See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 811 Chapter word count: 6870Chapter goal: 8500 but calling it a draft, because reasons.Total word count: 10071Total goal: 70000 I think chapter 1 is drafted. I need to add a few paragraphs on Disability Incarcerated, which is a terrific book, and there will be more…
Sureshbahi Patel was beaten by an Alabama police officer for, as near as I can tell, not speaking English. I like to think of this as akin to other situations in which people do not process verbal commands – whether through hearing loss, not speaking English, ear buds, sensory processing, etc. The man who beat…
See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 1148 Chapter word count: 6059Chapter goal: 8500Total word count: 9260Total goal: 70000 Semester starts tomorrow. May slow me down.
The Middle East is going through a transformation that will play out for a generation, rooted in conflicts that date back millennia. – Barack Obama, State of the Union 2016 I’ve been thinking about conflicts around the globe. While many of them occur in similar places as conflicts in the past, and while superficially conflicting…
See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 1328 Chapter word count: 4911Chapter goal: 8500Total word count: 8112Total goal: 70000 Wrote about Philip Coleman, Laquan McDonald, Quintonio LeGrier, and Betty Jones. Then wrote about Assertive Community Treatment vs the Murphy Bill’s priorities. May add a touch on Assistive Outpatient Treatment as coercion tomorrow,…
My scholarly work focuses on the movement of relics and the way that movement enables storytelling and cultural creation. Although I write about the 13th century (and the centuries surrounding it), the urge to tell stories about objects, especially objects as they move, is widespread. It’s part of the way we solidify, as it were,…
See here for primer on these posts. I did no writing over the weekend. Instead, my son turned 9. Read about it here. I did a few edits on a Hillary Clinton and autism piece. Daily word count: 1378 Chapter word count: 3583Chapter goal: 8500Total word count: 6784Total goal: 70000 Summarized history of deinstitutionalization in…
Happy birthday to my son, who is 9 today. Nico throws a “biscuit” over a glass barrier to a waiting crocodile. Yesterday we went to the Brookfield Zoo. I’ve written about the Zoo’s true commitment to inclusion here, and will have another piece on them next month in Chicago Special Parent. We bought a “backstage…
I did no writing on Saturday. Was I supposed to write on Saturday? I played with the kids, cleaned the house, made food, put away holiday directions, played a show that night. We needed the time together during the day. Also I finished my final edits on a CNN piece about Clinton’s autism plan. And…
See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 973 Chapter word count: 2205 Chapter goal: 8500 Total word count: 5406 Total goal: 70000 Did a lot of general “here’s how I’m going to talk about disability” stuff today. Identity first. Social model.