I believe today I will have a piece at Chronicle Vitae on accessibility and academic conferences. When we don’t make our events accessible, when we don’t broadcast that we are open to discussions about accessibility, we’re making powerful statements about our values. As an analogy, here’s an outstanding piece about the ways that live music venues…
On July 1, the Washington Post published a major piece on mental illness and police violence. It’s incredibly important; it’s also important that the conversation moves forward and moves OUT of the illness/CIT conversation and into a disability/accommodation conversation. CNN wrote a followup piece. It quotes me. While CIT is working in some communities, some experts…
So I briefly became a TV Critic this spring. It was fun and I plan to cycle back to it once BIG PROJECT slows down (did I mention I have a BIG PROJECT over the next few weeks? Expect shorter blog posts). Being critic made me ground zero for a lot of spoiler-rage, especially as…
Uber: The ADA doesn’t apply to us. Philly: We have wheelchair accessible taxi-cabs. Google: Someday our accessible cars will just drive themselves and revolutionize accessibility for wheelchair users. But not today. So right now, let’s just push Uber to respect the ADA.
Don’t miss this story. These kinds of actions will continue, and must continue. Independence is at stake. Lives are at stake.
Rachel Moss at History Today on the ways that Trigger Warnings, far from being a tool for censorship, in fact empower people to access content and speak. As someone who specialises in medieval gender, if trigger warnings truly restricted classroom discussion I would be the first person to complain. After all, my research and teaching emphasise…
This is the Voting Rights Restoration project. People with disabilities want to vote! They need more and better protections.
I will be traveling through Thursday. See you at the end of the week!
The week began, for me, with the Pope’s new encyclical. That story has been buried in the US beneath the wave of big news stories involving violence here and abroad, SCOTUS decisions, and flags. I posted a wonderful guest essay from historian Ellen Arnold on the ways in which medieval ideas about the environment are…
I have a new piece up with The Atlantic on the historic decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. It argues that the history of marriage supports, even mandates, change as societies change. We’re ready. History is with us. Love wins. Here’s the piece, with thanks to Anise Strong and Ruth Karras. — UPDATE – Anise Strong gave me…