Journalist – Historian – Speaker
For Pacific Standard, I write about the free speech complexities of the upcoming “free speech week.” First, the organizers didn’t even ask the speakers or book the spaces before they started crying oppression. Second, “security concerns” forced the Anthropology department to cancel a long-planned talk. I write: “Thanks to “safety concerns,” the annual distinguished lecture …
Berkeley is claiming that they have to remove a lot of online videos because captioning them all would be too expensive. To which I say: Please build accessibility into everything you do. Deaf people, in fact, have the right to learn. And please don’t blame disabled people when your lack of foresight means you’re in …
Today at the Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley, CA, I’ll be attending a showing of Where is Hope, a film on police violence and disability. I’ve seen the film, and it’s direct and powerful, forcing viewers to really think about the experience of violence at the hands of law enforcement, and particularly why that violence …