Sonya Huber

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Writer of #nonfiction: #essays, #memoir, #disability, #ChronicPain; #ProgressivePolitics; prof and teacher, bi and #Midwestern; human raccoon and scavenger.
Websitehttp://sonyahuber.com/
Etsyhttp://CandyBeadsStudio.etsy.com
Sonya HuberJul 31, 2023
New book out Sept. 12! It’s a Midwest focused essay collection about wreckage and recovery and in general being a trash panda. I’m doing an Instagram live event on Aug 30, and live events in Chicago, Minneapolis, Muncie, New Lenox and Plainfield, IL, Columbus and more this fall! Pre-order at link in linktree :)
Sonya HuberJun 20, 2023

To have a radical analysis of pain means to understand and see where pain is created, who profits from it, and how deeply we rely on it as a major form of social control.

New essay on prison abolition from a chronic pain perspective at The Inquest: https://inquest.org/the-pain-of-punishment/

The Pain of Punishment | Sonya Huber | INQUEST

Criminalizing pain medicine has led patients to despair while the carceral state forces their medical decisions. But it has also opened avenues for solidarity between pain sufferers and incarcerated people.

Inquest
Sonya HuberMay 26, 2023
Dr. Damien P. Williams, MagusMay 25, 2023
Louisiana defeated the trans healthcare ban by a SINGLE VOTE. So, in addition to donating some cash or time to groups like Louisiana Trans Advocates, I need you, if you have progressive values, the physical, emotional, and mental reserves to spare, and a support network to help you through what's to come, to please consider running for state and local office.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/louisiana-fred-mills-matt-walsh/
Cruel bill banning trans healthcare in killed off in Louisiana – by just one vote

Louisiana Senators have killed a bill that would have seen gender-affirming care banned for trans youth after a Republican voted against it.

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Sonya HuberMay 21, 2023
Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD PhDMay 21, 2023
People think to themselves, “I don’t live in Mississippi, or I’m not trans, how is this hate relevant to me?” I am writing from Canada, where school boards across our country are being disrupted by bigotry. All of us should condemn transphobia. What’s happening in schools is a microcosm of society. Pay attention. Stand up as an ally, wherever you are. #TransRightsAreHumanRights https://www.mississippifreepress.org/33223/trans-girl-sues-over-order-to-dress-as-boy-at-harrison-county-graduation
School Can Force Trans Girl to Dress As Boy At Graduation, Judge Rules

The family of a 17-year-old transgender Harrison Central High School senior is suing after officials told her she must dress as a boy at graduation.

Mississippi Free Press
Sonya HuberMay 21, 2023
Some of my recent #beading work. I put my Etsy link in my bio!
Sonya HuberMay 8, 2023
tatoMay 8, 2023
still think it's fucking WILD how many leftists are critical and disbelieve the gov't on everything, but totally buy the "covid is over" narrative
Sonya HuberMar 27, 2023
Wearing a mask when no one else is has upped my powers of not giving a fuck to the stratosphere
Sonya HuberFeb 12, 2023
I’d like to tell my doctors that I’ll only rank my pain on a 1-10 scale if they ask me to also rank my medical anxiety 1-10
Sonya HuberFeb 10, 2023
I have picked up that Mastodon is not about self-promotion, so I will not be barraging anyone w events. But I love my new book cover from Belt Publishing and can’t wait to see the physical book in September #genx #essays #newbook #midwest
Sonya HuberFeb 6, 2023
As a writer I’ve experienced many fallow periods where my work is to gather tiny scraps of interests and ideas. Just now thinking that I might be in an activist fallow. Im struggling to integrate the experience of watching fellow activists not really *get* Covid awareness & disability politics and the implications and exclusions. I have felt numb and then worried about the numbness (and heartbreak). But I’m going to try seeing it as a fallow and having patience and care for myself.