emily fraser 🌿🐌✨
@emilyesfraser.bsky.social
Former doc filmmaker/cinematographer/teacher, current full-time sick person, occasional poet
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Thank you to Pleiades for publishing my snarky little CDC hate poem 🖤
Just saw Taylor Tomlinson’s announcement that she’s canceling the rest of her tour because she’s been sick for awhile & she’s still sick & she needs to prioritize her health. I hope she recovers but damn, I hate how familiar that line is 😔
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Just saw Taylor Tomlinson’s announcement that she’s canceling the rest of her tour because she’s been sick for awhile & she’s still sick & she needs to prioritize her health. I hope she recovers but damn, I hate how familiar that line is 😔
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I’ve been tracking and writing about Brownstone since December 2021 and it’s really validating to see these pieces.
Solid write-up from KFF on its influence. One thing left out: The group helped steer the GOP House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic long before Trump took office.
Solid write-up from KFF on its influence. One thing left out: The group helped steer the GOP House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic long before Trump took office.
A Small Texas Think Tank Cultivated Covid Dissidents. Now They’re Running US Health Policy. - KFF Health News
Fueled by covid backlash, a libertarian author created the Brownstone Institute in 2021. In recent months, people with ties to the group have catapulted to the highest levels of U.S. government, exerc...
kffhealthnews.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I’ve been tracking and writing about Brownstone since December 2021 and it’s really validating to see these pieces.
Solid write-up from KFF on its influence. One thing left out: The group helped steer the GOP House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic long before Trump took office.
Solid write-up from KFF on its influence. One thing left out: The group helped steer the GOP House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic long before Trump took office.
When I got married my lovely aunt warned me that the thing you most love about your partner will be the same thing that drives you up the wall. And yeah 😔
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
When I got married my lovely aunt warned me that the thing you most love about your partner will be the same thing that drives you up the wall. And yeah 😔
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“What do I do with this sea of language you have left within me. Who can I tell about it when all the vowels are you.“
“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
“What do I do with this sea of language you have left within me. Who can I tell about it when all the vowels are you.“
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Practice so you're ready.
I had the good fortune once of serving with a man who heard an insult to a woman colleague from the man in leadership.
He said, in his usual calm voice, “You know how you just said (insult)?”
Took a beat.
“Never say that again.”
He said, in his usual calm voice, “You know how you just said (insult)?”
Took a beat.
“Never say that again.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Practice so you're ready.
@abrokenbattery.bsky.social does such amazing work tracking, archiving, & sharing ME-related media clips
#GreatestMEdicalScandal
#GreatestMEdicalScandal
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
@abrokenbattery.bsky.social does such amazing work tracking, archiving, & sharing ME-related media clips
#GreatestMEdicalScandal
#GreatestMEdicalScandal
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Recruiting for an important observational clinical study at UCFS, looking to enroll people with #ME/CFS #pwME pre or post COVID-19 and healthy controls. The PI is @michaelpelusomd.bsky.social The study will run from early 2026 to 2030. If interested please contact Name: Beatrice Program Manager
Chronic Infections and Inflammation in #ME/CFS: An Observational Study (CHIIME)
ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT07227441
Sponsor University of California, San Francisco
Information provided by University of California, San Francisco (Responsible Party)
Last Update Posted 2025-11-12
ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT07227441
Sponsor University of California, San Francisco
Information provided by University of California, San Francisco (Responsible Party)
Last Update Posted 2025-11-12
ClinicalTrials.gov
clinicaltrials.gov
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Recruiting for an important observational clinical study at UCFS, looking to enroll people with #ME/CFS #pwME pre or post COVID-19 and healthy controls. The PI is @michaelpelusomd.bsky.social The study will run from early 2026 to 2030. If interested please contact Name: Beatrice Program Manager
And when I didn’t magically get better they started accusing me of making it up 😵💫
the thing that forever damaged my view of mostly everyone irreparably is that time in 2021 when I was diagnosed w/ a devastating neuroimmune disease that has a roughly 5% recovery rate & no treatment & everyone just continued to behave as if I was going to magically get better any day now #MECFS
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
And when I didn’t magically get better they started accusing me of making it up 😵💫
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Beautiful tribute to Alice 💔
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Beautiful tribute to Alice 💔
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Alice was a big fan of this account, and she had a great sense of humor
To Alice Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything
You were a hero to Asian Americans, drag queens and people with disabilities around the world. May you do what you wanna do as your chariot carries you over the rainbow.
by Maureen Dowd
You were a hero to Asian Americans, drag queens and people with disabilities around the world. May you do what you wanna do as your chariot carries you over the rainbow.
by Maureen Dowd
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Alice was a big fan of this account, and she had a great sense of humor
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“There’re about a thousand of us.”
