Congratulations Ottawa, we have re-elected the political equivalent of a parking lot.

Last week I was hit by a car while crossing the street in Centretown, a consequence of a city designed to prioritize cars over people. Justice for the 30 people killed by #Autowa drivers this year requires prioritizing collective infrastructure that confronts the violence built into our streets.

Pedestrian, cyclist seriously injured in 2 separate vehicle collisions | CBC News

Ottawa paramedics say a cyclist and pedestrian were seriously injured in separate vehicle collisions Tuesday afternoon just after 2:00 p.m.

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Dave Robertson@davebikeski.bsky.social · last wk.

It's time for Ottawa's dangerous streets to become an election issue. This is too much 🚸🚲🧑‍🦼🚶 #Ottawa #VulnerableRoadUsers

The Smartwear Revolution project seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow in Participatory Research in Disability Justice: smartwearrevolution.com/wp-content/u... smartwearrevolution.com/team/join-th...

In person and virtual artist residency with the Co-Designing a Smartwear Revolution project: smartwearrevolution.com/air/

Our latest book review roundup includes new work by Eyal Weizman, Kelly Lytle Hernández, and Mark Lamster. Izzy Kornblatt sifts through Denise Scott Brown’s photographs, disability scholars Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire discover a kinship with broken infrastructure...and that’s just half of it:

Bookshelf: Fall 2026 | Book Reviews in Places Journal

Recent books on 'ungrounding' in Palestine, cinematic cities, urban playgrounds, disabled infrastructure, pressed flowers, and more.

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David Serlin reviews BROKEN WORLDS, DISABLED KIN by @kellyfritsch.bsky.social & @anneemcguire.bsky.social, who "rebut the solution-oriented approaches that typify design for disability...Being disabled kin together is how we manage the effects of living in a broken world." (@uminnpress.bsky.social)

Bookshelf: Fall 2026 | Book Reviews in Places Journal

Recent books on 'ungrounding' in Palestine, cinematic cities, urban playgrounds, disabled infrastructure, pressed flowers, and more.

placesjournal.org

Hanging out at my sister @kellyfritsch.bsky.social book launch at UToronto. Always a super cool and proud moment! Check out the book Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin from @uminnpress.bsky.social : www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...

we have lost so many people while police & politicians created a spectacle, raided DULF, stopped the expansion of an alt to the toxic supply, and put its co-founders through the needless consequences of this process that took years. DULF saves lives bsky.app/profile/godf...

godless dustbin 👻@godfrey.work · 4w ago

BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."

Non-medicalized safe supply for the win!

De Facto Journalism Co-op@defactomedia.ca · 4w ago

Canada’s drug policy violates its Charter, BC Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray ruled on Tuesday, by making it de facto illegal to run a compassion club providing tested illicit drugs. Read the full breakdown of her decision, by @godfrey.work: www.defactomedia.ca/breaking-dul...

See you tonight at Dominion Chalmers, Ottawa! @uminnpress.bsky.social @morsini.bsky.social @nataliekt.bsky.social @anneemcguire.bsky.social @remiyergeau.bsky.social @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social carleton.ca/cdash/event/...

Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival Book Launch and Discussion - Carleton Disability and Access Studies Hub (C-DASH)

Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic ab...

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Exciting event! @kellyfritsch.bsky.social is coming to STU in Fredericton to discuss her co-authored new book in conversation with @celesteeorr.bsky.social and @tobinatrix.bsky.social.

my favourite typo is, & will always be, ‘the literary cannon’

"Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign organisation has warned...a survey of the 10 biggest manufacturers found most had plans to increase production." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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Talking about Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin with @anneemcguire.bsky.social on the Good Robot Podcast thegoodrobotpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1786427/epis... @uminnpress.bsky.social

Sustaining life in crisis with Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire - The Good Robot

What does it mean to live in a world that is already broken, and what can disability justice teach us about creating more livable futures? In this episode of The Good Robot, Eleanor Drage speaks with ...

