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Syreeta (Sy) Nolan
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I dream of a world without the stigma of #MentalHealth & an #Academia where #disabilities are seen as a hidden strength. Let's change everything! #PublicSpeaker

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Syreeta (Sy) Nolan @synolan.bsky.social · Mar 12
This is an appreciation post for the #Disability community of those with lived experience for introducing me to #MutualAid & sharing the Call for Papers that led to my first solo published article with the Journal of Disability & Society.

I am cited & each one is an honor

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The compounded burden of being a black and disabled student during the age of COVID-19
In this piece, I share my thoughts about how the field of public health can better understand the impact of intersectionality in disability, higher education and health care. Intersectionality can ...
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Is my car okay?! Still waiting in doctor’s appointment. Please answer. Little personal emergency……
synolan.bsky.social Syreeta (Sy) Nolan @synolan.bsky.social · 17d
Panic attack while driving: It felt like an accident with the curb….. I am in the waiting room for my doctor’s appointment
October 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Panic attack while driving: It felt like an accident with the curb….. I am in the waiting room for my doctor’s appointment
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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White woman roommate again trying to get me to accept her reality. Avatar representing Indigenous people in a good way and I should watch it. No, as a Black Ingenious woman I stand with my community

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Avatar, The Way of Water: Romanticism, Colonialism, & the Native American Monolith — lexspects
Author’s note: This article switches between usage of the terms Native American and Indigenous, not because they are interchangeable, but because there are relevant perspectives mentioned in the artic...
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October 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Take a look at this year's schedule for the #CriptoberRevival!

Starting October 1st @ 12:00am EST

#Criptober #OctoberArtChsllenge #OctoberArtPrompt #ChronicLoaf
October 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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We are in the final hours before #Criptober begins Fam!

#ChrpnicLoaf
a black cat in a vampire costume is sitting on the floor .
ALT: a black cat in a vampire costume is sitting on the floor .
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October 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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A special edition
black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background
Alt: “Black history is not a month it’s a lifetime,” written on a yellow background
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September 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Parity wasn’t enough. Prevention must be infrastructure.
That’s why I proposed the MHPCA — to ensure preventive care is covered across the lifespan by a new workforce: MHPCPs.
Lives depend on it.

🌱 bit.ly/MHPCP2MHPCA

#MentalHealth #Prevention #PolicyChange #MHPCP #MHPCA
A vibrant digital painting shows a glowing abstract vessel woven of three braided cords — firelight, waterlight, and pure light. The vessel carries the banner of MHPCA as it surges forward. Behind it, a barren landscape of rubble and decay transforms into lush green fields and thriving growth, symbolizing prevention becoming infrastructure. The cords radiate with embedded, clearly legible phrases: Parity Wasn’t Enough, Prevention as Infrastructure, MHPCP: The Workforce of Belonging, and MHPCA: Coverage Across the Lifespan. The horizon glows with rising light, evoking hope, strength, and transformative possibility.
September 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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How could she make an article about a Black woman being fired about a white man?!?
September 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I didn’t think I would do be hurt, but I am. My roommate, a white woman, shared this article with me in email with a subject “racism in Washington Post. I thought she meant towards the Black woman… No, she meant the “racism” towards the white man. No words

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Why Washington Post fired me
Read the official termination letter for yourself.
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September 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
synolan.bsky.social
MHPCP has been growing underground, my little vampire plant. 🩸🌱

Decades of hidden roots, fed by blood, sweat, and tears.
Now it has a name. Now it rises.

MHPCP — Mental Health Preventive Care Practitioner.
Not a program. A movement.

See you next Friday. 🌱

#MHPCP #WeRise
In the foreground, a delicate sprout pushes upward, its small leaves tinged red at the edges like they’ve been kissed by flame. The stem is slender but unwavering, rising from soil that looks scorched and brittle. Beneath the surface, a vast web of roots fans out in every direction, intricate and alive, glowing faintly as if lit from within. One central root runs straight down, carrying a vein of crimson like blood coursing through it. Above ground, the world is desolate. Jagged beams and crumbling debris jut out against a smoky orange sky, the aftermath of something catastrophic. There is no sign of water, no softness — only ruin and ash. Yet the plant grows here, insisting on life where everything else has fallen. Its quiet defiance transforms the scene: destruction frames it, but cannot consume it.
September 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Fascism is so self defeating. They're going to try and crack down on the entire left but they fired everyone with the expertise and experience that would enable them to do so. Instead, they have a bunch of idiots running the FBI who have no idea what they're doing.
September 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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🐾💛 Yesterday I hit submit on my 30-page MHPCP Manifesto to Disability & Society. Today I get to share it with you — and that feels like the start of something real. #MHPCP #DisabilityJustice #MentalHealthPrevention
A playful digital illustration shows a smiling yellow puppy with brown ears, sitting happily and raising one paw under the bold heading “I HIT SUBMIT!” — celebrating submitting a manifesto yesterday. Below, three icons with matching text describe the puppy’s chaotic excitement: a broken picture frame icon with the quote “I didn’t feel limited by word counts—I felt the limitless flow of the Divine,” a shattered vase icon with the quote “This manifesto is not theory alone. It is a reckoning,” and a chewed-up paper icon with the quote “It dares to imagine prevention not as an afterthought, but as a structural intervention.” The overall tone is joyful, playful, and celebratory.
September 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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synolan.bsky.social Syreeta (Sy) Nolan @synolan.bsky.social · Jul 26
Being disabled is expensive
Every month
Every week
Phone
Car insurance
Storage
Gas
Never ending amount CA priced gas
I drive a lot to my appointment
I drive into a reality I don’t want
Freedom I long
Freedom denied by ableism

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August 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Sy's goal is STILL stalled at $21,871 of $25,000!
Please help her out by donating and sharing!