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“There’re about a thousand of us.”
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those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
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November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
-Long slow wide shots that take half the movie for your nervous system to settle in but then they permanently rewire your brain
-Animals who don’t speak as main characters
-Commitment to a child’s POV
-The viewer is implicated
-Underdogs remain underdogs
-Animals who don’t speak as main characters
-Commitment to a child’s POV
-The viewer is implicated
-Underdogs remain underdogs
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
-Long slow wide shots that take half the movie for your nervous system to settle in but then they permanently rewire your brain
-Animals who don’t speak as main characters
-Commitment to a child’s POV
-The viewer is implicated
-Underdogs remain underdogs
-Animals who don’t speak as main characters
-Commitment to a child’s POV
-The viewer is implicated
-Underdogs remain underdogs
And who was pushing to end the government shutdown at the expense of the ACA because they didn’t want to miss out on their big Thanksgiving travel profits?
It really is all the same fight & we need some solidarity if we want to win it
It really is all the same fight & we need some solidarity if we want to win it
Like, to make this concrete, the recommended isolation period after a COVID infection was reduced by the CDC from 10 days to 5 days because the CEO of Delta Airlines asked President Biden to do it. And how do you think the CEO of Delta Airlines feels about meaningful climate action?
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
And who was pushing to end the government shutdown at the expense of the ACA because they didn’t want to miss out on their big Thanksgiving travel profits?
It really is all the same fight & we need some solidarity if we want to win it
It really is all the same fight & we need some solidarity if we want to win it
Beautiful thread & it’s reminding me of the concept of womb & tomb, seed & compost heap… how our most powerful periods of growth & transformation happen in the dark & underground… how the root systems we find there are what allow us to survive & transform & grow into something new
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Beautiful thread & it’s reminding me of the concept of womb & tomb, seed & compost heap… how our most powerful periods of growth & transformation happen in the dark & underground… how the root systems we find there are what allow us to survive & transform & grow into something new
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So 💔 & angry… that Alice is gone, Teen Vogue is gone, community care is all but gone, but dangerous infectious diseases are still being given red carpet treatment. The disability, Long Covid, & ME communities keep losing people, & it doesn’t have to be this way. We can do better. We must.
Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
www.teenvogue.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
So 💔 & angry… that Alice is gone, Teen Vogue is gone, community care is all but gone, but dangerous infectious diseases are still being given red carpet treatment. The disability, Long Covid, & ME communities keep losing people, & it doesn’t have to be this way. We can do better. We must.
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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“National Decade Against Post-Infectious Diseases” is just such a lovely phrase to hear. Can’t even express what it means as pwME and in these times.
After some hardcore protesting in Germany!! Well done‼️‼️🇩🇪🇩🇪
"The coalition plans to invest 500 million euros by 2036 in the fight against #LongCovid and chronic fatigue syndrome (#MECFS)."
www.spiegel.de/politik/karl...
"The coalition plans to invest 500 million euros by 2036 in the fight against #LongCovid and chronic fatigue syndrome (#MECFS)."
www.spiegel.de/politik/karl...
(S+) Ex-Gesundheitsminister Lauterbach: Forschung gegen ME/CFS wird ausgeweitet
Union und SPD wollen mehr Geld in die Erforschung postinfektiöser Erkrankungen wie Long Covid stecken. Deutschland könne damit zum weltweiten Vorreiter werden, sagt Ex-Gesundheitsminister Lauterbach.
www.spiegel.de
November 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“National Decade Against Post-Infectious Diseases” is just such a lovely phrase to hear. Can’t even express what it means as pwME and in these times.
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Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
November 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
This is gutting 💔 What a fierce spirit, what an incredible loss, what a brilliant legacy. Deep condolences to all of her loved ones & to the disability community
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:19 AM
This is gutting 💔 What a fierce spirit, what an incredible loss, what a brilliant legacy. Deep condolences to all of her loved ones & to the disability community
“Get up & walk more!” he says to the millions of Americans he & his ilk stole the ability to walk from in the last/ongoing pandemic
Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“Get up & walk more!” he says to the millions of Americans he & his ilk stole the ability to walk from in the last/ongoing pandemic
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Adding his gofundme to his spouse: www.gofundme.com/f/lleeiii?la... #mutualaid #helpsky #covidisnotover
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Adding his gofundme to his spouse: www.gofundme.com/f/lleeiii?la... #mutualaid #helpsky #covidisnotover