So thrilled to see my biography (with Benjamin Isitt) of double amputee and political radical E.T. Kingsley appear in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.

“The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.”

This is what gender surveillance looks like. It’s sexual harassment. The idea that this “protects women” is painfully ridiculous.

Had a fantastic experience delivering a keynote for the Disability and Rights conference, sponsored by the Socio-Legal Studies Association and the Marxism and Disability Network. Continues tomorrow online

Honoured to be a keynote speaker at this free online conference. Free and online.

Thrilled that my piece with the late great Marta Russell in 2001, Capitalism and Disability, will soon be available in German translation.

I also edited a book honouring Marta, Disability Politics in a Global Economy: Essays in Honour of Marta Russell (Routledge). We coauthored a piece in Socialist Register 2002 (published in 2001) which is extracted there and has been translated into Portuguese and soon German.

Hand holding book on how to succeed at law school.

New book from UOttawa Law’s Lynda Collins #legaleducation!

Heureux de retrouver virtuellement d'estimé.es collègues pour souligner la publication de l'ouvrage remarquable de la Pre Marie-France Fortin

Totally blown away by The Apocalyptic Professor by Jerry Z. Muller about Jewish scholar Jacob Taubes. From the Apostle Paul to the Frankfurt School, this biography of a flawed yet fascinating man from Princeton University Press is so worth it.

Doug Ford says his ‘absolutely swamped’ MPPs won’t have time to campaign for Pierre Poilievre Premier Doug Ford is reminding Progressive Conservative cabinet ministers and MPPs they will be too "swamped" with their day jobs to help Pierre Poilievre in the federal election campaign.

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is so thrilled to learn that up and coming radical disability scholar Emily Ruppel has been appointed to a tenure track position at UC-Davis.

American universities need to be organized.

Also, I'll admit, I'm enough of a humanist to be annoyed at their insistence that I should let machines do all my reading, thinking, and human interaction for me.

If I wanted to avoid thinking, I could have just become a business major.

This really fits what I heard anecdotally from so many friends who talked to a lot of Trump voters (including my partner, who knocked a lot of doors for Democrats, and friends who talked a lot with coworkers at their working-class jobs and were dismayed by what they heard)

Six persons were killed and more than 20 critically injured in a stampede at Tirupati late on Wednesday evening as people jostled for tickets for the Vaikunta Ekadasi festival at the Tirumala temple on Friday, the Chairman of the TTD Trust Board, B.R. Naidu, said.

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Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Get to Know When Manchester University Press announced the publication of this book, I could see at once that a book like this needed to be written. It is made up of 32 essays all asking how researchers can st…

A review of the Vaughan / Braune / Tinsley / Mondon book on the Ethics of Researching the Far Right

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Hoping for a more positive experience on BlueSky.