Absolutely delighted to say there’s a free livestream for the event I’m doing tomorrow @ #brightfest with ⁦Noreen Masud⁩ : Brava @Brightfest! Noreen Masud & Polly Atkin: Writing a Life #AccessIsLove #AccessibleArts brightonfestival.org/whats-on/Xl6-l…

Some photos from the opening of the Edinburgh Autonomous Library 2 of 2

The open-access edition of _Crip Spacetime_ has been released! dukeupress.edu/crip-spacetime

AND If you'd like some folks to discuss it with, Helen Rottier is leading reading groups this summer! I'll put times, links, and guidelines in the next tweet.

Duke University Press

Thanks very much to everyone who attended today's reading group session & Bob's brief presentation on Chapter Eight of Disability Praxis!

The next MDN event will take place on 4th June (6:30pm-8pm BST) with Julie Torrant - 'Pandemic, Disability and Capitalism'
#MarxismDisability

Six panels on radical disability politics with lots of great papers related to global movements, prefigurative politics, survival and domination, the heritage of struggle, work, & theoretical framings!

Fri, 7th June 2024

#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityTwitter #DisabilityPolitics

Stop The World For Rafah
Tomorrow, 8th May
5:30PM

Gaza’s only window to the world is being stormed & destroyed by Israeli tanks.

The next ECAP Jobcentre stall is on Thursday 23rd May 2pm-3.15ish at Leith Jobcentre, Commercial Street.
All welcome to join us, no need to say if you are coming, just turn up for however long you can make it.
Stall is weather dependent as always.

This is happening tomorrow!👇

The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work in the UK: Prefiguring a Non-Productivist Future

Thesis submitted, Viva awaits

There's still time to register for the first of our new webinar series, 'Our International Human Rights'.
Join Cathy Asante from Scottish Human Rights Commission to find out about the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Wednesday: buff.ly/3TUdBLn

With apologies to all fans of #MurielSpark 's writings, but reading Gabrielle Fath's excellent essay in the special issue of Etudes Ecossaises, ed. by Gavin Miller drgavinmiller.bsky.social & Arianna Introna, reminds me *again* why I feel deeply uncomfortable about her work.

shorturl.at/fqtuT

“The true sickness in this country can’t be found in a benefits office but in Downing Street. It is a political culture demonising people already suffering, and a rightwing media content to parrot the lies and bigotry it is fed.”

Me on Sunak’s “sicknotes” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Last Saturday, multiple sab groups mobilised to disrupt the final meet of the Devon & Somerset Staghounds on Exmoor. While several deer were saved, sabs were unable to prevent the death of one stag who was hunted to exhaustion.

huntsabs.org.uk/stag-hunting-a…

Chuffed to have signed a contract with Edinburgh University Press to co-edit a book with Michael Shaw (@glaikitscone) entitled 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥, 𝟏𝟖𝟖𝟎𝐬–𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟎𝐬.

“This is a book for us crips and the not-yet-crips—the crips-in-emergence. If readers…have not yet been radicalized by the systemic claws of ableism, Smilges will gently and lovingly nudge them.”

⁦Amy Gaeta⁩ on #CripNegativity 🖤 cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds…

just received this Radical Future reading list of Verso Books to give us hope. some great reads. also, *nothing* about disability, neurodiversity, sickness, madness. maybe there's no radical future or hope for crip folk #AbleismInTheImagination versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

Details of our May event (Reading Group Session): marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/may…

Tue, 7th May at 6:30pm BST
We'll discuss Chapter 8 of Bob Williams-Findlay's 'Disability Praxis' book (Pluto Press)

Bob will be joining us too!

#Marxism Disability #Marxism #DisabilityTwitter

if you're knowledgeable on 1) disability / neurodivergent / crip / sick a/o mad justice and also 2) animal a/o environmental justice, and you've suggestions for the provisional Eco-Ability reading list for 2025, pls DM/email me! not my expertise, so I v much welcome suggestions!

Starting in a few minutes!