#MutualAid #Helpsky #Disabled #DisabilitySupportMA 💸💕♿
synolan.bsky.social Syreeta (Sy) Nolan @synolan.bsky.social · Jul 26
Being disabled is expensive
Every month
Every week
Phone
Car insurance
Storage
Gas
Never ending amount CA priced gas
I drive a lot to my appointment
I drive into a reality I don’t want
Freedom I long
Freedom denied by ableism

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July 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
synolan.bsky.social
Being disabled is expensive
Every month
Every week
Phone
Car insurance
Storage
Gas
Never ending amount CA priced gas
I drive a lot to my appointment
I drive into a reality I don’t want
Freedom I long
Freedom denied by ableism

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PP: nolansyreeta
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July 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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synolan.bsky.social Syreeta (Sy) Nolan @synolan.bsky.social · Jun 23
I am overwhelmed
My financial picture is bleak all the time
Being disabled
It is expensive
While having little income to deal w/ it
I need help with car and storage expenses
Thank you for being there for me
190/650

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July 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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No one can ever talk shit about mutual aid again.
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Jul 25
U.S. Treasury Department is now accepting Venmo and PayPal payments from those who want to donate money to reduce the nation's $36.7 trillion debt — NYP
July 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Breaking:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Appeals court panel finds President Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship unconstitutional, upholds block.
July 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Soft soul unveiling.
Not a launch — a landing.

For anyone quietly becoming.
For anyone whispering, “Is it okay to share my truth?”

I named this season with care.
Maybe part of it belongs to you.

Thrive where you rest.
An orange-to-yellow gradient background features a centered green tree whose canopy is shaped like a human brain and whose roots extend broadly beneath it. At the top of the image is the number 221777 in bold cream-colored text. Below the tree, it reads: “THIS IS YOURS. YOU ARE IN ALIGNMENT. KEEP BECOMING.” A smaller version of the tree logo is centered at the bottom.
July 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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synolan.bsky.social Syreeta (Sy) Nolan @synolan.bsky.social · Jun 23
I am overwhelmed
My financial picture is bleak all the time
Being disabled
It is expensive
While having little income to deal w/ it
I need help with car and storage expenses
Thank you for being there for me
190/650

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July 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
synolan.bsky.social
Count on me to be weird.
I named my book BOOK.
Beyond Our Own Knowledge.
Radical truth. Radical care. A radical ask:
If you're an agent aligned with this vision — reach out.
#BOOK #SoftLaunch #PoeticMemoir #DisabilityJustice #OpenBookHealing
A digital book reveal design featuring a gradient background from golden yellow to teal. Centered at the top is the text: “Count on me to be weird to name my book… BOOK: Beyond Our Own Knowledge.” An open book sprouts a golden tree in the center, with five floating rowboats labeled RADICAL, CARE, BEING, TRUTH, and SPACE. Floating pages and birds rise alongside the tree. The design evokes themes of transformation, courage, and poetic honesty. A digital illustration on a soft gradient background from gold to teal. A golden tree grows from the center of an open book. The tree’s roots show the number 444 and the branches show 511. Birds and feathers fly upward as the text reads: “Dreaming literally and figuratively.” The image radiates peace, purpose, and spiritual reflection.
July 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
synolan.bsky.social
This is a radical invitation.
To be curious.
To collaborate.
To hold space for care.
MHPCP. Thrive Away. More tomorrow.
#SoftLaunch #RadicalCare #DisabilityJustice #OpenInvitation
A minimalist illustration with deep teal water and waves, where four red-orange rowboats float, each labeled with white capital text: BEING, TRUTH, SPACE, and CARE. Above the boats, the word 'RADICAL' is written in bold cream letters. To the right and below, short poetic first line previews appear from each theme in the series: Radical Truth, Radical Being, Radical Care, and Radical Space. A digital image with a bold orange-yellow to blue-teal gradient background representing sunrise. On the left, a green tree with strong roots grows out of orange earth. On the right, a golden feather gently floats above a ripple in the water. Centered text at the top reads: “I’m building something.” At the bottom are two email addresses: snolan.jade@gmail.com and contact@thriveawaybysyreetanolan.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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This is me. Becoming.
🪶 Thrive Away – rest-rooted housing
🌿 MHPCP – preventive mental health care

#Becoming #SoftLaunch #ThriveAway #MHPCP
A minimalist digital graphic with a horizon scene where deep blue water meets a golden-orange sky. The sun is either rising or setting at the center of the horizon, casting a soft glow. Floating just above the water to the right is a small golden feather. Centered at the top of the image in a large serif font is the phrase 'Almost ready.' The scene is calm and anticipatory. A digitally illustrated image shows a golden feather hovering above a calm ripple of water, set against a gradient background that fades from golden orange at the bottom to deep teal at the top. Two upturned hands rise from the bottom of the image, each cradling a golden leaf, symbolizing care and emergence. The text at the top reads 'This is me. Becoming.' in an elegant serif font. The Thrive Away logo appears in the lower-left corner, containing a glowing feather between two home silhouettes over rippling water.
July 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM