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FirstGen HS Grad to PhD. Disabled & HOH. Professionally: DeafEd, Disability Studies, Disability History, #EdAudAdvocacy. Teaching focused: anti-ableism, language equity, #RethinkingAuralRehab for future speech-language pathologists & audiologists
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
Several weeks ago, four of five STEM programs that make up the NIH-funded Deaf Scientists Pipeline in Rochester, NY were cut (the fifth is expected to be cut too). A PhD student made the below infographic to visualize what these cuts mean as a catastrophic generational loss for #Deaf science
4 panel cartoon. Panel 1: Superman is walking by a building. Panel 2: Superman looks and sees that the building is on fire. The outside of the building says Tesla. Panel 3: Superman is in a phone booth changing into a suit. Panel 4: Clark Kent (Superman’s alter ego) walks by the burning building, whistling with his hands in his pockets.
“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”
- Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training
🏢 Return to Work Update
On March 17, all employees outside of a bargaining unit but within 50 miles of an HHS facility will return to office
It's going to to be a shitshow. At CDC, employees have been told to go to other campuses if there's no parking. Even if their labs are location-specific...
#DisabilityHistory
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This is not normal.
Has anyone seen good resources about alternatives to Amazon? Obviously shopping small and local is the go-to, but I'd like to compile something useful for disabled/rural folks that may rely more on online shopping...
Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
One of the Nazis’ first book burnings was at the Institute of Sexology. It didn’t start with the Jews or the unionists or Catholics. It was queer people, then people with disabilities and mental illness.
Considering these 🏳️⚧️ attacks and RFK Jr’s obsession with mental illness…
It’s a carbon copy.
Two photos. First, Bob Kafka in a wheelchair holding a sign that says We Will Ride. He has curly dark hair, a mustache, and a wiry beard, and a woman holds a microphone to his face. He wears an ADAPT t-shirt over a long-sleeved dark top and has a white hat on his lap. Second, Stella Young in a black dress with chin-length blonde hair. She sits in her motorized wheelchair and holds a microphone with her right hand. The wall behind her is a vivid pinkish purple.
Today we celebrate #disability rights activists Bob Kafka & Stella Young!
disabilitydaily.podbean.com/e/episode-55/
Transcript available!
#OsteogenesisImperfecta #quadriplegia #ADAPT #Australia #wheelchair #protest #transportation #Texas #History #activism #InspirationPorn #EduSky #ADA #comedy
Chuck was artist-in-residence at my school in the mid-90’s. We had lots of wonderful conversations. His art is in my house.
BRING YOUR HELL, HOMAN
Q: How evil do you have to be to cut a Dolly book program?
A: Pretty f*cking evil.
Solution: Dolly for Prez!
Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social
Accessibility description: 1977 photo of the front page of The Black Panther newspaper, with the headline “Handicapped Wins Demands. End HEW (Health, Education, Welfare) Occupation.” This is referring to the 28 day sit-in of the San Francisco federal building by disabled and Deaf advocates, to force the U.S. government to implement Section 504 regulations, passed four years before.
ISO activities/assignments for a 1 credit (4 week) graduate Disability History class. I have LOTS of lecture material, but would love to incorporate interactive activities and assignments. Please share!
See this Drunk History episode to learn learn how 504 was Implemented: youtu.be/y505KwHp4O4
Delta, Southwest, American, United, and Jetblue are suing the Department of Transportation for...the right to smash more wheelchairs?
How about y'all land some planes right side up and then we'll talk 💀 FFS. #RightsOnFlights link to PDF of case in this article: news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...
RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen.
1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.
Come work with us! Our department is hiring an associate/assistant prof in language and speech technology www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
#interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Deaf and disabled people in the US -- read this.
barely two weeks ago he said musk and doge “won't do anything” without his approval and now he’s been relegated to a need-to-know status
They’re in on it.
Wow. Just…wow.
To creators who post visual images: Include identifying info IN image, in case it is shared out of context. Also makes it easier for art directors, agents etc to share w/colleagues, find your contact info.
Including alt-text will help your image get discovered:
publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/al...
