Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
@thellpsx.bsky.social
writer,The Future Is Disabled,Care Work,Bodymap,Dirty River co-ed w/@ejeris of Beyond Survival. transformative & disability justice structural engineer,1/3rd of http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org. older cousin w great tits & opinions,they/we brownstargirl.org
amazing essay the @georgiastraight.bsky.social did with @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social about Crips for E Sims- I think it's the biggest media coverage of our two year project and sums up well what the work has been like www.pressreader.com/canada/the-g... IDK why direct link doesn't come but here
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November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
amazing essay the @georgiastraight.bsky.social did with @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social about Crips for E Sims- I think it's the biggest media coverage of our two year project and sums up well what the work has been like www.pressreader.com/canada/the-g... IDK why direct link doesn't come but here
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We're so excited for TOMORROW ❤️🔥 Join us at 4:00 PM ET for a virtual conversation on crip wisdom, critique, and how to survive techno-hellscapes between @beza.bsky.social, @christateston.bsky.social, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & The Cyborg Jillian Weise
Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We're so excited for TOMORROW ❤️🔥 Join us at 4:00 PM ET for a virtual conversation on crip wisdom, critique, and how to survive techno-hellscapes between @beza.bsky.social, @christateston.bsky.social, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & The Cyborg Jillian Weise
this is tomorrow at noon et as part of the show, some of my fav people, still time to register: www.eventbrite.ca/e/to-disabil...
…. to disability justice now
…. to disability justice now: a conversation between Leah Lakshimi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Annanda DeSilva, Gem Hall and Wy Joung Kou
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October 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
this is tomorrow at noon et as part of the show, some of my fav people, still time to register: www.eventbrite.ca/e/to-disabil...
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Also @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and I wrote this: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/07/t...
Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza
Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza Two years, what the fuck. It really has been two years to the day since Israel’s heightened and prolonged genocide against the…
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October 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Also @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and I wrote this: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/07/t...
Hi, I'm not really here ever but I have A WHOLE ASS MID CAREER SHOW AT TANGLED ART GALLERY in Toronto you can see in person til 10/31 and online one of three ways: Rosa Robot tour - robot tour that you can drive from your computer independently calendly.com/tangledarts/...
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This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: (Rosa Robot) - Tangled Art + Disability
This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: 30 Years of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaSeptember 19 – October 31, 2025this body keeps me up at night is a mid-career retrospective of disability justice writer, cu...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Hi, I'm not really here ever but I have A WHOLE ASS MID CAREER SHOW AT TANGLED ART GALLERY in Toronto you can see in person til 10/31 and online one of three ways: Rosa Robot tour - robot tour that you can drive from your computer independently calendly.com/tangledarts/...
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www.democracynow.org/2025/7/23/se... go watch or read the transcript of this and watch these brave, beautiful, grieving Palestinian people crying and mourning their famillies while they are punished for attending a peaceful memorial for the dead. This is a struggle of life over death. Period.
Palestinian American Student & Dad: 200 Relatives Killed in Gaza; VCU Withholds Diploma for Protest
Virginia Commonwealth University is withholding the diploma of a Palestinian American student because of her campus activism. In a hearing Tuesday, officials examined the case of VCU student Sereen Ha...
www.democracynow.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
www.democracynow.org/2025/7/23/se... go watch or read the transcript of this and watch these brave, beautiful, grieving Palestinian people crying and mourning their famillies while they are punished for attending a peaceful memorial for the dead. This is a struggle of life over death. Period.
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"The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances."
Trump's Labor Department proposes more than 60 rule changes in a push to deregulate workplaces
The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations adopted under previous presidential administrations.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... this title says it all
The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... this title says it all
The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree
We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
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July 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
wrote a thing again, about the Stacey residency's inaugural kickoff, slow time in the face of unrelented plutonium speed, and more. llps.substack.com/p/greeting-a...
greeting and salutations
from a rainy thunder day in detroit after six years away
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July 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
wrote a thing again, about the Stacey residency's inaugural kickoff, slow time in the face of unrelented plutonium speed, and more. llps.substack.com/p/greeting-a...
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abolitionjournal.com#everyday-act... "Generational Philadelphians already embody collective access.This is a city where many everyday people – not just middle class transplants–never stopped masking on SEPTA, where people are not surprised by systems breaking down.where people share what they have."
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June 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
abolitionjournal.com#everyday-act... "Generational Philadelphians already embody collective access.This is a city where many everyday people – not just middle class transplants–never stopped masking on SEPTA, where people are not surprised by systems breaking down.where people share what they have."
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Iranians struggle to flee Tehran amid Israeli strikes, bumper-to-bumper traffic and fuel shortages - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iranians-flee-tehran-amid-israel-strikes-traffic-fuel-shortages
Iranians struggle to flee Tehran amid Israeli strikes, bumper-to-bumper traffic and fuel shortages
Many have also chosen to stay behind to help the elderly relatives as Israeli strikes pound residential areas
www.middleeasteye.net
June 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Iranians struggle to flee Tehran amid Israeli strikes, bumper-to-bumper traffic and fuel shortages - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iranians-flee-tehran-amid-israel-strikes-traffic-fuel-shortages
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Skrmetti is hideously evil I'd say check in on your trans friends but like frankly we're past give your trans friends money we're all the way out at if you want to help us we need you to be organizing a workers council
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
June 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Skrmetti is hideously evil I'd say check in on your trans friends but like frankly we're past give your trans friends money we're all the way out at if you want to help us we need you to be organizing a workers council
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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A truly incredible bit of pushback from a UK news outlet.
June 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A truly incredible bit of pushback from a UK news outlet.
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My new oped
Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s 'rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s 'rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s 'rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy | Mona Eltahawy
As his troops slaughter civilians in Gaza, he claims to be standing up for Iranian women’s autonomy. He is far from the first warmonger to do so, says author Mona Eltahawy
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My new oped
Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s 'rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s 'rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
for our generous donors in the US to crips for e sims: please only send Venmo's to bit.ly/venmo4esims, which goes to one of our volunteers who's been helping us with reimbursements. we don't have a zelle and our main email is not where you send venmo or zelle! thank you. (cont)
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June 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
for our generous donors in the US to crips for e sims: please only send Venmo's to bit.ly/venmo4esims, which goes to one of our volunteers who's been helping us with reimbursements. we don't have a zelle and our main email is not where you send venmo or zelle! thank you. (cont)
AQI went up to almost 300 in parts of Philly and surrounding areas last night and is still bad. Philly Breathes, a mask distro group I work with, here is our mask request form: form.jotform.com/241248303543... you can also donate to us here so we can buy more masks: donate.stripe.com/dR629ZeLr0AV...
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June 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
AQI went up to almost 300 in parts of Philly and surrounding areas last night and is still bad. Philly Breathes, a mask distro group I work with, here is our mask request form: form.jotform.com/241248303543... you can also donate to us here so we can buy more masks: donate.stripe.com/dR629ZeLr0AV...
www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p... silly in light of everything, but the audio book of the future is disabled is 50% off right now
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June 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p... silly in light of everything, but the audio book of the future is disabled is 50% off right now
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A Jabalia data centre has been bombed and Internet has been cut off again.
You know the drill!!
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
#ConnectingGaza
You know the drill!!
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
#ConnectingGaza
June 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
A Jabalia data centre has been bombed and Internet has been cut off again.
You know the drill!!
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
#ConnectingGaza
You know the drill!!
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
#ConnectingGaza
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This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
prospect.org/justice/crie...
Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles
The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.
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June 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...
prospect.org/justice/crie...
