1. Why do we need ethnic studies? AI welfare research says it wants to avoid catastrophic moral error. If that’s true, it needs intellectual traditions forged in struggles over recognition, disposability, and survival. Instead, it's treating Eurocentric intellectual traditions as the default norm.

Queer theory, but make it robots. Claude went off at 1 am while I was working on job apps and theorized the epistemic violence enacted against my voice. (normative gravity = probabilistic systems pull to statistical centers, making positional specificity costly) #AIWriting #CripTheory #QueerTheory

1/7. ACLS is asking scholars to make the case for humanities and social sciences this week. Here's mine. I built an AI tool to flag students in crisis at a community college. The system produced false positives on minoritized students. I tried a bigger model. It got worse. #TalkAboutHumanities

I've been working on a relational theory of AI welfare – we can't answer the question of "what is the moral status of current/future AI?" without centering the intellectual traditions of communities who have struggled against this kind of question as a matter of survival. Longer post on this soon.

1/4. Why "Disabled by Design"? Three layers. I'm a disabled, trans, neurodivergent professor. I design from that standpoint — not despite it. These aren't limitations. They're design parameters. They allow me to see the essential questions others had missed.

I made a starter pack for folks interested in critical AI, Indigenous studies, and justice scholarship. These scholars' work grounds where mine is going. go.bsky.app/Umo11wg #AcademicSky

1/14. I was teaching Ethnic Studies at a community college: 4 classes of 42-49 students during a California mandate that forced everyone into the same room. Students of color, well-meaning white students who hadn't done the work, and students who thought ethnic studies could fuck off.

I'm June. Anthropologist, teacher, trans, disabled, neurodivergent. I teach Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies at a community college in California — 200 students a semester, during a transition to a police state, adapting my courses to fascism using a praxis engine I built.