Such an exciting launch day for Beautiful Mystery! I'm a guest on two podcasts that dropped today, with two wonderful hosts: Michelle Glogovac and Kelley Vick.

Read the Damn Book (podcast): open.spotify.com/episode/6VBY...

Literary Prospects (podcast): www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZEN...

REGISTRATION OPEN FOR CDS PGR CONFERENCE on 17th September disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/events/pgrco...

Hi Ria, feel free to submit an abstract!

Our PGR Network are hosting a conference 'Disability within Environments: disability studies perspectives' on 17th September 2025. The call for papers is live with a deadline of 12th June. Please share with your networks

CONGRATS!! You’re a force to be reckoned with!

Cripping ethnography: Disability Creativity and Ethnographic Research panel! @sumicol.bsky.social @erindurban.bsky.social

It is a privilege to be presenting at the Society for Applied Anthropology Conference in Portland, Oregon today! The title of my paper is - Care in the Neoliberal Academy: Exploring the Disruption of Disabled Academics’ Embodied Experiences.

Anti-ableist resources pools key readings, advice and support from university researchers and disabled people's organisations:

www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc...

See this important protest happening in Leeds next wednesday morning about cuts to disability benefits!

facebook.com/events/s/lee...

Have a look at what our network has to offer through this Blog post. We will be announcing our next event, taking place in June, very soon so watch this space!

www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

My (updated) research profile

essl.leeds.ac.uk/sociology-re...

really excited to read this!

Wowza! Page proofs! The thing is typeset - it’s really happening?!
This is technically my second book, but in a lot of ways that count, it is my first book… the book that developed out of my dissertation.

RIP Devva Kasnitz - a truly inspirational, kind, fiery disability scholar and activist! The DS community has lost a kindred spirit, but she will never be forgotten. An infrastructural activist whose influence knows no bounds. Thank you for all you’ve taught me 💛

portrait by Mallory Kay Nelson

@wrdisability.bsky.social Follow this disability networks - run by Northern PGRs in the UK for Northern Disability Studies students! 💛

📢 New job! Come work with our lovely colleague Jade French on a 4 year inclusive arts action research project! Please share widely!
Closing date 10th January
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Our “Cripping Ethnography: Disability Creativity and Ethnographic Research” panel with @sumicol.bsky.social, @mirandadj.bsky.social, @kikiyates.bsky.social, and Sailer was accepted at SfAA! Anyone else going to Portland for the conference? #disabilityanthropology

appliedanthro.org/annual-meeti...

To echo what Erin said, Anna Jaysane-Darr and I have co-edited a volume through Routledge titled "The Disabled Anthropologist." It should be available by Spring, perhaps by April. The contributors range from graduate students to retirees and those early or mid-career.

Reflections on our recent conference from PGR students Ruby Goodley and Johanna Knebel bit.ly/PGRreflections

Today our Claudia Coveney launched her excellent new book, introduced by Miro Griffiths and in discussion with Tom Campbell and Mark Priestley.
bit.ly/Coveney2024

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has announced that it will stop publishing content on X from January 20th

The organisation stated that it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”

I’m sure there are more folks out there who I haven’t connected with yet in disability anthropology or who use ethnographic approaches to critical disability studies. Send me a note if you’d like to be added! ❤️

#disability #anthropology #ethnography
#CriticalDisabilityStudies