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ICE is trying to deport a local professor at Augsburg, destroying yet another family. Someday, we’re going to have a new government and we will need to have a reckoning. I can’t really imagine what it looks like, but at least a very public process where we find out exactly who decided to destroy all …
I wrote for Salon: Higher Ed’s got 99 problems … It started as a jokey, surly, listicle, then expanded into a pretty serious exercise and naming and providing a link to a broader discussion of issues that matter. Hey op-ed writers! Did you know that anti-racist activism isn’t the only problem facing higher ed? I …
This is my family’s school district. I’ll be watching closely. The mother of the student told KSTP she did not want her family’s identity revealed publicly, and said her son told her it was the van driver’s aide who assaulted him. “My son has autism, and he can act out at times,” she said. “And …
This was new, and ghastly, to me: Judges are not allowed to shock defendants in their courtrooms just because they won’t answer questions, the court said, or because they fail to follow the court’s rules of decorum.“While the trial court’s frustration with an obstreperous defendant is understandable, the judge’s disproportionate response is not. We do …
Florida school officials keep arresting disabled kids for non-compliance, especially those of color. Now they’re adding guns and promoting mental health stigma. #CultOfCompliancehttps://t.co/zkaX4TRueq — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) March 6, 2018 Yesterday, I wrote about a series of incidents in which disabled children, mostly non-white, whose stories of arrest and abuse in Florida schools have …
Yesterday, NPR broke the Sherman Alexie story. It’s been an odd one, even in this moment of “me too,” because the allegations went public and then viral long before the story, followed by an Alexie statement that generated more news, and then finally the women’s voices were heard. NPR did a great job. I did …
speaking of disability narratives. https://t.co/rTYmKeVsoP — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) March 5, 2018 Million Dollar Baby was heavily criticized by disability groups for promoting the view that being paralyzed was worse than being dead. This, of course, was also the case for the less-critically-successful Me Before You. You can see an archive of such responses …
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, has cancelled his plans to speak at Wesleyan for commencement, and will be replaced by Anita Hill. This is the correct outcome. If somehow you missed it, I wrote about Snicket and the allegations of sexual harassment last week. Now the usual “free speech” folks are going to claim this …
117 victims made known to us since our last day of mourning, 11 since the start of 2018. Stop murdering our people. #DisabilityDayofMourning #DDoM2018 — autselfadvocacy (@autselfadvocacy) March 2, 2018 The folks at DDoM are aware of 143 disabled people killed by their parents or other caregivers in 2017 (if I counted correctly). 117 since the …
In San Francisco, Disability Rights Advocates is suing Uber. Report from SF Examiner: Although Uber has a wheelchair-accessible service, called Uber WAV, in the Bay Area, Disability Rights Advocates wrote in the complaint that the service is “a sham.” The group conducted a test of the service and found that in Alameda County, not a single …