Arlet, a Latina American who crossed into this country at six months old, built a wall and put out chalk. Take a look. @DominicanU pic.twitter.com/NidPnqjQuX— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) April 5, 2017
No blog today because I was running an event FILLED WITH STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS. It’s one of the things I get to do. Here’s a tiny sample.
New interview at Pacific Standard with Will Butler, one of the stars of Arcade Fire. Highlights: What have you found so far? I’m trying to preach to the choir and radicalize them a little bit, not push them farther left, but make them a little harder. Part of it is a community-building exercise. You came to…
Ben Carson is not going to be Secretary of Education. This is good. I’ve been guessing Michelle Rhee or someone similar, which is not good. Honestly, there’s no one that Trump would consider for any major cabinet position who I suspect I would endorse – that’s why I didn’t vote for him. But as Carson’s…
The brilliant author Nicola Griffith has written a new book, So Lucky. As the reviews roll in, she’s been talking online and now blogging about the ways that ableism intersect with sexism in the response. She writes: In How to Suppress Women’s Writing Joanna Russ lays out eleven methods to belittle the work of women…
The Washington Post has published a report based on a leaked document. We don’t know who leaked it to them. In it, a prisoner who was placed in the police van some time after Freddie Gray was restrained, claims that he heard banging from Gray’s compartment. At no time did this anonymous prisoner see Gray. That’s…
I’ve been following a case in Ardmore, Oklahoma, about parents who suspected that their child was being mistreated in school, so they enabled recording on the child’s “talker” device. Abusive language was, in fact, recorded, and the parents sued. The school has tried to block the use of the recorded content, but so far has…
The Disability Integration Act was introduced by Senator Schumer to, in the words of the important disability rights group ADAPT, “address the fundamental issue that people who need Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) are forced into institutions and losing their basic civil rights. The legislation (S.2427) builds on the 25 years of work that…