Reader’s Reviews > Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice > Status Update

One concerning thing that happens when Leah controls someone’s death is that obituaries often totally leave out the person’s family. There is never anything about who they are survived by. There is very little information at all. It’s just announced that the person has joined the ancestors and that’s it. No questions. No explanations. Nothing.

Leah is creepy after deaths in the community. Leah misuses the names of other organizers after they have died, for personal gain and clout. I have witnessed Leah using the names of people she actually abused and co-opting their work and names after their deaths. It’s extremely fucked up. Leah targets disabled people who she expects to die young. Nicole Demerin was 42 when she died on 12/15/2002.

Patty Berne enabled Leah’s harmful and abusive behavior for many years. Patty was a world class enabler and facilitated a lot of abuse, shielding predators in the community from accountability.

Leah Louise Albrecht, a middle-class American descended from Europeans (Irish, Polish, German / Dutch, German, British, French, Portuguese) thanks Black & Brown working class organizers for teaching her to steal. Leah has been an organized thief since her teenage years. She was scamming her employers and organized a major theft ring targeting booksellers in the Worcester area. She has a lifelong scamming practice.

Maybe Leah could be considered a “child” of Frida if we consider the ways Frida performed marginalized identities for personal gain and activist clout, fabricated lore, and engaged in theft at the expense of Indigenous sovereignty…

Although much like Leah, Frida was a person of European heritage who fetishized Indigenous people, engaged in Indigenous cultural identity theft, and performed fabricated family lore with culturally appropriative clothing and hairstyles

Leah’s Irish great-grandfather Anthony James Conlon was a star of early 1900s basketball. Born in Ballina, Mayo County, Ireland, he immigrated to the U.S. as a child with his father and brother, Pat & Patrick Conlon who settled in Fitchburg, MA. Anthony married Emma Bergner June 11, 1901. Her ancestors immigrated from Saxony, Germany. Leah also has ancestors from Bützow on her dad’s side.

Still on page 9. I am a survivor of The Seattle Disability Justice Collective. It was a destructive group where physical and sexual assaults occurred with extreme exploitive labor practices, theft, and abuse. Most evidence of DJC Seattle has been scrubbed by narcissistic abusers & financial predators dodging accountability for criminal behavior. Susan Naomi Finkelstein aka Bear has a long record of assault and theft

Clarification on the last comment. I was in the Sick and Disabled Queers Facebook group from its early days. It was not always secret & changed to a secret group later. I was not in the bipoc SDQ group and do not know who moderates that, but it’s my understanding the moderators of that group removed several white people misrepresenting themselves as people of color. Leah’s accomplices were among those removed.

Still on page 9. Leah thanks the Sick and Disabled Queers group and the Sick and Disabled Queer and Trans People of Color Facebook group. These are secret groups moderated by high-control narcissistic abusers. Sick and Disabled queers was founded by a white race-shifter— notoriously racist Erika Maria Reinstein, who has also used pseudonyms Billie Strain, Billie Rain, William Maria Rain, Mix William, & Rain-Shadid