On Straws and the Meta Context
Read this: SPEAKING OF STRAWS, my magnum opus is finally up on @BitchMedia https://t.co/t6jKJFIRV1 — s.e. smith (@sesmith) July 10, 2018
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Kalamazoo and the Future of Medieval Studies
A statement from Seeta Chaganti on #kzoo2018 and #kzoo2019 and the future of medieval studies. On the Medievalists of Color blog – A few thoughts: While I do not for see a future in which I go back to this conference for many reasons, I remain deeply concerned with the future of my field. Over …
Story: Ableism in the Hospital
Every descent into the medical system for disabled folks, for everyone really but not equally, risks dehumanization. I wrote a story for Pacific Standard about one such case. When @HennyKtweets went to the hospital, instead of getting help, she was mis-diagnosed with an intellectual disability then systematically dehumanized. I am grateful to her for sharing her …
Going Forward: My book.
Last week, as many of you know, a group of extraordinary people in the disability community wrote an extensive critique of a 2016 media study that I co-wrote, making it clear that they were calling me out not only for the failings of the study itself, but also my conduct since then. Here’s the critique. …
The Staccato Rhythm of Twitter
At the end of last week, I started thinking hard about how I was spending my time. I would log into social media first thing in the morning and stay logged in all day, tweeting constantly in particular. Everything else that I was doing was happening between tweets, basically, and many of those tweets were …
On Journalism and the Ruderman Report
Dear friends, Last week I got rattled by death threats and decided to take some time away from social media to try and think more deeply and do some good writing. You can see more about the threats from the end of this article, as the author screenshotted some (but deleted my name) towards the …
On Hiatus
Last week I received a series of death threat tweets. They weren’t credible death threats in which there’s reason to fear action, but they have been weighing heavily on me and pushed me to think about the ways that toxic – and even not-toxic – social media drags me away from other kinds of writing. …
Don’t Ban Straws Ban Ableism
Yes, I promise, we’ve heard of paper straws. They don’t hold up. As I wrote for Pacific Standard last year, straws provide a simple, accessible means for many disabled people to drink. My son, who has Down syndrome, is one of them. His mastery of drinking through ubiquitous plastic straws makes every restaurant and gas …
On Speech and Consequences: Roseanne and Kaepernick
Yesterday, ABC fired Roseanne Barr for her racism (after hiring her and promoting her offensive tweets as a reason advertisers should be behind the show), a move that prompted a lot of people to compare her to Colin Kaepernick – some in defense of one, some in defense of the other, but too often dealing …
Webinar: Reproductive and Disability Rights
I am a panelist on this. I’ll be talking tonight about the ways families like mine are being used to undermine access to reproductive choice. And what families like mine must do about it. https://t.co/7hb8eeOGW7 — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 29, 2018 My writing on the subject includes: On Eugenic Abortion and right-wing politics …