Excited to be in conversation with @louhicky.bsky.social in Cambridge April 17!

Coming to @4sweb.bsky.social 2026? @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and I are organizing an open panel on 'Confronting Contemporary Eugenics" (see p. 72 of the accepted panels for details). We'd love to consider your submission! #STS #antieugenics #disabilityjustice #socialmovements

"Food Processor" might be the most ominous sounding kitchen appliance. What does it do? Subjects it to The Process. Your food will be Altered by the Process. Please do not resist.

Funny/not funny. Ontario government calls Ring of Fire minerals ‘the most ethical on Earth,’ while passing legislation that suspends treaty rights, species protections, and human rights — to benefit extractive industries. ricochet.media/indigenous/o... via @ricochetmedia.bsky.social

“In three known cases, palliative patients died without pain medications and one patient died without nutrition because supplies were delayed” #onpoli

"Almost a year after the report’s release, there is no plan to substantially act on any of the UN’s recommendations. Government officials guessed right: mainstream news outlets have largely ignored the report’s criticisms of MAiD. " @spichaksimon.bsky.social breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

If only sociologists would stop talking about structure & agency.

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

Available for pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social: Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, co-authored with @anneemcguire.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...

In news you may have missed in this miserable world, legislated poverty is real. The province (ODSP, OW) and the federal government (CPP-D, CDB, DTC) do not care. As one politician said to me, 'It would be easier if you didn't exist.' Such a nice thing to say and believe. Arsehat #OnPoli #CdPoli

Everything old being new again all at once is not a coincidence

Nothing new to say, plenty new to do, infinite solidarity with everyone else trying to do it

I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.

"I write about the 3 Americas: one built on AI speculation, one held together by healthcare, and one running on memes" Brilliant &brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social that runs a thread through the american shatterbelt @katemac.bsky.social & I honored to be quoted! kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...

Pickles are the bananas of a sandwich smoothie.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

We published our AI policy yesterday. It affirms our commitment to human-made writing, photography and illustrations. #journalism #localnews You can read more here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

May we build worlds worthy of Alice’s memory. 💔 Rest in power @sfdirewolf.bsky.social

Nearly two decades of stagnant provincial funding, a seven-year freeze on domestic tuition, and federal cuts to international student visas have left many of Ontario's colleges and universities in dire financial straits.

Behind a 2018 mass eviction in Ottawa lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system. Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...

Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24. pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...

Street drugs have killed more than 18,600 BCers. DULF worked with cops, health authorities, feds to try and source, test and sell drugs with a known purity and potency to reduce overdose deaths. Their strategy was saving lives. Today they were found guilty of trafficking. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

The truth is this is a moment where many different possibilities for the future are opening, and they are opening at an extremely high cost. Solidarity to everyone who is trying to build a path to a better world for us all right now, amidst every loss and grief we are carrying. Solidarity forever.

This moment where everything is being broken is a moment about what we build to replace it, too.

AMTRAK CUSTOMER SURVEY: What could we have done better during your recent travel delay? ME: Seize America's rails back from private control.

“Perhaps most strikingly of all, he warned the worsening climate crisis appears to be on track to destroy capitalism.”

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇

If you are a faculty member, researcher, postdoc, or staff at a university in Canada, please sign this letter demanding Canada issue study permit to Gaza students to be delivered to the Minister of Immigration by tomorrow afternoon. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This photo I took of a McDonald's under construction has the aesthetic they should always have.

“There was my dog, who, on the mornings I do not want to get out of bed, will rest silently at my feet + wait for me to slowly emerge from under the covers, + seeing her reminds me that I do, in fact, have only one lifetime in which I can ❤️ this animal. [We] will ❤️ each other only here, for a while”

Devastated to learn that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope are at risk of redundancy. Lovely people and a brilliant team that has transformed the lives of so many students. If you know them please do reach out - things are very tough right now.

PSE spending as a percentage of total provincial spending, 2006-07 to 2025-26, Canada and select provinces. It's down everywhere, but the Alberta slump has been especially pronounced.

Change in overall provincial government spending vs. total provincial government spending on post-secondary education, Canada, 2006-07 to 2025-26 (2006-07 = 100). It's not austerity, it's the choices.

British Columbia - once a world leader in harm reduction - has reversed course under pressure from an organized right wing moral panic and is now doing the exact opposite of what we need to save lives. This will make things worse for us, but perhaps better for the gutless ghouls in office.

“As a culture, we always want this grand arc: rags to riches, gets the girl, gets the guy. I wondered if I could write a book that didn’t have improvement arcs… I’ve been interested in this idea of kindness without hope.”

Faculty at UT have voted for their pension plan to divest from companies connected to Israel’s war in Gaza and other conflicts www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d07989c...

“As part of the Federation’s strategic planning over the next several months, we will be asking difficult questions about the purpose of Congress and how it is delivered.” cha-shc.ca/announcement...

“By departing these advisory roles, I aim to speak more clearly in my own language about what they have become and what they ought to be. This is not an abandonment of loyalty to these institutions' missions, but rather, its highest expression.”

“No object or living being is fragile in itself. What matters is when, why, and by whom it is considered and treated as fragile: through which mode of attention, by which gestures and instruments, according to which collectives, in which situation, and among which interdependencies.” (p. 253) 🔥🔥🔥

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is asking for input on what respiratory virus info is important, how you use it, and if they should keep funding wastewater monitoring. Please help let OPH know this information is important ( opinion.ottawapublichealth.ca?e=446587&d=e... ). 🧵1/

My drug war memoir / manifesto is avail everywhere. Its hard to punch thru the noise of a federal election, but this is exactly the time to read it - esp the chapter on the rise of the Canadian far right & moral panic against harm reduction. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700597...

Congrats to RFK Jr for bringing together ASAN and Autism Speaks (among others). autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/lead...

INBOX: over 50 NYU professors are taking their classes off-campus for the next week in a "Solidarity Picket" to protest "the University’s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump admin’s attacks." some profs moved to in-person "sanctuary spaces," others online.

Canadian researchers should be very concerned by Poilievre's promise to politicize federal research funding in Canada by ending supposedly mandatory 'woke ideology.'

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY