The A-Z exhibits include 2 from the lab: "P is for Point-Cloud Data" by Will Rourk & @arinbb.bsky.social (on 3D captures of historic artifacts+architecture); and "Z is for Zines" by @literaturegeek.bsky.social

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The only way to fully protect the rights of DC residents is to make the district a state. Demand Congress supports DC statehood at aclu.org/dc_statehood_.

Washington DC’s 700,000+ residents deserve federal representation. DC statehood now.

Over the weekend, the “sandwich thrower” posters went up all over DC. Instant icon of resistance. A remix of Banksy’s mural: not a Molotov, not a rock, but something just as disruptive, a hoagie hurled with defiance.

The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.

Obviously hoping to return UVA to its roots and its glory days in the late 1830s, when students rioted and shot and killed the Dean. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...

This is a must-read story (including full text of letters from a FOIA request) by the Daily Cavalier about Trump admin's efforts to misuse federal antidiscrimination law in support of its ideological agenda against DEI at UVA. Kudos to the student journalists! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

We join with our VA AAUP Conference & UVa Faculty Senate in condemning the DOJ threats to withhold federal research funding in order to oust UVa President Jim Ryan for not bowing to political interference. We join with them in demanding an independent & public investigation into Ryan's forced exit.

critical thread. anyone who finds the scenario laid out implausible needs to get their head in the game. UVA is not Charlottesville, but for better or worse our fates are intertwined. we stand or fall together.

Part of the story about the war on US higher ed right now is university board members who want to see changes for the school that they can’t achieve structurally or politically – their power not in fact being unqualified – inviting and enabling federal incursion to make those changes

And, wow, I can’t believe I got here from there. Except that this administration’s performance of brute power will keep arresting, roughing up, pointing out, desecrating bodies because clearly signaling which bodies cannot count communicates to their base which bodies will always count.

This is a great thread. Highly recommend reading it to the end & the linked articles.

Everyone!!!!!! ASL Signbank is live on its own domain 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Working on a few things but yay! aslsignbank.com

Times like these, I miss DeafTwitter so much. Just had two separate conversations with deaf colleagues at R1s about interpreters. We rely on interpreters to be good teachers and colleagues but it is so hard to find the right team. Especially if you are outside of a metropolitan area.

For accessibility purposes, I typed up a full transcript of the Senator's press conference where he provided updated information about the fight to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States.

How 'deaf rage' inspired groundbreaking sign language thriller www.bbc.com/news/article...

I genuinely don't understand how anyone can look at the current moment and think "Abolish ICE" was anything but completely correct. ICE cannot and should not exist. Period.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

I think about this a lot. Cruelty is the point in their execution but it isn’t the ultimate goal.

“Many of these men fancied themselves to be a cut above the [women] programmers who came before, and they often perceived COBOL as inferior and unattractive, in part because it did not require abstruse knowledge of underlying computer hardware or a computer science qualification.”

I’m a fourth generation Democrat. My grandmother was a grassroots organizer in rural upstate NY, working through lists on greenbar printouts, calling people & sending my grandfather out to pick up voters to bring them the polls. I’ve been thinking about her a lot lately.

It’s back on my mind: the way they will utilize (in the word’s true sense) and weaponize ‘students’ when they fail to take you down other ways.

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

Boycott US www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Important r.e. research ethics.

I know a lot of people are traveling right now, and CUNY Clear has created an amazing know your rights resource on how to protect yourself while traveling in this moment (they also a ton of other valuable KYR resources on their site) www.cunyclear.org/know-your-ri...

The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.

I hate to undermine DAC because it’s a wonderful conference but I encourage my deaf colleagues to take current events seriously. It is even more unsafe to travel to the US right now. We are living under an authoritarian regime and it is disappearing people off of the streets.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

Everyone needs to see this. Beyond terrifying. American exceptionalism needs to stop right now.

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

Applications for the Summer Institute on Disability and Design are due this week! labsforliberation.org

In addition to urgent need to preserve trans literature, good Qs to get you started helping back up any data. Not just gov docs; we need folks preseving fan fic+art, Flickr albums, webcomics, social threads, emuseum items, whatever you care about that fuels you participating. Friendly how-to:

@hildehaualand.bsky.social and I are working on a follow-up to our 2021 "Band Aid" paper on sign language interpreting as a quick fix for inclusion. Since publication it's been the most read and 3rd most cited in the journal. We're excited to work on a continuation of our thinking! shorturl.at/Fcvlq

For all the USPS's faults, Americans have to realize: It's one of the best postal services in the world, even after being kneecapped by DeJoy. Fight for our postal service, guys. I know I will. It is an essential public good.

Black British Sign Language project PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham (BSL translation of the ad will soon be provided): contact me if you're interested! 😀https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/scholarships-and-funding/postgraduate-scholarships/125-linguistics-communication

During these desperate days, I thought I’d get back to writing letters. Letters was how I kept in touch with my deaf friends from camp. The thing is, though, it is really hard to mail a letter these days. What happened to blue mailboxes on every other block?

Applications are due on March 7! Learn more at this link: labsforliberation.org/2025/01/22/a...

Very disturbing anti-disability rhetoric here, where Trump blames the recent American Airlines crash on DEI efforts, specifically hiring disabled folks, into the FAA. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

I have supported many deaf graduate students and currently support a deaf post doc using this mechanism. What’s happening at NIH is terrible for science and closes doors for deaf students who face so many more challenges than their hearing peers

Department of Education slowly culling their website of resources for families with disabled kids...

Here's my weekly list of must-read articles, some resources for justice-minded folks, and some thoughts on how we can sustain ourselves and each other in these times.