Diane R. Wiener (she/they)
@dianeoctopod.bsky.social
Neuroqueer Ashkenazi hylozoist, #DisabilityJustice activist & educator, poet, CNF author, artist, musician, SWer
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We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
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Volume 19, Issue 1 – Summer 2025 – Wordgathering
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WOOOOOOT
Reposted by Diane R. Wiener (she/they)
Today's a federal holiday because on the eve of the 20th century machinists, carpenters, and people who worked in mills, mines, and factories joined together to fight for better wages and a day to honor working people.
If you're enjoying the holiday today, thank the labor movement.
If you're enjoying the holiday today, thank the labor movement.
September 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Today's a federal holiday because on the eve of the 20th century machinists, carpenters, and people who worked in mills, mines, and factories joined together to fight for better wages and a day to honor working people.
If you're enjoying the holiday today, thank the labor movement.
If you're enjoying the holiday today, thank the labor movement.
WOOOOOOT
We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Volume 19, Issue 1 – Summer 2025 – Wordgathering
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September 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
WOOOOOOT
Reposted by Diane R. Wiener (she/they)
We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Volume 19, Issue 1 – Summer 2025 – Wordgathering
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September 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
July 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
New poem on WienerBlog, “Ephemeral Restoration,” with an epigraph from—and with gratitude to—June Jordan.
Mostly, the paintings, of late, have been my offered poems. But here’s a written poem.
CW: Difficult topics include war, death, loss, grief
dianerwiener.com/2025/07/06/e...
Mostly, the paintings, of late, have been my offered poems. But here’s a written poem.
CW: Difficult topics include war, death, loss, grief
dianerwiener.com/2025/07/06/e...
July 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
New poem on WienerBlog, “Ephemeral Restoration,” with an epigraph from—and with gratitude to—June Jordan.
Mostly, the paintings, of late, have been my offered poems. But here’s a written poem.
CW: Difficult topics include war, death, loss, grief
dianerwiener.com/2025/07/06/e...
Mostly, the paintings, of late, have been my offered poems. But here’s a written poem.
CW: Difficult topics include war, death, loss, grief
dianerwiener.com/2025/07/06/e...
One month from today, the ADA will be 35 years old.
Let's make sure it keeps on.
Let's make sure it keeps on.
June 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
One month from today, the ADA will be 35 years old.
Let's make sure it keeps on.
Let's make sure it keeps on.
Blessed Solstice
June 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Blessed Solstice
www.history.com/articles/wha... What Is Juneteenth? | HISTORY
What Is Juneteenth? | HISTORY
Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
www.history.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
www.history.com/articles/wha... What Is Juneteenth? | HISTORY
I'm made of rainbows all year. Not just in June. Ask anyone.
June 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I'm made of rainbows all year. Not just in June. Ask anyone.
We are delighted to inform you that the Spring 2025 book reviews and review essays special supplement of Wordgathering is now “live.” Our next full issue (Summer 2025) will be published in early August or late July. Huzzah!
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Volume 18, Issue 2s – Book Reviews and Review Essays Special Supplement – Spring 2025 – Wordgathering
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June 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Reposted by Diane R. Wiener (she/they)
We are delighted to inform you that the Spring 2025 book reviews and review essays special supplement of Wordgathering is now “live.” Our next full issue (Summer 2025) will be published in early August or late July. Huzzah!
wordgathering.com/vol18/vol18i...
wordgathering.com/vol18/vol18i...
Volume 18, Issue 2s – Book Reviews and Review Essays Special Supplement – Spring 2025 – Wordgathering
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June 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
We are delighted to inform you that the Spring 2025 book reviews and review essays special supplement of Wordgathering is now “live.” Our next full issue (Summer 2025) will be published in early August or late July. Huzzah!
wordgathering.com/vol18/vol18i...
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I remember you, I honor you, and I thank you.
May 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I remember you, I honor you, and I thank you.
I am honored to share that I learned this morning my CNF piece, “Slingshot,” will be published in Beyond Words Literary Magazine’s father-themed anthology in Dec.
Originally pub’d in eMerge: emerge-magazine.com/slingshot/
CW: Mental illness, suicide, violent human & nonhuman animal death, racism.
Originally pub’d in eMerge: emerge-magazine.com/slingshot/
CW: Mental illness, suicide, violent human & nonhuman animal death, racism.
May 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I am honored to share that I learned this morning my CNF piece, “Slingshot,” will be published in Beyond Words Literary Magazine’s father-themed anthology in Dec.
Originally pub’d in eMerge: emerge-magazine.com/slingshot/
CW: Mental illness, suicide, violent human & nonhuman animal death, racism.
Originally pub’d in eMerge: emerge-magazine.com/slingshot/
CW: Mental illness, suicide, violent human & nonhuman animal death, racism.
May the fourth and the Schwartz be with you.
May 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
May the fourth and the Schwartz be with you.
Yom HaShoah
Never Again
As In:
Never Again FOR ANYONE
We remember
Never Again
As In:
Never Again FOR ANYONE
We remember
April 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Yom HaShoah
Never Again
As In:
Never Again FOR ANYONE
We remember
Never Again
As In:
Never Again FOR ANYONE
We remember
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Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
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March 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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RFK Jr's move to eliminate the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled & aging people stay at home instead of being institutionalized, is disastrous.
I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).
I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).
Graduating From Dead Mom University
In this op-ed, Lindsay Lee Wallace explores grief, and how no amount of success in school or work could protect her from it.
www.teenvogue.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
RFK Jr's move to eliminate the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled & aging people stay at home instead of being institutionalized, is disastrous.
I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).
I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).
Reposted by Diane R. Wiener (she/they)
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
www.washingtonpost.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
Reposted by Diane R. Wiener (she/they)
The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊
March 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊
Reposted by Diane R. Wiener (she/they)
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March 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Blessed Ostara
Happy Vernal Equinox
Happy Vernal Equinox
March 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Blessed Ostara
Happy Vernal Equinox
Happy Vernal Equinox
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If we normalize AI's mental illness before our own, I will become so evil.
March 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
If we normalize AI's mental illness before our own, I will become so evil.