my patreon is full of my art.
You can help support me and get paintings and drawings like these sent to your inbox every week.
There's a whole series done in the style of Picasso with African influences on subjects like Black women.
You can help support me and get paintings and drawings like these sent to your inbox every week.
There's a whole series done in the style of Picasso with African influences on subjects like Black women.
October 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
As well as recipes, my patreon is full of my art.
You can help support me and get paintings and drawings like these sent to your inbox every week.
There's a whole series done in the style of Picasso with African influences on subjects like Black women.
You can help support me and get paintings and drawings like these sent to your inbox every week.
There's a whole series done in the style of Picasso with African influences on subjects like Black women.
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(2/2) "In Toronto, Black queer activists were building spaces, creating art, and making their voices heard. Their stories live on at The ArQuives, Canada’s largest independent 2SLGBTQIA+ archive."
arquives.ca/black-queer-...
#BlackHistoryMonth
arquives.ca/black-queer-...
#BlackHistoryMonth
Black Queer Collections: A Legacy of Resistance and Community - The ArQuives
The 1970s and 1980s were a time of radical change. Black queer activists were building spaces, creating art, and making their voices heard.
arquives.ca
February 5, 2026 at 2:07 PM
(2/2) "In Toronto, Black queer activists were building spaces, creating art, and making their voices heard. Their stories live on at The ArQuives, Canada’s largest independent 2SLGBTQIA+ archive."
arquives.ca/black-queer-...
#BlackHistoryMonth
arquives.ca/black-queer-...
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Hi all!
There will be two windows to share your story in the form of written testimony to support the Maryland Long Covid Innovation bill. The first is:
This Friday 2/6 from 8am-3pm
To make it easier, @viralpersistence.bsky.social and I have written up a how-to: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
There will be two windows to share your story in the form of written testimony to support the Maryland Long Covid Innovation bill. The first is:
This Friday 2/6 from 8am-3pm
To make it easier, @viralpersistence.bsky.social and I have written up a how-to: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Long Covid friends—
A bill in the Maryland legislature would create an R&D fund for LC—a big deal when new federal funding is stalled.
The advocate behind the bill is asking for people anywhere to submit written testimony on Fri 2/6 on your experience w/LC, to say why this is needed!
More info:
A bill in the Maryland legislature would create an R&D fund for LC—a big deal when new federal funding is stalled.
The advocate behind the bill is asking for people anywhere to submit written testimony on Fri 2/6 on your experience w/LC, to say why this is needed!
More info:
Sign the Petition
Advocate for Maryland HB 0027 for Long COVID R&D
www.change.org
February 4, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Hi all!
There will be two windows to share your story in the form of written testimony to support the Maryland Long Covid Innovation bill. The first is:
This Friday 2/6 from 8am-3pm
To make it easier, @viralpersistence.bsky.social and I have written up a how-to: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
There will be two windows to share your story in the form of written testimony to support the Maryland Long Covid Innovation bill. The first is:
This Friday 2/6 from 8am-3pm
To make it easier, @viralpersistence.bsky.social and I have written up a how-to: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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🚨 BREAKING
✨ Long COVID Rise Up is born!
🔥 Four European organizations fighting #LongCOVID & COVID have joined forces to launch an international alliance.
🗣️ Patients demand action.
🎯 Stop the disease process. Block the spread.
✨ Long COVID Rise Up is born!
🔥 Four European organizations fighting #LongCOVID & COVID have joined forces to launch an international alliance.
🗣️ Patients demand action.
🎯 Stop the disease process. Block the spread.
February 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
🚨 BREAKING
✨ Long COVID Rise Up is born!
🔥 Four European organizations fighting #LongCOVID & COVID have joined forces to launch an international alliance.
🗣️ Patients demand action.
🎯 Stop the disease process. Block the spread.
✨ Long COVID Rise Up is born!
🔥 Four European organizations fighting #LongCOVID & COVID have joined forces to launch an international alliance.
🗣️ Patients demand action.
🎯 Stop the disease process. Block the spread.
wow the anxiety has just been so bad the last couple weeks. Too anxious to focus on tv without something to do with my hands, too weak to do even lying-down sewing. Re-reading "Moreta" Pern book of all things helps. Hopefully Anne McCaffery never did anything vile?
February 3, 2026 at 10:43 PM
wow the anxiety has just been so bad the last couple weeks. Too anxious to focus on tv without something to do with my hands, too weak to do even lying-down sewing. Re-reading "Moreta" Pern book of all things helps. Hopefully Anne McCaffery never did anything vile?
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Hey, #MedSky.
For reasons that elude comprehension, too many drs still wrongly believe #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis isn’t potentially fatal when it’s very much just that.
Four more of us dead just in the past week.
For the love of god, please read the research and listen to your patients.
#pwME
For reasons that elude comprehension, too many drs still wrongly believe #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis isn’t potentially fatal when it’s very much just that.
Four more of us dead just in the past week.
For the love of god, please read the research and listen to your patients.
#pwME
February 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Hey, #MedSky.
For reasons that elude comprehension, too many drs still wrongly believe #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis isn’t potentially fatal when it’s very much just that.
Four more of us dead just in the past week.
For the love of god, please read the research and listen to your patients.
#pwME
For reasons that elude comprehension, too many drs still wrongly believe #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis isn’t potentially fatal when it’s very much just that.
Four more of us dead just in the past week.
For the love of god, please read the research and listen to your patients.
#pwME