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"The suffering and exploitation of non-white peoples that built the United States was allegedly justified by the assumption that these subordinate classes lacked some crucial capacity or were, in a sense, disabled."
All new guest essay for the Disability Visibility Project by Joe Stramondo on the connection between immigrant and disability rights
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/07/13/i...
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/07/13/i...
July 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"The suffering and exploitation of non-white peoples that built the United States was allegedly justified by the assumption that these subordinate classes lacked some crucial capacity or were, in a sense, disabled."
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Build lots of housing, especially near jobs and transit.
June 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Build lots of housing, especially near jobs and transit.
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Its not that using ableist language is "offensive" alone, it is in that using ableist epithets, we normalize the idea that disability is a state of undesirable, laughable inferiority and otherness, and that disabled people deserve to the butt of the joke for some intrinsic reason--its insidious
March 26, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Its not that using ableist language is "offensive" alone, it is in that using ableist epithets, we normalize the idea that disability is a state of undesirable, laughable inferiority and otherness, and that disabled people deserve to the butt of the joke for some intrinsic reason--its insidious
Willow River Park, Kitchener, last week.
March 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Willow River Park, Kitchener, last week.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex condemned ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move.
“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
AOC Rips “Tyrannical and Un-American” Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a serious warning about the ICE arrest of Palestinian activist (and U.S. green card holder) Mahmoud Khalil.
newrepublic.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex condemned ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move.
“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."
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“If Canadians accept the flimsy, speculative pretexts offered by university authorities to crush peaceful protest… we risk the further erosion of our political rights and freedoms.”
@laurieadkin.bsky.social on the crackdown on Palestine solidarity encampments:
@laurieadkin.bsky.social on the crackdown on Palestine solidarity encampments:
University crackdown on Palestine solidarity encampments a grievous violation of Charter freedoms
If Canadians accept the flimsy, speculative pretexts offered by university authorities to crush peaceful protest, we risk the further erosion of our political rights and freedoms. If these rights may ...
canadiandimension.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“If Canadians accept the flimsy, speculative pretexts offered by university authorities to crush peaceful protest… we risk the further erosion of our political rights and freedoms.”
@laurieadkin.bsky.social on the crackdown on Palestine solidarity encampments:
@laurieadkin.bsky.social on the crackdown on Palestine solidarity encampments:
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Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
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Latest from the newsletter! Read about how management consultants are influencing universities in really problematic ways. #AcademicSky
Nous: Academic Management Consultant Grifters?
Whether it is disastrous restructuring at the University of Alberta, massive layoffs and program closures at Laurentian, or suspension of academic admissions to programs like Indigenous Studies and ge...
newsletter.academicaunties.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Latest from the newsletter! Read about how management consultants are influencing universities in really problematic ways. #AcademicSky
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What Dhube is referring here euphemistically as "population transfer" in South Asia remains one of the most historically traumatic events for us: Partition.
Families ripped apart and wiped out entirely, sexual and physical violence that had generational consequences and STILL shapes our politics.
Families ripped apart and wiped out entirely, sexual and physical violence that had generational consequences and STILL shapes our politics.
February 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
What Dhube is referring here euphemistically as "population transfer" in South Asia remains one of the most historically traumatic events for us: Partition.
Families ripped apart and wiped out entirely, sexual and physical violence that had generational consequences and STILL shapes our politics.
Families ripped apart and wiped out entirely, sexual and physical violence that had generational consequences and STILL shapes our politics.
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This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
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Reading the revelations about Neil Gaiman is giving me major Jian Ghomeshi flashbacks.
From the "I'm not abusive, I'm just kinky" rationales to the faux-feminist persona to the victim complex that holding him accountable is terrible for his mental health.
It's a playbook Canadians recognize.
From the "I'm not abusive, I'm just kinky" rationales to the faux-feminist persona to the victim complex that holding him accountable is terrible for his mental health.
It's a playbook Canadians recognize.
January 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Reading the revelations about Neil Gaiman is giving me major Jian Ghomeshi flashbacks.
From the "I'm not abusive, I'm just kinky" rationales to the faux-feminist persona to the victim complex that holding him accountable is terrible for his mental health.
It's a playbook Canadians recognize.
From the "I'm not abusive, I'm just kinky" rationales to the faux-feminist persona to the victim complex that holding him accountable is terrible for his mental health.
It's a playbook Canadians recognize.
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I have two degrees in astrophysics and going to Mars isn’t gonna save us
Wherever we go, we will be there. Until we change the structures that govern how we operate, we will have a problem.
Wherever we go, we will be there. Until we change the structures that govern how we operate, we will have a problem.
January 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I have two degrees in astrophysics and going to Mars isn’t gonna save us
Wherever we go, we will be there. Until we change the structures that govern how we operate, we will have a problem.
Wherever we go, we will be there. Until we change the structures that govern how we operate, we will have a problem.
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If you are a person who works in higher ed or hope to someday, this is worth a read. Universities are conservative institutions. We may try to encourage critical thinking & change within them to individuals, but the institutions won’t change.
academeblog.org/2025/01/10/s...
academeblog.org/2025/01/10/s...
