It’s my last summer of work w/a program that is what it is bcuz I got to work on it for many yrs w/Amanda Starling Gould, PhD. Missing her as she is giving her incomparable talent elsewhere. I know today’s start only went as well as it did bcuz of the foundation she built!!

Agree! The Nib ✒️ has been an invaluable source of material for my own thinking, research & teaching of #graphicmedicine #climatechange #STEaM and so much more.

Just 3 years later, not only have we gutted ALL the Covid era welfare improvements, the United States is lying that it can negate the national debt on the backs of those who are cruelly going hungry…by requiring them to work in jobs that don’t pay enough for food & shelter.

“People don’t do anything because no one is going to do a damned thing ... It’s an extension of society — plain and simple.” trib.al/B0Nf0SO

🚨Teaching #arthistory or #medicalhumanities? Our book (out 6 July) includes Indian, N African, Japanese, European & US case studies.Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease Since 1750: Capturing Contagion - routledge.com/Visual-Culture…

Gorgeous. Got me thinking of pearldamour & their #oceanfilibuster show running Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans this weekend! cacno.org/performing-art…

Theses horrible bills rise again in the NC*GA & need voices of support to drown out the hateful clamor.

The Graphic Medicine International Collective, in collaboration with Penn State College of Medicine, is starting the second round of our Frontline Workers Comics Project! Details: graphicmedicine.org/frontline-comi… #GraphicMedicine

Hi had a lot of fun talking with moyazb about disabled activism in the digital era for Digital Alchemy! Text transcript in the link: digital-alchemy.transistor.fm/episodes/digit… #DisabilityRights #DisabilityTwitter #CripTheVote

Our legislature working diligently to gut what’s left of the public education system in NC.

The next piece in STAT's 'Living With' series focuses on one psychologist’s lifetime of navigating the health care system as a disabled person and how she’s had to advocate for herself. trib.al/kd2bT2S

New: A national panel will consider highly recommending Covid tests indefinitely, a move that requires insurers to cover them at no cost to patients. Some have introduced copays or limited coverage post-emergency: statnews.com/2023/07/31/usp…

I took the opportunity to talk about the importance of disability studies, hoping Penn might offer more of an institutional home for it. Plus I was able to talk about the impact that my grandma Karl had on me. ⁦Penn Today⁩ penntoday.upenn.edu/news/history-d…

This writing is why liberal arts education and the humanities within it are under attack: it is cogent, contextual and historical, and compelling.

So … instead of improving core community & individual services & supports we go carceral.

Not good is an understatement.

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”. Pub date April 9 #histmed #hisdisability #histsci ⁦Princeton University Press⁩ press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

.PSU Arts&Arch Professor William Doan will discuss his work with "The Anxiety Project" next Tuesday, Nov. 14, as part of our Virtual Speaker Series. Begins at noon. Learn more below and RSVP here: shorturl.at/drFGK youtube.com/watch?v=iLI05D…

Call for Authors: Health Professions and Comics, an Inter-Professional Guide to Graphic Medicine graphicmedicine.org/call-for-autho… via Graphic Medicine