We're Engayged!
On our two-year anniversary, Grav and I took a hike back where we first hiked together in December 2020. Now we’re planning our wedding for next September!
Also, they got us A SWORD to go with our awesome family portrait.
I’ve really been enjoying soaking up all the happy and starting to wedding plan. We’re hoping to have a virtual option for folks to join in without COVID-19 risk issues, too, and I’m really excited about that. Stay tuned!
Quick Notes
How to Rest by Meg is insightful, impactful, and a much-needed piece.
…capitalism thrives on this kind of faux urgency, this sense that everything is dire, that we cannot stop moving or everything will fall apart.
The Time To Become a Revolutionary Is Now. Here’s How to Start by Eliel Cruz:
Despair breeds fastest in isolation, which is why liberation must be a collective effort.
Articles You Need to Read This Week
No, the Pandemic Is Not Over Yet By Mira Miller
Study: Newer COVID-19 Variants Have Shorter Incubation Periods by Carla Delgado
What Long COVID Is Like For These 14 People by Fiona Lowenstein
Monkeypox eradication unlikely in the U.S. as virus could spread indefinitely, CDC says by Spender Kimball
Interesting how the one national organization that is supposed to fight this shit is doing what they’ve done with COVID and just shrugging.
Monkeypox by the Numbers: October 3, 2022 by Verywell Health
Flu Season Is Here And This Is Why You Should Take It Seriously by Katie Camero
U.S. suicide rates climb in 2021 after declining for two years by Dennis Thompson
Shift in Child Hospice Care Is a Lifeline for Parents Seeking a Measure of Comfort and Hope by Bernard J. Wolfson
A Disability Program Promised to Lift People From Poverty. Instead, It Left Many Homeless. by Fred Clasen-Kelly
Doctors urge more research into little-known STI [mycoplasma genitalium, or M. genitalium or M. gen] linked to infertility by Caroline Hopkins
Alzheimer's Meds Are Mostly Tested in Whites. That Worries Black Patients, Caregivers by Sydney Murphy
The Americans With Disabilities Act and Elections: Disabled Voters Are Still Disenfranchised by Jill Kessler
Why Are Prosthetics So Expensive? Researchers Are Working to Change That by Francesca Riccio-Ackerman
Politicians With Disabilities Are Rare Because of Structural Barriers, Discrimination by John Loeppky and Alex Green
What Young Disabled and Chronically Ill People Want You to Know by Fortesa Latifi
Chronic Illness Influencers on TikTok Are Showing the Reality of Being Sick by Fortesa Latifi
The Woman King Is A Testament To The Power Of Black Women by Sa’iyda Shabazz
I’m Sick of White Women Centering Themselves in the Struggle For Reproductive Justice by Lily Alvarado
The Abortion Rights Movement Needs to Listen to Black Women by Angela Peoples
Megan Thee Stallion Launches New Mental Health Resources Website by Brittney McNamara
Harassment prompts children’s hospitals to strip websites, threatening access to gender-affirming care by Tara Bannow and Kate Sheridan
It’s not just children’s hospitals, either. UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin, had to do his after Matt Walsh (who was invited to speak on the UW-Madison campus recently, lovely), Ted Cruz (ugh), and others attacked Dr. Katherine Gast, my top surgeon. Anti-trans assholes know that attacking providers that also help adults makes it harder for folks to find gender-affirming care, and they’re probably enjoying the shit out of this.
California Is Officially the First Sanctuary State for Trans Youth by Samantha Riedel
Gender Nonconformity Has Always Existed by Stef Rubino
Queer horror films: Our traumas deserve to be explored by Kate Phillips
Georgia’s First Muslim and Nonbinary Legislator Is Also Proudly Non-Monagamous by Samantha Riedel
TERFs Are Using Google Maps to Track and Target Trans Healthcare Providers by James Factora
The Problem With the Internet’s Obsession With Queerbaiting by James Factora
GLAAD 20 Under 20: Meet the 2022 Class of Outstanding Young LGBTQ Changemakers by Jose Usecme
Will there be a Supreme assault on public health? by Michelle A. Williams and Lawrence O. Gostin
Puerto Ricans Are Still Struggling After Hurricane Fiona And Fear They’ll Once Again Be Treated Like Second-Class Citizens by Julia Reinstein
Trust In the Supreme Court Plummets After Overturning Roe v. Wade: Gallup Poll by Kelly Rissman
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Love your face!
Grayson