Needed a pinned Tweet. I write about the perils of corporate disability inclusion. Increasingly, that writing is done in collaboration with my comrade Rua M. Williams. Here are some recent pieces that I believe make great teaching tools:

I'm going nuts trying to find the story that William Dalrymple discusses on several episodes of empire pod with anita anand about an emperor that had his soldiers bring him the eyes of all the men in the area he conquered and for decades after you would find blinded men.

I have disabled students participating in the peaceful encampment/protests UConn. When cops arrived they put hands on one of my disabled students & dislocated their shoulder. This student is still there, but injured. If @uconn says there are no injuries, that is a lie.

Jesus fuck

Be teachable. Be curious. A lot of us that have been in the fight for liberation for awhile are trying to show you how these struggles are connected. How anti-Blackness and police brutality show up in the protest space. How land defenders feel on our own traditional territory. 1/

A headline that perfectly captures what’s happening on American college campuses:

the problem with critical tech is that despite its stated refutation of technosolutionism, it programmatically tends to start with some given tech instead of looking at the long duree of surveillance, repression and extraction it’s adopted into in that local context

These aren't radicals. As someone told me the other day: 'It's a bunch of nerds sitting on the ground praying, chanting and doing homework.'

They are still going to classes.

Israel divestment campaigns are picking up, but the changed landscape of hedge funds and endowment has made colleges more resistant, not simply because they care about Israel but because so many of their investments are tied to Israel (and the military industrial complex). /9

And one might think this would be a positive for the students and the schools, but the reality is that endowment isn’t often used for student financial aid or making tuition lower or funding staff/faculty. It’s used to increase ranking and selectivity. /4

One demand students are calling for is Israeli divestment. Divestment is not a new request. In fact, it’s been asked for many times, most notably in the 80s to protest South African apartheid. What is less talked about is why colleges will resist divestment more than ever. 🧵/1

speaking as a former assistant to hers truly, let's reframe the focus of this conversation to the ease by which she and her chosen execs discarded and fired oftentimes vulnerable employees for the most absurd reasons

Can anybody tell me why I ask jitsi to log me in as a moderator it automatically uses my Gmail account and doesn't let me make my own credentials and never asked me to use my Gmail account? It's exceptionally bizarre.

I cannot get over there being a literal actual sniper surveying peaceful protests at IU. A sniper. The very presence of that kind of apparatus is so far beyond any reasonable precaution. The entire chain of decision-makers responsible for making this possible should be ousted.

It’s official. Hawai‘i is the first state to call for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

This statement from Emory University protestors is incredible.