Building out your syllabi for next semester? Wonderful! Check out the Disability Studies Quarterly archive for about 100 digitized, open access, accessible issues. No matter what topic you're teaching, there's probably something in #DisStudies to assign. dsq-sds.org #AcademicSky

Flawed notions of objectivity are hampering Canadian newsrooms when it comes to Gaza theconversation.com/flawed-notio...

Excellent article - an example of connecting ethical community engaged research and knowledge sharing to moving towards " The solution is to build a new, decolonized system, Friske said." Want Mental Health Care to Work? Let Marginalized Patients Design It via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...

What the hidden rhythms of orangutan calls can tell us about language – new research theconversation.com/what-the-hid...

380+ writers from England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. "The term 'genocide' is not a slogan. It carries legal, political, and moral responsibilities." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Uninformed comments on autism are resonant of dangerous ideas about eugenics theconversation.com/uninformed-c...

Ontario Chief Coroner reports raise concerns that MAID policy and practice focus on access rather than protection theconversation.com/ontario-chie...

Did Divestment Protests Succeed at UBC? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

Good Night World

I see a people starting to feel comfortable that Mark Carney and the Liberals are a sure thing! Nothing is a sure thing! The US thought that KAMALA was a sure thing and TRUMP won. We must get out the VOTE! Please #share this post with anyone that didn't vote in the advance polls! #CANADA #Cdnpoli

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... Six Policy Areas Where Poilievre Mirrors Trump Taken together they would radically change Canada to reflect what’s being imposed in the US. #canpoli #cdnpoli #election #poievre #trump #TimbitTrump #Canada #USA #Conseratives

It was an honour to be a guest with my good friend Dr. Annette Henry on Don't Call me Resilient. Thank you Vinita Srivastava for creating so many exceptional episodes of DCMR. The world is in crisis – what role should our universities play? theconversation.com/the-world-is...

"If Columbia confronts the administration on its own, it will lose. If America’s nearly 6,000 colleges launch a campaign in defense of higher ed, Trump will lose. If Harvard and others remain in their protective shells, there is a good chance that no one will." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Los Angeles is leading the way in resisting Trump’s mass deportations wagingnonviolence.org/2025/02/mass...

Effective Leadership can be uncomfortable

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

As President Donald Trump doubles down on his pledge to shutter the U.S. Department of Education, the ramifications for students with #disabilities could be severe, advocates say. #SpecialEducation

17 (MAGA) states are suing to overturn disability protections & dismantle all civil rights protections for the disabled.

DEI needs to fix systems, not people theconversation.com/dei-needs-to...

Brad Lomax, diagnosed with MS, fought for disability rights after facing inaccessible transit. He united the Civil Rights & disability rights movements, securing Black Panther support for sit-ins. Though he died at 33, his activism helped pave the way for the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated. We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.

It’s funny because it’s true 👇

THIS is Our INSTRUCTION

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

Ponder this.

Last month, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism released survey findings “document[ing] the losses, humanitarian conditions, & multitude of challenges faced by Palestinian journalists” during the genocide in Gaza. @eksbainbridge.bsky.social reports ⬇️ www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...