T Bird (she/they/ma’am)
@tbirdtko.bsky.social
Southern leftist disabled Jewish queer person w/ #ME. Houston public policy + urbanism but came up country AF. Everything begins small in the bayou. Dayenu. ♿️🌈🐊✊🏽 Host of @commvalues.bsky.social
Hit me with your favorite poets, poems, and collections, please. I need more. Longing, love, grief, revolution. I love: Natalie Diaz, Ada Limón, Louise Glück, Mary Oliver about love but not as much about nature, Li-Young Lee, Rilke, June Jordan, David Whyte, Jane Hirshfield, etc.
April 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hit me with your favorite poets, poems, and collections, please. I need more. Longing, love, grief, revolution. I love: Natalie Diaz, Ada Limón, Louise Glück, Mary Oliver about love but not as much about nature, Li-Young Lee, Rilke, June Jordan, David Whyte, Jane Hirshfield, etc.
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The push for austerity in government- even and especially by local-level Democrats, is fascist. Our community deserves robust public services. We pay for them, and they are best delivered at scale without profit considerations. Local DOGE-like efforts should be met with a fight.
April 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The push for austerity in government- even and especially by local-level Democrats, is fascist. Our community deserves robust public services. We pay for them, and they are best delivered at scale without profit considerations. Local DOGE-like efforts should be met with a fight.
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I am begging anyone with the ability to commission articles in my industry: let trans people write about what is happening to us right now.
April 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I am begging anyone with the ability to commission articles in my industry: let trans people write about what is happening to us right now.
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current WIP linocut, going to have a big printing day tomorrow. This one is either called "birth" or "I smash your skull", not sure yet #art #printmaking
April 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
current WIP linocut, going to have a big printing day tomorrow. This one is either called "birth" or "I smash your skull", not sure yet #art #printmaking
My feed here is mostly horrible news. Algorithm, oh algorithm, please send me more poetry and revolutionary writers 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
April 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
My feed here is mostly horrible news. Algorithm, oh algorithm, please send me more poetry and revolutionary writers 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Fasted from 8pm Wednesday to 10am today to prep for a surgery. Truly wild. Good news? Doesn’t seem to be pre-cancer (again) or cancer! Bad news? It’s other things that suck. But now I know! Waiting on pathology to confirm 🙏🏽🙏🏽
April 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Fasted from 8pm Wednesday to 10am today to prep for a surgery. Truly wild. Good news? Doesn’t seem to be pre-cancer (again) or cancer! Bad news? It’s other things that suck. But now I know! Waiting on pathology to confirm 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Woke up tearful after nightmares. Realized today is the day I can’t eat all day (it already has me sick 🫠), and tomorrow is the surgery where I am considered high risk for being put under anesthesia due to heart complications/ dysautonomia. Been a decade in a morning.
April 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Woke up tearful after nightmares. Realized today is the day I can’t eat all day (it already has me sick 🫠), and tomorrow is the surgery where I am considered high risk for being put under anesthesia due to heart complications/ dysautonomia. Been a decade in a morning.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on with the lesbian sciences (astrology)???? This week is so wild!
March 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
What in the ever loving fuck is going on with the lesbian sciences (astrology)???? This week is so wild!
“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago.” COVID put me in a wheelchair, motherfucker. It definitely exists.
bit.ly/4iJo46y
bit.ly/4iJo46y
CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.
“Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary," federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week.
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March 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago.” COVID put me in a wheelchair, motherfucker. It definitely exists.
bit.ly/4iJo46y
bit.ly/4iJo46y
It bears repeating: please consider that liberalism & fascism are codependent- not opposing- forces.
March 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It bears repeating: please consider that liberalism & fascism are codependent- not opposing- forces.
