Some #writing days are fun - today's weather helped! ✍️ Chapter 11 has been particularly enjoyable... I just got done recalling my first show with Alan Sparhawk (LOW), my intro to looping & scribbling down my first song lyrics during work (in an empty hockey rink)! 🎶🎻🎶

Congratulations to the wonderful disabled author and leader Alice Wong (Alice Wong 王美華) for the release of what will surely be another transformational book.

It’s her newest compilation of writings by disabled creatives and thought leaders, entitled “Disability Intimacy: Essays…

Happy #WishboneDay & #OIAwarenessWeek ! 💛

It’s time to celebrate the awareness, acceptance, and awesomeness of the Osteogenesis Imperfecta community! Gaelynn is grateful for the perspectives that her disability has brought her, and hopes to help create a society where everyone…

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Baby #lilacs spotted in #DuluthMN ! 🌞🌱🪻🌱🥰 Just a couple of weeks until the summer air smells heavenly! #AnticipatoryJoy

Hope you had a great weekend & that you're feeling refreshed for the week ahead! Take care & keep in touch here: gaelynnlea.substack.com

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Gaelynn is not playing in Duluth Homegrown this year, but she’s sending love to all Duluth artists who are performing this weekend!

Have a great time!
-Carrie

duluthhomegrown.org

My friend Leif Karlstrom, violinist & volcanologist, launched a cool Kickstarter: he’s recording volcano data, turning it into sound & having it interpreted by musicians!

Leif was on my YouTube show in 2021: youtube.com/live/MWMl8fxzC…

Support his Kickstarter:…

NEW POST! We're All Stories in the End... 📖

An essay about life stories as legacy. Plus an invitation to paid subscribers for my Zoom Book Club on April 14! We're discussing Against Technoableism - with the fab author Ashley Shew!

Read & subscribe here:
gaelynnlea.substack.com/p/post-7-were-…

Only 6 days until our event with Ashley Shew !!! Free, virtual, professionally CART captioned:

register here:
eventbrite.com/e/dr-ashley-sh…

Thinking about a series of articles that have come out in the past year re: #CyborgMaintenance .

Most people don't realize how vulnerable we cyborgs are when we collaborate with research + with industry. We participate in systems that value 'innovation'/$$$ over our lives.

'Just because I'm blind doesn't mean I can't be fashionable.' ❤️

Lachi ™ 🌻 created Glam Canes because when she was walking the red carpet or attending galas, that red and white cane just didn't match.

Now you can find them at #AbilitiesExpo , May 3-5 at the NJ Convention Center.

Black-Eyed Sakes are playing the Midwest Music Fest on May 10th in Winona. Use “SNAKES” 10% discount code for the first 5 ticket buyers. This is an awesome festival. midwestmusicfest.org/or

Just got my order of Alice Wong 王美華 Disability Intimacy 🤓 — the longer I live with #LongCovid & disability, the more the mission of Alice Wong feels so critical to everything we’re fighting for.

Asserting our experience into our culture is so key to changing minds.