Book cover for Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival by Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire. Against a white background, drawing of a plant with leaves of printed images of soil, water, wiring, and microscopy. Birds and a bee fly away.

Book cover for Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture by Jane King Hession. Woman pointing at architectural model upper left. Title in red square to the right. Modernist house in woods, lower right. Author in blue field to left.

Book cover for Miles Lord: The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice by Roberta Walburn. Large black-and-white photo of man in judge’s robes before the Great Seal of the US. Title in large yellow letters across chest, subtitle in white below.

New books released this week!

-Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-making by @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and @anneemcguire.bsky.social

-Two now in paperback: Beautiful MN biographies on architect Elizabeth Scheu Close and judge Miles Lord

Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-makingWe live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and kill throug...

In Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, books can be ordered from @mngupbooks.bsky.social (30% off using promo code FFS26)

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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-makingWe live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and kill throug...

In the US, books are available direct from University of Minnesota Press (30% off using promo code MN94380)

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In Canada, print copies are in stock in some local bookstores, including @anotherstoryto.bsky.social in Toronto and @octopusbooks.ca in Ottawa.

Books are also available from University of Toronto Press (30% off using promo code MNUTPS26)

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Flyer showing open access version of the book available at https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/fritsch-mcguire-9781452976501

Flyer showing US ordering info with 30% off using code MN94380 at the following link: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919733/broken-worlds-disabled-kin/

Flyer for ordering from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East with 30% off using promo code FFS26 at the following link: https://mngbookshop.co.uk/9781517919733/broken-worlds-disabled-kin/

Thrilled that Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, collaboratively authored with @anneemcguire.bsky.social is now published with @uminnpress.bsky.social

An open access version of the book can be found here: manifold.umn.edu/projects/fri...

Excited to be in conversation with @louhicky.bsky.social in Cambridge April 17!

Coming to @4sweb.bsky.social 2026? @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and I are organizing an open panel on 'Confronting Contemporary Eugenics" (see p. 72 of the accepted panels for details). We'd love to consider your submission! #STS #antieugenics #disabilityjustice #socialmovements

"Food Processor" might be the most ominous sounding kitchen appliance. What does it do? Subjects it to The Process. Your food will be Altered by the Process. Please do not resist.

Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development Discover how the Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development and its implications.

Funny/not funny. Ontario government calls Ring of Fire minerals ‘the most ethical on Earth,’ while passing legislation that suspends treaty rights, species protections, and human rights — to benefit extractive industries.
ricochet.media/indigenous/o... via @ricochetmedia.bsky.social

“In three known cases, palliative patients died without pain medications and one patient died without nutrition because supplies were delayed” #onpoli

Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying ⋆ The Breach Calls by disability advocates and the UN to halt an expansion of medically assisted death have gone largely unacknowledged by the federal government

"Almost a year after the report’s release, there is no plan to substantially act on any of the UN’s recommendations. Government officials guessed right: mainstream news outlets have largely ignored the report’s criticisms of MAiD. " @spichaksimon.bsky.social

breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

If only sociologists would stop
talking about structure & agency.

Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind” “We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

Pre-order and get 30% off:

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In Europe, Asia, Africa, and Middle East, use code MNMNGS26 on this website: mngbookshop.co.uk/978151791973...

By showing that care for disabled life is inseparable from care for the infrastructures, environments, and more-than-human entanglements that sustain us, we ask what it means to be accountable not only to one another but also to the fragile material relations that make collective life possible.

Charting a politics of solidarity capable of cultivating worlds where we sustain each other instead of the systems that harm us, Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin traces how relations of care, access, and justice are fostered amid social, ecological, and political collapse.

Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-makingWe live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and kill throug...

Available for pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social: Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, co-authored with @anneemcguire.bsky.social

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Number of homeless ODSP, OW recipients in Ontario surges 72% since 2019: report | CBC News The number of people on Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program who are also experiencing homelessness has shot up 72 percent since 2019, according to a new report from human rights o...

In news you may have missed in this miserable world, legislated poverty is real. The province (ODSP, OW) and the federal government (CPP-D, CDB, DTC) do not care. As one politician said to me, 'It would be easier if you didn't exist.' Such a nice thing to say and believe. Arsehat

#OnPoli #CdPoli

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

Everything old being new again all at once is not a coincidence

Nothing new to say, plenty new to do, infinite solidarity with everyone else trying to do it

I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.

"I write about the 3 Americas: one built on AI speculation, one held together by healthcare, and one running on memes"
Brilliant &brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social that runs a thread through the american shatterbelt
@katemac.bsky.social & I honored to be quoted!
kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...

Pickles are the bananas of a sandwich smoothie.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

The Tyee Has a New AI Policy | The Tyee Long story short: We’re mostly taking a pass on the robots.

We published our AI policy yesterday. It affirms our commitment to human-made writing, photography and illustrations. #journalism #localnews You can read more here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

May we build worlds worthy of Alice’s memory. 💔 Rest in power @sfdirewolf.bsky.social

Ontario’s Post-Secondary Education Crisis in Five Figures | The Local Stagnant provincial funding, a domestic tuition freeze, cuts to international students, and expensive capital projects—the numbers behind the emergency in higher education.

Nearly two decades of stagnant provincial funding, a seven-year freeze on domestic tuition, and federal cuts to international student visas have left many of Ontario's colleges and universities in dire financial straits.

The corporate blueprint behind the eviction of Ottawa’s most diverse neighbourhood ⋆ The Breach Behind Heron Gate’s destruction lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system—financial firms, pension funds, and private equity investors have transformed rental housing into a speculative asset cl...

Behind a 2018 mass eviction in Ottawa lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system.

Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...