Jules Beesley
@julesbeesley.bsky.social
Arts-integration and crit media lit educator in ATX | anti-COVID | pro-disabled folx | he/him
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Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
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You can also follow them all here:
The Sick Times: @thesicktimes.bsky.social
Betsy: @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social
Miles: @mileswgriffis.bsky.social
The Sick Times: @thesicktimes.bsky.social
Betsy: @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social
Miles: @mileswgriffis.bsky.social
Very cool. Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis have launched THE SICK TIMES--a new digital newsroom devoted to covering long COVID.
Here's the launch letter, and there's a newsletter you can subscribe to: thesicktimes.org/newsletter/
I trust these folks and am excited to see where this goes.
Here's the launch letter, and there's a newsletter you can subscribe to: thesicktimes.org/newsletter/
I trust these folks and am excited to see where this goes.
Welcome to The Sick Times, a letter from our co-founder Miles W. Griffis
It’s not mysterious. A highly contagious airborne virus has spread around the world for the past four years and continues to infect people as I write. SARS-Cov-2 has killed an excess of 23 million �...
thesicktimes.org
November 14, 2023 at 7:08 PM
You can also follow them all here:
The Sick Times: @thesicktimes.bsky.social
Betsy: @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social
Miles: @mileswgriffis.bsky.social
The Sick Times: @thesicktimes.bsky.social
Betsy: @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social
Miles: @mileswgriffis.bsky.social
Insights on generative AI and homework by a 4th grader #critmedialit #generativeai
October 16, 2023 at 11:12 AM
Insights on generative AI and homework by a 4th grader #critmedialit #generativeai
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"There’s plenty of masking, but not the kind that prevents infection. The government is masking its failure. It’s masking the ableism its rhetoric has encouraged. It’s masking the cruelty of a system that shuts down the lives of clinically vulnerable people." — @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Covid deaths are on the rise again, so what happens? Mask-wearing in hospitals is scrapped | George ...
The only masking that’s going on is that of the government’s continued failure to get to grips with the virus, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2023 at 7:34 AM
"There’s plenty of masking, but not the kind that prevents infection. The government is masking its failure. It’s masking the ableism its rhetoric has encouraged. It’s masking the cruelty of a system that shuts down the lives of clinically vulnerable people." — @georgemonbiot.bsky.social