Kay Ulanday Barrett
@brownroundboi.bsky.social
Boi Bawal 🏳️⚧️🇵🇭♿️ disabled trans writer, snacker, & A+ napper — 2024 Disabled Futures Fellow, Stonewall Honor Book, Lambda Literary Finalist.
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❤️ Books Upstairs, Dublin.
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
August 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
❤️ Books Upstairs, Dublin.
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
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As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.
Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
August 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.
Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
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Did you know that when a redwood dies and falls in the forest it can take over 500 years for the log to rot? For perspective, that is twice as long as the United States has been a country. There are rotting logs on forest floors that are older than our government.
August 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Did you know that when a redwood dies and falls in the forest it can take over 500 years for the log to rot? For perspective, that is twice as long as the United States has been a country. There are rotting logs on forest floors that are older than our government.
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EPA ended a program that supports solar energy programs in marginalized communities. $500 million in funding earmarked for tribal projects was eliminated.
tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/ene...
tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/ene...
EPA terminates $7B solar program, cutting $500M in tribal energy funding
The Environmental Protection Agency announced it will end the Solar for All program, eliminating more than $500 million in funding for tribal clean energy projects across the country.
tribalbusinessnews.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
EPA ended a program that supports solar energy programs in marginalized communities. $500 million in funding earmarked for tribal projects was eliminated.
tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/ene...
tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/ene...
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These folks have some resources. I’m so sorry your friend is dealing with that www.beyondbondboston.org/resources#po...
Resources — Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network (BIJAN)
www.beyondbondboston.org
March 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
These folks have some resources. I’m so sorry your friend is dealing with that www.beyondbondboston.org/resources#po...
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What I actually want / to say all the time is Grief is the full-time job.
For #NationalPoetryMonth Split This Rock is sharing poems from The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. Today's poem: "How to make salabat" by Kay Ulanday Barrett: bit.ly/40DG7Tc
@brownroundboi.bsky.social
#Poetry
For #NationalPoetryMonth Split This Rock is sharing poems from The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. Today's poem: "How to make salabat" by Kay Ulanday Barrett: bit.ly/40DG7Tc
@brownroundboi.bsky.social
#Poetry
How to make salabat | Poetry Database | Split This Rock
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April 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
What I actually want / to say all the time is Grief is the full-time job.
For #NationalPoetryMonth Split This Rock is sharing poems from The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. Today's poem: "How to make salabat" by Kay Ulanday Barrett: bit.ly/40DG7Tc
@brownroundboi.bsky.social
#Poetry
For #NationalPoetryMonth Split This Rock is sharing poems from The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. Today's poem: "How to make salabat" by Kay Ulanday Barrett: bit.ly/40DG7Tc
@brownroundboi.bsky.social
#Poetry
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Happy Pride from Selected Shorts! On this week's Pride-themed episode, Becca Blackwell, Mike Doyle, Michelle Beck, and @brownroundboi.bsky.social read works by @ivancoyote.bsky.social, Michael Cunningham, @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social, and Kay Ulanday Barrett. bit.ly/44btBxH
June 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Happy Pride from Selected Shorts! On this week's Pride-themed episode, Becca Blackwell, Mike Doyle, Michelle Beck, and @brownroundboi.bsky.social read works by @ivancoyote.bsky.social, Michael Cunningham, @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social, and Kay Ulanday Barrett. bit.ly/44btBxH
Hey loves, a friend in my network needs an immigration lawyer ASAP in the BOSTON AREA! Does anyone have any leads— could be paid or probono.
CW: ICE round up & possible detention.
Please lmk if you have any leads. Thanks so much ✊🏽🥄
CW: ICE round up & possible detention.
Please lmk if you have any leads. Thanks so much ✊🏽🥄
March 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Hey loves, a friend in my network needs an immigration lawyer ASAP in the BOSTON AREA! Does anyone have any leads— could be paid or probono.
CW: ICE round up & possible detention.
Please lmk if you have any leads. Thanks so much ✊🏽🥄
CW: ICE round up & possible detention.
Please lmk if you have any leads. Thanks so much ✊🏽🥄
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Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
Long Island man is first in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia
A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say.
www.cbsnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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some of you haven't fill out a tome of endless forms, waited hours to perform humanity, prove your worth, decency of healthcare, only to be shot down by an indifferent stranger. Then having to appeal multiple times to prove your worth for meds you need in order to survive...
