merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Such crap! Every new, ginned up capitalist gadget is hyped by those who want you to spend money, make more profits for them, while forgetting how the system screws you, e.g., by subordinating life to work & the need to prepare for it, "commute" to it, & recuperate from it.

Not too early to add my book to your best of 2026 list: brill.com/display/titl...

Amazing result in UNISON, with Andrea Egan @andrea4gs.bsky.social becoming the new General Secretary and booting out the right in the union! Off you go, Christina McAnea 👋

CALL: seminar funding for 2026 The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for. Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking. ➡️

Welp, my phd thesis on Charles Mills’s epistemology of ignorance is finally available online research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/studentTh...

Exciting news! A new Special Issue, on Mad Methods, has been published in our journal, Disability Studies Quarterly If you're looking for a great weekend read, this might be exactly what you need! Guest edited by Efrat Gold and Michael Rembis, the SI includes 12 articles & a Prefatory Matter piece

I just wrote a letter to the leadership of The New School via actionnetwork.org/letters/stop... Do so too, now! The attacks on TNS’ staff and students are deeply troubling and should be opposed by everyone within and outside #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #OneOfUsAllOfUs

Our most recent AAUP TV episode, "Fighting Extreme Austerity Attacks at The New School," features faculty from AAUP TNS who discuss the ongoing crisis at The New School and how organized higher ed workers are fighting back. Full episode here👇

#22 - Alex 'I'd tell them that they're right, everything that they say is right - all of the feelings that they have about how wrong and how shitty everything is, and how things should be better, they're absolutely right'. - Alex 1/2

I have a new paper out in @ripejournal.bsky.social: From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion It's Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Scottish and UK governments are failing to uphold disability rights, says watchdog www.disabilitynewsservice.com/scottish-and...

Very excited to collaborate with Notes from Below on a Disability & Work Issue On 21st January we'll be hosting an online workshop - an open space for sharing ideas on work, it'll draw on previous workers' inquiries to introduce methods/frameworks for writing about your experiences luma.com/spnoc68z

Keir Starmer has signed a new trade deal with Donald Trump, on medicines. British ministers claim it is "world-beating" and will help tens of thousands of NHS patients. The reality is it will cost the NHS billions and lead to thousands of deaths. My column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

SDS 2026 Awards: Call for Nominations & Call for Award Reviewers The Society for Disability Studies (SDS) invites community members to participate in the 2026 SDS Awards in two ways: * submit nominations for the awards, and * apply to serve on Awards Review Committees. disstudies.org/nominate/

Folks, The Kite Trust is an amazing charity that does wonderful work for LGBTQ+ young people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. They provide a safe space to LGBTQ+ young people. They have a significant funding shortfall for their youth work provision. Please donate. mailchi.mp/thekitetrust...

Are you an SDS member who wants to get more involved? Our awards committee is looking for members who might review for one or two different awards categories! If you want to support the recognition of amazing artists, mentors, and researchers this is a great opportunity 1/3

In our latest, @nhold.bsky.social returns to the show to discuss the way law creates the bounds of “justifiable” violence and consecrates brutality, and why deportation is wrong, no matter the circumstances www.patreon.com/posts/144753...

this episode has a fantastic discussion about the counterinsurgent use of "that's illegal" and some great thinking about the pitfalls of "no kings" type mobilization. has me thinking differently about coalitional politics. highly recommend -- 25 minute teaser link in the thread below!

Be it our on-line events, reading group sessions, conference participation, or publications, the MDN’s contribution to debates on Marxism and disability has grown exponentially. We invite you to submit your proposal for a 2026 event by the end of Jan.: marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/m...

A new CNN report uncovers that the IDF knowingly: •Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour •Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves •Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs •Never documented these murders & tried to hide them This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.

#21 - Mark 'If you're lucky to find something that you love to do - do it! But also remember that if you want to continue and make a positive difference in the stuff that you do, then you can't influence and help others if you don't take care of yourself'. - Mark 1/3 #RestAndDisability

Yet another attack on disabled people by attempting to take away as many kinds of infrastructures for going through everyday life with fewer social restrictions #DisabilityAndWork

Putting together a proposal for a @pspolisci.bsky.social symposium on disability and pedagogy. If you are interested in submitting a piece, please contact me for details!

