FLARE Magazine (SUBS OPEN) @flarelitmag.bsky.social Literary magazine about chronic illnesses, mental health, & disabilities written by disabled & chronically ill creatives
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Issue 6 sub open 9/14-9/18b
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SY @sian-yvette.bsky.social Sian Yvette here, writer of poetry and prose, sharing personal experiences of chronic hemiplegic migraine through my fictional characters Jayne and Hemi (The Hemiplegic Migraine Monster).
#WritingCommunity #Poetry #FlashFiction #MigraineAwareness
Wishbone Words @wishbonewords.bsky.social An online publisher of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, flash, translations, art, and photography from chronically ill, neurodiverse, & disabled creatives 👻💌
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@msmarquartpoetry.bsky.social @msmarquartpoetry.bsky.social 
Caiti Quatmann | writer + editor @caititalks.bsky.social New chapook: Meditations (on Cheese) coming in 2025 🧀
Caiti talks t̶o̶o̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶
disabled & queer poet. Author of YOKE (MyrtleHaus). EIC for HNDL Magazine. Words in Rattle, Little Old Lady Comedy, manywor(l)ds, etc (She / they) 📍St. Louis
Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social Writer for WIRED. Author of SANDWORM. Latest book, TRACERS IN THE DARK: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, out now. agreenberg@wired.com. Andy.01 on Signal.
Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
Signal: couts.01
imperfectPitch @imperfectpitch.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇪🇺
Education & ASD Advocate 🧩
Classical Musician 🎹 BA in Political Science Ⓜ️🟡 Books📚
🚫fascism🚫broligarchs #democracy #resistance
JLR @proudresistor.bsky.social Liberal,Supports LGBTQ, BLM, Believer in truth and Justice. 🚫MAGA. 🚫Trump 🚫DM Will resist hate Will never stop fighting for Women’s Rights and our Democracy💙
Regina-Rachel Mad Wokester💙 #BLUE CREW #FBR 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 @nastywomen48.bsky.social Hated T+(__O__)= tRUMP, before he came down the escalator. Love Democracy, as BLUE as 💙 gets. "Never Forget Jan. 6th."
Very Happily Married💙
🚫Crypto! 🚫Porn🚫Maggots🚫
ECDragon @ecdragon.bsky.social 💙 With liberty and justice for all. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
Do not obey in advance!
The ideal subjects of totalitarian rule are people who can no longer distinguish fact from fiction.
| #NeverTrump #Resist #Organize #Oppose |
| #BlueCrew #GrowTheResistance |
Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law
Betty S 💙💙🦋🦋 @betsj.bsky.social Blue Crew Member 💙💙💙 #strongertogether WE'RE NOT going back! #wevegotthis 💙 LGMD/EDS/Sjogren's Medicaid/Medicare/SNAP/SSI survival. Keep connecting w/like minded people because we truly are in this together!
Almost to 60,000 followers! I’ll keep posting!
Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net Resist Rebel Revolt! Anti-Fascist. Author. Philosopher. Dog-Mom. Utilitarian Democrat. Existential Activist.
https://melissanadiaviviana.com/
Organized 3 Abortion Marches
Past President of Women's Non-Profit
Past Secretary of LGBTQIA Org
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Nine Inch Nails @nin.com Official NIN account
Trent Reznor @treznor.bsky.social 
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
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Kara Fortuna @quefortuna.bsky.social Writer, historian, runner, mom. She/her
Daisy J. Hung (she/her) @daisyhunguk.bsky.social Social justice advocate, writer, embroidery artist. Debut Nonfiction - I AM NOT A TOURIST: Conversations on Being British Chinese (out March 2025). Agent: Imogen Morrell, Greene & Heaton
daisyjhung.com
Carey @29carey29.bsky.social Adjusting to chronic illness caused by a virus being ignored by society. Wanting to connect with others to learn and find community.
#LC #POTS #Keepmasksinhealthcare #AirborneAware #Covidisn’tover
Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬 Postdoc @U Medical Center Groningen. Formerly: postdoc @WashU St. Louis & Neuro PhD @Princeton, researching cognitive control & decision making, neurodivergent in computational psychiatry, she/her, Latina 🇨🇺. Views my own. Stand Up for Science!
Amanda (she/her)🖤🤍💜🤎 @ceomomco.bsky.social Disabled, chronically ill, homeschooling socialist. Hobbies include birds, books, fiber arts & intractable chronic migraine. Avatar by @marimigraine on IG
Lesli Gallagher @lgatty.bsky.social Attorney. Mom. Advocate. Ally. Adventurer.
Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social 🚫 DM = BLOCKED 🚫hate🚫Porn 🚫crypto🚫Republicans
Cancer Survivor 🔵 In Red Oklahoma
Retired from Seattle Children's Hospital
#Resist #Resistence #BlueCrew 📎
meowmeow @poisedmeerkat.bsky.social Hi
RichWood @richwood.bsky.social Writer, living close to the wild, politics, religion, arts, sciences, hiking, wilderness, climate change, Free Palestine! Free Syria! Black Lives Matter! Indigenous people’s power; power & freedom for Women. Overthrow Trump! Abolish ICE, Stop the Fascists.
Peyton Dio @peytondio.bsky.social Union lawyer representing federal employees, proud mom and dog mom, boater and long-time D.C.-area resident.
justfara @justfara.bsky.social #Resist 🌊 🎗️✡️🕎🟦🇺🇦🌈
Fara Kaufman Nana
Jersey Girl living California Dream
NO DM's No Messages
Banned Books
Knitter
#Fight Antisemitism #BLM #LGBTQ+
Reiki Master #Foodie Music Fibromyalgia Ehlers Danlos
insta @justfara1
Lindsay (she/her/hers) @spoonfuloflindsay.bsky.social chronic illness life & disability lit 📚🪴🌊🐕
honoring the hard & finding joy along the way
migraine | SF neuropathy | POTS | ME/CFS |
long COVID | MCAS | ambulatory ♿ 
@orjanel.bsky.social @orjanel.bsky.social 
@lawmama.bsky.social @lawmama.bsky.social Fight Nazis. Don’t support them.
Anita Banerji @serenitymatters.bsky.social Social impact sector activist
The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social The B’K is a quarterly art and lit magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all. Own voices only, please. Queer, Trans, ND, and POC led. Founded 2010.
Check our guidelines and submit: https://www.talbot-heindl.com/link-tree
🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social Bibi | She/They | DC3 (@thedc3.bsky.social) | BIPOC Creator Of The Year | VTuber | Disabled | Store: Bibipins.com | Loftia Partner | Links: https://bibiblossoms.carrd.co/ | Streaming Business Inquiries: bibiblossoms@bibipins.com
mo 🥀 @morg00n.bsky.social 
Nanette Suzanne Danielsson @nanettedanielsson.bsky.social 🦋 Activist with ME ♿️ PhD in Psychology 🎓Former researcher 📚 & integration strategist💡Expat in Sweden 🇺🇸➡️🇸🇪 #Latina🌶🐕🌳🎨🖼✍️ #Democracy #ProChoice #HumanRights #SocialJustice 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♀️♻️✊🏾⚖️🌎🙏🕊💙 #ChronicIllness #ME #MECFS
#MillionsMissing 🚫Crypto 🚫DMs 🟰 Block 🚫Porn
Tiff @creativetiff78.bsky.social I'm in N. California, 47 y/o Married, Chronically Ill ( #SmallFiberNeuropathy, #mecfs, #migraine, #dysautonomia, #hEDS, #fibromyalgia, #HS) retired LCSW, disabled
#artist #knitter #witch #advocate #writer
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The Bystander @thebystander99.bsky.social Attorney. Spoonie. Tired most of the time. Criminal justice, disability & autoimmune disease, cats, Dodgers, hopefully something positive every now and then. He/him. Hopes to make sense of all this eventually, but probably won’t.
Teresa Lass 💙 @tll6601.bsky.social 💙Proud Democratic Resister! Native Atlantan. Loving rescue mom to 3 cats, 2 kittens, & 3 hens. Retired special ed teacher & college/university instructor (GSU, UGA), Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi, Teacher of the Year, Who’s Who in America. 🚫 DMs!
Laura Branch @laurabranch.bsky.social Washington, DC
Draven @dravenxivuk.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🖤🤍💜
Gamer. Geek. Cat lover. Artist. Knitter.
Disabled. hEDS. PoTS. Chronic Migraines. ADHD.
AK @aimzkritty.bsky.social 💕💚
CHI ➡️ VA ➡️ BK
Breakfast 🍩☕️🍑 @donutscoffeeme.bsky.social Queen of stoner munchies. Cat lady. Hedonistic trollop. Fat kid. NSFWish. Pervy humor. General silliness. Mental health realness. Body positive. 42. She/her. FDT. 🌷🌻🍉🏳️🌈
Buy me a donut?
