Hey fellow Chaucerians! I'm teaching a seminar this semester on the Canterbury Tales (with a brief HoF detour), and I'm still determining the secondary readings.W hat are some of your favorite recent articles/chapter/books on Chaucer? TIA. Picture for the algorithm.

Humanities programs have ceded scholarship of the premodern to bad actors on the right. This is a serious problem, not only because it represents a loss of current and future knowledge, but also because it enables white supremacists and Christian nationalists to twist history to their own ends.

Thread. OP's is a very common story. Instead of tailored accommodations, students get "extra time" even if they don't need or want it. And then unneeded "extra time" gives naysayers the grounds to whine about accommodations.

I don't love Walz' response here TBH. It reads like, no, you're the ones with disability problems instead of just condemning the use of the r-word. people.com/tim-walz-hit...

I love you, Alice. Give them hell from behind the veil 🧡

www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong... here’s where to send funds to continue Alice’s legacy <3

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

I thank you, Alice Wong—author, activist, daughter, sister, friend, and innovator—for being with us here for as long as you were. I thank you for blessing our larger community with your courage, your love, your indignation, and your fierce advocacy through #DisabilityVisibility.

RIP Alice Wong, fiercest, finest, most fabulously dressed freedom fighter and friend. She changed the world a bit at a time every day and never stopped loving it. She taught me so much. I can’t believe this. I miss her bravery and clarity already. 💔♿️

Just out: out latest issue on “access”, featuring @rickgodden.bsky.social, Katherine Little, Kisha Tracy, Sophia Liu, & Stephen Yeager! Also @hannahalucas.bsky.social, Karen Elaine Smyth, an interview with Mohamed K Dhouib, and “How I Teach” with Kristen Haas Curtis! escholarship.org/uc/ncs_pedag...

Calling all Folklore people! Come be my colleague! If anyone knows of people that might be interested, please share widely. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0260...

Wordsworth: welcome to the meeting of Romantic Poets. We need to set our agenda, and I am recommending clouds, flowers, or possibly clouds shaped like flowers Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant William Blake: or thicc Satan Wordsworth: or what??? Blake: I have produced a sketch-

Anyway, check out my guide fellow reporters! j-source.ca/a-guide-for-...

I wrote about the em dash

In May, our Co-Investigator Prof Tanya Titchkosky led a Spring Institute "Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving" on disability perceptions in and outside of medicine at OISE University of Toronto. Read Tanya's reflections on the event: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

Black Sabbath and black-leather Xenomorphs. Chestbursters and headbangers. I wrote about the heavy metal vibes of ALIEN: EARTH for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1991...

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Can’t wait to tell my students about this

Slightly diminish a band: Soundpatio

The Washington Post running this five days after a shooting directly caused by this kind of disinformation is - and I very rarely use this phrase - journalistic malpractice. Meanwhile, what have elected Democrats or public health leaders had to show so far other than literal thoughts and prayers?

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Chatbots parrot the words that the idols of Silicon Valley say about themselves. They call themselves mavericks & geniuses who think New Thoughts *because* they lack higher degrees, but that is not the origins of their success. Their success was in getting silly VC money through connections.

A suitably sunny day to receive my author copy of Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power from @illinoispress.bsky.social Looking forward to exploring the other chapters! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

"Listen here, my good bitch. Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI."

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Counterpoint to the AHA Committee: it is NOT OUR JOB TO TEACH AI literacy. It is our job to teach students history, critical thinking; how to interrogate and analyse sources, primary and secondary; how to write and weave historical narratives; how to communicate history to the public and more.

All five of these are lazy and three of them are essentially fraudulent

Seriously, fuck off. I say that with all due gravity.

First off, let me begin by saying I really like my doctor. He has been very responsive when I send him a message, and he listens well. Recently, he prescribed me a new drug, and I had some questions for him, including what time of day I should take it. (1/3)

"I don't always know the right thing to do, Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you."

Every semester without fail.

Thanks to @publicbooks.bsky.social for publishing my short piece on disability, erasure and @ashleyshoo.bsky.social 's brilliant "Against Technoableism.

Even against all of Trump's cascading attacks over the past seven months, it had seemed that up until now, our culture at large—the literal shows, movies, art, music, literature we consume—seemed somewhat siloed from Trump's fury. But the end of Colbert marks a dark new stage.

Yes, I saw people expressing a lot of empathy for the men who use the chatbots, which, of course, I can see why, but I also saw it as one more way that technology would/could facilitate the dehumanization, harassment and abuse of women everywhere.

Different fields, but I feel something similar to this at times, too.

St. Catherine of Siena has entered the chat

This has a real "Hello, fellow humans" vibe.

Memorizing all my friends' phone numbers, of which most was the main phone for the family. Only a few had personal lines.

“If anyone...agrees sheltered workshops should continue, [they] obviously never worked at one." For @motherjones.com, I spoke with disabled workers who used to be paid subminimum wage about Trump admin nixing the plan to end it for disabled people federally. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The anti-DEI moral panic, fed by the NYT and others, including people like Tyler Austin Harper, has never considered or cared that "DEI" programs included programs for disabled students, lower income families, first generation students, and veterans. All they cared about was knocking it down.

when Sonja's got the goods, you get got

xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:

Well now let’s wait for the task force to weigh in on this one before we rush to judgment

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

Thank you to @mariatown.bsky.social of @aapd-disability.bsky.social , @nicolejorwic.bsky.social of @caringacross.org and @elenahung.bsky.social of @littlelobbyists.com for jumping on calls with me on this sad day.

"An absolute moral failure." Around one in three disabled people are on Medicaid. I spoke to disability advocates about how devastated they are that the House passed the budget bill that will slash close to a trillion from Medicaid at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...