if you watch nothing else today, please watch this

I didn't think I'd receive so much harassment over making cute inclusive hoodies that allow people to get IV, use ports, etc. without having to take off their clothes.

I've received so many threats all because I'm Black and disabled. And charging fairly for my work.

The majestic Ruha Benjamin 👏🏼

Thanks to everyone who listened to & shared the short clip from the 2024 Spelman Founders Day address. In case you'd like to hear the full 15min talk, here's a captioned version. The spicy section that's circulating is towards the end: bit.ly/RuhaSpelmanTalk

Resharing with captions for accessibility

I wish we had universal healthcare.

Seeing plenty of old videos from the Middle East plus some video game footage going viral tonight, mostly posted by accounts seeking clout and engagement during a major news event by spreading misinformation and fear.

Double-check everything you see online tonight.

If you refuse to condemn Israel’s unfolding genocide, occupation, slaughter of children, carpet bombing, forced famine, hospital attacks, killing journalists & aid workers, and bombing embassies—but condemn Iran’s retaliation—don’t pretend you care about internat’l law or peace.

I hate everyone who failed this man. I hate the people making excuses. I hate every single policy maker in the history of this country that caused this. I hate that ableism teaches *us* that we're the burden not the godawful system that leads to this.

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'Protest gets pathologized when justice movements produce impermissible disruptions: to traffic, business as usual, or—most vehemently—to thought. We must protect Aaron Bushnell from this playbook so that the meaning of his death is not taken from him—or from us.'

Last fall I taught Feminist Disability Studies & for final projects students submitted creative work to be posted on the UConn Disability & Access Collective blog. Their works are finally posted & I am so thrilled for these fabulous students & their work! disabilityaccesscollective.blog/2024/04/11/a-c…

Hey #OAH24 ! The Outstanding Dissertation in Disability History prize is now open for submissions!

Visit go.illinois.edu/DisabilityHist… for submission guidelines.

#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityTwitter #DisabilityHistory #dishist

cc: Organization of American Historians DisabilityHistoryAssociation

Let me just say: When you're a professor, you can close ranks with powerful professors, politicians and celebrities, or you can close ranks with adjuncts, students and people who are struggling. And your life will be much richer when you do the latter.

What an authentic gesture of solidarity 👏 I'm ordering these authors' books. Please do the same. Tell your libraries to order them.

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On 18 April, Jaipreet Virdi Jaipreet Virdi will give a lecture on 'Deaf futurity' at the disABILITY Film Festival as part of our Lecture Series on trust in medicine. This lecture takes place at Bibliotheek Tweebronnen in Leuven and online, more information: ghum.kuleuven.be/LCHH/calendar/…

For Endometriosis Awareness Month, I'm launching my new research project on South Asian people's experiences with endometriosis.

Learn more about the project: jaivirdi.com/endo-project/

Interested in sharing your story? Contact me!

#EndometriosisAwarenessMonth

starstruck that laurel lefkow is narrating the audio of SLOUCH.

My new open-access article with the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences on 'Rethinking Disabled Veterans Across British Imperial Spaces' is now available:

academic.oup.com/jhmas/advance-…

Please share if you can🙂 #histmed #dishist #fwwstudies #WW1

Alan! (o2bnobx on Threads) Jaipreet Virdi There's so much cool real information out there about this why spread misinformation? JWT is not between the moon and the Earth, which it would need to be for this shot to be possible