Happy Labor Day weekend! There’s power in a union, & solidarity in my 292nd #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

#ScholarSunday Thread 292 (9/6/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

Happy Labor Day weekend! There’s power in a union, & solidarity in my 292nd #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add ...

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What can a wheelchair pageant reveal about disability, womanhood, and citizenship? Moira Armstrong’s new OA article examines Miss Wheelchair America in the 1970s as a widely negotiated cultural and political space. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SkyHistorians #DisabilityHistory

“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977

This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizen...

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💚🤍🖤 Happy Aromantic Spectrum Visibility Day! 💚🤍🖤 To celebrate: a poster I made to let people know of an aromanticism studies reading group I'm planning to (co-)organize this Fall. If you're interested in potentially joining us, please fill out a registration form at tinyurl.com/AroRG26 .

If anyone knows me and music, they know how seminally important Pet Sounds is to me. This piece highlights exactly what is so beautiful about this record through this song.

Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · 4mo ago

So @pastemagazine.bsky.social asked if I would write about God Only Knows , and then I had a pain flare up and lost my mind trying to do it www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-be...

I'm so excited to have an article in this issue of DSQ! "Choosing to Remember" explores the experiences of queer disabled people in England during the COVID-19 pandemic through oral histories, using Alice Wong's work on disabled oracles as a theoretical lens. dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...

Society for Disability Studies@disstudies.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New Issue Disability Studies Quarterly Authors: Julia Linares-Roake, Lauren Van Patter, Carla Rice, Erika Cudworth and Andrea Breen Luda Gogolushko Shawna Sheperd-Murtagh Sarah Manley RB Lemberg Perelmutter Moira Armstrong Christiana Salah Joshua Earle

We’re over halfway through our end-of-year fundraiser, and we’re not where we need to be to keep our vital work going. We have three weeks left to hit our goals of $60,000 and 200 monthly supporters. The #LongCOVID community needs us — we need you! the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

“Im honored to be your ancestor” - @sfdirewolf.bsky.social final words to disability fighters

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.”

What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")? Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event. Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

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So thrilled that the #Newsies book made it to this list! I can't wait to actually have this in my hands. ❤️❤️

BroadwayWorld@broadwayworld.com · 11mo ago

25 Theater Books for Your Fall 2025 Reading List

“Millions of Americans are impacted by long Covid, and they deserve a federal government that will have their back,” Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine told Rolling Stone. “The Trump administration is not only failing to achieve those goals, but actively taking us in the wrong direction.”

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation

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Were you or your kids assigned full books to read in high school English — novels, nonfiction or plays from beginning to end — or mostly shorter excerpts? We are digging into this very controversial maybe-trend and need your help: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

Were You Assigned Full Books to Read in High School English? Tell Us.

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I passed my proposal defense for my dissertation project, "Beyond Romance: Kinship Experiments in the Modern United States," today! I've been gearing up to write this aromantic history for so long and I'm so excited to really get started.

NEW: Fight for the Future and @covidsafecampus.bsky.social are sounding the alarm as more schools capitulate to Trump admin financial threats and quietly adopt forced unmasking policies for the fall semester. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-08...

New campaign tracks spread of campus mask bans at 60+ universities threatened by Trump admin, highlighting growing threats to student health, privacy, and free expression

As students return to colleges and universities across the country, Fight for the Future and COVID Safe Campus are launching our Campus Mask Policy Scorecard. This policy tracker closely follows the m...

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"I don’t know how to convince everyone that we can’t give up. So many people consider COVID to be endemic, or accept that everyone will eventually become infected, thinking nothing more can be done... but I know a better world is possible and we will move forward together."

COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.

"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."

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This is a piece you should read right now and share share share open.substack.com/pub/leikelis...

Individualism is Killing The (Online) Aspec Community

You lot don’t wanna hear me, you just wanna dance. And eat garlic bread.

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I am deeply disturbed by this rhetoric that preexisting health problems mean deaths don’t matter. We saw this during COVID. Now it gets applied to every public health threat—H5N1, measles, etc.—and genocide. Disabled people are not disposable.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

Incredible journalism, heartbreaking & terrifying story

Eva Holland@evaholland.bsky.social · last yr.

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:

We have @littlelobbyists.com families on the way to Washington DC right now, they'll be on the House-side of the Capitol tomorrow. We're going to make them see us before they vote to kill disabled children. If you can help cover the costs of this urgent action: secure.actblue.com/donate/littl...

I just gave to Little Lobbyists Action Network!

Show your support with a contribution.

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A preorder link is live! 😊 If you would like the book and can preorder, that is a *huge* help, but if you can't, I completely get that. The best thing you can do in that case is request that your university or local library orders a copy - that helps sales, too! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/news...

Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey@hermioneclone.bsky.social · last yr.

There is a book cover and an official title for the #Newsies book, and I am so incredibly delighted!!! ❤️ Preorder links should be available very soon, and I will share those as soon as I can.

It is not too late to push back on the FDA’s attempts to limit vaccine access. Believe me, you want to fight for this even if you think Covid is over. They do not plan to stop here. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Alyssa Harad@alyssaharad.bsky.social · last yr.

1) If you have had Covid you are at risk. 2) THEY AREN’T FUCKING “BOOSTERS” THEY ARE NEW SHOTS. THE VIRUS MUTATES. 3) They are able to do this because the uptake is already so low. This is not the end game, it’s an opening gambit.

1) If you have had Covid you are at risk. 2) THEY AREN’T FUCKING “BOOSTERS” THEY ARE NEW SHOTS. THE VIRUS MUTATES. 3) They are able to do this because the uptake is already so low. This is not the end game, it’s an opening gambit.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

[Karoline Leavitt saying the Librarian of Congress was fired for having books in the library] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen *refreshes feed* [The mayor of Newark is being held at an unspecified facility] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen

This study needs more participants, so far 125 students have been interviewed, and the aim is to interview 25 more students to reach the goal of 150 interviews. umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

If you or your mutual aid group want to get some of that federal stockpile of COVID tests, you can order them for free. Minimum is 300, unclear what the max is! my local clean air group just did this and they arrived quickly: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

free RATs ordering guide (HHS)

How to bulk order free rapid tests from the government & FAQs: You do NOT have to be an official organization (no requirement to be a 501c3, school, or anything else). You don’t even have to be a mut...

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Trump’s trying to gut funding for libraries: you can fight back with ALA. The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out. Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding. bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding

NEW: CSC is launching a policy report form to track campus mask bans and restrictions being proposed or implemented at universities/colleges across the US. If you care about pandemics, privacy, protests, and Palestine, help us spread the word and track these policies. tinyurl.com/ReportCampus...

Two hours left! Please share and comme t. 🙏

Socks the Macro Wolf Dad@socksthewolf.com · 2y ago

The government is about to give OpenAI the ability to legally steal if we do not flood this page in the next 12 hours. OpenAI will have immunity from all lawsuits regarding copyright infringement. All other AI companies will follow. Do you despise AI? Dissent, retweet. Do something. #furry #art

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