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08/25/2026

If you live in NYC or occasionally visit there you may want to check this out.

🛗 Real-time elevator outage map for NYC subway | transitaccess.org

07/24/2026

Thanks to Katherine Schneider for a curated list of Children’s books about disabilities:

Every year the American Library Association gives awards to the best of the best children’s books that have disability content in them. They’re called the Schneider Family Book Awards; yes, I did start them over twenty years ago.

This year’s winners are:
Bat and the Business of Ferrets (autism spectrum)
Wanda Hears the Stars (blindness)
I Hear the Snow, I Smell the Sea (blindness)
Octopus Moon (depression)
Where Only Storms Grow (scoliosis)
The Strongest Heart (mental illness)
Whale Eyes (visual impairment)
The Golden Boys Guide to Bipolar (mental illness)
The Poetry of Car Mechanics (mental illness)

06/12/2026

Congratulations to all of our EA members who contributed to Beloved As We Are! The print book available now for pre-order at https://uuabookstore.org/products/beloved-as-we-are?_pos=1&_sid=e9e11e1c3&_ss=r. The official publication date Is July 21 for print and ebook, and the audio book will be coming out within a week or two after that. The ebook and audio book will be available through a variety of online retail outlets, and we’ll send you links when they’re available.
We encourage you to help spread the word! Attached please find the cover.

05/08/2026

UUA President Sofia Betancourt and UUA Director of Congregational Life Natalie Briscoe will speak at the UU Mental Health Network Worship service at 6pm EDT on May 31. Plan to come!
Register at https://www.uumentalhealth.org/ .

03/31/2026

Mapping the Mind — part of BLR’s Conversations on Creative Writing in Healthcare series — brings together four best-selling authors for a dynamic conversation about writing the inner life. Focusing on memoirs of mental illness, neurologic disease, and psychological healing, this event explores how writers give language to experiences that are often hidden, misunderstood, or stigmatized. Through discussion of craft, literary style, and lived experience, these authors will examine how storytelling can make the invisible visible—and immensely readable!

This event is free and open to the public.

This is a live event, but please RSVP even if you can't make it, as the discussion will be recorded and we will send you a link to watch later.

Mapping the Mind – Zoom, Thu Apr 16, 2026 - Mapping the Mind — part of BLR’s Conversations on Creative Writing in Healthcare series — brings together four best-selling authors for a dynamic conversation about writing the inner life. Focusing on memoirs of mental illness, neurol...

02/19/2026

Care the flame and repost:

Ronnie Boyd describes a future of care communities where no one is discarded, no one is alienated, and no one is made to feel like a burden

12/31/2025

January 24, 2026 for UUMHN Book Club
The Unitarian Universalist Mental Health Network (UUMHN) Book Club will be discussing Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker at its next meeting on January 24, 2026, at 6 p.m. Eastern Time, 3 p.m. Pacific Time.
Please join us for a lively discussion whether or not you have read the book. Details about the book are below.

The UUMHN Book Club meets quarterly via Zoom. All are welcome to attend our disc.ussion
To sign up for our Book Club or to suggest a book about Mental Heath that you'd like us to consider for a future book club meeting, please email Karl Paananen at [email protected]

11/13/2025

The UU Common Read for 2025-2026 Social Change Now
A Guide for Reflection and Connection
by Deepa Iyer is also available as an audiobook from Libro.FM.

Buy the book: Skinner House Books Bookshop Barnes & Noble Amazon Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection If you’ve engaged with the social change ecosystem map, don’t miss out on a new workbook from Deepa called Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection. August 20...