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drshannak.bsky.social
🏳️‍⚧️they/them 🎓Social Work and WGS prof @ UM 💋Educator | Researcher | Activist 💜Disabled, AuDHD, queer, nonbinary, polyam Jewitchy fat femme ✊🏽Anti oppressive abolitionist 🖤💙❤️Mx. MI Leather Pride ‘22 Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇭🇹 https://linktr.ee/DrShannaK
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I just. What??

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Eugenics & fascism go hand in hand. White supremacists don’t want disabled people around. We remind them of their fragility. We question their supremacy. Stand up for disabled people. Fight mask bans, Medicaid & Medicare cuts. Wear a mask. It’s one of the most powerful things you can do.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Ooooof.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Can’t sleep due to painsomnia and existential dread. Have this super cute photo of three (3) of our five (5) cats getting along surprisingly well.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Amazing looking job doing disability advocacy with the Trans Law Center: tlcenter.bamboohr.com/careers/103

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

In case you wonder why I have been struggling so hard, it takes SO much time to heal this.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Raise your hand if your place of work is collecting a list of people (and their salaries) who do DEI work.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

Went to University of Michigan-Dearborn to be discussant on a new documentary called the Flamingo about aging & sexuality. Did I dress to the theme? Absolutely. Did I mention @joanprice.bsky.social & her awesome work? But of course! Am I wearing internal structure of the clitoris earrings? Sure am!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We have been warning y’all this was coming.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

For the love of all that is holy…

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

What is happening to trans people is an extension of what can happen to all people who could be redefined out of existence. Which is all people. What is happening to trans people is a universal threat.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

Editorial note: fascism is not insanity, and the language of mental illness should not be used to describe the hearts and minds of evil men.

submitted 9 days ago • 127 comments

Horrifying

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

In case anyone in the SE Michigan and north Ohio area is interested in a Covid cautious kinky play party…

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Tent City Rising at Guantánamo Bay These are the first independent images to emerge from the migrant operation that the Trump administration has begun at the Navy base.

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

In case folks are interested in contacting their congresspeople about the NIH indirect cuts with some estimates of what they would mean for institutions in their state, here are some estimates based on published F&A rates and funding ... let me know if you want a particular state

submitted 15 days ago • 197 comments

A/P [Feb 5] -- Bills have been introduced in Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Montana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas & Virginia that would cut off public funding for gender affirming care for _adults_. Georgia's is the first to advance out of committee. [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

submitted 17 days ago • 28 comments

Oooof. Just at me why don’t you?

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Holy shit. I used to work at a Head Start/Early Head Start Montessori in communications and development. When I tell you how incredibly needed these programs are… Our country is failing our children in so many ways.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting to see how quickly American foreign policy pivoted from "Get clean drinking water for children without hope" to "Do ethnic cleansing for condos with Mediterranean views."

submitted 18 days ago • 125 comments

If you have space to grow food this summer, please consider doing that, either for yourself or your community. If you have space and a black thumb, or are disabled, ask community to help you grow and share the output. If you don’t have space, offer to help with watering and weeding for trade.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

For anyone taking action on the streets today, remember to check the shoes and demeanor of any instigators. It's not uncommon for them to infiltrate and push the crowd toward violence. (Remember the giant brick piles in 20?) They'll be looking for any excuse. Anyway. Be heard.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

If you're protesting tomorrow: "I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present." MEMORIZE THAT, because aside from asking if you're free to leave (or providing ID if you're in a stop and ID state), that's the ONLY thing you ever say to cops.

submitted 19 days ago • 189 comments

I’m so damn tired. It’s so much.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Oh hey it’s the year of the snake! Here’s a drawing of a snake I made.

submitted 19 days ago • 35 comments

Louder for those in the back.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone who works on a website has a role to ensure the site and its content are accessible. This resource from Vox Media breaks down some accessibility tasks by job role, including content creators, designers, developers, project managers, and testers. accessibility.voxmedia.com

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Fuck fuck fuck

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Let me make myself clear; I will never intentionally misgender or deadname anyone (not even Caitlyn Jenner!), ever, and especially not trans & gender diverse young people. If you must comply, practice engaging folks without saying names or pronouns. Harming kids is just unacceptable.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

My hope is for us to all live long enough to be around to see a generation of trans youth who won't believe our stories about how bad things were back in the day.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Community can be two or three people. It can be online or in person. It can be anything you need.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that while this is painfully accurate, without joy, we have nothing to fight for. Without community, we have nothing to protect. Turn to your people. Uplift your community. The next months and years are going to be rough. People will be hurt and die. Grieve, yes, and keep finding joy.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Query for #AcademicSky : are we still thinking any conferences are going to happen as planned? I have an abstract in for one in Slovenia this summer, and Denver this fall…but between NIH EO and it not being safe for trans people to travel esp internationally, wondering if I should just withdraw.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments