Seon Shim
@seonshim.bsky.social
🫐PhD student in Anthropology
🫒filmmaker
🥑director of The Cat that Lives in Your Dreams
🌶️Disability Activist/Scholar
🍓Channelling Zora 24/7
🫒filmmaker
🥑director of The Cat that Lives in Your Dreams
🌶️Disability Activist/Scholar
🍓Channelling Zora 24/7
“ableism is a socially constructed complex
system of disempowerment which intersects with, and is just as pervasive
as, other systems of oppression.” -Angel L. Miles, Akemi Nishida, and Anjali J. Forber‑Pratt.
system of disempowerment which intersects with, and is just as pervasive
as, other systems of oppression.” -Angel L. Miles, Akemi Nishida, and Anjali J. Forber‑Pratt.
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“ableism is a socially constructed complex
system of disempowerment which intersects with, and is just as pervasive
as, other systems of oppression.” -Angel L. Miles, Akemi Nishida, and Anjali J. Forber‑Pratt.
system of disempowerment which intersects with, and is just as pervasive
as, other systems of oppression.” -Angel L. Miles, Akemi Nishida, and Anjali J. Forber‑Pratt.
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This Giving Tuesday, support Disability Studies Quarterly!
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#DisabilityStudies #GivingTuesday #DisabilitySky
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December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This Giving Tuesday, support Disability Studies Quarterly!
Donate via the SDS PayPal page here: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
#DisabilityStudies #GivingTuesday #DisabilitySky
Donate via the SDS PayPal page here: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
#DisabilityStudies #GivingTuesday #DisabilitySky
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AAA roundtable for The Disabled Anthropologist: Erin L. Durban, Sumi Colligan, Valerie Black (on screen), Anna Jaysane-Darr, Krisjon Olsen, Alana Ackerman, and Kim Fernandes (missing Megan Moodie who also joined by Zoom)
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
AAA roundtable for The Disabled Anthropologist: Erin L. Durban, Sumi Colligan, Valerie Black (on screen), Anna Jaysane-Darr, Krisjon Olsen, Alana Ackerman, and Kim Fernandes (missing Megan Moodie who also joined by Zoom)
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In Red Skin, White Masks, UBC political scientist Glen Coulthard notes capitalism is based on theft: a theft of time (extracting value from labour) & a theft of land (dispossessing original owners). This idea of capitalism as theft unsettles any idea of ethical investment within capitalism.
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
In Red Skin, White Masks, UBC political scientist Glen Coulthard notes capitalism is based on theft: a theft of time (extracting value from labour) & a theft of land (dispossessing original owners). This idea of capitalism as theft unsettles any idea of ethical investment within capitalism.
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This and other atrocities can be tracked at the substack of the amazing @emilybass.bsky.social
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This and other atrocities can be tracked at the substack of the amazing @emilybass.bsky.social
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The book is officially out today! I can't wait to return to Chicago and hold my copy in hand! @socmedanthro.bsky.social
In "Between Families and Institutions" @zhiyingma.bsky.social examines how the contemporary Chinese state’s biopolitical governance impacts families’ involvement in the psychiatric care of their close relatives. Read the intro for free now! #Anthropology #AsianStudies
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April 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The book is officially out today! I can't wait to return to Chicago and hold my copy in hand! @socmedanthro.bsky.social
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In case this of interest, a short piece from the "Dispatches" section of our project at GWU, "Rituals in the Making." Dispatches are short vignettes or essays derived from our research.
ritualsinthemaking.com/2023/06/26/a...
ritualsinthemaking.com/2023/06/26/a...
Autism and the Challenge of grief during the COVID-19 pandemic
DATE POSTED: June 26, 2023. Team member Roy Grinker met with a psychotherapist to talk about how neurodivergent young adults at a residential therapeutic boarding school coped with loss during the …
ritualsinthemaking.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:44 PM
In case this of interest, a short piece from the "Dispatches" section of our project at GWU, "Rituals in the Making." Dispatches are short vignettes or essays derived from our research.
ritualsinthemaking.com/2023/06/26/a...
ritualsinthemaking.com/2023/06/26/a...
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While Alice has become an ancestor, her work continues! If you want to share her wisdom with others, you can purchase copies of her books for your local library, share her dazzling array of digital media from DVP, or donate to her legacy fund: www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
Donate to Help finish Alice’s work, organized by yomi wrong
Our comrade, friend, collaborator and fierce Tiger Mischief Maker, Alice Wong, needs us.
As yo… yomi wrong needs your support for Help finish Alice’s work
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November 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
While Alice has become an ancestor, her work continues! If you want to share her wisdom with others, you can purchase copies of her books for your local library, share her dazzling array of digital media from DVP, or donate to her legacy fund: www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
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Hi, BlueSky, I’m Erin (they/them)! This account will focus on my work as an interdisciplinary professor in critical disability studies. My first book, The Sexual Politics of Empire, recently won a Lambda Literary Award. Now I’m writing a new book about disability accessibility and ethnography.
December 2, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Hi, BlueSky, I’m Erin (they/them)! This account will focus on my work as an interdisciplinary professor in critical disability studies. My first book, The Sexual Politics of Empire, recently won a Lambda Literary Award. Now I’m writing a new book about disability accessibility and ethnography.
Had the great honor to be part of the DRIG (The Disability Research Interest Group) at my very first triple As (American Anthropological Association) conference! Pictures with Cass, Fayna, and Professor Ma!
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Had the great honor to be part of the DRIG (The Disability Research Interest Group) at my very first triple As (American Anthropological Association) conference! Pictures with Cass, Fayna, and Professor Ma!