Disability Politics and Theory: Revised and expanded edition exists in the real world.

A friend just sent me a photo of them with a copy of my book!

Thanks to Robyn Maynard and Rachel da Silveira Gorman for their wonderful foreword & afterword.

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A 🧵: As Columbia University President succumbed to relentless Republican pressure at the House Education Committee hearing, sacrificing academic freedom to spurious but politically powerful claims of antisemitism, I gave a talk at New York University's Palestinian solidarity occupation.

THIS SATURDAY, you don't want to miss this virtual panel discussion with Rattling the Cages book contributors and former political prisoners Eric King , Susan Rosenberg, Herman Bell, and David Gilbert, who will discuss their experiences behind bars and how today's activists...

MASS EXODUS FROM ZIONISM: As the Senate votes to send an additional $14.1 billion in weapons to Israel, thousands of US Jews are shutting down the streets of New York City in an emergency Passover seder insisting the Senate Majority Leader stop arming the Israeli government.

'Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war crimes amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes,' said UN OHCHR. news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

Haitian people defeated Napoleon’s army to become the first independent nation in the West.

So why does the U.S., France and Canada insist that Haitian people are unable to govern on their own?

When you punish students for their love & compassion you teach them how powerful compassion truly is. You admit to them that you govern on a premise that cannot withstand love. Love prevails. We’re witnessing the soul growth of a generation. They deserve our care & respect.💜

Uiiii!!! NBC News more than 100 college students at #ColumbiaUniversity are sacrificing their academic careers in order to stand up for Palestinians' lives.
These students are our stars,support them, please keep the pressure going.
#FreePalestine and #PermanentCeaseFire …

📸: Protester with sign that reads, “Columbia [University] is the enemy of all Black people”. 1968. Photo by Steve Schapiro.

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The moral panic about safer supply prescribing responsible for the shuttering or undermining of programs across the country is part of a larger arc of panics targeting poor people for survival. Recent piece w/ Gillian Kolla, PhD KR & AG
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Leaving this here in case you missed it: A feminist praxis for academic freedom in the context of genocide in Gaza.

mondoweiss.net/2024/04/a-femi…

In this moment we should take gov't grabs for more authority over higher ed very very seriously. 💚🖤❤️
Please read and sign:
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Toronto please come out and support this student organized action during rush hour today at Union station for Sudan and Congo (DRC). 4:30 pm sharp in the Bay Concourse Hall.

We are sponsoring this important action regarding anti-Indigenous censorship at the CBC. We ask you to take a moment to send a letter in support.

With no explanation, and in the face of an organized political lobbying campaign, an episode of Jarrett Martineau's show Reclaimed…

Canada has spent the past 20 years dismantling democracy in Haiti, culminating in the current crisis.

Professor Jemima Pierre explains how the establishment media are manufacturing consent for more soldiers—and more subversion of Haitian sovereignty. breachmedia.ca/haiti-2024-can…

When Briarpatch Magazine asked if I would curate a reading list for them, I said, 'Well, that's basically my reason for existing.' With books, and a podcast, by Sara @ndntacocat.bsky.social Puff the Magic Hater Robyn Maynard
Taté Walker
Dr Max Liboiron
and Veldon Coburn.

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Please consider signing on to this open letter in support of the U of T students call for divestment from apartheid and genocide, the key demand of their their two-day sit in. tinyurl.com/OccupyUofT

Can’t wait to listen to this!