Deadline extended to 1 March 2025!

MacArthur genius Alice Wong on resistance in the new year: ‘Life is a dumpster fire, but I’m not alone’ The activist and ‘disabled oracle’ reflects on a moment that changed her life – and why she finds solace in sci-fi

Don’t miss @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in the Guardian! So much wisdom, inc this:
“I feel despondent and overwhelmed by the political situation often, but then I remind myself this is by design, that those in power want to erode our resolve and [for us to] give up.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship | Islamic Studies

Spread the word! Postdoctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies at Stanford
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Very proud and excited to be part of this wonderful initiative. And, of course, to be working alongside the brilliant @gracenbrilz.bsky.social !

Grant will advance minority inclusion in archival studies  - McGill Reporter Gracen Brilmyer will use $520,000 from Mellon Foundation to fund an internship program at community archives, where marginalized communities document their own histories

Gracen Brilmyer, Assistant Professor at McGill's SIS, leads a new internship program to promote minority inclusion in archival studies. Students document diverse histories in Montreal's community archives, enhancing field representation.

Read more: mcgill.ca/x/wH5

Also @codyjacksonar.bsky.social dm me for a discount code 🤗

💖💖💖 ty & likewise! What I know about disability and archives is absolutely because of you & others who have shared your brilliance in seeking yourself in history!

Publication announcement: Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession, edited by Gracen Brilmyer & Lydia Tang, an edited collection of 22 chapters on disability & the archival profession: featuring disabled archival users, disabled archivists, and archival labor on disability! Forward by Alice Wong. Black text with blue, red, yellow and pink hand drawn squiggles on a dark blue background.

SO SO excited to announce the publication of Preserving Disability that I coedited with Lydia Tang. 😮‍💨😅🥳

✨ HUGE thank you to the authors, peer reviewers, editors, designers & many others who made this come to life. Stay tuned for events, discount codes, giveaways & lots of celebrating!

🩷🩷🩷 (This was made by @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social)

To our new followers: we've been organizing for Palestinian families in Gaza since July of this year. We are closing in on 2,000 workshop participants (since we started keeping track). Can you help us achieve our goal this long weekend of 100 new sign-ups? We have 12 workshops and 1 trans. consult ⬇️

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Hard Femme Poetics — Workshops 4 Gaza Register for “Hard Femme Poetics” here . Donate to Crips for Esims for Gaza here (suggested donation $60 USD). What does it mean to be a revolutionary femme in 2024 in a time of genocide...

New workshop w/ @thellpsx.bsky.social on femme traditions of rant, manifesto, rigorous lyric and discursive explorations of the monstrous body. Leah is the author of THE FUTURE IS DISABLED (2022) CARE WORK: DREAMING DISABILITY JUSTICE (2018), etc. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/har...

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Crips for eSims for Gaza Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

chuffed.org/project/crip... just a note to say we're still doing this and I hate that it's going to be a year soon, but we keep going til we don't need to anymore.