If you missed our event yesterday but are interested in accessing its video recording, it is now up on our youtube playlist. Does Capital Presuppose a Neurotypical Laborer? (with Joel Wainwright) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCc... #Marxism #Disability #MarxismDisability

This #GivingTuesday2025 @disstudies.bsky.social is fundraising to support #DisabilityStudies. Funding will help us maintain a paid editorship at Disability Studies Quarterly, provide accessibility at events, and support endowed awards paypal.com/donate/?camp... 1/6

Sending much solidarity @sheffielducu.bsky.social. These punitive deductions are immoral and any conscionable employer should steer away from them. There are cases going through courts trying to clear up the legal grey area: qmucu.org/working-grou...

Over the past 45 years, the DSQ Journal has fostered & shaped #DisabilityStudies Under the stewardship of 20+ editors, the journal has given scholars a platform to publish their work through 175+ issues. To continue this legacy & impact, support SDS/DSQ www.paypal.com/donate/?host... #GivingTuesday

The event with Joel Wainwright has just started!

Worker Writing Workshop (MDN & Notes From Below) in Jan We will draw on previous workers' inquiries to introduce methods & frameworks for writing about your experiences of work & organising The registration link has been shared on the MDN mailing list marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/w...

Support Disability Studies Quarterly! Trusted institutions are crumbling around the globe, seemingly all at once. In the wake of rising authoritarianism and eugenic thought, we want to ensure that intellectual spaces platforming disabled perspectives remain strong. #GivingTuesday #DisabilityStudies

This ‘agreement’ seeks to turn this institution into anything but a university / space of research, teaching, and learning

Interested in Alternatives to Capitalism🔨? Our call for papers for the 2026 SASE Conference in Bordeaux is out! Deadline: 16 December 2025. We encourage pre-formed panel submissions and individual papers. Looking fw to renewing our faith in humanity. @sasemeeting.bsky.social sase.org/networks/i-a...

This Dec, SDS and DSQ are fundraising for event & conference accessibility services, scholarly awards, and paid DSQ editorship(s) - to support authors, artists, activists & researchers who work in #DisabilityStudies. Join SDS: www.patreon.com/c/Societyfor... Donate: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

A call for papers!

2 Dec MDN members are invited to read a brief section from Chapter 6 of Wainwright’s recent book The End: Marx, Darwin, and the natural history of the climate crisis (Verso, 2025) - this may prove stimulating and generate an interesting discussion during the event. www.versobooks.com/products/334...

This #GivingTuesday the SDS and the Disability Studies Quarterly are trying something new! We hope you join us in supporting authors, artists, activists, and researchers who work in #DisabilityStudies. 1/5

Great discussion at @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social Australian Sociological Association Annual Conf. y'day! Thanks to the Sociology of Work, Labour & Economy Stream for placing such interestingly linked presentations (Aastha Thakur's, Kirsten Ambrens', Brendan Churchill's & mine) on the same panel

Many thanks to the Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social for hosting a workshop co-delivered with Amanda Apgar earlier today, on conference presentations (and related matters). Support SDS & become a member! #DisabilityStudies #HigherEd www.patreon.com/c/societyfor...

🤩 Now there's a thought....

Neil Davidson Writing Fellowship - intended to support early career researchers whose work is informed by, and seeks to extend, progressive and radical traditions of critical investigation broadly conceived: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/joResearchb/...

You've got 2.5 months to think about & put together your abstract for a 2026 MDN event! ⏳

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Sure, your writing needs to be engaging - but have you tried listening to your draft read aloud to see how quickly it might put you to sleep? High-quality naps should perhaps be part of a writer's promised deliverables, as yet another form of engagement.

‘Tell me: what do you enjoy the most about your current role - the low pay, the long hours, the workload you can’t control? Or your feeling of relief when you’re absolutely anywhere else?’ Brian Bilston & The Catenary Wires youtu.be/xvwvI6eoyFs?...

Our next MDN event will take place on Tue, 2nd December 2025 from 6:30pm GMT (UK time) 'Does Capital presuppose a neurotypical laborer?' - Joel Wainwright The abstract is available here: marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/d... Join our mailing list for the link to the event!

Over the coming months, I will be working on a book that focuses on some aspects of the arguments developed through this project. Sharing this here as a way of pressuring myself into a more disciplined writing routine and to let mutuals know that something might be on the way.

#20 - Egista 'For me the most important thing is to kill that "little capitalist devil inside ourselves" because that's toxic to everyone and it's very stupid and it's generated by this interlocked system of oppression, capitalism, & normalcy. The starting point is to be better able'.. - Egista 1/2

Want to join the SDS? Members can pay dues on our Patreon. Dues keep org alive and support a whole slew of initiatives. Membership dues support editorships at Disability Studies Quarterly, and allow us to plan for accessible events and conferences. Join today at: www.patreon.com/SocietyforDi...