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Low vision, long covid, bad faith, good times
https://www.andrewleland.org
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The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting
about 2 months ago
This weekend is your last chance to apply to this year's Investigative Reporting Internship and Fellowship! These highly selective programs train students and professional journalists to be investigative journalists. Apply by 11:59 p.m. ET on January 11:
idabwellssociety.org/training/
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I have an email newsletter
vilejelly.substack.com/p/snail-shells
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Snail Shells
On doing things the slow, hard way
https://vilejelly.substack.com/p/snail-shells
about 2 months ago
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The Baffler
4 months ago
In Baffler no. 81,
@quailty.bsky.social
examines three works by deaf artists: a memoir from Rachel Kolb, Sara Novicâs novel of deaf-anarchist insurrection, and the film âDeaf President Now!â
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Manual Labor | Andrew Leland
How deaf artists and writers are grappling with a second Trump administration keen on dismantling the Americans with Disabilities Act.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/manual-labor-leland
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I have an email newsletter
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"Help Yourself"
Trapped inside the podcast
https://open.substack.com/pub/vilejelly/p/help-yourself?r=dec&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
4 months ago
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Sara NoviÄ
4 months ago
This made me cry a little. Everything is terrible but I'm so glad to be in this moment with these contemporaries.
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The Baffler
4 months ago
Baffler no. 81, âAfter Words,â is online now, with work from Brace Belden, Bruce Robbins, Noah McCormack,
@quailty.bsky.social
, Sophie Pinkham,
@chrislehmann.bsky.social
, Mina Tavakoli, Gabriel Winslow-Yost, and more. Click below to start reading.
thebaffler.com/issues/no-81
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no. 81âAfter Words
The history of literacy is a list of complaints. Critics reliably decry each new technological development as an attention-stealing toy. Before recent grousing about ChatGPTâŠ
https://thebaffler.com/issues/no-81
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The Baffler
4 months ago
In our new issue,
@quailty.bsky.social
considers contemporary deaf art and writing, which navigates the contradictions of deaf life in America as the second Trump administration threatens to dismantle the ADA.
thebaffler.com/salvos/manual-labor-leland
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Manual Labor | Andrew Leland
How deaf artists and writers are grappling with a second Trump administration keen on dismantling the Americans with Disabilities Act.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/manual-labor-leland
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Julia Métraux
4 months ago
âThis is absolutely a violation of federal law.â For
@motherjones.com
, I reported about how reduction-in-forces in the Office of Special Education Programs will lead to disabled kids' needs not being met, as funding may not be distributed.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump's new layoffs hurt disabled kids
"This is absolutely a violation of federal law."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/trumps-new-layoffs-hurt-disabled-kids/
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Sara NoviÄ
4 months ago
Template/script for contacting your Reps with respect to the DoEd cuts. I feel as disheartened about it as you, but the least we can do is take a moment to absolutely melt their servers
exceptionalchildren.org/lac?vvsrc=/C...
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Legislative Action Center
Take action with CEC's Legislative Action Center.
https://exceptionalchildren.org/lac?vvsrc=/Campaigns/130718/Respond
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Alt National Park Service
4 months ago
The agency plays a critical role in supporting students with disabilities, guiding families, funding key programs, and ensuring that states meet their obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
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Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education
Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5572489/trump-special-education-department-funding-layoffs-disabilities
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Disability Culture Lab
6 months ago
From ProPublica: âPrograms for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trumpâs Anti-Diversity Push.â Read more at
https://f.mtr.cool/ohhwjocfjy
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I wrote a post that opens a tiny window onto the terminally nerdy shit I've been distracting myself with lately
vilejelly.substack.com/p/onoff
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On/Off
Getting deeper into plain text
https://vilejelly.substack.com/p/onoff
8 months ago
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Josh has shaped my thinking on blind identity, accessibility, technology, whiskey variety, and on and on: tremendously honored and just straight-up chuffed to be asking him questions about his brilliant new book in NYC next week. It's hybrid virtual and in-person so you better be there:
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8 months ago
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Multnomah County Library
9 months ago
You might enjoy The Country of the Blind by
@quailty.bsky.social
if you're looking for "good nonfiction to kick off the summer:
multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S1...
#AskALibrarian
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The Country of the Blind â Multnomah County Library
The Country of the Blind â Leland, Andrew, â A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness - and his quest to learn all he can about blin...
https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2182910
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Eric Michael Garcia
10 months ago
If your organization has been affected by DOGE cuts or RFK Jr.âs cuts to the Administration for Community living, message my Signal at emgarcia.85
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Stumbled across this ~30-year-old TNY piece about online discourse and it's at once shockingly quaint and entirely prescient
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
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Insults on the Early Internet
âIn any other medium, these words would be, literally, unspeakable.â
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/06/06/my-first-flame
10 months ago
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World Central Kitchen
10 months ago
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
#ChefsForGaza
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Materialist Institute for Research
10 months ago
We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.
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Sanho Tree
11 months ago
âAnother recalled taking a planeload of children and their escorts on a domestic transfer from the southern border to an airport in New York. He tried to slip snacks to the kids. âEven the chaperones were like, âDonât give them any food,ââ he said. âAnd Iâm like, âWhere is your humanity?ââ
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Peter Torres Fremlin
11 months ago
This world tour of disability news includes work from
@thesicktimes.bsky.social
@quailty.bsky.social
@francesryan.bsky.social
@disrightsuk.bsky.social
@womenenabled.bsky.social
@validityfoundation.bsky.social
@ianhamiltonbbc.bsky.social
and many more.
www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/fami...
