also stop defunding libraries!

In Taiwan, members of the publishing sector are not only celebrating the win, but reminding people that gov't-sponsored translation grants were recently targeted by the opposition as "wasteful", and this very writer criticized (by some in the opposition) for being "too political" and "talentless".

'The decision to close it was taken despite the faculty continuing to plan high-profile campus events, including the booking this month of US civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw.' 1/2

Ever wondered whether transcription services might play a crucial role progressing your project, but not sure where to start? Join our Founder & CEO, Dr Zara Bain, on Tues 26 May at 7pm BST (GMT+1) for a free, live webinar where we'll talk you through everything you need to know. Sign up here ✍️

I wrote about Jordan Lord's work, and in hindsight realised this was a manifesto against access slop: lux.org.uk/new-artist-f...

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

It’s your last chance to book our FREE webinar on the effects of AI on visual culture! Join our experts as they discuss Image Empire, Dr. Alan Warburton’s new animation. The session examines how “large world models” fuse the real and the virtual together in potent new forms buff.ly/3pyfqsA

seriously 2026, heat the person not the room

Another book for the transcription archive. I did my phd project on labour of captioning and how captioner can curate access intimacy for their deaf readers. also @zaranosaur.bsky.social is doing a lot of great work around transcription justice

So happy to get a copy of the amazing ‘Thanks for Typing’ exhibition at @harvard.edu, with brilliant research into women’s type labour by @cejacobson.bsky.social and colleagues! 📖🎉

Amazing team leading on this summer school

Wes Streeting must kick Palantir out of our NHS. Donald Trump's favourite tech giant shouldn't be allowed anywhere near Brits' private health data. There are fantastic British tech firms who would be far better and safer for the NHS.

Not next month but this coming Friday!

We live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence. Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at @algorithmickitchen.bsky.social next month www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...

One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr

Did a podcast for the @blnreview.bsky.social with the fabulous Lauren Oyler - about my recent essay and practically everything else: blnreview.podigee.io/24-deborah-f...

It's me and that damn book again umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Excited to be in conversation with @louhicky.bsky.social in Cambridge April 17!

We live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence. Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at @algorithmickitchen.bsky.social next month www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...

Solidarity with the transgender & intersex communities in India after the Amendment Bill was bulldozed through houses of parliament replacing self-identification with mandatory medical certification. My #KilljoySolidarity with you in this fight. Friends, sign & fight! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you need a delightful watch www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thank you so much to those of you who came along to Tuesday night's panel discussion on Transcription for Racial Justice, and even bigger thanks to our three fantastic panellists, @elisney.bsky.social, @divyampersaud.com and @wardasworld.bsky.social >

What are you up to tonight? At 7pm I'm delighted to be joining a fantastic line-up of panellists to hold space and explore the question of transcription can reinforce racial injustice or resist it? To book and help us raise funds for causes we love, follow the link in the post below

Even courtroom transcribers certified to 95% accuracy "consistently failed" maintain that level of accuracy when transcribers speakers using African American Vernacular English, with implications for courtroom justice. Join us tomorrow for an online panel discussing Transcription for Racial Justice

Another symptom of late capitalism is pothole discourse.

I'm so looking forward to this panel! Access work (including the debt of access work) doesn’t disappear; it simply changes hands, accumulating where resources are thinnest.

Captioning technology had a moment at the Oscars!

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."

Archive Stories has a new series on archiving and remembering the Tricontinental and Third Worldism, out now! archive-stories.com/Archiving-th...

We have set up a mailing list for the Algorithmic Kitchen project. You can subscribe to keep updated on kitchen workshops, events and news. lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/c...

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3

There are overlaps with the embodied classroom, where Deaf gain and using informal hand gestures to perform weekly skits shifted students attention from their tech to engagement. cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/the-emb...

Resharing is still very relevant on the scale of care and access. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/standar...

Don't miss this exciting opportunity! Bodies & Embodiment in Critical Medical Humanities Summer School for doctoral students in Sweden in September!! Application deadline is Feb 16. liu.se/en/research/...

Really looking forward to this:

The “BSL is Not for Sale” report is featured in today's Guardian. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).

Imagine the possibilities of disability-led infrastructure!

A short description of the Algorithmic Kitchen, funded by Wellcome Trust, is up on CRASSH. Nancy Salem joins the project to work on the futures of ageing and disability. Archival Image courtesy of the J. A. Manter Photographs, UConn Photograph Collection. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/pro...

Screening of Jenny Brady's work in Glasgow tonight. I will join Jenny online to discuss her work on the fragile form of communication, including audio description and captioning. It's an in-person event. luxscotland.org.uk/programme/ev...

I could walk from my office down to this beach in ten minutes.

If you're new here and happen to see this, here's a Critical Tech starter pack, full of interesting folk to follow go.bsky.app/VFxSES6 And if you have a small account (<10k followers) and would like to be added for visibility, let me know! (Although response times may be slow)

like big tobacco funding cancer research

In my book Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism, I write about the #MillionsMissing protests as demonstrating, quoting Judith Butler in Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, "what it means to mobilize vulnerability in concert." #NietHersteld does this too. manifold.umn.edu/projects/lln...

And whilst I'm here! If you're thinking of buying SYSTEMS ULTRA as a festive gift (neon cover also doubles as SAD lamp), I'd be happy to mail you a set of bookmarks and holographic stickers to go along with it - please get in touch [1/4]

Please listen to this amazing episode with Stefanie Felsberger @flsbrgr.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...

Looking forward to hearing on @clemicollett.bsky.social new report later today at 12pm!

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...