Spirals, Spoons & Other Subversions 🌱

Essays on disability, gender, culture, and the architectures of power that quietly organize our lives.

By Alyssa 🌿💫

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Spirals, Spoons & Other Subversions 🌱

Why I Keep My Substack Free (And How Mutual Aid Makes It Possible)

A note to my readers on access, reciprocity, and one very good dog

Mar 20 • Alyssa 🌿💫

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Designed for Everyone (As Long As No One Looks Disabled)

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The Quiet Math of Belonging: thoughts on disability community

Nov 25, 2025 • Alyssa 🌿💫

The Dark Side of Post‑Traumatic Growth

May 29 • Alyssa 🌿💫

I’m letting my potential rot.

Oct 19, 2025 • Alyssa 🌿💫

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A Prescription for Heteronormativity

Medical coercion, compulsory sexuality, and a whole bunch of other bullshit

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Menstrual Equity Shouldn’t Be First Come, First Served

north carolina’s grant program left 96 schools without period products. here’s why that’s a public health failure.

Jun 8 • Alyssa 🌿💫

When a Student Becomes a Reportable Event

how north carolina’s “parents’ bill of rights” turns lgbtq+ student identity into administrative information.

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What TMS Taught Me About Bureaucracy

how institutions confuse documentation with truth and management with care

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The Future Is Already Happening to Someone

how octavia butler, black mirror, and disability politics reveal why “prediction” is often just belated recognition.

Mar 4 • Alyssa 🌿💫

Equal Rights, Equal Chores?

why domestic labor still triggers cultural panic around gender roles

Feb 14 • Alyssa 🌿💫

Syntax of the Sacred: Refusing the Accusative in a Fundamentalist Girlhood.

reflections on deconstructing purity culture and compulsory sexuality.

Dec 29, 2025 • Alyssa 🌿💫

Spirals, Spoons & Other Subversions 🌱

Essays on disability, gender, culture, and the architectures of power that quietly organize our lives.