Many people are putting undue pressure on themselves to conform to an “autistic standard” either in order to be accepted by NT society, or in the case of many late identified folx - the autistic community. That’s not unmasking friends - that’s just another form of asking

My first substack post is live! ‘Neurocommunism refers to a political ontology in which forms of collective life are organised around neuroqueer sensory, communicative and relational practices rather than normative capitalist productivity and communicability’.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

In the heaps of shit this needs to be a day of celebration. Not really ‘too close to call’ was it?

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

I suppose the upside, Matt, is that your academic career is no longer the defining failure of your life.

Gorton and Denton is a clear litmus test for what sort of society we want. Do we want a representative who is a pseudo academic, divisive racist and misogynist? Or a plumber who fights for her community and her greyhounds? A clear choice to vote for @greenparty.org.uk

Excited to be presenting at this next week! I’ll be presenting a piece entitled: ‘Positive Behaviour Support as a Normalising Technology: A Cartography of the Mechanisms of Power in the PBS Competence Framework’ It’s free, come along!

As a society, we have leaned so far into the "we should only fund education if it leads to jobs" philosophy, that we have effectively eliminated the idea that school is for learning. Truly, at this juncture, "what even is the fucking point?" can't be overstated enough.

Wittgenstein, probably

Extremely worrying stuff from the Labour government. An abhorrent neglect for the human rights of disabled young people to have their educational needs met.

There is only one way we will defeat Reform: together. That’s why I’m backing the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election. We are a mass movement of all ages, backgrounds and faiths — united in a belief that things can, and will, change.

This you Keir? Starmer tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We need more compassion, care and empathy in Occupational Therapy. OTs have the chance to help disabled people thrive, and compassion, anti-ableism is how you get there.

WAARC will be running an online festival on 20th April, bringing together researchers, self-advocates, and Disabled people to explore ways in which Disabled people can be better included in research. Registration and details: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

Yeah delivering ‘trauma informed’ training to the Gestapo will really sort this out

Start my morning everyday with BBC World Service and coffee in bed (I’m 30, it’s pathetic). Thought I was still asleep living through a nightmare when, at 7am, I turn it on and hear about Elon Musk wanting to put AI Data centres in space. It’s all fucking grim isn’t it?

Badenoch and Sunak seeing what keys smell like in squats on the Old Kent Road

Hundreds and hundreds of people have joined the Green Party since this was broadcast. Together - we are growing this movement. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

The Black Panthers are back and they're patrolling Minneapolis. #PowerToThePeople

crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"

Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities. “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.” A profile in absolute courage.

Heba has not been tried, let alone convicted, but - like the other hunger strikers - her rights are trampled on, she is kept imprisoned without bail long past the legal limit and is treated as a convicted terrorist. But the government won't lift a finger to save her life.

This is not who we are. I became an ICE agent because I truly believed in the value of getting a $50,000 signing bonus to violently assault and terrorize anyone I wanted while never getting in trouble for anything. Being held accountable conflicts strongly with my deeply-held personal beliefs

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

keir starmer is such a cowardly piece of shit.

So, to clarify, spray-painting a plane is terrorism, holding a sign to support the organisation those that spray-painted the plane were members of is terrorism, but taking a foreign head of state hostage needs to wait for a press conference from the hostage taker for nuance?

US Imperialism is on its death drive headed by an unashamed, unbridled autocrat. Solidarity to Venezuela. The struggle continues.

Victory to Venezuela! The latest in a long bloody list of USA invasions and coups.

#Education #Ofsted #ExamFactories #MentalHealth

With Democratic Public Finance at the heart of a new, bold, green economic vision, Zack Polanski can deliver on his promise to bring hope back into British politics.

youtu.be/lopMMkz0law?... @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s Christmas Day message is vital viewing. Where there is division and hatred, we can choose a politics of solidarity and hope. Instead of giving Bezos your money in the Boxing Day sales, donate to the Calais Appeal (link in video)

This is what being a continental philosopher feels like and that’s why the analytics hate us

This seems like the sad eventuality of a lack of materialism in well-meaning disability activism. Pricks like Tice use language of ‘difference’ to slash funding and support. Children are disabled Tice and denying that strips them of their humanity.

My constituent, Amu, is on Day 40 of their hunger strike in prison. Last month, I requested an urgent meeting with the Justice Secretary to discuss their wellbeing. He has now officially declined my request. What an absolute disgrace.

via Claudia Webbe

Looking for SWers to have on my podcast Disability After Dark to talk sw and disability. If you are interested, shoot me an e-mail [email protected]. Thanks.

Cannot wait to read @fractalecho.bsky.social's book!!! Drawing on both critical STS and disability studies, the book provides "a toolkit for evaluating and resisting metaeugenics in technology." link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

we don’t have enough disabled sex educators.

So dismayed by the lack of resolution - industrial action at UoS continues 🥹 #DigitalPicket @ucu.org.uk As a researcher, striking for me is about mitigating the endless restructuring of, & redundancies for, our excellent professional services colleagues, whose labour makes our research possible 💪🏽

‘Exiting market’ is exactly why we are in this mess in the first place. Institutions of research and education shouldn’t be bound to market logic

This is really big

Some special ed teachers' brains are really busted from having stewed in a system of compliance and (white lady) saviorism for so long. Just saw one woman talking about how she was going to make her own (disabled) child earn lunch. Like, no ma'am you are not doing a "good job"; go feed your child.

“Money [is] a capacious tool for mobilizing everyone’s capacities to meet our needs and build a desirable future. DPF redefines politics as the process of coordinating our abundant human and material resources within ecological limits, rather than as a competition for scarce funds.”

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter