I’m gutted that Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social is no longer with us. She built critical infrastructure for disability community & culture, online & in person. There’s a long road ahead as we fight eugenics and fascism but I hope we can channel her clarity, humor, resolve. Rest in Power, Alice ❤🔥
So this is happening!
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.
“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.
Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
I really needed this today.
Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social
You can get lost in it.
A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.
It is right to eulogize Alice Wong, but horrible to see so many articles and posts don't mention her advocacy for Long COVID patients and urgent campaign to push our society and govt to take action to prevent COVID infection. This one at least speaks of the former.
“Challenging (in a good way)”
Best future epitaph or best future epitaph? Should I put it on a t-shirt?
Immense thanks to @jonathanhsy.bsky.social for a generous and insightful review of my book!
scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...
Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.
www.throughlines.org
Be challenged:
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(via open access ebook)
We’re heartbroken by the passing of Alice Wong–disability rights advocate & founder of the Disability Visibility Project. Honor her legacy by reading her work, uplifting disabled creators, and continuing to fight for disability justice.
Rest in power, Alice 💛
Artwork: Jennifer White-Johnson
@thrasherxy.bsky.social remembers writer, advocate, and friend Alice Wong: “Alice helped decolonize disability communities of their (often) white-centered nature and acted as a bridge between so many interdependent related struggles.”
<P> From disability metaphors to narratives structured around bodies presented as aberrant, early medieval English thoughtworlds conveyed the promise of resurrection and the hope of salvation through crip and disabled bodies. <I>Light of the Everlasting Life</I> argues that early medieval Christian eschatology, as manifested in Old English literary texts, was a crip eschatology: a theology of the afterlife that relied upon disabled bodies and concepts related to disability in order to convey promises of resurrection and salvation. In addition to demonstrating how literature manifested theological approaches to the afterlife, Leah Pope Parker articulates the ways of thinking about bodies and disability that were available to ordinary early medieval people, many of whom experienced their bodies in ways that resonate with what we call disability today, but who rarely appear in the historical record.<BR /><BR /> By analyzing Old English texts, including Alfredian translations, Ælfric's saints' lives, and poetry from the Exeter and Vercelli Books, Parker introduces novel ways of characterizing disability's effects in literature. "Spiritual prosthesis" reveals rhetorical, narrative, and theological reliance upon disability to convey the promise of a Christian afterlife. "Systems of aberrance" emerge as a result, in which bodies marked as deviant—including disabled, monstrous, heroic, saintly, and dead bodies—form a network of embodiments that reinforce the narratives they inhabit and that of Christian salvation history. Locating crip eschatology in early medieval literature, <I>Light of the Everlasting Life</I> rewrites standard histories of disability, of the body, and of medieval Christian eschatology. </P>
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
