Kathy Flaherty
@ConnConnection
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“Delightfully forthright”PERSONAL ACCT she/her CW:tweets about law/MH/long Covid. MUFC/HCFC/FC Pinzgau. Adoptee. Arc bender. Troll muter. Same name elsewhere.
Connecticut
Joined January 2010
So, I did a thing earlier this evening. Thank you @AliciaOnMSNBC for inviting me to talk about #FreeBritney #conservatorship #guardianship and alternatives like #AdvanceDirectives & #SupportedDecisionMaking and our work @CTLegalRights
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A collaborative study from UConn's Dept. of Allied Health Sciences and the @UConnRuddCenter highlights the lived experiences of women of color living in a food swamp as a tool to enact sustainable investment and policy changes. #HinCAHNR
https://t.co/6bNRMmi1hs
today.uconn.edu
Using the innovative Photovoice approach, community participants engage in citizen science by sharing their personal, lived experience to enhance research s ...
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Opinion: Are you ready and disABLED for CT early voting?
ctmirror.org
Connecticut and many other states have a history of excluding people with disabilities from the ballot box. But the situation is improving.
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CT Supreme Court considers case of woman "arrested, involuntarily committed to a max. security mental institution for 9 months and forcibly medicated with antipsychotics after she refused to identify herself to a hotel reservation clerk." Must read. 1/4 https://t.co/vbJsrB1LSS
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We are offering one time payments to folks in the South who are impacted by Hurricane Helene. Please go to https://t.co/JMTFCOgZia for more information and to request support. And please share!
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Please share widely! Please help with our beloved @tinu's last expenses and with her wonderful family. Tinu means so much to all of us. Please be here now #ForTinu . If you can't help, please share! 💖❤️🌺🐰🌷
gofundme.com
In loving memory of Atinuke Abayomi Paul (Tinu), beloved daughter, gran… Brooke Crume needs your support for Honoring Tinu's Legacy with Compassionate Support
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Congratulations @SFdirewolf look forward to the whole world realizing how brilliant you are
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Eastern Equine Encephalitis (#EEE) is a rare illness that is spread through the bite of an infected mosquito. We hear what you need to know about protecting yourself and your family. @HartfordHealthC joins us. An estimated 17 million adults in the nation have long COVID. We’ll
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The American Bar Association this month passed a resolution calling on governments to STOP broadening involuntary commitment laws. (These are people who actually see what's happening behind the closed doors of commitment courts...)
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The ABA House of Delegates passed Resolution 607 on August 6, 2024, which calls for governmental entities to eschew broadened involuntary civil commitment standards for addressing unhoused people...
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Great to see a psychiatrist truly supporting patients' well-being & rights. Powerful article by @RupiLeghaMD promoting "full informed consent” about "often-unstated" risks & harms of getting someone coerced into dangerous mental health care systems. https://t.co/WI8GTGHRE8
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Law Society protests new BC bill giving sweeping powers to forcibly treat lawyers who have mental health diagnoses regardless of their actual legal competency. (Beware what happens when you support forced psychiatric care--it's coming for you, too.) https://t.co/GxGfzYCc33
timescolonist.com
Bill 21 makes unwarranted assumptions, creates false and stigmatizing connections between lawyers experiencing health conditions and their competency.
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Angela Tucker is the author of the book "You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption." Today, we talk about the intricacies of navigating life as a transracial adoptee. Listen live on @WNPR
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Angela Tucker is a transracial adoptee and the author of the book, '"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption.' This hour, she joins us to talk about her experie...
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The essay by @mssinenomine is essential reading For more about the book and a list of all the contributors:
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
"Creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture"
Very honoured to have an essay of mine published in the new anthology edited by the amazing @SFdirewolf Disability Intimacy
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New paper where even Treatment Advocacy Center reps (huge promoters of Assisted Outpatient Treatment) admit there are "significant limitations" in the "outdated" research suggesting forced outpatient drugging helps people.
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Ready to give away a lot of @CTLegalRights brochures and share information about legal rights at #mentalhealth and wellness day at the Capitol
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In my first for the LA TIMES I reviewed Disability Intimacy edited by Alice Wong
latimes.com
Editor Alice Wong refuses to shut out the 'other' in this collection of essays, poems and stories on topics such as BDSM, queer love and intergenerational relationships.
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