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A familiar place
Five years of Covid, forced back to work, and curated news from 39 countries
https://www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/familiar-place/
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I have two new stories up: first is on disability politics under Trump 2.0, second is me feeling bad about a new feel-good documentary about blindness . Both linked on my "Substack" here!
open.substack.com/pub/vilejell...
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How MAGA Scrambled Disability Politics
And: a feel-bad take on a feel-good blindness doc; reading and listening recommendations; (not much) more!
https://open.substack.com/pub/vilejelly/p/how-maga-scrambled-disability-politics?r=dec&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
11 months ago
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Is deletion the new cancellation
about 1 year ago
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Adrian Roselli, pH0
about 1 year ago
Debra Ruh shares an example of weaponizing performative accessibility against other communities. In this case a bench clearly meant to block homeless people versus help anyone (including wheelchair users).
www.linkedin.com/posts/debrar...
#a11y
#accessibility
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Amelia Schonbek
about 1 year ago
In a brutal time, what a gift to see intrepid people start something new:
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Lofi With My Mouse
about 1 year ago
Itâs an active crime scene! (everythingâs gone bonkers, sometimes you need to laugh or youâll cry)
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All this talk of DeepSeek's innovation arising from the limitations its engineers worked under recalls the long history of disabled geniuses making breakthroughs under their own sort of constraints. Nice to see another puncture-hole in the myth of the supremacy of the nondisabled, the hyperresourced
about 1 year ago
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Sandy Ernest Allen
about 1 year ago
I haven't paid money to the NYT for a few years (even though I miss the Cooking stuff especially!) because I have too much uh... self respect ... but I nonetheless sometimes open the homepage and do a depressing exercise where I control search "trans" and yesterday there was literally nothing.
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Lotsa reporting on Trump's scapegoating of DEI for the DC plane crash; less news on his blaming people with intellectual disabilities. The DEIA program offers employment to talented and stigmatized disabled workers in government-- a stigma Trump is reinforcing.
www.aapd.com/disability-o...
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Leading Disability Organizations: President Trumpâs Blame of Deadly Plane Crash on Disabled Federal Workers Is Baseless, Irresponsible - AAPD
For Immediate Release: January 30, 2025 Contact: Jess Davidson,
[email protected]
; 202-465-5528 WASHINGTON D.C. â In remarks today at the White House, President Trump cast potential blame for the tra...
https://www.aapd.com/disability-orgs-respond-faa-blame/
about 1 year ago
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Nsikan Akpan
about 1 year ago
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sectionsâthe independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
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Jo
about 1 year ago
One of the ways that I've been processing the loss of David Lynch is by reading words about his work. One of my favorite pieces was written by Howard Hampton and produced for the radio by The Organist, a program that I loved dearly (shoutout
@quailty.bsky.social
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www.kcrw.com/culture/show...
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Death in Twin Peaks | The Organist
Twin Peaks was never just a TV show: it was an obsession and an apparition. In its 2017 incarnation, the real-life deaths of several cast members hang spectrally over the proceedings.
https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-organist/death-in-twin-peaks
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jesse jarnow
about 1 year ago
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Laura Mauldin
about 1 year ago
Need to figure out how to make your home more accessible? How to rig up something to do it safely? Are your parents aging into needing these kinds of hacks & tips? I maintain a website that is a repository of ideas from disabled ppl & caregivers I talked to across the US
www.disabilityathome.org
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Disability At Home
Visit the post for more.
https://www.disabilityathome.org/
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thought about trying out
@zed.dev
on macos and wow is it really 100 percent inaccessible with voiceover? I'm used to apps where some features are hard to nav with a screen reader; been a while since i've found one that can tell you that a window is open and... nothing else????????
about 1 year ago
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erin l. durban
about 1 year ago
Iâm sure there are more folks out there who I havenât connected with yet in disability anthropology or who use ethnographic approaches to critical disability studies. Send me a note if youâd like to be added! â€ïž
#disability
#anthropology
#ethnography
#CriticalDisabilityStudies
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Laila Lalami
over 1 year ago
Dear friends, please help us support the Palestinian writer and journalist Hedaya Shamoun and her family, who will be moving to Middletown this fall on a fellowship. Any amount helps. Thank you for your generosity.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
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Donate to Support Hedaya Shamoun's Safe Arrival, organized by Merve Emre
Over the past few months, we (Merve Emre, Isabella Hammad) have been working with the⊠Merve Emre needs your support for Support Hedaya Shamoun's Safe Arrival
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-hedaya-shamouns-safe-arrival
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Dr. Lucky Tran
over 1 year ago
Bernie Sanders "The time has come to start treating the Long COVID crisis as the public health emergency that it is. That means educating medical professionals, doing a much better job at disease prevention, and doing everything we can do to find treatments and cures for Long COVID."
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Bernie Sanders: America Must Confront Its Long COVID Crisis
Long COVID is real. It is negatively impacting tens of millions of people throughout the United States and the world. We can no longer ignore it, or its sufferersâ treatment needs.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-america-must-confront-its-long-covid-crisis
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Esmé Weijun Wang
over 2 years ago
I have a piece in the Washington Post today about those for whom the âpost-Covid worldâ is not so âpost.â Thanks in advance to anyone whoâs reading đđ±
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Know what makes âpost-covidâ life complicated? Cancer.
My husband has bone-marrow cancer. For us, the pandemic is only as over as it is safe to reenter the world: not particularly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/20/esme-weijun-wang-covid-post-pandemic-cancer-immunocompromised/
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Sophie Mac
over 1 year ago
It's
@quailty.bsky.social
's personal experience, also commentary on how we all regard disability and our relationship with it, whether we have a disability or not. It educated me about others' experience, but sometimes described mine, too. Incredibly human, fascinating. A must read for all
#Booksky
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is this a good website
about 2 years ago
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