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Notes From A Queer Cripple Pub Day

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine for a minute you’re in a zoom meeting for a new job, and just as you’re about to agree to the terms, the boss says, “Oh, by the way, we’re paying you in gift cards”. Could you pay your rent in gift cards? No? Then why should disabled people be expected to?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

That time your hot friend took of their shirt to help you sell your book "Notes From a Queer Cripple". Get yours wherever you get books. Virtual book launch May 22, 2025 from 6-8 p.m. Tix at AndrewGurza.com Thanks @jonshieldxxx.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

To my journalist friends: writing a piece about pitching. The struggles in today's landscape, finding the motivation to pitch, etc. If you have stray thoughts and are okay with me including them in the article PLEASE send them my way. You can remain anonymous.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

We need more conversations around disability and care-giving. Specifically, the energy, time and resources it takes to need a care-giver. We are starting to hear from care-givers more and more, but disabled peoples experiences of needing someone are often not heard at all.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

That time your hot friend took of their shirt to help you sell your book "Notes From a Queer Cripple". Get yours wherever you get books. Virtual book launch May 22, 2025 from 6-8 p.m. Tix at AndrewGurza.com Thanks @jonshieldxxx.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine for a minute you’re in a zoom meeting for a new job, and just as you’re about to agree to the terms, the boss says, “Oh, by the way, we’re paying you in gift cards”. Could you pay your rent in gift cards? No? Then why should disabled people be expected to?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If all you got from reading “Notes From a Queer Cripple” was ‘Andrew hires s*x workers’ u really missed the point, babe.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Telehealth isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. For many of my patients with Long COVID and disabilities, in-person visits are exhausting, inaccessible, or simply not feasible. Removing telehealth coverage means denying care to those who need it most. We must protect access to virtual care.

submitted 72 days ago • 24 comments

so much of the discussion around barrier free access for disabled people fails to take into full account that for many of us “barrier free” means needing another person to help us.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

What happened in Vancouver this past weekend is an unthinkable tragedy. I have had the privilege of working with Filipino Canadians who ensure that I can have my day, and provide me care-giving services. The majority of people who I see every day are Filipino.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

7 days since Notes From A Queer Cripple entered the chat. Got your copy yet? Also, remember that on May 22, 2025 from 6-8 pm there will be a virtual book launch with a reading, Q&A, giveaways and more. Free Tix available at www.andrewgurza.com

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

sexuality and disability activism is really lonely because even other disabled people don’t think it’s actually part of disability activism.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

sexuality and disability activism is really lonely because even other disabled people don’t think it’s actually part of disability activism.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

some of the worst ableism that I have experienced has been from other disabled people... and, yeah, we definitely need to address that. We always tell non-disabled people to work on ableism, but our community can be the worst offender too.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

@out.com Hi! I just wrote a book all about queer disabled sexuality called Notes From A Queer Cripple. I would love to get some press and publicity for it. Who can I connect with?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This Bardbarian sung songs of heroes with swords and sorcery, but these pages—these words—they carry a different kind of power. One that doesn’t shout or clash, but whispers truths that us gay don’t know we need to hear.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Notes From A Queer Cripple Pub Day

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

@mavenofmayhem.bsky.social love your work so much

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Today I told my FB friends that if they're loudly and proudly voting conservative this federal election, they're actively voting against my literal human rights as a trans person and we can't be friends. A gay man I'm friends with called me a dictator. I don't understand this world sometimes.

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

This account believes that trans people deserve to exist; trans women are women. Trans men are men and non-binary people get to feel however they need to in order to be who they are. When they come for one group, they come for all of us.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

what RFK Jr. said about autism is categorically incorrect, ableist and incredibly harmful. what is more concerning is the people who will believe what he said as a truth.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.

submitted 19 days ago • 58 comments

My first book "Notes From a Queer Cripple" comes out April 21, 2025. Here is my holding my first physical copy. This book is so important for queer disabled people, and non-disabled queer people as a call to do better. Get it now!

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

My first book "Notes From a Queer Cripple" comes out April 21, 2025. Here is my holding my first physical copy. This book is so important for queer disabled people, and non-disabled queer people as a call to do better. Get it now!

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

It's just too good.

submitted 30 days ago • 22 comments

It really is a cult of the dumbest dumbfucks who have ever dumbed.

submitted 31 days ago • 1043 comments

Please ignore tired pieces in publications like the Atlantic that are still trying to stigmatize mask wearing. Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.

submitted 32 days ago • 134 comments

remember that scene in Terminator 2 where the world is on fire, everything is burning, people are screaming, no one is listening, and the robots have taken over? Yeah, disabled people feel like that everyday. We’re screaming for access, but instead you give us AI.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

On this Trans Day of Visibility, I sit in solidarity with my Trans friends and especially disabled Trans people who are under such attack right now for just being who they are. We see you, and I love you all.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

It is utterly fucking bonkers that the VP of the United States held a press conference on the soil of another country, declared his intent to take over that country, and implicitly threatened military force if that country didn’t comply.

submitted 35 days ago • 157 comments

“if I disclose my medical diagnoses to you as a disabled person, will you see me as more human or less human?” You may be curious about someone’s medical history, but you should understand the worries we have about disclosure from within a disabled body.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

“if I disclose my medical diagnoses to you as a disabled person, will you see me as more human or less human?” You may be curious about someone’s medical history, but you should understand the worries we have about disclosure from within a disabled body.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Read this.

submitted 36 days ago • 164 comments

I have a book called "Notes From a Queer Cripple" coming out in less than a month on April 21, 2025. It is available all the places you get books in e-book and paperback format. It is an urgent call to see queer disabled people, and to see queer non-disabled people must do better. Pre-order now!

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

Here is the co-creator of Phineas and Ferb, Jeff “Swampy” Marsh, responding to the anti-woke crowd. ❤️

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

Saying "my book contains disabled characters but the disabilities are not part of the story at all" is not the flex some writers think it is Disabilities DO cause problems & it's OK (important!) to show that This is why I advocate for stories where the author has lived experience

submitted 38 days ago • 11 comments

So the position of the Trump-Vance administration — and every member of Congress unless they explicitly say otherwise — is quite literally you do not have guaranteed free speech rights in America if you say things they don't like. That is the headline.

submitted 39 days ago • 44 comments

Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by ice Via @bedford.bsky.social

submitted 40 days ago • 189 comments

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

submitted 40 days ago • 508 comments

Howdy! New here? Welcome to the intersection of disability, media, and culture—with a side of humor. I’m Lawrence Carter-Long. 🎬 Actor (Best Summer Ever) 📣 Cultural commentator (NPR, TCM, PBS, The Daily Show, Able News) 🎟️ ReelAbilities, Director of Engagement More here: reelabilities.org/newyork

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

we don't talk about caregiving enough when we talk about disability. There are teams of people that I rely on to literally live my life. Some days I am grateful and other days I bemoan it. By not talking about the care in disability, we are missing aa huge part of the experience.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments