Or come for a book talk from David Serlin on his most recent title, "Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 5/5

I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever

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...

30 years ago today the Disability Discrimination Act became law in the UK. We're at Insole Court, Cardiff today for #BeingHumanFestival25 reflecting on it's legacy

just wild how still, almost 20 years into researching what I've been researching, a friend is like "have you seen this masters thesis from 1985" and i click 2 links and have it on my computer, and I've never seen it before. I am thinking AI cannot do this but I do appreciate that regular search can.

Lia Smith was a transgender rights advocate and athlete who spoke out forcefully against this administration's policies. Rest in peace. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power. www.middleburycampus.com/article/2025...

I just wanna point out that this online No Kings protest organized by disabled folks is offering more opportunities for follow-up and additional action than I’ve seen for any of the in-person events. Not hatin’- just sayin’ 💁🏽‍♀️

boosting & reading disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/15/g...

Wow a bracing interview on NPR 's Here & now about birth control misinfo on Tiktok, particularly aligned with claims from the likes of Charlie Kirk that birth control has a detrimental effect on women's patches/personalities so they need to get off it to know their true selves

Great to see this new bio of Ed Roberts, one of the key figures in the US Disability Rights Mvmt. Looks like great detail on the legislative and politics work he did beyond what he's best known for in Berkeley. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Following this thread!

Am a fan of the Vibe Check podcast just to get to listen to these 3 great friends who are super smart, caring, knowledgeable, and love dogs and music and poetry. And if you need a super cathartic, absolute takedown of Bari Weiss today, go to about 35 min pca.st/episode/daa5...

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

fascinated by the fine print of this

People will say the younger generations aren't tough but I'm at an outdoor concert where it's upward of 80 F and people are wearing sweatshirts and tweed jackets. Horrors for my perimenopausal eyes.

I'm thinking of this piece I wrote way back in June 2014, about the problematic assumption that when you're a starting PhD student or PGR who is disabled, you'll know what access support you'll need, even though you've never done a research degree before phdisabled.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/t...

I've gotten so many spam calls lately I've started answering them to see what kind of calls they are. Scary thing is not knowing if this corny sounding dude is just really skilled at trying to turn this conversation around to get my personal info, or if that dude is a bot that is very good at that.

Oh I didn't know this!

in my search for more writing that is less AI susceptible and engaging in general, I had a new type of assignment this semester - "week in review," where students look back over class notes, slides, and our online whiteboard to summarize what we discussed and their assessment of what they learned.

oh no my favorite fidget provider All Things Sensory makes a fidget toy ADVENT CALENDAR. I do not need 24 days of fidgets. But maybe I could need 12. For #research www.allthingssensoryshop.com/product-page...

Way more masks in airports rn (from limited observation). Weird silver lining of recent vaccine discourse is finding out that people actually do remember that COVID exists. Can be hard to tell sometimes.

An even handed overview of what is going on, for people like me who get stressed out by rumor and meme-based news absorption (& bc old fashioned news outlets are completely absent on this beat) www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...

UC Berkeley Depart of History tenure-track asst prof job in Global History of Technology. History of technological artifacts & infrastructures through a global & transnational lens. All fields, areas, & periods of #HistTech considered For more info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065 #HPS 🗃️

I will literally never learn not to leave image permissions to the end of a project. JFC

my pettiest* professor annoyance is with profs who do not wipe off their whiteboards. You can bet I am trying to guess whose class content this is, and judging. Reeks of "my ideas are the most important" not to mention "I expect other people to clean up after me" *oh I probably have pettier

This interview by @annehelen.bsky.social with @hzeavin.bsky.social will slay you if you're a modern parent pca.st/podcast/909a... Seems like Mother Media could be the next More Work for Mother i.e. helping a whole generation rethink their childhood when they read it in college/grad school

This is the history that we stand to lose if the Trump administration is allowed to continue to dismantle and gut the National Park Service. Thanks to Ashley Whitehead Luskey for writing this brutally honest and deeply personal op-ed. #NationalParks www.historians.org/perspectives...

“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...

GoFundMe in comments

"Secretary Order 3431 . . . poses a threat to the interpretation of American history at NPS sites. The directive demands that the NPS revise educational materials, exhibits, and programs to avoid what it calls “ideological bias.” 🏳️‍🌈 🗃️ 🍎 🗺️ www.oah.org/2025/06/18/s...

Celebrating the fact that Juneteenth was something I never heard of for the first half of my life as a white American, that is now a national holiday. Public history is a gift of shared knowledge.

NEW IN #Mystery! THE DEAD COME TO STAY is out Aug 5; it’s the sequel to award winning FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE—one of the few #books with an #autistic protagonist who claims her #autism! Below is the trailer for book one, and book two will be my next post. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

My most annoying party self is me lecturing people about how f-ed up the story of Hermione 's anti elf slavery campaign is. Definitely important to boycott JKR if you like the books though.

My favorite kind of academic writing is like the a conspiracy bulletin board with yarn connections all over. In other words, always pointing to other people's ideas, citing, building on. The opposite is always inventing new words, new frameworks for things other people have already written about.

Listening to Jillian Michaels discussing autism with Joe Rogan for my morning rage. Truly what are we as a society where these people have such $ and reach. Better links in thread...

summer hasn't really started until I get super stressed about a deadline/event I've missed and it turns out to be next week. So, happy summer. (winter is the season ushered in by me realizing it was actually last week)

Good article and looking forward to the V&A's new show on Disability & Design curated by Natalie Kane Tho have to admit I can't see the OMA Bourdeaux house (pictured) the same way after watching a documentary about the housekeeper constantly cleaning up its leaking concrete.

Society for Disability Studies "non-conference" today with a book talk and responses to Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp's Disability Worlds. Zoom links👇🏻

Sure, you can spend months on a journal article but can you spend 20 minutes ticking random boxes and filling in tedious forms to submit it?

thank you @jamellebouie.net for putting words to the contradiction I keep seeing of graduates of elite universities proud of their degree, highly valuing their kids getting in, yet also seeking to destroy these institutions at the same time.

2025 has witnessed crisis after crisis. We are launching a new series: “Emergency Response” to contextualize emerging crises. Our team encourages health historians to use their expertise to confront threats to public health. More on how to contribute here: nursingclio.org/2025/05/21/i...

given all the crappy discourse on politicians and their bodies I am coming around to Futurama's model of featuring politicians in head-only format.

“The lesson to learn from this history is that confining young people with disability is not only ineffective and eugenic, it is also unconstitutional and unjust.” Read @drkyliesmith.bsky.social latest article for Nursing Clio here ⬇️ nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...

I think it's telling that I feel most neurodivergent when reading things that try to classify how people learn and think.

Smaller context than this but I went to sign my kid up for a photography camp in the city parks system but then saw that it was mostly about how to post on Instagram and establish your brand (for 4-6 graders). Also cost 2x many of the other camps in the system.

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

historians of domesticity & childhood I SEE YOU formulating some hot takes on this current doll moment (not to be confused with current "the dolls" moment, that is for WGS scholars)

truly smart scam email I just received that asked me if I could do a quick favor for an academic society I've been involved in (then a follow up asking me to pay something via wire transfer that I'd be reimbursed for later). Preying on mid-career women academics' sense of service, nice job scammers.

At issue is a case testing the reach of federal laws that promise special help for children with disabilities in public schools. Specifically: What do parents have to prove in order to get that specialized help?

eBay remains one of the best websites ever. Longest lasting while still being functional and supplying surprise and IRL joy, doesn't seem to significantly screw over seller or buyer. Internet scholar friends is there a history/sociology /anthro of eBay?