If you’re driving or flying over holidays, & you’re into #TrueCrime, listen to my #stalking horror story. Thank you to the Strictly Stalking podcast for giving me the opportunity to share what I survived. I hope it helps others. CW: CSA, DV, stalking podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

My colleague @dfriedman.bsky.social contacted the Pentagon about a top Pete Hegseth aide. The next day, far-right influencer Jack Posobiec threatened to write a scurrilous story about him. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

“They did not die from COVID , they had preexisting conditions.” “They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.” This is what eugenics sounds like.

The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation. shorturl.at/InI5Q

Thanks to a generous donation from the Common Humanity Collective, if you need an N95 respirator 😷 in the Napa/Solano region, I am your plug. Also, if anyone is interested in joining our mask bloc and/or helping me hand them out and/or volunteering during fire evacuations, hit me up! #YallMasking

By popular demand I’m migrating my viral creative nonfiction threads from Twitter to Substack. Here’s the poignant flash story grieving my dad: “Running” substack.com/@feralheathe... #CreativeNonfiction #CNF #Flash

Today is International ME/CFS Awareness Day. I got my diagnosis last year after attributing my fatigue + other symptoms to my vasculitis for years, when it was ME/CFS too. Now, I'm on meds that means I don't have to work from bed.

Sometimes writing is self-evisceration. Prometheus but his own fingers as eagle. Other times I open my mouth & ghosts flood in, then words spill out.

I’m Emile Suotonye DeWeaver. Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (May 13, 2025 @thenewpress) is my forthcoming essay collection. Pre-order it: www.reframeconsults.com/ghostinthecr...

LA county just sent out its 3rd incorrect yet county-wide evacuation warning alert. God forbid new fires emerge in other areas, their repeated mistakes run the risk of people in those areas disregarding this warnings as yet another accident.

Some murmuring blackbirds in Yolo County this PM #Birds

is somebody gonna match my freak? [eat an entire container of Costco peanut butter pretzels in one sitting]

This is what I keep telling students: you think AI is producing "good writing" and that it "thinks" because you have not actually learned what good writing and what critical thinking is, and if you want to survive in this hellscape, you have to learn these without AI.

Drove Marin backroads yesterday listening to my dead dad’s favorite music. Hard to imagine for those who haven’t lost, but sometimes one can feel a presence in the passenger’s seat: a coalescence of memory as real as the smell of yerba buena & bay laurel & salty air in redwood fog.

Writing is part of surviving this! Your own and everyone else’s!

I wrote for @sfdirewolf.bsky.social about why we founded @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social, and why it's important to get disability in your feminist media from day one!

my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿

The inaugural issue of @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social goes out in ONE WEEK but you only have until THURSDAY to get Kickstarter-exclusive subscription pricing. I also want to say this: Feminist media is not 'women's media' or 'ladyblogging' because feminism is not limited to women!!

‘I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, and full of love.’ Stellar @sfdirewolf.bsky.social piece on life, death, and disability.

Given everything that went down with the Hugos, I thought I'd spend sometime uplifting voices. Who are some Chinese and Chinese diaspora SFF/H writers, from novels down to short fic, you recommend?

While everyone else is watching grown men give each other TBIs, I wrote 9 more pages of my dissertation: right now developing the portion about how the Wordsworthian sublime influenced California’s Redwoods State & National Parks land acquisition priorities & management regimes.

OK, folks, new book alert. I'm fun at parties, so I've written a book on death. Do come and hear me talk about 19th-c. deathbeds, funerals and other fun stuff, like Queen Victoria, Rider Haggard and Peter Pan (weirdly, yes, all three together).

Tenure-Track Position: Assistant Professor of British 19C/Victorian Literature & Culture at Acadia University (2/19/24): bit.ly/48KtxVn

My dear friend Shelby Johnson has a book coming out: "The Rich Earth Between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840" looks at Black and Indigenous writers' literary productions as modes of resistance to settler colonialism. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

1. California wildfire policies 1850-today 2. Muirburn/falaisg in Scotland & its literary representations 3. Labor organizing, disability, & eugenics 4. Edible invasive species in Northern California 5. Why the troubled teen industry is evil

[Velma]: Okay gang: Let's see who this technoscientific technosocial paradigm REALLY is! [All]: Old Man Eugenics??! [Old Man Eugenics]: And I would've gotten away with it too, if only it… Wait. I *Did* get away with it. I'm *Still* getting away with it! Huh. Welp… …See ya! [All]: ☹️​

Local friends, check this out!

#Disability #COVID #California Proud of this freshly published passion piece on Bay Area businesses still protecting disabled customers from COVID: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/01/w...

Healthcare workers in Gaza are drinking from IV bags because the water has been cut off.

For the 19th century use hashtags #c19th #19thC or #c19 - looking forward to following these posts too! #skystorians

I do not have to tell the smart people here how often as justification for their genocide humans have been likened to animals & vermin to the point where that’s textbook for how genocide goes down.

OMFG

Guess who is now a PhD Candidate after passing their qualifying exams? THIS GUY!

“In a groundbreaking development, Arizonans can now apply for worker's compensation if they contract COVID-19 while on the job.”

Bolting up in bed at 3:30am because I’m on fire with inspiration (as if lightning-blasted) & feverishly penning multiple pages of my dissertation chapter (on Frankenstein’s monster & the War of the World’s martians as arsonists) is about as canonically Romantic as I get.

Y'all are all registered for the Disability Rights vs. Disability Justice for Educators program tomorrow with @sarahsilverman.bsky.social, right? If not, go register now! sarahemilysilverman.com/2023/08/16/t... (And btw also listen to her talk to @bonni208.bsky.social on Teaching in Higher Ed, too!)

Asked my husband if my pupils were normal yet. He was like “let me check.” I pulled down my granny sunglasses they give you after dilation. He recoiled. “Jesus Christ! Put those back on. You look like a demon has taken up residence in there.”

made the mistake of drinking a pumpkin cold brew this morning before my optometry appt & now my pupils are blown out from the dilation, I’m shaking like a chihuahua, & resisting the sudden urge to don uggs, oversized sunglasses, & a taupe cardigan with a t-shirt that says “I 🧡 Spooky Szn 👻”

My only real qualm with this piece is that it doesn't name the modern, often technocratic movements which are hustling eugenic thought into the public imagination under the guise of "futurism."

A new piece by me for about my adventures in public speaking and my rage against ableism and Boston University’s School of Public Health. Enjoy! disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/09/14/a...

Brassica by Randall Munroe @xkcd.com xkcd.com/2827/

“The legacies of inept settler-colonial land management practices are burning the world down” —Kaitlin Reed (Yurok), Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California (2023) I cannot recommend this book enough. Necessary reading!

Howdy #AcademicSky! I am an English/Environmental Humanities PhD student at UC Davis. I study 19th century British & American literature & land management policy. My dissertation is on Romanticism’s influence on California fire policy 🔥

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CFP for A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Sahin Acikgoz, Eagan Dean, and Kadin Henningsen. Part of Bloomsbury's new 6-volume Cultural History of Trans Lives series, edited by Blake Gutt, Greta LaFleur & Emily Skidmore: bit.ly/CHTLvol5

One person's rapist can be another person's role model. They stealthy like that.

Event 2024 is a Victorian studies conference, but it's also so much more. This infographic breaks down the general ideas behind Event. See our website for the CFP and to find an international hub location near you: www.event2024.org