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Many of us depend on #telehealth, but essential telehealth provisions expire on Sept 30 in the US.

@meactnet.bsky.social has a script to call/email your representatives re a bill to preserve telehealth: www.meactions.org/telehealth

Please advocate by Sept 29th!
#MEAction #pwme #disabilityrights
A screengrab of the website linked above, which says: "TAKE ACTION TELEHEALTH Update: Congress has passed a Continuing Resolution budget that will keep telehealth extensions until Sept. 30th, 2025. Let's keep the pressure on our representatives to make those telehealth extensions permanent! LEARN MORE Essential telehealth provisions are set to expire on September 30th 2025. Congress needs to hear from all of us that telehealth saves lives. The "CONNECT for Health Act of 2025" (S.1261/H.R. 4206), introduced as bills in the both the House and the Senate, directly addresses the long-term expansion of telehealth by: * Removing geographic restrictions for telehealth services. * Expanding eligible originating sites. * Widening the range of providers allowed to deliver telehealth. * Eliminating the six-month in-person requirement for telemental health. * Providing additional flexibilities for rural health clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and Native American health facilities. These bills' intent is to make many of the current pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities permanent, ensuring continued and future access for Medicare beneficiaries and expanding coverage for more providers Help us advocate today!"
September 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I’m excited to read at Yellow’s 1-Year CelebrASIAN (free & virtual)
this Sun, 9/21 at 10am-1:30pm PT / 1-4:30pm ET / 6-9:30pm UK, w/ hosts Keith Mar & Maureen P. Medina

Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/yellows-1-...

Come build & find refuge in a space that celebrates & centers Asians!

#AsianArt
A graphic with the names and photos of all the performers, that says: “YELLOW'S 1-YEAR CELEBRASIAN SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 218T 10AM PT | 1PM ET AIM AISHWARYA BALASUBRAMANIAN AMY MANION DIANA "BIG MAMA" ZMILLIONS MISSING EVE LEE HITEN CHOJER JENNIFER ELISE WANG M.S. MARQUART PATA SUYEMOTO SHEDRAGON713 VEX KAZTRO YAN SHAM-SHACKLETON”
September 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Excited to be reading at the @pillowwriters.bsky.social salon this Thurs, Sept 18 @ 11am PT / 2pm ET

Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This salon celebrates the release of the second issue of The Pillow Writers Anthology, avail here: a.co/d/7EBcelQ

Proceeds benefit @meactnet.bsky.social
A graphic with a red background and white writing that says "Pillow Writers Salon. Near-Life Experiences: The Pillow Writers Anthology, Issue 2. Thursday, September 18th @ 11am PT/2pm ET" and includes the #MEAction logo at the bottom
September 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Immigrants make NYC one of the greatest cities in the world! #ImmigrantsBelong #GetICEOut #MoveOn
A graphic showing a subway train that says “New York City. Planned Service Changes: No Service to ICE Trains At All Times.” And “Text ‘BELONG’ to 668366 Msg & data rates may apply.”
September 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I’m delighted to share that my poem “The Sparrows Shake Me, Wake Me” was published in Beyond the Veil Press’s new disability pride poetry, essay, & art anthology, In Praise of Despair.

To purchase: a.co/d/jiG0Rqg

#crippoetry #crippower #DiabilityPride #disabledpoets #disabilitypoetry #poetry
A photo of my poem in the book, which says “The Sparrows Shake Me, Wake Me After Mary Oliver M.S. Marquart   My body and I have endured a thousand humiliations; I was crying at the most recent, when suddenly a house sparrow swooped past my window, landing in the soil below. Then like lightning it flew onto a tree branch, trading places with its fellow. The winged messenger quickly drew my eyes to dozens of sparrows, brown bodies flitting from tree to tree, rolling in the earth, hopping in the tall grass, black beaks pecking at invisible treasures, voices chirping incessantly.      I realized that the winter’s bare branches had sprouted leaves, that the magnolias and cherry blossoms in the distance were starting to bloom, that daffodils and crocuses were springing up, bunches of hope.    You do not need to be able-bodied to merit a share in the joys of life. You can be disabled, struggle through each day, unable to leave home, unable to work, unable to be physically present for loved ones’ birthdays, recitals, graduations, weddings -- and you can still taste nature’s beauty and delights.   Outside the open window: bright clouds floating in a sunny blue sky, intensified leaf and petal colors on grey days, luscious floral scents drifting on the breeze, a carpet of green ferns swaying in the wind like ocean waves.   The sparrows’ demanding cheeping, peeping, shrieking shout at me, as if to shake me, wake me out of a haze, remind me that the world’s love is for every creature, as we float through the cosmos together.” A photo of the cover of the book, which says “Beyond the Veil Press In Praise of Despair disability pride poetry, essay, & art anthology” The cover is set on a disability pride flag as the background, with diagonal stripes in muted red, yellow, white, blue, green, and charcoal gray. There’s an image of two hands making a heart with their thumbs and pointer fingers; one hand is an x-ray of a hand and the other hand is a white hand. Behind the white hand, there is a letter sealed with a heart that has a medical heartbeat symbol running across the middle. This artwork is by Raika Sailing. A flyer for the book, which says “IN PRAISE OF DESPAIR Disability Pride Anthology Available Now @BEYONDTHEVEILPRESS” and includes an image of the book cover and the Beyond the Veil Press logo Mr. Bitey (designed by Josiah Callaway), which looks like the head of a smiling black cat, all in a pale yellow box on top of the disability pride flag.
August 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM