A black-and-white cartoon of Learner’s head. They are a white person with short, messy bedhead, they wear big square glasses, and they have a big grin.

Learner’s Landing

Welcome! I’m Learner (or Leah, depending on when you met me).I no longer post on most socials but paradoxically am very social online, so I wanted to create this little space for people to do the usual looking around and to easily reach me.I can be slow to reply (all my mail is snail mail), but let’s be friends!
✉️ Email me: [email protected]

About Me

Learner (they/them)
millennial bookworm
perennial bedhead

I’m a primarily bedbound digital resident who delights daily in e-ink, houseplants, and dark chocolate.I love Nintendo games, otome games, and anything that involves learning or managing an inventory. I love classic Hollywood film, especially from the 40s. And, most of all, I love just about every genre of book, and even more when a book is two or three at once. (Hello nature writing illness memoir!)

Currently Reading—

My New, Long-Term Reading Project (1/40)
Read Sick Writers (12/23)
The Novels of Natsume Soseki (8/12)
The Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin (16/24)

Favorites—

A white-framed TV hangs over a mirrored dresser. The TV shows the painting La Grenouillère by Monet. On the dresser are a green card, paper monstera plant, faux candle, sculpture of a deer on a lotus, and ZZ plant. A bit of bookshelf seen on the left.

The view from my bed: summer.

Add Me:

POTS & OI

Do you have mysterious fatigue or digestive problems? Or are you already wondering if you might have POTS or another orthostatic intolerance? Whether it's idle curiosity or deep concern, please reach out to me! I'd be glad to chat, answer questions, or help you test yourself at home.It took almost ten years for my POTS to be diagnosed despite it being very common and simple to check for. My dream is that the easy screening test, which I’ve helped many friends and family perform, one day becomes part of routine physicals._{What is POTS? 4 minutes:}

POTS (& Long Covid) Explainer from RTHM
What Is POTS? from Dysautonomia International
NASA Lean Test from Bateman Horne Center

Email Me

The words “Not a Bad Word Book Club” are written in bold, dark grey letters over stripes in the colors of the Disability Pride flag: red, gold, white, blue, and green.

I help run an online book club for anyone who identifies in the ballpark of disability (including chronically ill, mentally ill, d/Deaf, neurodivergent, etc.). Each month we read a book by and about disabled folks, including both fiction and nonfiction.It’s a lovely place. If you’re interested in joining, reach out for a chat!You can click here to message me on Discord.

Litsy Photos

Once upon a time I was an avid member of the Litsy community, and these are some of the fun photos I took of stand-out books I read!
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Favorite Sites

Reading & Learning—

Standard Ebooks, source of commercial-quality, free, public domain ebooks.
Versed, online literature learning community hosted by a former Harvard professor.
The 10 Principles of Disability Justice in standard and in plain language.
Dysautonomia International’s Vimeo, including hundreds of medical presentations on POTS and associated conditions.

Volunteering—

Zooniverse, contribute to scientific research from home.
Distributed Proofreaders, help create texts for Project Gutenberg.
VoteFwd, US-based letter-writing to help underrepresented communities vote.

Black-and-white. A sticker showing a young person wearing the crown of the Statue of Liberty says,”Your vote is power”. Nearby is a hand-written letter to a voter, a stack of envelopes, and stamps with Women’s Suffrage designs.

My favorite dark-grey t-shirt says “Read & Vote” repeated four times with white and rainbow letters. An “I voted” sticker and a button from the ACLU that reads, “Vote Like Your Rights Depend on It.” adorn the shirt.

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