Every time I listen to julien baker for any length of time, I come away feeling like I have something inside of me I need to scream into a microphone
March 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Every time I listen to julien baker for any length of time, I come away feeling like I have something inside of me I need to scream into a microphone
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legends walk among us
March 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
legends walk among us
Pay No Rent
Turnpike Troubadours · A Long Way from Your Heart · Song · 2017
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March 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
My 10yo sent me a screenshot of these lyrics w/ a link to this song and said, “America partly crushed my dreams of being an astronaut. This song helped and now it went from three quarters to half crushed.”
open.spotify.com/track/4blPH3...
open.spotify.com/track/4blPH3...
March 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
My 10yo sent me a screenshot of these lyrics w/ a link to this song and said, “America partly crushed my dreams of being an astronaut. This song helped and now it went from three quarters to half crushed.”
open.spotify.com/track/4blPH3...
open.spotify.com/track/4blPH3...
Seeing one of the specialists at the Long COVID Center & none of the doors to the building are accessible to folks like me in a wheelchair. I finally make it in, only one member of the staff is masking, & they ask me to remove my mask for a temp check. AYFKM, COVID put me in this chair. Do better!
March 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Seeing one of the specialists at the Long COVID Center & none of the doors to the building are accessible to folks like me in a wheelchair. I finally make it in, only one member of the staff is masking, & they ask me to remove my mask for a temp check. AYFKM, COVID put me in this chair. Do better!
Well. Did you?
did you eat and take your meds and make memes for your coworkers bc they are hilarious humans?
March 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Well. Did you?
My 10yo reading aloud to me about the protagonist from his book getting bitten by a pig, and my kid- misunderstanding my confusion at someone being bitten by a pig- says, “You know, like, the animal, not a cop!” lol
March 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
My 10yo reading aloud to me about the protagonist from his book getting bitten by a pig, and my kid- misunderstanding my confusion at someone being bitten by a pig- says, “You know, like, the animal, not a cop!” lol
Moving along in my #stainedglass journey. It’s such a privilege to be able to learn new skills (esp as a person with #MECFS), and I will never, ever take it for granted! Floral design is up next 🌸🌺🌹
March 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Moving along in my #stainedglass journey. It’s such a privilege to be able to learn new skills (esp as a person with #MECFS), and I will never, ever take it for granted! Floral design is up next 🌸🌺🌹
I’ve put on 25lbs (from 135 to 160lbs) since becoming disabled and unable to exercise. I was quite fit before, so I feel every pound in myriad ways. But sometimes I think about my ancestors and how luxurious it may have been for them to be my shape from lack of hard labor? 🧵
March 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I’ve put on 25lbs (from 135 to 160lbs) since becoming disabled and unable to exercise. I was quite fit before, so I feel every pound in myriad ways. But sometimes I think about my ancestors and how luxurious it may have been for them to be my shape from lack of hard labor? 🧵
Reading this made me tear up for all the babies who are about to be treated even worse by this g’dforsaken state apparatus.
March 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Reading this made me tear up for all the babies who are about to be treated even worse by this g’dforsaken state apparatus.
I don’t know what I expected to feel when the time came to make a decision on euthanizing my 13yo dog, but it wasn’t as heavy as what I am feeling.
February 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I don’t know what I expected to feel when the time came to make a decision on euthanizing my 13yo dog, but it wasn’t as heavy as what I am feeling.
One of my best gfs said today, “It’s always lonelier when there is a supposed to, or a could be, and it keeps not being,” and damn.
February 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One of my best gfs said today, “It’s always lonelier when there is a supposed to, or a could be, and it keeps not being,” and damn.
As my ME has evolved from moderate (originally severe 3yrs ago!) to mild (still use a wheelchair etc but I am fine working & engaging w/ friends & family!), I find that my body can tolerate gluten again and HOLY SHIT am I ecstatic about this specific development lolololol
February 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
As my ME has evolved from moderate (originally severe 3yrs ago!) to mild (still use a wheelchair etc but I am fine working & engaging w/ friends & family!), I find that my body can tolerate gluten again and HOLY SHIT am I ecstatic about this specific development lolololol