Audra Mitchell
@audralmitchell.bsky.social
Professor, writer & Canada Research Chair, Global Political Ecology. Tylenol side effect. Artisanal information worker. Most recent book: 'Revenant Ecologies'. www.audramitchell.org Kitten photos b/c we all need them.
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#introduction I'm a settler writer and professor living on Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe lands. I research, write and agitate around global structural violence, ecological harms, disability justice, anti-oppressive futures, queer, anti-colonial and anti-racist politics. Also a cat parent!
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llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever
Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us
by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
Prof. Farhana Sultana is a path-breaking scholar of political ecology who has been placed on leave by Syracuse University for a post made on her personal SMs in a context of cascading political repression. Pls sign this letter calling for her immediate reinstatement
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Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Prof. Farhana Sultana is a path-breaking scholar of political ecology who has been placed on leave by Syracuse University for a post made on her personal SMs in a context of cascading political repression. Pls sign this letter calling for her immediate reinstatement
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Looking to do some reading this weekend? Check out our Beyond Do No Harm reading guide, which shares articles, books + more for anyone wanting to dive deeper into topics around criminalization of care or providing care for criminalized populations: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
October 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Looking to do some reading this weekend? Check out our Beyond Do No Harm reading guide, which shares articles, books + more for anyone wanting to dive deeper into topics around criminalization of care or providing care for criminalized populations: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
He's wonderful! Thank you for sharing this vid
October 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
He's wonderful! Thank you for sharing this vid
Also, guys, I feel like we had this discussion back in 2013 (and the decades preceding it). A wee bit of homework may be in order
October 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Also, guys, I feel like we had this discussion back in 2013 (and the decades preceding it). A wee bit of homework may be in order
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October 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Holy shit, it's almost like they're saying Autistic people are diverse! Glad to see journos are still calling on Uta Frith and that ilk to provide highly technical terms like 'ragbag' to describe the diversity of our communities.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists
Those diagnosed as small children typically have distinct genetic profile from those diagnosed later, study finds
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Holy shit, it's almost like they're saying Autistic people are diverse! Glad to see journos are still calling on Uta Frith and that ilk to provide highly technical terms like 'ragbag' to describe the diversity of our communities.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
100% this. Autistic people (and Autistic communities and cultures) exist in ways that scramble all lines of class, race, gender and disability. Very threatening to a lot of forms of power.
I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..
THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM.
(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).
(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).
September 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
100% this. Autistic people (and Autistic communities and cultures) exist in ways that scramble all lines of class, race, gender and disability. Very threatening to a lot of forms of power.
All human traits have genetic sources. I'm saying that the traits associated with Autism do not need to be ferreted out for the purpose of eradicating them.
September 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
All human traits have genetic sources. I'm saying that the traits associated with Autism do not need to be ferreted out for the purpose of eradicating them.
But genetics is not a 'cause'. What is called Autism is not 'caused', genetically or otherwise, any more than eye colour is 'caused'. It occurs.
September 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
But genetics is not a 'cause'. What is called Autism is not 'caused', genetically or otherwise, any more than eye colour is 'caused'. It occurs.
THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM.
(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).
(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).
September 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM.
(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).
(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).
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Dreadful to see this - Farhana Sultana is a stellar academic, with a commitment to social justice. She repeatedly said she was being targeted on this platform & on others. I note her account is deleted. Shame on Syracuse for not standing up for colleagues ⬇️ solidarity to her & Jenn Jackson
Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.
September 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Dreadful to see this - Farhana Sultana is a stellar academic, with a commitment to social justice. She repeatedly said she was being targeted on this platform & on others. I note her account is deleted. Shame on Syracuse for not standing up for colleagues ⬇️ solidarity to her & Jenn Jackson
If you're interested in the crossing points between crip theory, anti-eugenics, environment, global health and global ethics, check out @octoqueenphd.bsky.social 's new podcast #UnwellToBeginWith. It was a blast to be the first guest, & a fantastic episode with @stressedbranch.bsky.social is now up
For our 1st episode, I spoke with @audralmitchell.bsky.social about why crip knowledge systems belong in fields like IR & environmental studies; how policing gets normalized in classrooms; & why crip politics is about a lot more than just disability
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Episode 1: Autistic Knowledge Ecologies with Audra Mitchell | Unwell to Begin With
"These shared resonances which are often infantilized and dismissed as 'special interests' or 'infodumping' are actually intensities of knowledge and knowledge creation that we can sort of... refract ...
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September 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If you're interested in the crossing points between crip theory, anti-eugenics, environment, global health and global ethics, check out @octoqueenphd.bsky.social 's new podcast #UnwellToBeginWith. It was a blast to be the first guest, & a fantastic episode with @stressedbranch.bsky.social is now up
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August 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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If you're in the UK, come check out the Planetary Futures conference at the University of Manchester next month! There's a fantastic line-up of speakers and a limited number of bursaries available for early career researchers #extinction #climate #ecology
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Planetary Futures: Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene
Conference, 18-19 September 2025, at the University of Manchester.
Call for Papers
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August 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If you're in the UK, come check out the Planetary Futures conference at the University of Manchester next month! There's a fantastic line-up of speakers and a limited number of bursaries available for early career researchers #extinction #climate #ecology
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
We Will Not Stop Talking About Palestine: consider signing this pledge by educators and others to keep up calls to #endthegenocide #endthefamine
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WE WILL NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.
We refuse the so-called Palestine Exception, a term referring to how public discourse and the law are manipulated to deny Palestinian human rights, and to silence anyone who advocates for them.
As in...
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August 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We Will Not Stop Talking About Palestine: consider signing this pledge by educators and others to keep up calls to #endthegenocide #endthefamine
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Oh, there you are!
August 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Oh, there you are!
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August 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Excited to give this talk at the Oslo Center for #EnvironmentalHumanities next month! I'll be bridging themes from #RevenantEcologies with new work on unconditional ecological ethics #politicalecology #extinctionstudies
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Audra Mitchell: Revenant ecologies
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
How can we develop unconditional relationships with earth?
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August 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Excited to give this talk at the Oslo Center for #EnvironmentalHumanities next month! I'll be bridging themes from #RevenantEcologies with new work on unconditional ecological ethics #politicalecology #extinctionstudies
www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...
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August 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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My amazing colleague (and all-round amazing human) Corin is finally getting a long-awaited surgery. If you can spare a few dollars or share this post, it will go a long way to supporting his recovery. Thanks!
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Donate to Corin's Surgery Recovery, organized by Mara Ervin
Our beloved Corin Parsons is having bilateral above-knee amputation surgery due to complications f… Mara Ervin needs your support for Corin's Surgery Recovery
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August 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
My amazing colleague (and all-round amazing human) Corin is finally getting a long-awaited surgery. If you can spare a few dollars or share this post, it will go a long way to supporting his recovery. Thanks!
www.gofundme.com/f/corins-sur...
www.gofundme.com/f/corins-sur...
Ah it was in the spam - thanks for the prompt! :)
August 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Ah it was in the spam - thanks for the prompt! :)