And it shows. #Medicaid
And it shows. #Medicaid
February 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
some of you haven't fill out a tome of endless forms, waited hours to perform humanity, prove your worth, decency of healthcare, only to be shot down by an indifferent stranger. Then having to appeal multiple times to prove your worth for meds you need in order to survive...
And it shows. #Medicaid
And it shows. #Medicaid
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Thrilled to be moderating this amazing panel at AWP this year. If you'll be there, I invite you to join us! #AWP2025 #AWPLA #Filipinowriters #Filipinxwriters
March 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Thrilled to be moderating this amazing panel at AWP this year. If you'll be there, I invite you to join us! #AWP2025 #AWPLA #Filipinowriters #Filipinxwriters
some of you haven't fill out a tome of endless forms, waited hours to perform humanity, prove your worth, decency of healthcare, only to be shot down by an indifferent stranger. Then having to appeal multiple times to prove your worth for meds you need in order to survive...
And it shows. #Medicaid
And it shows. #Medicaid
February 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
some of you haven't fill out a tome of endless forms, waited hours to perform humanity, prove your worth, decency of healthcare, only to be shot down by an indifferent stranger. Then having to appeal multiple times to prove your worth for meds you need in order to survive...
And it shows. #Medicaid
And it shows. #Medicaid
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My video essay Writing From the Groin: How Non-disabled CisHet Monied White People Lock Themselves into Mediocrity. English narration with BSL, captions & audio description. Videos from brill disabled oracles including @alexhaagaard.bsky.social, @miamingus.bsky.social, @brownroundboi.bsky.social.
"Writing from the Groin" video essay by Sandra Alland (BSL with AD and CC)
YouTube video by BOPTheatre
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February 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My video essay Writing From the Groin: How Non-disabled CisHet Monied White People Lock Themselves into Mediocrity. English narration with BSL, captions & audio description. Videos from brill disabled oracles including @alexhaagaard.bsky.social, @miamingus.bsky.social, @brownroundboi.bsky.social.
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The thing about nazis is that every iteration of them will be dumber and more evil than the last, because thats what you have to be to see the last version of them and go "oh yeah thats so cool"
February 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The thing about nazis is that every iteration of them will be dumber and more evil than the last, because thats what you have to be to see the last version of them and go "oh yeah thats so cool"
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Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally.
Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...
Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...
Lake County library leaders expect to see more challenged books
A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, according to the American Library Association. Challenges lead to censorship.
www.chicagotribune.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally.
Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...
Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...
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Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position.
You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.
You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.
February 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position.
You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.
You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.
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They want us to be afraid. They want us to hesitate. They want us to fear their next move.
Fuck that shit.
We are just getting started fighting.
Fuck that shit.
We are just getting started fighting.
February 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
They want us to be afraid. They want us to hesitate. They want us to fear their next move.
Fuck that shit.
We are just getting started fighting.
Fuck that shit.
We are just getting started fighting.
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Here are some nice mushrooms
February 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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Caught a guy peeing on my cybertruck. You're wasting your time idiot, it was already covered in piss from all the other people who did that today
February 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Caught a guy peeing on my cybertruck. You're wasting your time idiot, it was already covered in piss from all the other people who did that today
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Disenfranchising women is a key project of Christian nationalism.
The Christian Nationalist Plot to Disenfranchise Women Voters
The SAVE Act, which purports to fend off the phantasmal threat of voter fraud, would throw millions of women off the voting rolls.
newrepublic.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Disenfranchising women is a key project of Christian nationalism.
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Just 4 MORE DAYS to submit your full-length prose manuscripts in all genres! These collections may be short stories, novellas, essays, memoir, or a mixture thereof.
www.sundresspublications.com/news/2024/11...
www.sundresspublications.com/news/2024/11...
February 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Just 4 MORE DAYS to submit your full-length prose manuscripts in all genres! These collections may be short stories, novellas, essays, memoir, or a mixture thereof.
www.sundresspublications.com/news/2024/11...
www.sundresspublications.com/news/2024/11...
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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp'
Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.
apnews.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...