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poet, anthropologist & postdoc in disaster studies @harvardcmes.bsky.social | work on disability & bodies, labor, resource extraction, disasters

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e. irem az @eiremaz.bsky.social · Jul 14
New article!

Many of us who sell our labor power sometimes struggle with diminished “bodyworkability”—from overwork, accidents, toxicity, or disasters—but what happens when that condition is assessed for medical recognition as a disability?

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Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article is part of the special issue Laboring from Ex-Centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity and Work, Anthropology of Work Review 46(1), July 2025, edited by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksch....
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adamrothman.bsky.social
"In the first six months of 2025, there were 57% more farm bankruptcies than during the same period last year, according to United States Courts."
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-farm...
Generations work on family farms. With costs high and prices low, farmers worry they may lose it all.
Generations have worked family farms in the U.S. Now, with costs high, prices low and tariffs causing additional difficulties, farmers say they're at risk of losing it all.
www.cbsnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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isabellemarie.bsky.social
The maps of Ursula K Le Guin reveal a fascinating insight into world-building in fantasy fiction.
theconversation.com/the-maps-of-...
The maps of Ursula K Le Guin reveal a fascinating insight into world-building in fantasy fiction
This fascinating show offers visitors a deeper sense of Le Guin’s maps as world-making and storytelling devices.
theconversation.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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mpiwg.bsky.social
"Kaboom!"/"Extinction, Fast and Slow"

Director emerita Lorraine Daston is featured in the current issue of @lrb.co.uk and on The LRB Podcast 🌋

"Extinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe."

🗞️ bit.ly/3L72ddi
🎧 bit.ly/4huQXd

#HistSci
Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction
Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social
On Oct. 30th, 5:30 PM, Wenner-Gren President, Danilyn Rutherford will be discussing her new book, "Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World," with Dagmar Herzog. CUNY Graduate Center, Brockway Room (6402), 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
October 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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NEW: Despite federal law, disabled students in Idaho sometimes can’t access playgrounds, lunchrooms, classes and bathrooms.

With added funding, school districts are still unable to make necessary fixes.
Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little To Help.
Despite federal law, disabled students can’t access playgrounds, lunchrooms, classes and bathrooms. With added funding, school districts are still unable to make necessary fixes.
www.propublica.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
Save 30% on #NewBook "Exorbitance" by Deborah A. Thomas, which calls for new approaches to political sovereignty grounded in the embodied forms of autonomy and relation created in daily life rather than the state. #Anthropology
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Cover of Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance by Deborah A. Thomas. The collage-style artwork features layered images of a central figure, a Black woman in a historical headwrap and blouse, and pants made of newspaper clippings. Her hands lay atop the surface of what might be a drum, that has been superimposed with a black and white photograph. Behind her is a masculine silhouette in a solid black color, though flecked with stars. At the bottom, rows of small, identical images of women in red and blue skirts appear in procession.
October 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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thellpsx.bsky.social
Hi, I'm not really here ever but I have A WHOLE ASS MID CAREER SHOW AT TANGLED ART GALLERY in Toronto you can see in person til 10/31 and online one of three ways: Rosa Robot tour - robot tour that you can drive from your computer independently calendly.com/tangledarts/...
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This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: (Rosa Robot) - Tangled Art + Disability
This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: 30 Years of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaSeptember 19 – October 31, 2025this body keeps me up at night is a mid-career retrospective of disability justice writer, cu...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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thepointmag.bsky.social
On today’s new episode of Selected Novels, Zach Fine and Jess Swoboda talk to @catherinelacey.bsky.social about Evan S. Connell’s “Mrs. Bridge”—at once a comic satire and a tender, sympathetic treatment of the mid-century American housewife, written in a style all its own.
Selected Novels | Catherine Lacey on Evan S. Connell - The Point Podcast
On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Catherine Lacey about Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge.Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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colibriphd.bsky.social
My essay "Tending to the Future" is out in Small Axe!

Thanks @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to the Caribbean Keywords project on Heritage!

