Sari Altschuler
@sarialtschuler.bsky.social
Associate Prof, Director of Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern. The Medical Imagination (Penn Press, 2018) + Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship (Penn Press, 2026). Coeditor: Keywords for Health Humanities (NYU, 2023).
Here’s a fun thing I got to do today! Thanks, @sunsetandecho.bsky.social! avidly.org/first-senten...
First Sentence Fridays: Sari Altschuler - Avidly
First Sentence Fridays is a series focused on the style and experience of new books. About Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship: The history of
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@miriamposner.com's SEEING LIKE A SUPPLY CHAIN, out in October from @yalepress.bsky.social, which offers a timely lesson on how capitalism shapes software design--and thus what we can and cannot know about the information (and people) our software rests upon. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 5/
Seeing Like a Supply Chain
A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...
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Britt Rusert's AFRIC-AMERICAN PICTURE GALLERY, out in September with @dukepress.bsky.social, which reanimates and theorizes William J. Wilson's speculative museum of Black art, decades if not centuries before an actual museum of Black art came to be: www.dukeupress.edu/the-afric-am... 4/
The Afric-American Picture Gallery: William J. Wilson's Speculative Museum of Black Art
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@mollyfarrell.bsky.social's NEW WORLD CALCULATION, in many ways a prehistory of DATA BY DESIGN, which shows how settler colonialism and racial capitalism set our current data practices in motion. It's out next month with @stanfordpress.bsky.social: www.sup.org/books/litera... 3/
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One of the nicest and most unexpected pleasures of having worked on a book for so long is that all of the friends you make along the way, who have also been working on their books for so long, eventually finish those books--all at the same time! I am feeling so much vicarious pride in 1/
@sarialtschuler.bsky.social's BEFORE DISABILITY, which looks to the era before disability was pathologized (and racialized) to show how disability once represented the promise of US citizenship, out now with @pennpress.bsky.social: www.pennpress.org/978151282951... 2/
Before Disability – Penn Press
A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil WarThe history of disability rights is ofte...
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If you're going to be hanging out near Worcester tomorrow (or would like to join online), I'd love to see you!
American Antiquarian Society @amantiquarian.bsky.social · 4w agoJoin us on Tuesday, July 14th at 7:00 pm ET online or in person for “A History of American Citizenship Through the Lens of Disability” with Sari Altschuler. Register at www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-events/history-american-citizenship-through-lens-disability
Pleasure to talk to @sarialtschuler.bsky.social about her new book, which traces how disability shaped citizenship, including efforts by white people to portray Black and Indigenous people as inherently disabled to deprive them of rights. New at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How disability shaped American citizenship
A new book reveals the long relationship between race, disability, and nationhood in the revolutionary-era United States.
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Got to celebrate the publication of @sarialtschuler.bsky.social’s new book today- BEFORE DISABILITY: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. What a project!!!
"How Disability Shaped American Citizenship" Mother Jones interviews @sarialtschuler.bsky.social on her new book! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How disability shaped American citizenship
A new book reveals the long relationship between race, disability, and nationhood in the revolutionary-era United States.
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We tend to treat disability politics as a modern phenomenon. It’s not. @sarialtschuler.bsky.social's new book explains "how disability helped to shape US citizenship and, in turn, how the formation of US citizenship shaped disability."
How disability shaped American citizenship
A new book reveals the long relationship between race, disability, and nationhood in the revolutionary-era United States.
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Loved doing this interview with @juliametraux.bsky.social !
Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 2mo agoPleasure to talk to @sarialtschuler.bsky.social about her new book, which traces how disability shaped citizenship, including efforts by white people to portray Black and Indigenous people as inherently disabled to deprive them of rights. New at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For Before Disability’s publication day (yesterday! I missed it on here!) @motherjones.com published this interview! @pennpress.bsky.social
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Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2mo agoWe tend to treat disability politics as a modern phenomenon. It’s not. @sarialtschuler.bsky.social's new book explains "how disability helped to shape US citizenship and, in turn, how the formation of US citizenship shaped disability."
Happy pub day to @sarialtschuler.bsky.social! Learn more about her new book, Before Disability, in the most recent issue of Sally Franklin's Bookshelf
Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 2mo agoGet a sneak peek at Before Disability, new from @sarialtschuler.bsky.social. Today at Sally Franklin’s Bookshelf, she explains how the book explores the “entangled history of disability, race, and citizenship” in the United States before the Civil War. #VastEarlyAmerica @pennpress.bsky.social
Get a sneak peek at Before Disability, new from @sarialtschuler.bsky.social. Today at Sally Franklin’s Bookshelf, she explains how the book explores the “entangled history of disability, race, and citizenship” in the United States before the Civil War. #VastEarlyAmerica @pennpress.bsky.social
Sari Altschuler, Before Disability — Clio Digital Media
Yesterday, June 13, was the 160th anniversary of the US Congress passing the 14th Amendment (it was ratified two years later, in 1868). The 14th Amendment is one of several important Ame...
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@sarialtschuler.bsky.social will appreciate this thread - and folks on here might like to read her new book, BEFORE DISABILITY: A History of American Citizenship. bsky.app/profile/sari...
Sari Altschuler@sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt's real! Too many people to thank, but I'm feeling so very grateful for the years of conversation, learning, and generosity that made this book possible. More about the book below --
Fun podcast conversation about my new book, Before Disability: www.listennotes.com/podcasts/ser...
SIO516: How a Botched 1840 Census "Proved" Freedom Made Black Americans Disabled, with Sari Altschuler
00:45:33 - The history of disability rights is often treated as a modern story, but what if that framing misses centuries of earlier, more complicated history?…
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Students were always my imagined readers when I was writing DATA FEMINISM. Every time I asked myself, "How do I explain this clearly?" or "Why should people care?" I was thinking of them. So getting to build a course around those questions felt like coming back to my (Google Docs) home
Alberto Cairo@albertocairo.com · 2mo agoBIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
It's real! Too many people to thank, but I'm feeling so very grateful for the years of conversation, learning, and generosity that made this book possible. More about the book below --
"This misunderstanding of humanities work is so broadly pervasive in medicine tat the submission category 'Humanities' in JAMA describes the publication venue for 'personal vignettes,' 'original poems,' and art appreciation." @sarialtschuler.bsky.social
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
Federal authorities have tear-gassed a crowd outside the Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling. Follow updates here. bit.ly/3Lakres
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
This is what courage in the face of authoritarianism looks like. No university should take Trump's bribe & surrender their integrity — bending the knee to a bully only feeds the beast & puts ALL our rights at risk. Others should follows MIT’s example ASAP.
MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding
MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.
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