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Tory Cross 🌸
@queer_spice
Policy @CaringAcrossGen! Cat mama, CSPAN fan, human Asana, disabled, queer, fat, survivor ♥️ Pro abortion. Laundry & taxes with @lfg_arrett. Views mine, she/her
Jun 3 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“I’m a progressive, why wouldn’t I support medical assistance in dying?”

Because far too fucking often it comes from stories that include “Their request for at-home medical care for intravenous nutrition was denied.”

THEIR REQUEST FOR CARE WAS DENIED.

globalnews.ca/news/10529000/… When it is approved to DIE but not approved to get the fucking care that would’ve kept this beautiful soul ALIVE? MAID cannot cannot cannot exist. It is a scourge on this earth.

Why are people who want to live being refused care yet being offered death?

castanet.net/news/Kelowna/3…
Feb 27, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
1 in 4 people in this country rely on Medicaid for their health care – and the grand majority of the people who receive Medicaid are disabled people, older adults, and children.

Why do we have to #SaveMedicaid? Because: As my brilliant boss @njorwic says, Medicaid keeps families together. For disabled people who want to stay in our homes and communities, receiving the care that often keeps us alive, Medicaid is the primary way to receive home and community based services in this country.
Jan 23, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Buddies I miss eating in restaurants!!! I miss a happy jaunt through a bookstore with a coffee and smelling candles with my nose and taking the metro and eating meals in my friends apartments I love socializing but also to socialize I have to be *alive*. It’s that simple! Also I miss going to the doctor without terror that I’ll get sick *from* going to the doctor! We live in hell!
Jan 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Relatedly it’s always funny when people say I’m must be good at resting (because I’m fat) and like yeah! I’m great at resting!

But it’s because I *have* to be. When I pushed myself too hard for years, I found out my *back was broken* and I hadn’t known. I used to be a person who never, never rested, which was a combo of ableism (“my body doesn’t have needs!”), capitalism (fear I’ll fail and end up back on the farm), and trauma, because if I let myself think, I was washed away by how much pain existed just under the surface.
Jan 15, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Friends COVID is not a cold or even the flu — when you have COVID you need to *rest*. Rest like you’ve never rested before. I’m talking do not use your brain, don’t read books, don’t use the time to call your mom. Lay in the dark and pretend you are a rock as much as possible. Even if you feel up to doing more, do not do it! You’re trying to avoid long COVID and the best way to do so is to truly rest rest rest. It’s similar to having a really bad concussion in terms of the amount of rest you need.
Nov 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It would’ve been really easy for the Fetterman campaign to lean into ableism after his stroke,

And instead he and the campaign addressed the reality that millions of Pennsylvanians and Americans have had health crises, just like he did, and deserve the life saving care he got — — and don’t deserve to be mocked by doctors or other candidates or the press.

It’s a big fucking deal.
Dec 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Even *if* all you get is the equivalent of sudden onset asthma, sudden onset asthma is *brutal*. I have to take an inhaler every 3 hours. Anything resembling smoke and my lungs shut down. If I am not always always adequately medicated, my brain fog is so extreme I can't speak - - because I can't get enough oxygen to my brain. I'll be toodling along, doing fine, and suddenly my lungs will be so bad that I get very little oxygen to my brain, and I'll lose 100% of whatever I was just doing.

I'd never had asthma attacks, and now I regularly do.
Dec 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
In case you need a public health friend to tell you it’s okay to cancel your holiday plans, hello it’s me, I’m a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, I work in health advocacy, and I volunteer to be anyone’s Public Health Expert Friend who told you not to travel My partner is also an MPH and an expert in health policy so if you need TWO public health friends here we are now!! Use us!!
Dec 17, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Recommendations on finding boosters or 1st/2nd doses:
Ask me I will help you, or:
1. Search the zip code + vaccination, read the city or county website
2. Check if there are walkup sites if that's accessible to you! Or if you can make appointments at city/county sites I always check those first because they tend to have more availability since folks tend to check their pharmacies, and because you can check availability without needing personal data.
3. If those don't have availability, do a check at CVS or Walgreens. Most won't have appts
Dec 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hello frienderoos back again to offer to help anyone get boosted if you need help finding an appointment for you or a loved one!! Same with flu shots ❤️ Feel free to DM me!!! I spent all that money to go to Johns Hopkins I might as well get some people boosted out of it!!
Jul 15, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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Fun fact that fat people with anorexia all get diagnosed with Eating Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified, solely because we are at or above “normal” weight.

I had my first ED-specific therapy today, and was finally told I have anorexia. It is extremely weird to be like “good, yes, thank you for acknowledging I am anorexic for the first time in my entire life” because like, yikes I’m anorexic?

But also wow, yes, I am actually anorexic, thank you for fucking noticing, I’ve only been anorexic for 28 years.
Mar 16, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Okay here it is, Tory's steps to handling your nightmare inbox

You've got thousands (or tens of thousands) of emails to get through and it's stress inducing and also you might be missing important things, especially if you're job hunting or waiting to hear about a vaccine This is for gmail (and for personal email, not campaign etc)!
#1:
Turn on keyboard shortcuts, things will go much quicker. And then USE the keyboard shortcuts: support.google.com/mail/answer/65…
Mar 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Tory Cross said the lack of verification requirements is crucial to California’s commitment to vaccine equity.

“It’s really important... to be able to self-attest,” she said, noting that many lost their healthcare during the pandemic and might not have easy access to a doctor." Many people lost their health care in the past year, especially people who had health care tied to employment, so wouldn't be able to get proof of their health conditions.
Mar 16, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
ONE VACCINE DOWN

ID LIKE TO THANK GOD AND @SFdirewolf Me, a red haired white woman with black glasses, wearing a v Also wore my vote mask because we made that possible. Thank you to @ellouelle for the mask!!!
Mar 15, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
I see a lot of Californians not finding appointments with MyTurn - MyTurn is where I got mine but I also have a list of others that I planned to check, so here's the list!

1. Vaccine Spotter - vaccinespotter.org/CA/

#HighRiskCA 2. Curative, which has a location in Sacramento, though I'm not sure about the rest of the state - curative.com/sites/25610#9/…

#HighRiskCA
Mar 14, 2021 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
1. I am beyond thrilled to see this incredible platform from @RebeccaLamorte - and I’m gonna break down my favorite parts. #CripTheVote
First though, come to Rebecca’s townhall on Monday, 7:30EST to discuss it! cutt.ly/r4nydisability… 2. Okay, let’s break this incredible plan down.
COVID-19 has decimated disabled people in the past year. @RebeccaLamorte poses the right steps to protecting our community, including demanding accountability and change for the nursing homes, especially with Cuomo’s cover up.
Jun 10, 2019 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Listen, the lead poisoning researcher in me is about to write a THREAD.

I grew up on a Superfund site.
I knew so many kids with lead poisoning.
I centered my Masters on lead poisoning.

This plan is far beyond anything I could have dreamed from a presidential candidate. So here's some points from the plan that I am joyously dancing over, imagining them being put into place.