Ashley Yazdani
@ashleyyazdani.bsky.social
Picture book author/illustrator, mom of 2, crafty, really into history.
📘Cosmic Wonder: Halley’s Comet and Humankind
📕Of Walden Pond
📗A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park
Ashleyyazdani.com
📘Cosmic Wonder: Halley’s Comet and Humankind
📕Of Walden Pond
📗A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park
Ashleyyazdani.com
Won’t he be surprised when he reads:
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
I love my whole autistic self.
RFK, fuck you.
8/8
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
I love my whole autistic self.
RFK, fuck you.
8/8
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Won’t he be surprised when he reads:
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
I love my whole autistic self.
RFK, fuck you.
8/8
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
I love my whole autistic self.
RFK, fuck you.
8/8
To him I could never be anything.
Along the flowers,
A weed, most pale.
Deeply feeling,
Pattern seeking,
My quick, clever mind, a cautionary tale,
Look out, he warns,
kids like me
will never write a poem.
But somehow
I managed to scratch this one out
and I can’t wait to show him.
7/8
Along the flowers,
A weed, most pale.
Deeply feeling,
Pattern seeking,
My quick, clever mind, a cautionary tale,
Look out, he warns,
kids like me
will never write a poem.
But somehow
I managed to scratch this one out
and I can’t wait to show him.
7/8
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
To him I could never be anything.
Along the flowers,
A weed, most pale.
Deeply feeling,
Pattern seeking,
My quick, clever mind, a cautionary tale,
Look out, he warns,
kids like me
will never write a poem.
But somehow
I managed to scratch this one out
and I can’t wait to show him.
7/8
Along the flowers,
A weed, most pale.
Deeply feeling,
Pattern seeking,
My quick, clever mind, a cautionary tale,
Look out, he warns,
kids like me
will never write a poem.
But somehow
I managed to scratch this one out
and I can’t wait to show him.
7/8
According to his
worm eaten brain,
this is an epidemic!
But the fix is in!
He’s on the job,
With methods strictly nonacademic.
In record time
He’ll find a cause
For what makes me myself.
Behold: the Vaccine!
His chosen scapegoat
in the name of health.
6/8
worm eaten brain,
this is an epidemic!
But the fix is in!
He’s on the job,
With methods strictly nonacademic.
In record time
He’ll find a cause
For what makes me myself.
Behold: the Vaccine!
His chosen scapegoat
in the name of health.
6/8
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
According to his
worm eaten brain,
this is an epidemic!
But the fix is in!
He’s on the job,
With methods strictly nonacademic.
In record time
He’ll find a cause
For what makes me myself.
Behold: the Vaccine!
His chosen scapegoat
in the name of health.
6/8
worm eaten brain,
this is an epidemic!
But the fix is in!
He’s on the job,
With methods strictly nonacademic.
In record time
He’ll find a cause
For what makes me myself.
Behold: the Vaccine!
His chosen scapegoat
in the name of health.
6/8
(As if his administration
Wasn’t deliberately doing
that
very
thing.)
5/8
Wasn’t deliberately doing
that
very
thing.)
5/8
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
(As if his administration
Wasn’t deliberately doing
that
very
thing.)
5/8
Wasn’t deliberately doing
that
very
thing.)
5/8
Here’s the full poem: There’s a man
at the helm of our health
Over in DC.
No white coat.
No medical oath.
Yet he controls you, and he controls me.
He says I am preventable,
a problem,
a “disease”.
He claims that what
I share with my children,
“destroys families.”
4/8
at the helm of our health
Over in DC.
No white coat.
No medical oath.
Yet he controls you, and he controls me.
He says I am preventable,
a problem,
a “disease”.
He claims that what
I share with my children,
“destroys families.”
4/8
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Here’s the full poem: There’s a man
at the helm of our health
Over in DC.
No white coat.
No medical oath.
Yet he controls you, and he controls me.
He says I am preventable,
a problem,
a “disease”.
He claims that what
I share with my children,
“destroys families.”
4/8
at the helm of our health
Over in DC.
No white coat.
No medical oath.
Yet he controls you, and he controls me.
He says I am preventable,
a problem,
a “disease”.
He claims that what
I share with my children,
“destroys families.”
4/8
Share your work and tag it #iwroteapoem If you want to go the extra mile, mail it to him. I think he would be really curious to see our work, you know, for research purposes.
Robert F Kennedy Jr. US Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201
3/8
Robert F Kennedy Jr. US Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201
3/8
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Share your work and tag it #iwroteapoem If you want to go the extra mile, mail it to him. I think he would be really curious to see our work, you know, for research purposes.
Robert F Kennedy Jr. US Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201
3/8
Robert F Kennedy Jr. US Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201
3/8
Are you autistic, too? I invite you to write a poem for RFK. If you're new to poetry try a variation on roses and violets. Or if you're writing about RFK himself, you might want to explore the limerick. There are so many ways to write a poem, just like how there are so many ways to be autistic.
2/8
2/8
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Are you autistic, too? I invite you to write a poem for RFK. If you're new to poetry try a variation on roses and violets. Or if you're writing about RFK himself, you might want to explore the limerick. There are so many ways to write a poem, just like how there are so many ways to be autistic.
2/8
2/8
These are all elements of basic human rights, and trans kids deserve to be respected, honored, and cherished just as much as any othe kids, today and every day. ❤️🏳️⚧️ 🧵 3/3
April 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
These are all elements of basic human rights, and trans kids deserve to be respected, honored, and cherished just as much as any othe kids, today and every day. ❤️🏳️⚧️ 🧵 3/3
Let trans kids play sports.
Let them use their preferred bathroom. Let them be their authentic and beautiful selves, with the pronouns that they feel fit them. After all, they know themselves best. And in the end, let them just BE. 🧵 2/3
Let them use their preferred bathroom. Let them be their authentic and beautiful selves, with the pronouns that they feel fit them. After all, they know themselves best. And in the end, let them just BE. 🧵 2/3
April 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Let trans kids play sports.
Let them use their preferred bathroom. Let them be their authentic and beautiful selves, with the pronouns that they feel fit them. After all, they know themselves best. And in the end, let them just BE. 🧵 2/3
Let them use their preferred bathroom. Let them be their authentic and beautiful selves, with the pronouns that they feel fit them. After all, they know themselves best. And in the end, let them just BE. 🧵 2/3
If Elon wants to go to Mars so much then he should just go ahead and go. One way please.
February 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If Elon wants to go to Mars so much then he should just go ahead and go. One way please.
This was the only kind of news update I wanted today. Thank you.
February 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
This was the only kind of news update I wanted today. Thank you.
Two more of baby. Baby is unbothered by bedtime, but my baby hates it.
February 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Two more of baby. Baby is unbothered by bedtime, but my baby hates it.