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The Good Robot Podcast@goodrobotpod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‘Repair’ is always political. KellyFritsch and Anne McGuire explore disability, accessibility, AI, and what it means to build collective care in broken worlds.🎧 Listen to the latest episode now!

Join @anneemcguire.bsky.social and I for the Ottawa book launch of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin on Friday, Sept 25, 6-9 pm at Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 290 Lisgar St. We'll be in conversation with @remiyergeau.bsky.social, @morsini.bsky.social & @nataliekt.bsky.social carleton.ca/cdash/event/...

I talked to a man who got stuck in an elevator, a wheelchair user who had to go on his balcony and shout to ask for food, a woman who had to sleep in her chair because she couldn't use her COPD machine. The crisis in Gary is the product of structural neglect and racism, but also climate change.

Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect

This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.

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A new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach

Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence

breachmedia.ca

It's Disability Pride Month. It's been a hundred degrees, the air's full of smoke, and we can't eat vegetables. All of this hits disabled people hardest. This month is a good time to reflect on how to incorporate disability analysis into our work. Need help? www.akpress.org/featured-pro...

The Backup Plan, a new podcast series exploring the use of DNA to store data (instead of tape or hard drives etc).

I don’t know why this post doesn’t give his name, but it’s Jo Nagai. This is a true story. medium.com/@zehraanjum2...

How a 10-Year-Old Boy’s Butterfly Experiment Silently Rewrote What We Know About Memory

In the world of science, breakthroughs often come from state-of-the-art labs with million-dollar equipment. But sometimes, they begin in a…

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WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?!!!!@the13thpanther.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The wave of austerity hitting Canada’s university sector and the Australian consulting firm that’s profiting from it. breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-... #cdnpoli

A notorious consulting firm is selling austerity. Canada’s universities are buying ⋆ The Breach

The Nous Group, an Australian consulting firm, has raked in millions for “fixing” universities in financial freefall. Their solution? Corporatization

breachmedia.ca

Mark Carney is overseeing a massive expansion of AI data centres in Canada, and it’s raising all kinds of concerns. Marcus Werner reports on the fast-growing movement that’s rising against the wave of planned data centre projects—and in some cases, already winning. breachmedia.ca/inside-the-r...

Inside the rising country-wide movement against AI data centres ⋆ The Breach

Canada is getting hit with an AI data centre boom. But resistance is emerging, getting coordinated, and already clocking wins

breachmedia.ca

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

theguardian.com

Virtual Conference Announcement! The Society for Disability Studies is excited to announce our call for papers, themed Here and There, Then and Now: Disability Studies at the End of the World. sites.google.com/DisStudies.o...

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 will never know or properly appreciate how many lives have been saved by librarians. The right book in the right hands at the right time. Astounding.

"Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...

‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed

Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction

prospectmagazine.co.uk

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is the new map of Gaza. Nearly 2 million people — most of them displaced — are now crammed into just 133 square kilometers. That is nearly 15,000 people per km².

Today! Discussing Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin in Montreal at 4th Space, Concordia with Anne McGuire, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Nashwa Khan, and Gracen Brilmyer. @nataliekt.bsky.social @anneemcguire.bsky.social @gracenbrilz.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social www.concordia.ca/cuevents/off...

Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin | Events - Concordia University

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living in the future has been a real fucking disappointment

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Coercion isn’t care, and new laws that enforce treatment and confinement are dangerous

Coercion isn’t care, and new laws that enforce treatment and confinement are dangerous

Arguing that confining and treating people against their will is ‘compassionate’ greatly expands the role of policing in medical matters, often with few limits.

theconversation.com

My book FOR THE LONG HAUL: HOW TO STAY IN THE FIGHT FOR A BETTER WORLD is now available for pre-order! In the U.S., order from @akpress.org. In Canada, order from @btlbooks.com. It will be out in September! Find all the info at www.writingwithmovements.com/long-haul/