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Jessie Male she/her
@profjmale.bsky.social
Disability Studies & Memoir scholar. Professor & Accessibility Consultant. Writer and vintage seller. NYC kid in Pittsburgh.
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MoMA PS1 will offer free admission to all visitors for the next three years starting January 1, 2026.
MoMA PS1 to Offer Free Admission Starting in 2026
The Queens museum will waive entry fees for three years to coincide with its 50th anniversary.
hyperallergic.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A fun aspect about healthcare in America is a medication can cost 2.5k without insurance and 7k with insurance, so once insurance caps are taken into consideration, you put 2.5k on your credit card and go into CREDIT CARD DEBT to avoid MEDICAL DEBT.
September 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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"How to Report ICE" zine editions now available for free printable download:

NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
Pittsburgh, PA
All of Massachusetts
Northern California from Humboldt to Monterey Counties!

More to come! Please share widely.

drive.google.com/drive/folder...
August 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The first question every single admitted student should be asking of their prospective university program—what are you doing to protect community members from being deported? What will you do when they come for me?
NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why.
Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime.

One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.
Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted
What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.
zeteo.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
So excited that my dear friend Sangamithra Iyer's book is available for pre-order! This is a memoir more than 15 years in the making--and absolutely worth the wait.

milkweed.org/book/governi...
Governing Bodies | Milkweed Editions
milkweed.org
March 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Here’s a nice set of reading lists Barnard’s library has assembled, if you need some ideas.
LibGuides: Disability Justice: A Reader's Guide: Where to Start
Hi y'all! This is an introduction to Disability Justice including foundational texts as well as fun readings about Disability or for a Disabled reader These books are a great place to start when lear...
guides.library.barnard.edu
February 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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News is overwhelming. People offline don't understand what's happening. Their rights are being pulled out from under them. Print out these flyers and take it to the streets. Featuring a QR cosd that links to explainer and action items. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/12/t...
February 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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“We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow. That is the point of a transgenocide, the loss of life, and it doesn't matter how it happens.”
a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights.

how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com
A Year Without Nex Benedict
"We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow."
www.teenvogue.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I’m still thinking about the ethical breach of the publication of Twitch Boss’s journal entries in Allison Holker’s memoir. There is a line in @lillydancyger.bsky.social’s memoir about “there are secrets that aren’t mine to tell.” That is a lesson all memoirists need to consider.
January 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Do yourself a favor and stream A Different Man, a brilliant piece of disability art. Incredible performances by Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson. Would love to witness it get all the flowers it deserves.
Sebastian Stan has won Best Actor in a Comedy at the #GoldenGlobes  for ‘A DIFFERENT MAN’

See the full winners list: bit.ly/GlobeWins25
January 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.

Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
December 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM