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“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”

haven't seen ms patti posted here yet this season, place needs work www.youtube.com/watch?v=z84Q...

Just sent a pitch to Chronicle of Higher Education in response to this. If they reject I'll post it here. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @thetattooedprof.bsky.social

This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.

I turn 35 today and would love nothing more than to raise $350 for the Greater DC diaper bank. WIC doesn’t cover diapers. Please donate here. greaterdcdiaperbank.org

Wherein I make the case that Mon Mothma is the Chuck Schumer of the Star Wars Universe Seriously, though, this was the most fun I've had in a while. Big thanks to @jwsfh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social and @rpanchasi.bsky.social ! 🗃 journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...

The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools. n.pr/48udkF5

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Eric’s book is an important part of the conversation that is being silenced by the political wonks who haven’t left the 20th century.

If you want to learn more about Alice Wong and her work, you can find many links on her profile, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, or check out disabilityvisibilityproject.com, or her Wikipedia page. Your library may also have her books, including audio/ebook editions (@multcolib.bsky.social does).

What a giant. Yes, the Kurosawa and Kobayashi films, but also outstanding in some of the best by Naruse (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs), Teshigahara (Face of Another), Ichikawa (Conflagration), Okamoto (Sword of Doom, Kill), etc. R.I.P.

During the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, underground bands played in tiny venues and distributed their music via bootleg cassettes. Artist Iván Navarro is resuscitating their work via his label, Hueso Records. It's "the soundtrack to Operation Condor," he says. hyperallergic.com/1055340/digg...

I can see him giving a great soundbite on how Loop’s Heaven’s End is a forgotten classic.

This open-access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities & rationales of key leaders in their own words. Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I really wish more publications would run opinion pieces/analysis of what's happening with the state of disability education by adults who had IEPs and 504s, not just parents of disabled kids.

We have some EXCITING NEWS! ALL the episodes of Amy's Dead-End Dreamhouse S1 are now up on Nebula, along with hours of bonus content like the full interviews, musical performances, and more on the way! Just head over to Nebula.tv/dreamhouse, and start daydreaming away. I won't tell your boss ✨

Il est là, il existe 😍 En librairie dès la semaine prochaine !

Now would be a good time to buy my book We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation, which dives into how bad and unfounded ideas about autism hurt #ActuallyAutistic people. www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

I was lucky to publish something with the amazing @nursingclio.bsky.social team. However, it’s not about positive developments.

I am learning here that a lot of people did not know that Trump is demanding $1 billion from UCLA. He is.

They're gassing one of the richest neighborhoods in Chicago today

Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff. 19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...

No one should ever speak the words "Asperger's Syndrome" to us ever again. Hans Asperger's job was to decide which children the Nazis should just kill and which they might yet make use of. He should have no role in any discussion of any disability.

This is why disability justice and race justice are bound up together. White supremacy isn’t simply racist, it is also fundamentally ableist

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility They kidnapped a disabled child!

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen... The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

I lost my son 22 years ago today. Hug your loved ones.

Steve's book is all the more relevant today than when it came out a decade ago. Do yourself a favor and buy a copy if you don't have it. Steve work matters and is a candle in the shroud of disinformation from Washington these days.

The Chicago ICE raid has proven once again that US citizenship is irrelevant. It is race or perceived race that matters. Anyone Black or brown is a target. Our Christofascist regime is accelerating ethnic cleansing tenfold. Elections will not save us from this.

Ian Thompson’s new book Synths, Sax & Situationists explores the legacy of soixante-huit through the music of bands like Cheval Fou, Barricade, Maajun and Fille Qui Mousse... Michel Faber on Situationism and the French Rock Underground buff.ly/8tc4Bdm

Logan Square is a melting pot neighborhood — multi generational immigrants, younger people owning their first homes, a fair bit of gentrification, with some of Chicago’s best restaurants, bars, retail. Think maybe Greenpoint or Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn or Silver Lake in LA. Now with tear gas.

First Trump blackmailed universities into suppressing free speech. Now he’s bribing them with taxpayer dollars to enforce his agenda. Corruption and authoritarianism, plain and simple. No university should cave to this blatantly unconstitutional coercion.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

This also follows the Trump administration implementing a no fly zone for drones in Chicago to prevent people from documenting what ICE is doing. They're masked thugs acting as secret police trying to ensure they have no accountability. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Hey Bluesky: We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Autistic people oppose a cure to autism and I have a hard time reconciling why that isn't the end to the conversation about it.

“President Trump and RFK Jr. said dangerous things about autism that are not based on facts. They said these dangerous things at a press conference.” autisticadvocacy.org tells us about all the dangerous things Trump and RFK Jr said, in plain language: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/09/asan... #autism

I love my autistic son so much. Mace's statement reminds us that she thinks of him as unworthy of love.

Are you autistic? What did you think of the announcement yesterday? I want to hear from you for a Guardian US article: [email protected]

Bonnie’s book on autism in Britain is a must read too. It was such an influence on mine.