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Alyssa Erin
@alyssaaerinn.bsky.social
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chronically ill/disabled writer, poet, idea-haver, former Physio | LongCovid, ME et al 😷 ADHD
divest, dismantle, do better, land back
Treaty 7 | she/her

Pfp:white♀️blonde hair gaze down @ teacup. "Keep Masks in Healthcare" Cvr: snow-covered, Rocky mtn lake
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cookie art to feed your queer dreaming & resistance 🌈✊🏼❣️
Sam Nordquist Tahiry Broom Sumaya Dalmar Chevranna Abdi Marsha P. Johnson
Round butter cookie with royal icing decoration in colors of the Trans flag and BLM. Icing text: "Black Trans Lives Matter" in BLM font, yellow icing on black background. "Say their Names" black text on white background Round butter cookie with royal icing decoration of the Pride flag with the Palestinian flag incorporated in the middle. Black text in Geneva font, "Free Palestine" Cloud shaped butter cookie with royal icing decoration to look like a sheep. Body of sheep in Trans flag colors with a black sheep face icing transfer in the middle Round butter cookie with royal icing decoration of white base background with Pride color rainbow horizontal thin stripes above and below black text, "Queer Enough"
June 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Illustrated illness experiences for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Day, May 12th

#MillionsMissing #MECFSAwarenessDay #pwME #MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #LongCovid #ChronicIllness #Disability
White sketchpad w three pencil sketches colored in marker. Top image is a brain in a cage. Middle image is an anatomical heart w booster cables attached to a battery. Lightning around the heart indicates electricity. Images on the battery show a depleting charge w red lines and a neuron. Bottom image is a mitochondrion w a dagger stabbed through it, dripping blood into a puddle below. Closeup of sketchpad w marker colored pencil sketch of a pink brain in a black metal cage. Closeup of sketchpad w marker colored pencil sketch of an anatomical heart w booster cables attached to a battery. Lightning around the heart indicates electricity. Images on the battery show a depleting charge w red lines and a neuron. Closeup of a sketchpad w marker colored pencil sketch of a mitochondrion w a dagger stabbed through it, dripping blood into a puddle below.
May 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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If you're waiting on a library book, I might have it... 😎
#BookSky 💙📚
A stack of 14 books on a living room floor. Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia; VenCo by Cherie Dimaline; Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange; Making love with the land by Joshua Whitehead; Time is a mother by Ocean Vuong; Chlorine by Jade Song; Light from uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki; A world between by Emily Hashimoto; Black water sister by Zen Cho; a book with the title obscured; The kids book of Black history in Canada by Rosemary Sadlier; Mending life by Nina and Sonya Montenegro; two books with their titles obscured. The living room area rug is an abstract floral pattern of white, black, and grey. Edges of a coffee table are visible behind the book stack with the table legs made of dark grey iron and the table top a dark wood.
April 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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If 7 people send 10 big ones, we can help her access better food!
DM to e- trsfer if in Canada

Or give directly via
Amazon .com wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

CashApp: $CocoNuun

Please Like & Share, or Give!🙏🏼

#MutualAid
screenshot of an Amazon .com wishlist item, a black & steel pressure cooker. "Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer,... 6 quarts. Big Spring Deal $69.99 Priority: high" "Tool will increase capacity to make food daily. Cuts the standing time of tending a stove top & handwashing time by being dishwasher safe. My disability makes cooking impossible some days or draining to the point of worsening symptoms on good days."
April 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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🛑 #Reparations #CollectiveCare #MutualAid #AntiRacist (put $ where our mouths are, right? fellow white folks, leftists? 🫶🏼)

If TEN people send me $10, we can buy this mobility aid for our friend so she can access her kitchen!

If you have the means, please step up

🧵
screenshot of an Amazon.com wishlist item. The item is a black stool with wheels. Text reads, "Wish List. Black & Indigenous disabled/chronically ill woman with a lovable service dog, fighting to take care of herself while not having access to caregiver support." Text for the pictured item reads, "CoVibrant Heavy Duty Adjustable Rolling Stool with Wide Seat, Lockable Rubber... Size: seat to floor height 24"-31" Color: Black $100.99 Priority: highest" Text from the creator of the Wish List reads, "This chair would support my body so I can freely access the kitchen. I'm unable to cook daily because of difficulty standing for extended periods of time & restaurants aren't an option."
April 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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#VotePalestine
#FederalElection2025 #ElectionsCanada #Canada #cdnpoli #FreePalestine

