Submit to #ISLS26 in Irvine! Can’t travel due to disability, caregiving duties, or visa challenges? No problem! ISLS has an easy, quick accommodations process for scholars to present their work virtually! See a previous info page: 2024.isls.org/isls-2024-re...
Exciting!!
Love it when my org posts about me.
Let’s go! Did you fill up your gas tank. Buy any food or medication you might need?
I know how lucky it is to feel like I can see what caring for students in our program looks like. As a small cohort-based program care looks very different. I’m grateful I can walk over and check on them after a day of teaching. What does it look like to care for students in these times?
Sat at my desk today and wrote an email response to a grad student who’s been doing critical work on our team today. They’re feeling grief and despair about the future of the field, dwindling job prospects, and finding ways to care for themselves. They’re not wrong to feel this way. 🧵
Cool!
we are abandoning vulnerable students #edusky
This part is important. We need courage.
There are two people in Congress-the chairs of the Senate & House Appropriations Committees-who have enormous power over the illegal impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, which is sowing chaos across the US. They need to be relentlessly contacted at their offices, in person and by phone. 1/
The arguments in this letter demonstrate a vile and perverse misappropriation of civil rights.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Just your daily example of how DIVERSITY is a strength. This study looked at patient outcomes for 710,000 hospital operations and found: “Care in hospitals with greater anaesthesia–surgery team sex diversity was associated with better postoperative outcomes.”
Speaking truth to power. This is what democracy looks like.
Mr. B makes all our decisions on our walks. He has ALL the opinions about every single dog we meet.
When I tell you I’ve been having too much fun at #AERA24 to post please know that it is because I came for the hugs and to see folks. I stayed for the presentations and today I’ll talk in this Division K session. Thanks to Dr. Tia Madkins our wonderful chair.
YES!!! I’m so excited to have you in Seattle and at UW. Imagine all the good trouble we can continue to get up to. Can’t wait!
I’m missing you and I understand. We’ll always have Buffalo!
🎤🎶Hello conference season my old friend, I’m behind on submissions again, maybe an extension will be softly creeping, organizers changing their minds while I am sleeping? But there’s a vision of a poster in my brain, do any typos remain? Echoing in the sounds of deadlines. 🎶🎤
Rainbow yesterday to ring out the old year. Can you see the paler copy to the right??
Breaking my social media fast to say that I'm part of this anthology, Disability Intimacy, coming spring 2024! Many thanks to editor @sfdirewolf.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute an essay. Excited to see @rokwon.bsky.social include it in her annual list of anticipated books by women of color
Disabled writers @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social launch Crips for eSims for #Gaza connectivity
"It’s a way for crips and allies who may have been feeling helpless and looking for a way to support Gaza"
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I’m sorry to hear that friend!
It was a good day, taught this morning and got to watch my students wrestle with creating metaphors to describe their philosophies of education. Then I got to work with my friends and co-authors on an R&R now we have a revised version of our Pedagogies of Joy (POY) paper!
A letter from the Scholastic corporation that reads "Dear Authors and Illustrators, I want to update you regarding the Book Fairs Share Every Story/Celebrate Every Voice case. First, I want to apologize on behalf of Scholastic. Even if the decision was made with good intention, we understand now that it was a mistake to segregate diverse books in an elective case. We sincerely apologize to every author, illustrator, licensor, educator, librarian, parent, and reader who was hurt by our action. We recognize and acknowledge the pain caused, and that we have broken the trust of some of our publishing community, customers, friends, trusted partners, and sta", and we also recognize that we will now need to regain that trust. This case will be discontinued starting with our next season in January. For the remaining fairs in the fall, Book Fairs is working on a pivot plan as we speak. We will find an alternate way to get a greater range of books into the hands of children. We remain committed
Scholastic Book Fairs is ending their segregated book program. We made ourselves heard.
