Jonathan Hsy 許維成
@jonathanhsy.bsky.social
(he/他/伊) Literature & language & theory & disability & donuts & ampersands. Cripqueer. Antiracist Medievalisms: From "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter (2021) https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83922
I had a dream that I went to a cryptography conference with colleagues. The cool thing was you had a solve a puzzle/break a code to reveal the location of the next session. The problem we all kept getting into arguments about how to solve each thing and we invariably missed each session lol
‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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The SDS 2027 conference "Here and There, Then and Now: Disability Studies at the End of the World" is accepting session proposals through Sept 20! sites.google.com/disstudies.o... 1/5
SDS Conference 2027
Call for Papers Note: A text-only version of the information below is available as a Google Doc at this link.
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We're thrilled to be supporting Across Two Seas, a symposium put together by Denva Gallant at Rice University. This lineup is incredible, and there is travel funding for folks in the @folger.edu Institute consortium! Don't sleep on this one: acrosstwoseas.com #RaceB4Race
Across Two Seas
A Symposium at Rice University
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Early modern race and disability is just one week away! Be sure to register for this panel and join us online September 2 at 9 am MST. https://na.eventscloud.com/race-and-disability
Some time ago, I decided to reorganize all the books in my office by size and color (not by subject or title or something sensible) and now that I’m returning to the office after being on leave I have no idea (?) where anything is (?!) and I started to redo things but am stuck with this (?!?)
The semester is approaching! If you’re teaching race & premodern contexts, check out throughlines.org - premodernist scholars across fields (including literature & other disciplines) with informational videos, reading lists, classroom activities, and much more! @acmrs.bsky.social
Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom
Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.
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Happy fall from Throughlines! This month, we're sharing new contributions from Jonathan Hsy 許維成, on teaching Chaucer through adaptations, and Jennifer L. Morgan, on reading the resistance of enslaved women in the historical archive. Find their videos, resources, and syllabi at Throughlines.org
Available for pre-order (The exhibition opens October 18th @folger.edu) Patricia Akhimie’s work here is phenomenal. Featuring work by @profkfh.bsky.social and yours truly.
It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.
1/2 On the 36th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, I'm reposting my two blog posts. The first on disabled Japanese Americans incarcerated in camps during World War II. densho.org/catalyst/ask... #ADA36 #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct #Skystorians #DisabilitySky
Ask a Historian: What were the Experiences of Disabled People during WWII Incarceration? - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
In this new installment of our running “Ask A Historian” series, guest writer Selena Moon—a PhD student researching Japanese American disability history and working on accessibility in various realms—...
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2/2 Second, making historic sites accessible while preserving them and an Accessibility Toolkit for what (not) to do to make sites that welcome everyone, especially disabled people "Importance of Accessibility at Historic Sites" densho.org/catalyst/his... #Accessibility #HistoricSites #MuseumSky
Importance of Accessibility at Historic Sites - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
In this guest contribution, historian and PhD student Selena Moon explores the importance of accessibility at historic sites, highlighting how many sites have been and continue to be inaccessible. She...
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“Challenging (in a good way)” Best future epitaph or best future epitaph? Should I put it on a t-shirt? Immense thanks to @jonathanhsy.bsky.social for a generous and insightful review of my book! scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...
