Heather Abel
@heatherabel.bsky.social
I write and worry and walk.
THE OPTIMISTIC DECADE (2018) and THE EMILYS (forthcoming 2026)
THE OPTIMISTIC DECADE (2018) and THE EMILYS (forthcoming 2026)
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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
I’m not super interested in people who DON’T have chronic illness, auto-immune disease, ADHD or are autistic. These are my people, my America, my way of life.
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I’m not super interested in people who DON’T have chronic illness, auto-immune disease, ADHD or are autistic. These are my people, my America, my way of life.
Reposted by Heather Abel
News is overwhelming. People offline don't understand what's happening. Their rights are being pulled out from under them. Print out these flyers and take it to the streets. Featuring a QR cosd that links to explainer and action items. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/12/t...
February 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
News is overwhelming. People offline don't understand what's happening. Their rights are being pulled out from under them. Print out these flyers and take it to the streets. Featuring a QR cosd that links to explainer and action items. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/12/t...
our town has an event called First Night on December 31 each year with live music all over downtown and teens doing circus and juggling etc.. and I can't ever go because I don't have enough willpower not to stand among the throngs and scream, "Actually it's Last Night, motherfuckers!"
December 31, 2024 at 7:08 PM
our town has an event called First Night on December 31 each year with live music all over downtown and teens doing circus and juggling etc.. and I can't ever go because I don't have enough willpower not to stand among the throngs and scream, "Actually it's Last Night, motherfuckers!"
Thrilled to see Abby’s book getting much deserved attention. She’s just always brilliant. I love this one so much.
Finally for this Sunday, our lead review is one I wrote, of STILL LIFE AT 80, Abigail Thomas's thoroughly winning new memoir about aging, the pandemic, dogs, writing, and more. I really adore this book. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/26/a...
Life at 80. We should all be so lucky. - The Boston Globe
In Abigail Thomas’s latest memoir, the writer ponders the world outside her window and inside her mind.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 26, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Thrilled to see Abby’s book getting much deserved attention. She’s just always brilliant. I love this one so much.
wait what are we supposed to do without Somebody Somewhere?
December 10, 2024 at 2:29 AM
wait what are we supposed to do without Somebody Somewhere?
Reposted by Heather Abel
I've just written my first letter to the NYT Editor, in response to Jeremy Peters' anti-trans article.
It feels unlikely it will be published, so I'm posting it here so it's not lost.
It feels unlikely it will be published, so I'm posting it here so it's not lost.
November 27, 2024 at 4:52 PM
I've just written my first letter to the NYT Editor, in response to Jeremy Peters' anti-trans article.
It feels unlikely it will be published, so I'm posting it here so it's not lost.
It feels unlikely it will be published, so I'm posting it here so it's not lost.
Thanks, @anderlawlor.bsky.social for laying out this cornucopia of lit-events this week in the valley (although none are actually held at Cornucopia)
Hey what's up! Not sure if my #westernmass people are here but there's a ton of awesome things happening this week & some of them are actually also online... 1/6
November 18, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Thanks, @anderlawlor.bsky.social for laying out this cornucopia of lit-events this week in the valley (although none are actually held at Cornucopia)