Dr. Em Scherz
@emscherz.bsky.social
Postdoc at McMaster Children & Youth University 💕 Disabled & Mad scholar studying #DisabilityJustice, #MadStudies, community-engaged teaching, learning, and existing, quite frankly 🌸
This is not a hot take by any means, but, as a former music journalist, I’m really fkn tired of watching journalism crumble and the journalism industry just accepting it
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is not a hot take by any means, but, as a former music journalist, I’m really fkn tired of watching journalism crumble and the journalism industry just accepting it
I remember holding this issue in my hands at a grocery store and begging my mom to buy me yet another issue of Teen Vogue. It was one of the texts that started my aesthetic and political awakening. This is another devastating blow by capitalism.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I remember holding this issue in my hands at a grocery store and begging my mom to buy me yet another issue of Teen Vogue. It was one of the texts that started my aesthetic and political awakening. This is another devastating blow by capitalism.
I used to regularly assign Teen Vogue readings for the university classes I taught. There were so many insightful, necessary, and thought-provoking articles from their Political team. Not any more, apparently.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I used to regularly assign Teen Vogue readings for the university classes I taught. There were so many insightful, necessary, and thought-provoking articles from their Political team. Not any more, apparently.
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for those unfamiliar with the nazi bar:
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
for those unfamiliar with the nazi bar:
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We just live in a john carpenter movie now.
October 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We just live in a john carpenter movie now.
So I started watching Bluey because I work with kids, and now I’m crying uncontrollably. I know I’m late to the party, but it’s the best.
July 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
So I started watching Bluey because I work with kids, and now I’m crying uncontrollably. I know I’m late to the party, but it’s the best.
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I spoke to the 17 year old who organized the largest anti-ICE protest in Roblox this past weekend. www.usermag.co/p/kids-are-p...
June 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I spoke to the 17 year old who organized the largest anti-ICE protest in Roblox this past weekend. www.usermag.co/p/kids-are-p...
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Games can be sense-making tools, allowing players to vicariously experience the risks of contracting COVID-19, recognize #LongCOVID’s most challenging symptoms, and connect with others amid an ongoing public health crisis.
Read more from @kaatefishman.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iQhmuE
Read more from @kaatefishman.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iQhmuE
May 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Games can be sense-making tools, allowing players to vicariously experience the risks of contracting COVID-19, recognize #LongCOVID’s most challenging symptoms, and connect with others amid an ongoing public health crisis.
Read more from @kaatefishman.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iQhmuE
Read more from @kaatefishman.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iQhmuE
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April 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Thanks so much to @theguardian.com for having me, and especially @estelletang.bsky.social for her fastidious edits. www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone
Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thanks so much to @theguardian.com for having me, and especially @estelletang.bsky.social for her fastidious edits. www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
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Interesting scientific study on the illusion of moral decline.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The illusion of moral decline
Anecdotal evidence indicates that people believe that morality is declining1,2. In a series of studies using both archival and original data (n = 12,492,983), we show that people in at least 60 nation...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
March 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Interesting scientific study on the illusion of moral decline.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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At some point people are going to realize that many of us who are academics and researchers who deal with the far right we’re right when we say that their goal is to use naturally occurring methods to genocide anyone who is not white, wealthy and male.
They are enacting a global genocide
They are enacting a global genocide
this is a really an unfathomable level of evil
“shut off all foreign aid” is of course just as evil but it’s a blunt instrument, where you don’t have to directly face the specific programs you’re killing
but these little fucks were manually vetoing PEPFAR time and again
“shut off all foreign aid” is of course just as evil but it’s a blunt instrument, where you don’t have to directly face the specific programs you’re killing
but these little fucks were manually vetoing PEPFAR time and again
Remember when the WH insisted that global HIV prevention & treatment was exempt from the freeze? When it seemed MAYBE they understood that cutting off medicine could put the entire planet at risk of drug resistant HIV strains?
Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.
Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.
February 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
At some point people are going to realize that many of us who are academics and researchers who deal with the far right we’re right when we say that their goal is to use naturally occurring methods to genocide anyone who is not white, wealthy and male.
They are enacting a global genocide
They are enacting a global genocide
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I was working on the essay for weeks and he just… said it
Tommy Tuberville: "We gotta get rid of this nonsense of social justice."
February 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I was working on the essay for weeks and he just… said it
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I'll repost this tomorrow, but it's a short story I wrote (and finally finished) about how Canada could stumble into annexation by taking a drill-baby-drill approach and stomping over First Nations: rjago.substack.com/p/unceded
Unceded
a short story about annexation
rjago.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I'll repost this tomorrow, but it's a short story I wrote (and finally finished) about how Canada could stumble into annexation by taking a drill-baby-drill approach and stomping over First Nations: rjago.substack.com/p/unceded
When teaching, nothing makes my heart soar more to see my students start to create and use class-specific lingo.
One of my students has repeatedly referred to Freire as his "dawg," and today, after a long explanation, a student said, "I guess what I'm saying is that bell hooks is MY dawg."
One of my students has repeatedly referred to Freire as his "dawg," and today, after a long explanation, a student said, "I guess what I'm saying is that bell hooks is MY dawg."
January 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
When teaching, nothing makes my heart soar more to see my students start to create and use class-specific lingo.
One of my students has repeatedly referred to Freire as his "dawg," and today, after a long explanation, a student said, "I guess what I'm saying is that bell hooks is MY dawg."
One of my students has repeatedly referred to Freire as his "dawg," and today, after a long explanation, a student said, "I guess what I'm saying is that bell hooks is MY dawg."
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This is also why we have been fighting against the notion that STEM is rational, objective, and truth-based. Technology exists within the same constellation of structural forces as everything else. It has and can be wielded to oppress and destroy.
January 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is also why we have been fighting against the notion that STEM is rational, objective, and truth-based. Technology exists within the same constellation of structural forces as everything else. It has and can be wielded to oppress and destroy.
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How YouTubers pushed young male voters to Trump (with receipts), a Gamergate 2.0 speaks out, pocket cheese, NYT on The Rizzler, MrBeast is hiring, and a Twitter exec reveals why Vine *really* failed. All in today’s newsletter 👇👇👇
How YouTubers pushed young male voters to Trump (with receipts)
+ Gamergate 2.0, pocket cheese, NYT on The Rizzler, MrBeast is hiring, and a Twitter exec reveals why Vine *really* failed
www.usermag.co
January 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
How YouTubers pushed young male voters to Trump (with receipts), a Gamergate 2.0 speaks out, pocket cheese, NYT on The Rizzler, MrBeast is hiring, and a Twitter exec reveals why Vine *really* failed. All in today’s newsletter 👇👇👇
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The most hilarious thing about Sinophobia is that people (like the person I'm responding to here) will say the most unhinged things about China without even stopping to think whether *those exact same things are true about the US*.
Ask Americans why they can't access TikTok (after next week), why they aren't told about the Bay of Pigs or the My Lai massacre. Then come back here and tell us that China's the one pushing propaganda.
January 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The most hilarious thing about Sinophobia is that people (like the person I'm responding to here) will say the most unhinged things about China without even stopping to think whether *those exact same things are true about the US*.
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YES
Someone told me the other day that “emails are just turn-based combat” and I can’t get that idea out of my head now! 😂
January 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
YES
me and my research 🫠
Forever caught between “you should make your art gayer” and “it is gay if I made it, actually”
January 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
me and my research 🫠
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The genocide in Gaza is a mass disabling event
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Facing genocide while disabled
Palestinians with disabilities in Gaza have experienced immense suffering due to displacement and the absence of care.
www.aljazeera.com
November 23, 2024 at 5:28 PM
The genocide in Gaza is a mass disabling event
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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The brilliant, talented older man under the spell of the young, vulnerable, quirky child-woman trope is so, so fucking tiresome.
November 20, 2024 at 9:06 PM
The brilliant, talented older man under the spell of the young, vulnerable, quirky child-woman trope is so, so fucking tiresome.
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Efforts to preserve Black American Sign Language.
A Race to Study-and Preserve-Black American Sign Language | Wheelock College of Education & Human DevelopmentBoston University Masterplate
www.bu.edu
November 19, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Efforts to preserve Black American Sign Language.
yikes i exist now what
November 17, 2024 at 2:34 AM
yikes i exist now what