Cashapp & Venmo: donutscoffeeme
Ashley @mayday22.bsky.social Mother of Cats, PhD
Therese Gleason @theresegleason.bsky.social (she/her) poems, essays, a lil fiction, chronic migraineur, public school teacher, poetry chaps HEMICRANIA (Chestnut Review, 2024); MATRILINEAL (Finishing Line, 2021); LIBATION (Co-Winner, South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2006)
theresegleason.com
Owl @typicaltheythem.bsky.social Dynamically disabled dysautonomic trans non-binary forest dweller and sleepy sloth. 🏳️⚧️
Part of the viral underclass disappeared from society by COVID denial 😷 but doing my best to be part of the collective good anyway 💚
Wobbly 🏴
LoveWarriorHugs @lovewarriorhugs.bsky.social Smiles for miles-not letting #ChronicIllness stop me
My opponents-
#Epilepsy, #MultipleSclerosis, #chronicpain #TrigeminalNeuralgia #OccipitalNeuralgia, #Asthma, #IBS
Allies
#spoonie #spoonies
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Carrie Marshall - MySeveralWorlds.com @myseveralworlds.com ✒️ I write about life with severe #ChronicPain related to #SpA #PsA #MEcfs #fibromyalgia #APS
🦋 MySeveralWorlds.com
👩🦼 #DisabilityAdvocate
🤝 Team Fibro & Spondylitis
🎨 DISABLED ARTIST
🌴 https://linktr.ee/myseveralworlds
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
Twitter: @yashar
IG/Threads @yasharali
Inkdreamer @inkdreamer.bsky.social Retired social worker, disability rights activist, childless cat lady, person in recovery. Old hippie, woke af. Seahawks fan in PNW. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦 #MakeRacismWrongAgain
#SlavaUkraine
#MMIW
Silence =complicity
2547
DMs, crypto or porn get 🚫. Don't ask me for $.
The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social
They/she pronouns. Seattle area. Bi transbian, solidarity cheerleader, white intersectional feminist, social justice bard. Dying activist into radical honesty, compassion, appreciation, & generosity. With power comes responsibility.
blue chi @chicagogirl606.bsky.social chronic illness warrior surviving a day at a time & missing my old life | attorney | artist | nature lover | embarrassed american | spoonie | #LongCovid since March 2020 | Lyme, MCAS, dysautonomia, etc, etc, my body is falling apart
Vee @icalasari.illusoria.ca He/Her/It/Them/Ve/Really any pronoun, I'm genderfluid but mostly GenderShrug
Born 1991
Very sleepy insomniac autist
Blank Permission to draw/write/whatever ANY of my chars or monsters
Site: https://www.illusoria.cat
Server: https://discord.gg/illusoria
Disastress (they/them) @disastress.bsky.social Stay safe in these fuck around and find out times🫀banner artwork: Tony Akins + Matt Hollingsworth in Aliens: Colonial Marines issue #2 🫀
F. Lee @karrieas.bsky.social 
Cantaloupe Tendrils @earlysprocket.bsky.social 
Mission Belonging @missionbelonging.bsky.social Mission Belonging—Reconnecting veterans & civilians with their communities through art. Join us for online art & writing workshops! Learn more at missionbelonging.org.
Marie Enger @ Lightbox @soengery.bsky.social It's like "ANGER" but with an E. Cartoonist & Illustrator. Creator of DEATH TO THE WIZARD KINGS and CASKET LAND, Dirt-slinger fired to Cone 6. Open to cartooning and illustration work. They/Them ∅. No NFTs, No AI. Chicago via StL. www.so-engery.com
Leona Lee @leonalee.bsky.social Please Mask Up! Disability Rights, Affordable and Accessible Housing, and Disabled Debtors Cohort with the Debt Collective. https://debtcollective.org/working-groups/disabled-debtors-cohort/ and silly cats & Chicago stuff.
Mollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social Statistic who does statistics
She/her
Discord: ask
Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social I keep it 300 like a bowling alley
mission @missiondrifter.bsky.social That could’ve gone better
San Francisco
he/him
phyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org Likes geeky things & people
Agender/Abrupt/Alive
It/It/Its pronouns (genuinely)
Quoigender
My maternal grandparents fled Austria to avoid persecution by the Nazis about a century ago;
Never Again for anyone!
Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social Comedian/award-winning game maker/writer/voice artist #AuDHD (he/him)
Photos: http://hyperfocus.photography
Stream: http://Twitch.tv/brainmage
Tips: http://ko-fi.com/guy
VO reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04UiLVl6n0I
https://www.guykelly.co.uk
Wild Geerters @steinkobbe.bsky.social Ø
Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social An improbable coalescence of stardust
Disabled, Medically Complex (EDSS 6.0)
A Little Peculiar (they/them) ∞
♥ Cats, Hockey, Video Games, Photography, Embroidery, Crochet
Owner of a 6 year migraine
Tom Bombeardil @rantipole.bsky.social Husband. Acupuncturist. Bear. Nerd. Vegan. Pagan. He/him. NJ.