Email your reps at VotePalestine.ca
A text-based flyer in black and white. Heading: "Federal Elections are here. Vote Palestine." Body of text: "Canada votes, Palestine Matters! A federal election is coming. Together, let's put Palestine on the ballot by organizing in our cities and pushing the Palestine Platform. Join the campaign to learn how you can get involved! Canada is complicit in genocide and occupation. Canada funds, arms, and shields Israel while it massacres Palestinians. Supplying weapons and diplomatic support makes Canada an enabler of war crimes. This must end. Candidates re listening - speak up for Palestine! Right now, MPs and candidates need your vote. Make your voice heard: if they don't back the Palestine Platform, they won't get your support. Hold politicians accountable and demand action for Palestine! Send an email now!" A thin black arrow points to a QR code. A text based flyer in red, green, and black. "This election, we're putting Palestine on the ballot. 1 Two-way arms embargo on israel 2 End involvement in settlements 3 Combats anti-Palestinian racism 4 Recognize the state of Palestine 5 Fund Gaza relief efforts, including UNWRA. Your voice matters! Organize now! VotePalestine.ca Vote Palestine (logo)"
March 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Please share! eSims save lives

#Genocide #freepalestine #palestine #gaza #boycottisrael #bds
"Crips for esims for Gaza URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED Venmo: A QR code PP (US): A QR code PP (UK): A QR code About: A QR code bit.ly/venmo4esims bit.ly/pp4esims bit.ly/esimsUK bit.ly/eSimsRUs " "March Goal:" (text in red) “$33,000 CAD” "etransfer: cripsforesimsforgaza@gmail.com” The background is a gradient between yellow and pink. Bolded headings are in a fluffy sans serif font.
March 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Crips for esims for Gaza URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED

March Goal: $33,000 CAD
etransfer: cripsforesimsforgaza@gmail.com
"Crips for esims for Gaza URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED Venmo: A QR code PP (US): A QR code PP (UK): A QR code About: A QR code bit.ly/venmo4esims bit.ly/pp4esims bit.ly/esimsUK bit.ly/eSimsRUs " "March Goal:" (text in red) “$33,000 CAD” "etransfer: cripsforesimsforgaza@gmail.com” The background is a gradient between yellow and pink. Bolded headings are in a fluffy sans serif font. "
March 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Birthday cake for my love! See Alt for flavor description 🤤

Pacing my cake-making w #LongCovid #pwME #POTS:
Bake cakes weeks ahead & freeze. Make filling ahead & freeze/fridge. Pipe decor days ahead. Assemble day before. Socialize day of!

Helpful tools: stand mixer; chair/stool; headphones
Top view of cake on a silver turntable. White icing with red lettering, "Calgary Flames", the team logo in the middle, and red sprinkles around the edge of the circular cake. The Calgary Flames team logo is a capital letter C in red, outlined in yellow, and with yellow and red flames coming off the back of the C. The countertop is white with light grey flecks. A few glossy, rectangular, dark blue kitchen tiles are visible at the top edge of the image, behind the cake. Top and side view of cake on silver turntable. Two layer chocolate cake with white icing between the layers is visible on the side. Cake is iced in naked or semi-naked icing style. The top is white icing with red lettering, "Calgary Flames", the team logo in the middle, and red sprinkles around the edge of the circular cake. The Calgary Flames team logo is a capital letter C in red, outlined in yellow, and with yellow and red flames coming off the back of the C. Glossy rectangular dark blue kitchen tiles are behind the cake. The countertop is white with light grey flecks. One slice of cake on a white plate. A two-layer, devil's chocolate cake with dark red, mixed berry curd filling and a swipe of the curd on the plate beneath the slice of cake. White, swiss meringue buttercream on the outer edge of the filling between the layers and on the top of the cake slice, with some red sprinkles along the top edge. The rest of the cake is visible on a cake plate in the background. A kettle and jar of peanut butter are also on the kitchen counter in the background (no peanut butter used in this cake, though!) Glossy, rectangular, dark blue kitchen tiles and white with light grey flecks countertop.
March 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Update: 😃💙📚
A stack of books sits on a white table, with books on library shelves in the background. The book stack includes a mix of hard cover and paperback, from top to bottom: Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong; The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden; Mending Life by Nina and Sonya Montenegro; Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange; VenCo by Cherie Dimaline; The Pairing by Casey McQuiston; Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead; Bakerita by Rachel Conners
March 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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choosing where to focus
when there's so much to see
pausing to notice
pausing to breathe
A green hanging potted pothos plant is in the foreground on the left of the image and is where the camera focuses on its leaves, while the snowy outdoor scene through window panes is blurry in the background. The front window panes look out onto a residential scene of snow-covered front yard, road, and house across the street. Bare tree limbs, blue sky, and the sun rays shining in through the top right corner of the window and image. White slanted text reads in the top left "choosing where to focus" and in the bottom right "when there's so much to see" A green hanging potted pothos plant is in the foreground on the left of the image and is blurry. The camera is focused on a snowy outdoor scene through window panes in the background. The front window panes look out onto a residential scene of snow-covered front yard, road, and house across the street. Bare tree limbs, blue sky, and the sun rays shining in through the top right corner of the window and image. White slanted text reads in the top left "pausing to notice" and in the bottom right "pausing to breathe"
February 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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📚📚📚
Books arranged on a table with their front covers showing. Clockwise from top left: Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk, Miss Major Speaks by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Healing Justice Lineages by Cara Page and Erica Woodland, My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem. The table is a light brown wood grain.
February 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM