While waiting for the book's page to go up on the publisher's website (🫣), it seems that I've just finished revising the Introduction and Chapter 1 (of 10). Posting this update here to mark some progress, as the task feels never-ending! #DisablementAndWork

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

We need a holiday to celebrate sleep that we celebrate by napping throughout the day. Would easily be an instant top three (3) holiday 🤔

Here and There, Then and Now: Disability Studies at the End of the World Call for Papers for the 2027 SDS Conference - put together by the fabulous Conference & Events Committee Deadline for submissions: September 20, 2026 Conference: 23 & 24 April 2027 sites.google.com/disstudies.o...

Never a bad day to quietly participate in a subtle work of achieving socialist utopia via careful attention to the craft of producing useful beauty in the world

My new book is out: The Dissolution of the Universities mayflybooks.org/the-dissolut... @mayflybooks.bsky.social

Chad Wellmon, After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work - Johns Hopkins University Press, June 2026 @hopkinspress.bsky.social @chadwellmon.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

Excited to say book my "Tyranny at Work: Unfreedom and the American Workplace" is now officially due out spring 2027 and available for pre-order. bookshop.org/a/125307/978... #antiwork #unions #antimonopoly

Redundancies (layoffs) are proposed at the uni that brought me to UK, targeting mostly the wonderful, exceptionally world-leading Faculty I worked in. University of Exeter is not in financial deficit, & did not consult or properly explain decision. Please sign to stop. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

How to demoralise staff and students at the University of Glasgow: jump on the bandwagon of dismantling the institution, stop the promotions process, freeze recruitment, open a voluntary severance scheme, be very vague about what will happen in the future, and much more www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Less is more. Until it is just less. By that time, the goal is to be at the head of a new university.

‘The University of Glasgow is to launch a voluntary severance scheme as part of cost reduction measures’ ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ‘It is expected that the voluntary severance scheme will be announced in August’ news.stv.tv/west-central...

The further a journey is, the more barriers Disabled people will usually face to completing it. Moving about in our own homes is usually much easier than making a longer trip around our own communities. Her are some of the barriers many Disabled people experience. What barriers do you face?

30 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Interested in how disabled people experience rest & free time? Do you self-identify as a disabled person (&/or chronically ill, neurodivergent, or other similar self-identifying terms), are over 18, & live in the UK? Consider this research questionnaire: breadrosesdisability.uk/questionnaire/

Sign up below for this free-to-attend workshop, taking place here at UofG 22-23 July, as well as via Zoom. The workshop will explore the history, current manifestations, and future possibilities of decentralised governance in West and North Africa.

Amazing candidates for membership of the SDS Board of Directors! SDS members, make sure you vote by the 13th of July 👇

DWP hides secret ‘briefing pack’ which describes views of civil servants on call for benefit deaths inquiry #DWP #BenefitDeaths www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-hides-se...

Zoom vs Teams for meetings/focus groups: Is Teams as good, accessible, and easy to log in as Zoom? If not, what barriers does Teams generally create for users, compared to Zoom? And advice would be really helpful! (Trying to navigate a process ahead of the focus groups phase)

How do you usually use your free time? If this is a question you’d like to respond to via a questionnaire (or meeting), please visit the website breadrosesdisability.uk/questionnaire This is part of the Bread & Roses: Rest, Free Time & Disability project. #Disability #FreeTime #Rest #Capitalism

#OtD 15 Jun 1911 shipping workers in the UK launched a national strike across the industry for better pay and conditions. The employers caved in within two weeks stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8689...

Virtual Conference Announcement! The Society for Disability Studies is excited to announce our call for papers, themed Here and There, Then and Now: Disability Studies at the End of the World. sites.google.com/DisStudies.o...

Give Us The Right To A Grand Day Out By Ian McMillan Just discovered this amazing poem by @imcmillan.bsky.social on The Unfurlings website theunfurlings.org.uk/the-poems/gi... #Rest #FreeTime #Disability

UK Independent Bookshop Week starts today. Support your local indie! Our communities and culture are so much richer for their existence. And here’s a poem from ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’ in praise of indie bookshops - only available in the exclusive Indie Bookshop edition.

Today’s poem is called ‘Wild Weekend’.

A new Disability Studies Quarterly issue is now out! Volume 45, Issue 3 - Spring 2026 It includes: Editors' Introduction - Jeffrey A. Brune, Donald Grushkin and Rachael Nebraska Lynch The issue can be accessed here: dsq-sds.org/issue/381/in... #DisabilityStudies #DisabilityResearch #Disability

'Night Clocks' by contemporary printmaker Lisa Benson #WomensArt

'The global configurations of Whiteness' Introduction to our latest Special Issue, Guest Edited by Ipek Demir & Karim Murji: #FreeAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research

Questionnaire - BSL video For a brief overview of the Rest, Free Time, and Disability project's questionnaire, please visit this British Sign Language video: youtu.be/chvHqr5gQXU?... #Disability #Rest #FreeTime #Capitalism

Since the Afghan data link was revealed Labour has ended key safe asylum routes to the UK and blocked work and study visas for Afghans. At a time when any humane government should be trying to protect those put at risk by UK actions Labour is leaving people to die. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We stand in solidarity with Farukh and Salma Yaqoob, both have worked tirelessly to improve their local communities as well as the country as a whole. Violence and intimidation has no space in British politics

Chile students protest education cuts and policed schools News, Jun 5th Far-right Kast government is tightening repression of students while eliminating support funds ~ La Zarzamora ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/06/05/c...

Out today - Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within by Lorenzo Feltrin "A handbook and treatise, this is a treat for trade union organisers, militant environmentalists and connoisseurs of operaismo alike." - Andreas Malm

Join us in less than 3 hours! #Marxism #Disability

Published today: the latest in our Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series. In ‘Is the Online Safety Act censoring sexual health content?’ Judas Kelley explores some of the potentially troubling consequences of this Act for those seeking sexual health information in the UK. Please share.

Questionnaire launch (Phase One of the project) Bread & Roses: The Politics of Rest and Free Time in, against, and beyond Disabling Capitalism How: Online or via a Word Document Where to access it: breadrosesdisability.uk/questionnaire/ #Rest #FreeTime #Capitalism #Disability #Work #PolEcon

Grim times ahead. 'Once ejected, people will retrain and move on. Soon enough, there will be no memory of the university as it was – just as there is already no memory of free higher education among today’s students, who find the idea scarcely imaginable'. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Also not mentioned: Yesterday's appointment of a new VP for Global Engagement (paid over £100,000). Two 'director' roles open for applications (paid over £100,000 each). The restructure into faculties & creation of 4 'executive deans' (all paid over £100,000 each). Thought we had to CUT staff?

I have a new article out in Labor, I'd appreciate if you'd read it. Thank you! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

ISRF's Dispatches series--views on university crises from academics--continues with a piece on curricular and teaching coercions that come from a seemingly neutral European-wide practice called constructive alignment. troubles of false neutrality. mailinglist.isrf.org/p/pedagogica...

Our latest calendar highlights some of the most recent attacks on resistance for Palestine across the UK & Europe: irr.org.uk/article/cale...

Bread & Roses: The Politics of Rest and Free Time In, Against, and Beyond Disabling Capitalism The project's first phase will be launched on Monday, 1st of June 2026! More soon! breadrosesdisability.uk #DisabilityResearch #Capitalism #FreeTime #Rest #Work #PolEcon #Sociology #DisabilityStudies

New government research has proved disabled activists were right to warn that receiving employment advice on top of NHS talking therapy would push many people with mental distress further away from the jobs market. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-r...

REF. Considering the ever heavier axe falling on research-intensive groups across the traditional university disciplines, I don't see how REF can go ahead. It will entrench the inherent problems & further degrade the diverse research powerhouse that the UK once was globally (until the cap etc).

Psychoanalysis is having a resurgence in popularity—but it is not helping patients navigate the harm of modern-day capitalism. From the Clinic to the Streets argues for a new, liberatory psychoanalysis, out now: www.plutobooks.com/product/from...

I can't see evidence of senior management being affected by multiple university cuts 🧐