yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷

multi-disciplinary vejigante | Biawaisa/Yamoká-hu/Maorocoti | rare disease crew

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

Poet Elane Gutterman has humbled me this week w/ a poem about my performance through an ableist institution that did not appreciate the 1st wheelchair user to perform on their stage. Thanks @princetoninfo for publishing a brilliant piece on resilience. https://t.co/WSkYPiPBXz

[National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) @RareDiseases]

Alright, let's talk about rare #intersex conditions and disorders of sex development... 🧵

There are a variety of genetic disorders related to the presence or absence of X and Y chromosomes, and you don't have to have two, such as:

Klinefelter Syndrome - XXY
Turner Syndrome - X

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

I'm glad it found you, though I'm sorry you can relate. Others aren't in danger because we are being ourselves, I wish they would leave us alone, ya know? Let me pee in peace, please.

[for those tuning in now]: https://t.co/MWgxjUXU16
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

[A. Stuart @thankyou5_]

@mirkoyannick Your song is absolutely beautiful. I’ve listened to it like 500 times since it came out and honestly I feel so seen by it. You’re incredibly talented, keep up the great work!! 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

Much appreciation, folx!!

[AltQ Radio @ALTQRadio1]

ALT Q TOP 20: #1: @MikeyErrthang. New this week: @mirkoyannick / Vincent DiGeronimo. Top 20 Countdown now 5 times a week! Alt Q Radio on @Live356 #AltQRadio #LGBTradio #queerradio #AltQTop20 #Live365 #queersongs @AltqMusic

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

I’m obsessed with this beautiful thread you’ve made, my heart is full.

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

This song goes out to anyone who also feels terrible when they are mis-percieved, and to those who long for a world where people stop doing that at first glance based on violent assumptions. What a person looks like says nothing about them.

https://t.co/9sKQsZEQmi

[Not pregnant just eating good.. @I_Hate_Ted_Cruz]

If I refer to Puerto Rico as a country, and I'm Puerto Rican, why is the automatic assumption that I genuinely don't know what I'm talking about and need to be corrected. Why isn't the first thought, "Why would they say something that contradicts the official territory title?"

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

hay una plaga de luciérnagas en la casa de mi infancia [y una canción sobre un ascensor a marte para escapar]

https://t.co/DkhPWjHsoh

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

“It’s bad enough that the U.S., which began its national history by freeing itself from an empire, has now spent more than half that history with colonial possessions of its own…and many Americans still refuse to acknowledge that Puerto Rico is a colony at all.”

[Alberto C. Medina @AlbertoMedinaPR]

July 25 marks the 125th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico, of PR’s 1952 constitution, and the 1978 murder of independence activists.

In @newrepublic I argue these three events share one lesson and conclusion: Puerto Rico must be independent. https://t.co/bJczD23LN0

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

“The important thing is that there must be all the alternatives for the person to decide what they want and where they can live comfortably and with dignity. That people can have the final decision and have a society where everyone decides how to live and where to live.”

[BDSMSTORE @bdsmsto_re]

Prior to her arrival at an elderly home in San Juan, the social worker from the Department of the Family — who was in charge of finding a home for her ... told her there were centers that did not accept her because she was a trans person https://t.co/cfSpmPtOXC

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

Thank you for making me and this otter very happy and grateful!

[/\\\🦆🎭 @DUCKG3NS]

finished my custom doll of @mirkoyannick’s ricky :D

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

This. Especially looking at you, fellow scientists and healthcare professionals. We need to be doing much less gatekeeping, and far more listening to and amplifying the people who are most impacted.

[✨Pedro Correa Henry✨ @pete_r_correa]

¿Cuándo será el día en que evitemos el uso de “transexual” en la prensa para describir a una persona trans? ¿Cuándo? Si hablamos de la reciente víctima de transfeminicidio en PR, Uvita era una mujer transgénero, no “el transexual”. 1/2

[Dr. Monica Cox @DrMonicaCox]

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.

bell hooks

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

It’s a me!! Happy Pride, y’all. #rarediseasetruth

[National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) @RareDiseases]

If you're struggling to understand the link between #Pride and rare diseases, this story by artist @mirkoyannick (they/he) with #FactorVIIDeficiency makes clear how much #trans and rare patients have in common.

Read yannick-robin's powerful blog post: https://t.co/pqo4GVYsJP

[¿Dónde está el porvenir? 🇵🇷🇨🇺🇵🇸 @GuarioCandanga]

Hay más peligros para niñxs en una iglesia que en un evento de drag queens. Datos, no opinión.

[Benito hasn't denounced the genocide 🇵🇷 @midnucas]

“Ayo crew, Puerto Rico is at 125ºF, it’s really stupid, and there’s more than 100k people without electricity, and so y’all can see how absurd this is, I’m gonna cook outside, literally with the sun”

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

HOW ARE PEOPLE SO TALENTED Y’ALL HAVE MORE SWAG THAN ME

[ID: varying digital art pieces of me as a school kid cat king]

[IvoryLoaf @Iv0ryL0af]

A compilation of my drawings of @mirkoyannick’s Ricky Potts! (My favorite Ricky, Yannick puts ALL their swagger into him)

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

I remember once someone - moments before we had to enter stage to perform - looked at me and said, “you know, it’s not like the last time I worked with someone in a chair. I’m not even chairphobic with you, that’s wild!”

…you really thought I needed to hear that?

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

“I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t even notice you’re in a wheelchair” is not the compliment you think it is.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Access for disabled people is not a gift, gratuity or favor.
It is doing what you’re supposed to and required to do.

[yannick-robin eike mirko 🇵🇷 @mirkoyannick]

I’ve never seen the name inside of the wheel before, now you’ve planted a seed BAHAHA thank you for this, I am belated in my blushing, but blushing nonetheless.

[ID: me as Ricky Potts doing jazz hands with some tiny cats and planets floating around me!]