Statement by Professor Katherine Franke
BY KATHERINE FRANKE The following is the text of a statement issued on January 10, 2025 by Katherine Franke, formerly the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University. It is posted here w…
academeblog.org
January 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
If you are a person who works in higher ed or hope to someday, this is worth a read. Universities are conservative institutions. We may try to encourage critical thinking & change within them to individuals, but the institutions won’t change.
academeblog.org/2025/01/10/s...
academeblog.org/2025/01/10/s...
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Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
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also adding a link to Sudan Solidarity Collective, civil society and mutual aid groups on the ground in the parts of Sudan worst affected
sudansolidarity.com
sudansolidarity.com
December 22, 2024 at 3:42 AM
also adding a link to Sudan Solidarity Collective, civil society and mutual aid groups on the ground in the parts of Sudan worst affected
sudansolidarity.com
sudansolidarity.com
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I fully just did the Louise eye twitch thing.
Just so we are clear, vaccines are not ableist. Vaccines protect the person from infectious diseases that can be deadly.
Also, there are plenty of debilitating diseases that exist that can’t be prevented - that has nothing to do with vaccines.
Just so we are clear, vaccines are not ableist. Vaccines protect the person from infectious diseases that can be deadly.
Also, there are plenty of debilitating diseases that exist that can’t be prevented - that has nothing to do with vaccines.
I saw someone today say that vaccines are actually ableist because vaccines mean people who have debilitating diseases won't exist and I do not support all leftists, some of you are just unserious people
December 16, 2024 at 1:18 AM
I fully just did the Louise eye twitch thing.
Just so we are clear, vaccines are not ableist. Vaccines protect the person from infectious diseases that can be deadly.
Also, there are plenty of debilitating diseases that exist that can’t be prevented - that has nothing to do with vaccines.
Just so we are clear, vaccines are not ableist. Vaccines protect the person from infectious diseases that can be deadly.
Also, there are plenty of debilitating diseases that exist that can’t be prevented - that has nothing to do with vaccines.
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This looks like a very cool cookbook! Written by a Dalit author, celebrating Dalit culinary traditions.
This cookbook is unlike any other from India. Pass the honeycomb, please!
In Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, Shahu Patole pays tribute to a cuisine that has long been considered not worthy of documentation. We interviewed Patole — and are sharing some of his recipes.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2024 at 12:09 AM
This looks like a very cool cookbook! Written by a Dalit author, celebrating Dalit culinary traditions.
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All new guest essay by @lydiaxzbrown.bsky.social for the Disability Visibility Project
Not Just Gus Walz: Understanding the Ableist Logic of Toxic White Masculinity in the New Eugenics Era
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/12/15/n...
Not Just Gus Walz: Understanding the Ableist Logic of Toxic White Masculinity in the New Eugenics Era
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/12/15/n...
December 16, 2024 at 1:14 AM
All new guest essay by @lydiaxzbrown.bsky.social for the Disability Visibility Project
Not Just Gus Walz: Understanding the Ableist Logic of Toxic White Masculinity in the New Eugenics Era
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/12/15/n...
Not Just Gus Walz: Understanding the Ableist Logic of Toxic White Masculinity in the New Eugenics Era
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/12/15/n...
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seems national publications could be putting more energy into why so many whistleblowers are dying these days
www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...
www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.
www.mercurynews.com
December 13, 2024 at 11:17 PM
seems national publications could be putting more energy into why so many whistleblowers are dying these days
www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...
www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...
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As an Indian, my contempt for (rich white) anti-vaxxers in the west is so deep I often cannot quite find the words to express my contempt.
I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India.
My father worked for the Pulse Polio program.
What is happening?
I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India.
My father worked for the Pulse Polio program.
What is happening?
December 13, 2024 at 1:27 PM
As an Indian, my contempt for (rich white) anti-vaxxers in the west is so deep I often cannot quite find the words to express my contempt.
I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India.
My father worked for the Pulse Polio program.
What is happening?
I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India.
My father worked for the Pulse Polio program.
What is happening?
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Wait time for a disabled person to access medically assisted death in Canada? 3 months
A specialist for TREATABLE conditions? 12-18 months
Affordable housing? Multiple years
Palliative care, psychiatric care & pain management? Good luck.
This is why we’re scared. Via @paulapeters19.bsky.social
A specialist for TREATABLE conditions? 12-18 months
Affordable housing? Multiple years
Palliative care, psychiatric care & pain management? Good luck.
This is why we’re scared. Via @paulapeters19.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Wait time for a disabled person to access medically assisted death in Canada? 3 months
A specialist for TREATABLE conditions? 12-18 months
Affordable housing? Multiple years
Palliative care, psychiatric care & pain management? Good luck.
This is why we’re scared. Via @paulapeters19.bsky.social
A specialist for TREATABLE conditions? 12-18 months
Affordable housing? Multiple years
Palliative care, psychiatric care & pain management? Good luck.
This is why we’re scared. Via @paulapeters19.bsky.social
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I just had the honor of writing the blurb for this stupendous new @blaft.bsky.social publication: Gujarati Pulp Fiction, translated by @vishwambhari.bsky.social ! Strongly recommend a pre-order on this one if you want to be thrilled and chilled and amazed!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction (eBook)
AnComing December 2024! Pre-Order Your Copy Now! Click here to pre-order the print edition Selected and translated by Vishwambhari S. Parmar Edited by Rakesh Khanna Cover design by Nabi H. Ali A roll...
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November 28, 2024 at 9:22 PM