HighHeelEsquire @highheelesq.bsky.social 
Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social UNLUCKY MEL, a feminist revenge narrative, comedy, and campus novel. Gold medal winner IPPY award. Short story/CNF writer (McSweeneys, MQR, Confrontation, etc), pet mom, foodie, gardener. PhD in Eng/CW. Assoc Dir of FYW at BU. https://angiepelekidis.com/
Feddog @feddog.bsky.social Dog lover, antitrust attorney in DC, poet, a bit gay at times, a little sweary, a terrible fucking typist, and my days start and end saying fuck Trump
UnboughtAndUnbossed @92andthensome.bsky.social Wild. Peaceful. Free.
Self-Care for Activists @selfcare4activists.bsky.social We’re playing the long game. Make sure you give yourself rest and time to rebuild and rejuvenate. Pass the torch. And never give up. #resistance
#bluecrew #loveislove
Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social Mom. Wife. Aunt. Dogmom.
Militantly joyful. #AGoodPlace
❤️ Phillies & Eagles.
Football ⚽ fanatic.
Footy fan - Go Cats!
Jersey girl. Atheist. Empath.
Democratic Socialist.
🎶 Alt Nation fan. Whovian.
Chronic pain & migraine warrior.
Marijuana > Opioids
Amy G Dala, MD @amygdalamd.bsky.social it’s a lot of pressure caring for an organ that can’t just be transplanted
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Blocking/Muting = Self-Care @queeringpsychology.bsky.social • Pierre
• 37
• He/him
• Somatic Psychotherapist (LMHC-D, LPC, NCC)
• Founder of QueeringPsychology: The Psychotherapy Resource
• Founder of MHC4OC - Free somatic therapy for Black people
• Electronic Notary Public
• Community Gardener
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
https://youtube.com/@thegodshowlive
That Therapist Guy @newtonnut.bsky.social Humanist. CEDH enthusiast. CEO. Nerd dad. I mostly work w LGBTQIA+ and ASD patients. LFGM. Mets, Isles and Giants break my heart. #NeverTrump Liberal AF
Astral Admin 🧿📚🔮🧘🏾♀️ @astraladmin.bsky.social ✨Energy Healer & Astral Surfer ✨
Taking account of the world we live in.
@poetspike.bsky.social @poetspike.bsky.social Authentic, brave, candid, witty, thoughtful, courageous, imaginative, dog-lover, writer, gardener, blue down the ballot, trying to relax.
My Daily Three @mydailythree.bsky.social What are your Daily 3?
1. One thing you are grateful for 🙏
2. One thing you will let go of 🦋
3. One thing you are going to focus on 🔎
Join us to add yours each day and you will start to see positive changes in your life 🪷
Sharuba Shaka (she/her/hers) @sharuba.bsky.social Therapist. Clinical Supervisor. Founder of Boundary Span, LLC. Licensed in PA & DE. 💙💛 Board of Directors, Defense of Democracy and Clinical Social Work Association. Wife, sister, daughter, mother, friend.
Sulman Aziz Mirza, MD! | TheKicksShrink @thekicksshrink.bsky.social triple board certified psychiatrist. content creator. sometimes serious. always authentic. very vulgar.
Inked Rx @opdivarx.bsky.social pharmacy • chaotic bisexual with raging ADHD • elder emo • tattoos • piercings • UM ChemE alum • 🏳️🌈 • 💖💜💙 • 💊
Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying epilepsy and looking for cures. LGBTQ ally. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Warning from George Orwell “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” No DMs. Also, I am proud to be woke.
Dr Elizabeth Murray @drelizabethmurray.bsky.social Peds EM/CAP physician. Director, Child Health & Safety Communications for my hospital. Parenting is hard, having the facts can help.
Trauma Llama 🦙 @traumasoapboxes.bsky.social (She/Her) Clinical Nurse Specialist
Highly opinionated
Abortion is healthcare
BP≠Perfusion ✨ RR is 👑
Tweets =my opinions not med advice 🏒🥃
Moms Demand Action @momsdemandaction.org We're a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that prevent gun violence in our communities. Text READY to 644-33 to join us!
chef, the online tits @cheftips.bsky.social my ass has a Michelin star, eat up
Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social Mom, wife, doctor.
Owned by Bouviers.
Born feisty.
Enchanted by children, animals, Canada and those who tell the truth.
Published medical + mystery articles, found on:
https://maryfernando.squarespace.com
Writing mysteries.