26.02.07 Parker, Leah Pope. Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature. | The Medieval Review
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Be challenged: doi.org/10.3998/mpub... (via open access ebook)
Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature
<P> From disability metaphors to narratives structured around bodies presented as aberrant, early medieval English thoughtworlds conveyed the promise of resurrection and the hope of salvation through crip and disabled bodies. <I>Light of the Everlasting Life</I> argues that early medieval Christian eschatology, as manifested in Old English literary texts, was a crip eschatology: a theology of the afterlife that relied upon disabled bodies and concepts related to disability in order to convey promises of resurrection and salvation. In addition to demonstrating how literature manifested theological approaches to the afterlife, Leah Pope Parker articulates the ways of thinking about bodies and disability that were available to ordinary early medieval people, many of whom experienced their bodies in ways that resonate with what we call disability today, but who rarely appear in the historical record.<BR /><BR /> By analyzing Old English texts, including Alfredian translations, Ælfric's saints' lives, and poetry from the Exeter and Vercelli Books, Parker introduces novel ways of characterizing disability's effects in literature. "Spiritual prosthesis" reveals rhetorical, narrative, and theological reliance upon disability to convey the promise of a Christian afterlife. "Systems of aberrance" emerge as a result, in which bodies marked as deviant—including disabled, monstrous, heroic, saintly, and dead bodies—form a network of embodiments that reinforce the narratives they inhabit and that of Christian salvation history. Locating crip eschatology in early medieval literature, <I>Light of the Everlasting Life</I> rewrites standard histories of disability, of the body, and of medieval Christian eschatology. </P>
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We’re heartbroken by the passing of Alice Wong–disability rights advocate & founder of the Disability Visibility Project. Honor her legacy by reading her work, uplifting disabled creators, and continuing to fight for disability justice. Rest in power, Alice 💛 Artwork: Jennifer White-Johnson
@thrasherxy.bsky.social remembers writer, advocate, and friend Alice Wong: “Alice helped decolonize disability communities of their (often) white-centered nature and acted as a bridge between so many interdependent related struggles.”
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
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It is right to eulogize Alice Wong, but horrible to see so many articles and posts don't mention her advocacy for Long COVID patients and urgent campaign to push our society and govt to take action to prevent COVID infection. This one at least speaks of the former.
Miles W. Griffis@mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 10mo agoRest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️ thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
I’m gutted that Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social is no longer with us. She built critical infrastructure for disability community & culture, online & in person. There’s a long road ahead as we fight eugenics and fascism but I hope we can channel her clarity, humor, resolve. Rest in Power, Alice ❤🔥
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile)@thrasherxy.bsky.social · 10mo ago“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
I really needed this today. Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social You can get lost in it. A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.
Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom
Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.
throughlines.org
For @slate.com, I wrote about one dimension of the totalizing Trump/Miller immigration crackdown that's not getting enough notice, which is that they're moving to make indefinite detention — with no release dates and few options to get out — a norm
How Trump Made One of the Most Controversial Post-9/11 Policies the New Normal
Thousands of other people are going to get put into detention of indeterminate length with far less recourse, which could stretch years.
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We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting. Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
Science and Democracy Under Siege
Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions
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FEMA is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration’s push to expand capacity to hold migrants.
FEMA to send states $608 million to build migrant detention centers
FEMA is starting a “detention support grant program” to cover the cost of states building temporary facilities, according to an agency announcement.
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Public broadcasting is about more than content. It's about an ethos. That there need to be spaces in society that are not soaked in the logic of consumerism and profit. Where people are treated as citizens, valued for humanity and their ideas rather than disposable income. It's simple, but powerful.
AI overviews are destroying search, destroying websites, and are easy to game. Really bleak stuff here: www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
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"Every time I leave the tent to cover an event, conduct an interview, or document a fact, I don't know if I'll come back alive." www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
AFP journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation, warns journalists' association
'We have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded, prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing colleague die of hunger,' says French news agency's journalists' association - Ana...
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“Without immediate intervention, the last remaining reporters in Gaza are going to die.”
Agence France-Presse@afp.com · last yr.⚫️ La Direction de l’AFP partage l’angoisse exprimée par la SDJ quant à la situation effroyable de ses collaborateurs dans la bande de Gaza ⬇️
Today, I resigned as Series Editor of the Hagiography beyond Tradition series & member of the Academic Board for the Premodern Health Disease and Disability series at @amsterdamupress.bsky.social with immediate effect. If any other SEs/Board Members wants to talk about my rationale, my DMs are open
Alicia Spencer-Hall@aspencerhall.bsky.social · last yr.New era of @amsterdamupress.bsky.social under T&F ownership is not going well for its medievalist authors. This week is the flagship European conference for medieval studies @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2025. AUP listed as an exhibitor at book fair, incl in programme. No sign of them, online or irl
