This summer has been a banger of a season when it comes to papers I've been working hard on for a long time finally making it into the academic literature, and this piece (open access, no firewall!) is no exception. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Queering and Transing Social Work Education: Creating Culturally Responsive, Inclusive, and Accessible Social Work Education

Queering and transing social work education is an intersectional, relational, and anti-colonial framework. It aligns with the goals of preparing social work students for practice in a politicized l...

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We really need to care more about the mass rape in Sudan and mass child enslavement in Congo being funded by our tax dollars.

I cannot tell you how much this sucks for the field of social work, and how badly this is going to impact people’s access to therapists, case managers, and more.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

A society that vilifies scientists and healthcare workers for trying to save lives is a society determined to destroy itself.

I can’t tell if this is about Harry Potter or Chick-Fil-A, but it stands either way

Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️@alice.averlong.com · 6d ago

there's plenty of restaurants in this town, but the owner of the sandwich shop downtown hates me, says he's gonna kill me, and has a sign up on the wall saying that 5 cents out of every sandwich order will go towards buying bullets to shoot me with.

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

Super stoked about this episode with my former spouse/forever family Dr. Leo Kattari, include his storytelling model for sharing your story when it comes to effective advocacy.

The SRG Collective@srgcollective.bsky.social · 6d ago

In this week's episode of the SuRGe Ahead Podcast, we're seeing Dr. Kattari times two (@drshannak.bsky.social & Dr. Leo Kattari) with a conversation on organizing, advocacy, and how to use storytelling to change hearts and minds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXcs... open.spotify.com/episode/2WBa...

Major congratulations to my PhD student Brody Mantha for passing their preliminary exam in social work today! They are a total rockstar, and I'm so lucky to get to support Brody on his scholarly journey.

Me: Trying to work on just being *a professor* rather than *a good or great professor,* decouple productivity from worth, slow down, try to focus on non-numeric measures of success. Also me: *writing tenure & promotion letters in which it has to be ALL about numbers, productivity, and "success"*

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Some thoughts on Disability Pride Month, the overlap of fatness and disability, sex educators in the disability field, and more resources. People to check out: - @disabethany.bsky.social - @robinwb.bsky.social - @drshannak.bsky.social - www.facebook.com/Mycroft.Masada

Happy Last Day of Queer Social Work Class, from our learning community to you. So proud of these students for showing up so fully and authentically, even during the fall of empire, climate crisis, and more. I cannot wait to see the social workers that they become (posted with consent, of course).

What a dream team of disabled sexuality educators listed here! Proud to be in such excellent company 💜

The Pincus Center@thepincuscenter.bsky.social · last wk.

We love sex educators here at The Pincus Center, and to commemorate Disability Pride Month, we wanted to feature a few of our favorites. If you know someone who is a sex educator in the disability field, share them with us in the comments. Learn more on our blog: thepincuscenter.com/celebrating-...

Yesterday, got to go celebrate at the Disabilty Network’s 36th anniversary of ADA celebration. Also got to see my art on the wall of the gallery for the first time as an adult, which was really meaningful, especially as my hand pain has made it nigh on impossible for me to do it anymore.

lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism

I got chills watching this. Anyone can speak out for ending the genocide in Palestine. We MUST continue to speak up.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

I cannot share intensely enough how meaningful this study was to conduct and this paper was to write, hearing again and again how hard these parents and caregivers of trans kids in states with gender affirming care fought for and supported their kids. I’m so proud of this love letter to them.

The SRG Collective@srgcollective.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are SO pleased to share that our publication on the experiences parents and caregivers of trans and gender diverse kids living in states with gender affirming care bans has been published (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1... [please excuse typo in title, working on it!)

This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.

Subtweet because there is no point in getting in the middle of something so I'm not going to send you to it but this is in response to something. Resistance movements fail until they don't. And after there's a win, something changes again. Which means you keep making the world better. Forever.

My pre-write turned out to be 70% a. CDC's comms have been wildly irresponsible; b. If I couldn't prove lettuce is not from Taylor Farms, I wouldn't eat it; c. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

Cyclospora Outbreak: Weekend Update | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

Q: Do we know what is causing the cyclospora outbreak? Taylor Foods iceberg lettuce has been identified as a cause. (At this point, Taylor F

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We had 6 years to adopt clean air standards We had 6 years to normalize masking Society chose denial instead Now as wildfires rage & the air turns to poison … people are left unprotected Covid cautious folks are still trying to protect those who’ve ignored them for years.

If you don't think so, they'll get you too. This government is committing genocide against trans people, disabled people including mentally ill people & those with autism, Black people, immigrants, & Natives. You will not be safe as a middle class white person forever.

If you’re someone on here, wondering whether other people are watching empire crash in real time, are feeling heartbroken at having to work through genocide and concentration camps and climate collapse and attacks on trans people and disabled people and new pandemics & parasites? You’re not alone.

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

Canada gave people $2000 a month during Covid “shutdown” That was what they felt folks needed to survive. Disabled Canadians are expected to focus on half that. The wait time for affordable housing? 7-10 years. Palliative care? Years. Homecare? At least 1.5 years. Assisted death? 3 months.

Are you neurodivergent and a faculty member? You might see yourself represented in this study. As always, feel free to let me know if you don’t have institutional access and I’d be delighted to send you a copy.

APA Journals@apajournals.bsky.social · 2w ago

“If you’re asking for my diversity, you’re asking for all of me”: Challenging experiences of neurodivergent higher education faculty in the United States ➡️ New research from @drshannak.bsky.social & Debra Erickson published in JDHE: https://bit.ly/43hbTrC #EduSky #HigherEd

Yesterday I attended a meetup group and heard heartbreaking stories from autistic peers about being made to hide stims at work for other people’s comfort. Autistic people shouldn’t have to suppress harmless forms of self-regulation just to appear “professional”. That expectation is ableism.

Hey, do me a favor and do an internet search for "free fridge" and your town's name. And then go drop some stuff off when you have some food you're not gonna eat. Got some takeout with an extra wonton soup you're not gonna eat? Take it to the free fridge. Someone needs it. Seriously.