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Pauline Bosma Creating Community Together Award Remarks
As a part of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network’s 2024 gala, we have the honor to share and uplift our remarkable awardees’ words and their service to the self-advocacy and disability community. We will be sharing their remarks for the first few months of 2025. ⁂ Massachusetts Advocates Standing Strong just celebrated its 26th anniversary…
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Here’s how you can fight back
The past three weeks of the Trump Administration have been incredibly difficult. Marginalized people are facing attacks on our rights, the programs we depend on for survival, and our existence itself. Our communities are understandably scared, and that fear is what people in power are trying to create. But we are not powerless. ASAN, along…
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⚖️ ASAN January Update ⚖️
ASAN January Newsletter Dear friend, This has been an incredibly difficult month; our communities are hurting and scared. We are with you, and we are ready to fight back together. We have seen threats to programs like Medicaid and the ACA, anti-immigrant and anti-trans policies, and countless other setbacks this month. It’s challenging to follow…