Read the essay here: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...
October 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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mpiwg.bsky.social
Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️

📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus

🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m

#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies
Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
eiremaz.bsky.social
While I agree that spatial order is crucial to social and political life, it's disheartening that some still believe a reorientation of 'liberalism' can be a solution to anything in the U.S.
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · Oct 5
This one of many reasons that 21st century liberalism should reorient itself around *places*, namely creating places that are actually pleasant to live in, with generous public spaces that bring people's physical bodies into proximity.
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
www.theatlantic.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. Some energy experts say West Virginia is a harbinger of what could happen ..

“.. As residents’ electricity prices have increased, nearly one out of five customers of the leading utility .. is behind on monthly bills.”

@nytimes.com $AEP
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...
October 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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fractalecho.bsky.social
Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences details the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. link.springer.com/book/9783032...
Disabling Intelligences
This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.
link.springer.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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ufw.bsky.social
"Fidel" will spend his day harvesting hundreds of boxes of parsley. He shares he is grateful for his union job that allows him to earn more in way better working conditions than non-union workers. #WeFeedYou
A farm worker standing in a cilantro field. He is wearing a hat and a face mask and his hat band has the Mexican flag
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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aycacu.bsky.social
Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion.

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September 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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katekilla.bsky.social
I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
September 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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roycerk2.bsky.social
The Trump administration appears to be trying to make a global war on renewables. I spoke to @mkblyth.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social about the strategy of carbon dominance, how this is shaping politics not just in the US but everywhere, and what that means for the future.
Trump Is Trying to Kill Renewables Everywhere
The US government is trying to strangle renewables to save fossil fuels. Trump wants other countries to do the same.
drilled.media
September 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
The very concept of "virtue signaling" is culturally Protestant, premised as it is upon a fundamental disconnect between the true, unknowable inner self, and the outward acts that self performs. But there is no self that preexists its actions in the world. Better people enact virtue than vice.
irhottakes.bsky.social Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · Sep 4
The notion that doing anything good in public ever was in itself proof you are actually a bad person because virtue signaling is the worst sin you can possibly commit has to be the most destructive psyop in human history.
komaniecki.bsky.social Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · Sep 4
I'm seeing a social media trend where people are sneaking pics of men reading books in public and making fun of them as "performative males"

And while I love a good dunk, I don't think you guys want men to be reading even less than they are now. Just saying
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
"Merleau-Ponty Today," a special issue of SAQ (124:3) edited by Judith Revel, is now available. View the full TOC and read Revel's introduction "Merleau-Ponty, History Otherwise," made freely available: buff.ly/CF9KvNT
Cover of The South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 124, issue 3 (July 2025). Special issue titled Merleau-Ponty Today, edited by Judith Revel. The background features an abstract painting with textured blocks of gray, blue, black, and white. The journal’s logo SAQ appears in a black box at the top right. A footer reads AGAINST the DAY · Making Debt Visible.
September 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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nytimes.com
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“We need a new way of thinking about fire: as not only natural disaster, but also environmental threat with a high risk of long-term harms to health,” David L. Ulin, a professor at the University of Southern California, writes.
Opinion | Los Angeles Wildfires Left the City With a Toxic Mess
Urban wildfires are becoming public health emergencies.
nyti.ms
August 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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jasonread.bsky.social
My blurb for this book was limited to fifty word, but I could have gone on and on about how important it is, a book we will be talking about for a long time.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy
Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy
edinburghuniversitypress.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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melbuer.bsky.social
This flew by my radar this week, but massively important: the 5th circuit court of appeals ruled that the NLRB’s structure unconstitutional.

It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”
Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions
The Fifth Circuit has done the mogul’s bidding and neutered the National Labor Relations Board, in a move that will likely substantially damage workers’ rights.
newrepublic.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
eiremaz.bsky.social
Great episode.
www.sup.org/books/politi...
August 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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csshjournal.bsky.social CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · Jul 16
Frederick Cooper's "Decolonizing #Decolonization" is out on FirstView: "This article poses the question of what work the concept of decolonization can and cannot do." #Russia #Africa #Empire #History

doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Decolonizing Decolonization | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Decolonizing Decolonization
doi.org
August 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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anthroencyclo.bsky.social
Re-upping our latest entry on the Deep Sea, where Marta Gentilucci highlights #anthropology 's "shy yet critical approach to the deep sea as an ethnographic site–one imbued with meanings that shift depending on who encounters it, with what tools, and through which mediations." #OpenAccess
August 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM