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Affect is a grassroots disabled-led movement to amplify multiply marginalized people of color and advocate for disability justice.

We run Disabled And Here and the Community Care Awards.

http://affecttheverb.com

Based in PDX.
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Last in Disabled And Here’s T4T with Pride series is LP: “…trans Pride means trusting yourself. I don’t think I would have been able to survive Long COVID if I didn’t…see myself deserving of care, and trust that I am fully capable of asserting myself.”

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A masked non-binary Filipino person looks at the camera neutrally while sitting in a plant shop with his arm resting atop his forearm crutch. He has glasses, hair cut short and blunt save for a purposely wavy long strand, and is dressed in a large loose fit shirt, long shorts, and socks with clogs. A disabled non-binary Filipino person looks at his skateboard while doing a one foot pickup. The board forms an x as it’s mid-air in front of the person’s forearm crutch.
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Today in Disabled And Here T4T with Pride, meet lucky: “For me, trans pride means I’m existing despite it all!!! I am loving deeply and getting as free as I can each day, because that’s what I need, want, and deserve.”

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A non-binary Black person sits with their hands folded, gazing contemplatively at the camera. They have a trans flag bandana, glasses, a holographic rainbow face mask, and split dye ombré blonde and blue locs.
October 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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We’re finally back with new Disabled And Here content! Today, Nocturne Paradox kicks off our T4T with Pride series: affecttheverb.com/2025/nocturn...
A masked non-binary Black person wears sunglasses indoors and lies back on stacks of throw pillows. They have space buns, a tank that says Pro-Black Anti-Bullshit, a plaid skirt, and a pink cane resting on a watermelon pillow next to them.
October 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Calling Portland-based disabled trans and gender nonconforming BIPOC! What are you doing June 26? Disabled And Here is looking for participants to photograph and interview for our T4T with Pride series.

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Poster proclaiming, “Disabled and Here open call: T4T with Pride photoshoot.” Three masked BIPOC are strolling in colorful outfits, including an Indigenous person in ice-pack waist trainers, a Black person in a rainbow dress with a walker, and a Latinx person with a cane. At the bottom, “get details” and “apply” prompts point to a URL: affecttheverb.com/dah/call.
June 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Announcing your 2025 Community Care awardees, who include Neairra Morgan, Tenisha Davis, and A’misa Chiu!

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Graphic showing A’misa Chiu, an Asian American woman with choppy shoulder length hair and a nose ring, who is smiling at the camera. Her biography is shown (and can be read in full on the linked blog post). Graphic featuring Neairra Morgan, a Black person wearing glasses, a nose ring, and a teeny weeny Afro. Neairra’s bio follows the photo (and can be read in full on the linked blog post).
April 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Throwback time!

A year ago, we got to photograph + interview Miss Renée for Disabled And Here.

In her words, "I’m Miss Renée, a Black femme queer woman and spiritual advisor living and loving with a disability."
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A Black woman with ombré gray twists, rainbow glasses, and a nasal cannula smiles at the camera, holding a dried flower bouquet in front of a bamboo garden. She is wearing a denim jacket over a rainbow shirt reading, "Sounds gay, I'm in."
February 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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It’s been a long time (🎵 shouldn’t have left you 🎵)...today the Community Care Awards are back & open for nominations! affecttheverb.com/careawards
Flyer with "Community Care Awards" hand lettered at the top. Underneath, it explains, "microgrant awards honoring the multiply marginalized BIPOC behind community care work." Bulleted below: - we have four $670 awards for BIPOC in Oregon - nominations deadline: March 3, 2025 "affecttheverb.com/careawards" is highlighted by lavender scribbles at the bottom.
February 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM