Read More from the Writing from our ME Lives Group
April 13, 2021
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#MEAction is excited to share more work from the Writing from our ME Lives writing group!
Category: Arts & Letters
read Pieces from Writing from our ME Lives Group
April 9, 2021
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#MEAction is excited to share two pieces of work from the Writing From Our ME Lives writing group. We will be sharing more work in the coming days! Hope you enjoy their work. If you are interested in joining the next Writing From Our ME Lives meeting, they meet on every Thursday at 11am PST.
Moving short film “This is ME” nominated for award – you can help it win!
January 15, 2021
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Moving short film “This is ME” shares more in nine minutes than most people with ME can begin to share in words alone.
Postcards to Doctors Featured Artist: Emily Lawton
February 24, 2020
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We are so excited that the Postcards to Doctors Initiative sent more than 6,000 postcards to physicians across the United States! We’d like to take this opportunity to recognize one of #MEAction’s Postcards to Doctors amazing artists, Emily Lawton. After she was diagnosed with ME at the age of fifteen, Emily used the process of
Musician with ME Releases Album, ‘The Canary Collective’
February 3, 2020
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#MEAction sat down for an interview to catch up with songwriter and ME activist Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm, who in 2017 inspired MEAction to launch a virtual art and music concert called BedFest to showcase the artistic talent of the ME community, and also to explore the experience of having ME through poetry, art and music. Kaeley
Celebrating Postcards to Doctors: Final Report
January 28, 2020
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This article references the 2019 Postcards to Doctors initiative. Find the page for Postcards to Doctors 2020 here. We’re incredibly pleased to announce that we not only met but exceeded our initial goal of sending 6,000 postcards out into the world! And we could not have done it without you. As always, I am bowled over
Host a Postcards to Doctors party this holiday season!
November 27, 2019
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Host a Postcards to Doctors party this holiday season! And announcing: #MEAction’s first Pinterest boards! Together, the #MEAction community has made the Postcards to Doctors initiative an incredible success: there have been approximately 5,500 requests for postcards to doctors across 43 states! We are so thankful to see people across the country step up to
Postcards to Doctors Featured Artist: Lia Pas
November 15, 2019
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#MEAction’s Postcards to Doctors initiative has continued to be an incredible success! Thanks to the hard work of the #MEAction community we have sent postcards to nearly 6,000 clinicians across the United States. We could not have done this without the invaluable contributions from the artists who designed our postcards. #MEAction would like to
Postcards to Doctors returns!
October 1, 2019
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Great news! Postcards to Doctors has relaunched as of today, October 1! You can now request new postcards and addresses here. If you requested postcards or addresses during the month of September, we’ve resumed generating addresses and sending postcards as of today, and you should receive yours within the next few weeks. Want to learn
Netflix’s “Afflicted” Cast Sues for Defamation
August 14, 2019
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Four cast members of the Netflix series, Afflicted, have filed a lawsuit against Netflix and Doc Shop producers for defamation for portraying them as ‘hypochondriacs and/or malingerers.” The lawsuit indicates that the Doc Shop producers lied to the Afflicted participants “because the series was not a documentary in any sense of the word, but a