I have a new piece up on CNN about media discourse and the murder of children with disabilities. London McCabe was a 6-year-old boy. On November 3, he died when his mother threw him off the Yaquina Bay Bridge in Oregon, according to police. London had autism. Media coverage of his death has widely focused on the…
From Digby, we get this find: The ISIS Hunting Kit (Available vs DoNotLink) This is their “Go Fuck Yourself” Patch So, there’s that.
The physician assisted suicide debate is taking place right now, thanks to Brittany Maynard’s decision to go public with her death plans, on multiple levels. 1. The abstract ethics of the practice (in abstract, I’m for it). 2. The ways in which it’s applied (in practice, the innate ableism of our society encourages certain kinds of…
The NEH assumption is that the overseas summer seminar program is done, dead, buried, and finished. They have decreed it so, in their imperial majesty, while hiding culpability and process. In response, the most prestigious academic organizations need to take stands, rather than letting this just slide away into fait accompli. I’m pleased to say…
Content Note: Suicide Recently, Brittany Maynard, a young woman with terminal brain cancer, chose to end her own life. She deliberately made her death very public in hopes, I believe, of sparking debate and conversation. I am still deeply busy in book proofs so cannot write much, but I tweeted this: It’s reasonable to be…
I spent a busy weekend recording a live album with my band The Tooles. Someday, I fully intend to ask you to consider buying a copy. Other than that, midterms and book proofs have taken up most of my time, but I wrote four blog posts. Next week Jeff Sessions (R-AL) will likely become chair…
Yesterday, a video on catcalling went viral. Today, Hanna Rosin at Slate wrote a piece on how the editor edited out the white guys, making it a long string of black and Latino men harassing a white woman. The video is a collaboration between Hollaback!, an anti-street harassment organization, and the marketing agency Rob Bliss Creative….
ACLU releases graphic video of 2012 police shooting of mentally-ill black man in Michigan. More than 45 shots http://t.co/rNYQN2HHZM — Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) October 27, 2014 Milton Hall stole coffee & refused to drop knife. officers fired 47 shots, 11 hit. All cleared by local PD & feds http://t.co/hxIRQX2gfb — Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) October 27,…
I often say that the world of prenatal testing for Down syndrome is a test run for the future of human procreation, and that it’s a test we are generally failing. It seems to me that as our access to pre-natal information gets better and better, cheaper and cheaper, more and more accurate, we slide…
I’m still waiting on documents to arrive for the NEH as I’d like a much clearer assessment of who is making decisions over there. I’m angry, as well, that they aren’t more forthcoming. The NEH belongs to us. It belongs to everyone who has participated in an NEH program or applied for one. It belongs…