Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

Maybe what we really need is a Window of Safety a modest proposal on Weird Pride Day for we who are assaulted daily by the neuronormative world as we attempt to navigate it (and for allies who want to help us create sanctuary spaces)

On the event of Weird Pride Day... a modest proposal...

open.substack.com/pub/julialee...

Thank you Helen for reposting this and for all you do @autisticrealms.bsky.social to create Windows of Safety...🧡💚🌈

Maybe what we really need is a Window of Safety a modest proposal on Weird Pride Day for we who are assaulted daily by the neuronormative world as we attempt to navigate it (and for allies who want to help us create sanctuary spaces)

A wonderful piece by @julialeebarclay.bsky.social about @weirdpride.day and 'Maybe what we really need is a Window of Safety.....'

julialeebarclaymorton.substack.com/p/maybe-what...

Thank you Helen for reposting this and for all you do @autisticrealms.bsky.social to create Windows of Safety...🧡💚🌈

"...all these attempts at Windows of Safety can’t be done alone, ... Autistics need not only to protect one another, which we do as fiercely as possible, but we need our allies, too, to help us create sanctuary"

Let's practice niche construction & build Cavendish Space
stimpunks.org/glossary/cav...

thank you for sharing this. I love all you do to create Windows of Safety. 🧡💚🌈

Maybe what we really need is a Window of Safety a modest proposal on Weird Pride Day for we who are assaulted daily by the neuronormative world as we attempt to navigate it (and for allies who want to help us create sanctuary spaces)

On the event of Weird Pride Day... a modest proposal...

open.substack.com/pub/julialee...

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

In a battle between hope and hate, hope won out.

Why voters rejected the hateful politics of Reform and instead embraced the "Green Menace" in Gorton and Denton

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

The number 39 surrounded by blue rectangular octagon, like a European house number.

Long time between drinks..#iykyk

view of snowy NYC street from window inside. trees whitenened by snow and also fire escapes and window skills. street and sidewalk and cars covered in snow while it is also snowing..lit by lamps.

A gorgeous thing the snow that renders city silent.

No one can tell you how to write. No one. You need to work out your own way and listen to your own deepest instincts. There is no model or way that works for everyone. Zero. Nada. None. This applies to the 10th power for AI. I only want to hear your stories in your voice/s.
There. Are. No. Rules.

Last Group of Striking N.Y.C. Nurses Reaches Tentative Deal With Hospital

All respect to the Nurses. NYP is my health network and so glad they won. These people do the hardest work. And I trust them.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/n...

exactly

My husband and I are both writers. For Valentine's Day we're giving each other the day to work on our writing without interruption. As Rilke said the highest task of love is “that each protects the solitude of the other.”

Hibernating is working. I'm closing in on half my book ( lyric researched memoir about reframing my life after Very late autism diagnosis) being revised. I keep finding ways of showing up.

Suzannah Lessard Dies at 81; Stanford White Descendant Who Wrote a Haunting Family Memoir

so sad to read this. She was a wonderful human and writer. Honored to have known her.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/b...

Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway | Marina Hyde I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

This. This. This.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

just...gorgeous. the writing the videos this extraordinary woman...all of it

thank you! your essay made Me feel less lonely too (as did DFW's writing)

The Actress Who Disappeared Twice

This is gorgeous. So glad @helenshaw.bsky.social is at NYT to write beautiful articles like this one www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/t...

One way to think through the victory in Tarrant County, given that Rehmet ran in labor issues, is that the voters were offered two competing theories of solidarity and chose collective bargaining over white supremacy as their mode

This shift is possible and important to aim for

In celebration of Groundhog Day, I'm extending my hibernation through February because it's working. Revisions on book are coming along and my monotropic Autistic soul is happy to be able to focus on one thing. Am rarely on socials and took most off my phone. Take this as permission slip to do same.

brilliant piece, so glad for a take on DFW I can relate to...

Thank you so much for this. I read it when older in 2009 but had a very similar experience of extreme pleasure reading it. I've been somewhat bemused and horrified by the will to dismiss this book, which is a generous permission slip. I'm also sober 39 years & his description of recovery is spot on.

Ashley Fairbanks writes: my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old Lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her Subaru crosstrek

Dems: wow we could shut it all down now.
Also Dems...nah let's wait 2 weeks.
All the people being killed and disappeared by ICE and anyone who gives a shit: WTAF???

Democrats are hoping we'll all be calmer about this in 2 weeks

They are hoping we will memory hole every awful thing that's happened this month while the GOP tries to get their people to be more genteel with the kidnappings

Calling my senators to tell them to vote "no" actually

Whomever ICE kills in the next two weeks (and make no mistake they will) is on the Democrats. I am just furious with how they roll over even when they have the advantage.

10. Elena Ferrante: My Brilliant Friend and the whole Neapolitan Quartet (yeah it's Naples but it's not too hard to see the parallels regarding misogyny, brutality, corruption, and class)

8. Deleuze and Guattari: Anti-Oedipus (not for the faint of heart - need to be able to tolerate academic verbiage but it's fucking worth it for the molecular level of All This)
9. David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (for eerie prediction of where we are now on many levels)