Annie Heffernan
@annieheff.bsky.social
AP in political theory at University of Michigan working at the intersection of disability studies, feminist theory, and democratic theory. she/hers.
www.annheffernan.net
www.annheffernan.net
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“They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business”: Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
“They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business”: Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen
www.cambridge.org
My article, “‘They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business’: Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen” is now up on APSR FirstView!
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
Moonlighting as filial tech support for my parents has made compiling my third-year review materials seem positively joy-filled by comparison.
(I may have brought this upon myself--I went with my mother to purchase the new computer that I am now in charge of setting up. I have regrets)
(I may have brought this upon myself--I went with my mother to purchase the new computer that I am now in charge of setting up. I have regrets)
January 1, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Moonlighting as filial tech support for my parents has made compiling my third-year review materials seem positively joy-filled by comparison.
(I may have brought this upon myself--I went with my mother to purchase the new computer that I am now in charge of setting up. I have regrets)
(I may have brought this upon myself--I went with my mother to purchase the new computer that I am now in charge of setting up. I have regrets)
Friends, if you or someone you know has published awesome work in disability studies (defined *broadly*), please let me know! I'm updating my "Disability: A Democratic Dilemma" course and would love to include some newer work (both academic and otherwise).
December 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Friends, if you or someone you know has published awesome work in disability studies (defined *broadly*), please let me know! I'm updating my "Disability: A Democratic Dilemma" course and would love to include some newer work (both academic and otherwise).
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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The largest provider of "mental health services" in the US is the injustice system, and many "mental health facilties" ostensibly focused on patient care are actually carceral.
How Ohio’s Mental Hospitals Are More Like Prisons
A steep rise in criminally charged people with severe mental illnesses has all but halted patients’ ability to get care in Ohio’s state psychiatric hospitals.
www.themarshallproject.org
December 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The largest provider of "mental health services" in the US is the injustice system, and many "mental health facilties" ostensibly focused on patient care are actually carceral.
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They won't ever let it go, the Crows.
This has gone on for 1000s of years. Just because a Heron once said something rude about them looking like Goth pigeons.
This has gone on for 1000s of years. Just because a Heron once said something rude about them looking like Goth pigeons.
Watching crows dive bomb a resolute heron stood on a roof round the back of mine. Sure I could spin a nature column out of that. ‘Battersea Nature Station’ or summat.
December 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
They won't ever let it go, the Crows.
This has gone on for 1000s of years. Just because a Heron once said something rude about them looking like Goth pigeons.
This has gone on for 1000s of years. Just because a Heron once said something rude about them looking like Goth pigeons.
the power went out in SF yesterday due to a fire at one of the PG&E substations. No one at Waymo thought to program their cars for a power outage. It went about as well as you’d expect.
(And they want to bring these things to Detroit)
(And they want to bring these things to Detroit)
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
the power went out in SF yesterday due to a fire at one of the PG&E substations. No one at Waymo thought to program their cars for a power outage. It went about as well as you’d expect.
(And they want to bring these things to Detroit)
(And they want to bring these things to Detroit)
I am home in SF, so my Christmas present to myself is a ticket to the 10th anniversary screening of Carol feat. a discussion with Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon. It is being held in partnership with 4 queer bars (Rikki's, Jolene's, El Rio, and Mother), The Barb Shop, and Peaches Christ. I 💗 SF.
Carol Day 2025
On Sunday, December 21, join us for Frameline's Carol Day2025 â San Francisco's latest queer holiday tradition! This year, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Carol, director Todd Haynes is sl...
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December 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I am home in SF, so my Christmas present to myself is a ticket to the 10th anniversary screening of Carol feat. a discussion with Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon. It is being held in partnership with 4 queer bars (Rikki's, Jolene's, El Rio, and Mother), The Barb Shop, and Peaches Christ. I 💗 SF.
I just introduced my parents (both Montrealers, now living in SF) to this classic (my grandmother lived on Sherbrooke, so they of course could identify the exact location)
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I just introduced my parents (both Montrealers, now living in SF) to this classic (my grandmother lived on Sherbrooke, so they of course could identify the exact location)
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i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
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Brown’s student newspaper is posting updates about the shooting at its campus. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Live updates: Two deceased in active shooter incident at Brown University
Serving the Brown University community since 1891
www.browndailyherald.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Brown’s student newspaper is posting updates about the shooting at its campus. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Respectfully, Alan, now feels like NOT THE TIME to be posting this article. What a stunning false equivalence.
Brown University has faced a number of difficulties this year.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Respectfully, Alan, now feels like NOT THE TIME to be posting this article. What a stunning false equivalence.
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Michigan student have made a “snow squirrel” on the Diag (there will be no maligning the Rubenesque squirrels, thank you). They have also started a Reddit thread entitled “Mason Hall roach glamour shots.” Welcome to the end of the semester, folks.
December 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Michigan student have made a “snow squirrel” on the Diag (there will be no maligning the Rubenesque squirrels, thank you). They have also started a Reddit thread entitled “Mason Hall roach glamour shots.” Welcome to the end of the semester, folks.
I have had 6 MRIs. All took extensive documentation to get ok'ed by insurance and were for clear reasons (a back issue that turned out to be a broken femur and a pituitary adenoma). They do do preventive MRIs if you're at high risk for breast cancer, but full-body preventive MRIs are mostly a scam
December 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I have had 6 MRIs. All took extensive documentation to get ok'ed by insurance and were for clear reasons (a back issue that turned out to be a broken femur and a pituitary adenoma). They do do preventive MRIs if you're at high risk for breast cancer, but full-body preventive MRIs are mostly a scam
The *tiny afghan*.
Mom made a tiny couch for my cats! Gizmo is using it!! I didn't even put him on it for this picture 🥰
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The *tiny afghan*.
YES.
Also: there are so many awesome mocktail brands and recipes (there are even dedicated NA stores, like The New Bar in SF). I've also become a huge fan of shrubs and this blackberry, lime, and star anise syrup from instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DNZFFsd...
Also: there are so many awesome mocktail brands and recipes (there are even dedicated NA stores, like The New Bar in SF). I've also become a huge fan of shrubs and this blackberry, lime, and star anise syrup from instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DNZFFsd...
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
YES.
Also: there are so many awesome mocktail brands and recipes (there are even dedicated NA stores, like The New Bar in SF). I've also become a huge fan of shrubs and this blackberry, lime, and star anise syrup from instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DNZFFsd...
Also: there are so many awesome mocktail brands and recipes (there are even dedicated NA stores, like The New Bar in SF). I've also become a huge fan of shrubs and this blackberry, lime, and star anise syrup from instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DNZFFsd...
My feelings about this are best summed up by the good Dame Emma Thompson (video below). In short: MAKE IT STAHP.
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
My feelings about this are best summed up by the good Dame Emma Thompson (video below). In short: MAKE IT STAHP.
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Perhaps no one I trust less for cooking advice.
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Perhaps no one I trust less for cooking advice.
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new on @carceralhistory.bsky.social: distinguished historian @madameclair08.bsky.social pitches her new @beaconpress.bsky.social book, TELL HER STORY: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
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author's pitch: how Eleanor Bumpurs became "more than my neighbor"
Today's author's pitch comes from Professor LaShawn Harris. She is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. Her area of expertise includes twentieth century African American His...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
new on @carceralhistory.bsky.social: distinguished historian @madameclair08.bsky.social pitches her new @beaconpress.bsky.social book, TELL HER STORY: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
carceral-history.ghost.io/authors-pitc...
carceral-history.ghost.io/authors-pitc...
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I'm sorry Ryan Lizza, Chris Clizza and Olivia Nuzzi thats too many z names for me to keep straight
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I'm sorry Ryan Lizza, Chris Clizza and Olivia Nuzzi thats too many z names for me to keep straight
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Today, @alybatt.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on her book, *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature*
The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.
The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.
In the Shadow of Commodification
While capitalism is typically said to commodify everything, much of what makes up our world isn’t commodified at all. It instead appears as a free gift: a social form that describes the condition of…
lpeproject.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Today, @alybatt.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on her book, *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature*
The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.
The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.