Jodie 🪼
@jodslouise.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 she/her. Author of Autism Is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity (Verso)
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Las dos son maravillosas. HACKS es una de las mejores comedias de los últimos años. Al fin ganan sus más que merecidos Emmys. Una de esas series en las que te quedarías a vivir.
September 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Las dos son maravillosas. HACKS es una de las mejores comedias de los últimos años. Al fin ganan sus más que merecidos Emmys. Una de esas series en las que te quedarías a vivir.
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Had some double-sided Labour flyers printed up to give out on the Hell Bus at Green Man festival next week
August 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Had some double-sided Labour flyers printed up to give out on the Hell Bus at Green Man festival next week
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Why is it so hard to imagine a world where care is free, universal & unconditional? Because the current system teaches us that care must be earned, health is a private matter, and dependence is failure. Health Communism traces the roots of that lie and how people have fought it.
![First page of new paperback edition of Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant.
Praise for Health Communism
“Health Communism is a remarkable book that connects the best abolitionist analysis with the strongest social reproduction diagnosis. The authors are at once ahead of their time and right on time. The profound practicality of their vision shows that where life is precious, life is precious."
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography
“In Health Communism, [Adler-Bolton and Vierkant] show how members of the 'unproductive surplus class are cast as burdens even as health capitalism sets up entire cottage industries (e.g, for-profit nursing homes, prisons) to extract value from this very population."
Charlie Markbreiter, Bookforum
"This book changed the way I think about health, power, state capacity, extraction, social welfare, and resistance. It is an immensely useful tool for wrestling with the most urgent questions facing our movements in these terrifying times. Readable and flled with concise histories and clear examples to illustrate nuanced analysis, it will no doubt become required reading among those struggling against the death cult that is racial capitalism.”
Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid
"Here is deep wisdom to arm a struggle towards forms of human embodiment as yet undreamed of, inspiration for a million insurgencies of communist health."
Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lstztnjatjo3d7upws7ew5yb/bafkreicax5dtikdujgjjyjr2bg3yaagyfcqoddrqzaevim77ziijfffvji@jpeg)
July 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Why is it so hard to imagine a world where care is free, universal & unconditional? Because the current system teaches us that care must be earned, health is a private matter, and dependence is failure. Health Communism traces the roots of that lie and how people have fought it.
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Whenever marginalised people use nonviolent forms of protest to make the case for rights and basic levels of dignity, they are framed as angry, unreasonable, scary, etc. to discredit and distract. This method seems to convince liberals every time, no matter how aware they are of previous cases.
July 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Whenever marginalised people use nonviolent forms of protest to make the case for rights and basic levels of dignity, they are framed as angry, unreasonable, scary, etc. to discredit and distract. This method seems to convince liberals every time, no matter how aware they are of previous cases.
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This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
July 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
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"Believing that autistic people deserve the right to a good life would require a lot of people to interrogate the way that they see the world, to interrogate their ideas of normality... and a lot of people don't want to do those things" - Author Jodie Hare interviewed by Prof @sugi.bsky.social
Jodie Hare on the Politics of Neurodiversity
Following Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s widely publicized and false claims about autism, writer Jodie Hare joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to …
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April 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Believing that autistic people deserve the right to a good life would require a lot of people to interrogate the way that they see the world, to interrogate their ideas of normality... and a lot of people don't want to do those things" - Author Jodie Hare interviewed by Prof @sugi.bsky.social
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jim sinclair also co-founded autism network international. xe wrote and delivered "don't mourn for us," which made a critical opening for the neurodiversity movement in the early nineties. autism is not an appendage, autism is not an impenetrable wall, autism is not death.
Nonbinary intersex activist Jim Sinclair on Sally Jesse Raphael's show in 1989
April 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
jim sinclair also co-founded autism network international. xe wrote and delivered "don't mourn for us," which made a critical opening for the neurodiversity movement in the early nineties. autism is not an appendage, autism is not an impenetrable wall, autism is not death.
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Labour seems set on imposing what I've called neoliberalism's privatisation of eugenic responsibility: instead of enforcing mass authoritarian eugenics, the world is made increasingly unlivable; welfare necessary for life is cut; ensuing deaths are then framed as caused by the individual's choices.
March 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Labour seems set on imposing what I've called neoliberalism's privatisation of eugenic responsibility: instead of enforcing mass authoritarian eugenics, the world is made increasingly unlivable; welfare necessary for life is cut; ensuing deaths are then framed as caused by the individual's choices.
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This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.
March 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.
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You don't get pip without a fight. Someone at the DWP once told me that my son might "recover from his cerebral palsy". You don't get LCWRA without a fight. These people aren't scroungers. WTF is wrong with this "Labour" government?
March 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
You don't get pip without a fight. Someone at the DWP once told me that my son might "recover from his cerebral palsy". You don't get LCWRA without a fight. These people aren't scroungers. WTF is wrong with this "Labour" government?
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Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years, in long term segregation for 25.
The NHS Trust 'said at no point had the care it delivered been brought into question and the service was rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.' Hmm.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The NHS Trust 'said at no point had the care it delivered been brought into question and the service was rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.' Hmm.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years
“Kasibba”, who is non-verbal and had no family to speak for her, was one of hundreds wrongly detained.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years, in long term segregation for 25.
The NHS Trust 'said at no point had the care it delivered been brought into question and the service was rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.' Hmm.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The NHS Trust 'said at no point had the care it delivered been brought into question and the service was rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.' Hmm.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Basic, unsexy sh*t that’s been lost but would make a massive difference for us as patients:
- Day centres
- Volunteer work without DWP pressure
- Community rehabilitation teams
- Having the same careco for more than a year
- good supported accommodation
- Day centres
- Volunteer work without DWP pressure
- Community rehabilitation teams
- Having the same careco for more than a year
- good supported accommodation
February 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Basic, unsexy sh*t that’s been lost but would make a massive difference for us as patients:
- Day centres
- Volunteer work without DWP pressure
- Community rehabilitation teams
- Having the same careco for more than a year
- good supported accommodation
- Day centres
- Volunteer work without DWP pressure
- Community rehabilitation teams
- Having the same careco for more than a year
- good supported accommodation
No matter how many times I’ve been through it, I am always flawed by grief’s ability to spread its roots across your life in the aftermath
January 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
No matter how many times I’ve been through it, I am always flawed by grief’s ability to spread its roots across your life in the aftermath
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Ceasefire, then Palestinian liberation.
January 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Ceasefire, then Palestinian liberation.
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467 days. None of us will ever be the same. Nor should we be. Nothing will ever be the same. Nor should it be.
January 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
467 days. None of us will ever be the same. Nor should we be. Nothing will ever be the same. Nor should it be.
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All I can think of is Leonard Cohen singing 'There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in' and how pertinent that feels to Lynch's art and spirit. He was such a bright, warm soul. A balm for a cruel world.
January 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
All I can think of is Leonard Cohen singing 'There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in' and how pertinent that feels to Lynch's art and spirit. He was such a bright, warm soul. A balm for a cruel world.
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I cannot express how strongly this argument for language use to help neurodivergent people is an effective way forward. And this book - Autism Is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity by Jodie Hare (@versobooks.bsky.social) - should be read by everyone to, if nothing else, gain perspective.
December 8, 2024 at 6:07 PM
I cannot express how strongly this argument for language use to help neurodivergent people is an effective way forward. And this book - Autism Is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity by Jodie Hare (@versobooks.bsky.social) - should be read by everyone to, if nothing else, gain perspective.
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There should be a word for wealthy white cishet men who suddenly embrace being autistic solely to try to avoid accountability for their shitty behavior.
December 7, 2024 at 11:18 AM
There should be a word for wealthy white cishet men who suddenly embrace being autistic solely to try to avoid accountability for their shitty behavior.
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I love the Bishopsgate Institute so much.
November 30, 2024 at 12:29 PM
I love the Bishopsgate Institute so much.
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"We should be making it easier for people to live, before we make it easier from them to die". Well put by Florence Eshalomi MP #AssistedDyingBill
November 29, 2024 at 1:12 PM
"We should be making it easier for people to live, before we make it easier from them to die". Well put by Florence Eshalomi MP #AssistedDyingBill
‘One autistic child was kept inside a cage.’ The dehumanisation & consistent abuse of autistic children & those with learning disabilities is appalling
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
CCTV shows pupils abused and locked in padded room
Police have said staff will not face action over abuse of autistic children shown in videos leaked to the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 12:08 PM
‘One autistic child was kept inside a cage.’ The dehumanisation & consistent abuse of autistic children & those with learning disabilities is appalling
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lots going on behind the scenes event-wise at the moment (including an absolute dream event that I’m very close to finalising for Waterstones Deansgate!) but here’s a little sneak peek at what’s coming up at Blackwell’s Manchester over September and early October…
August 19, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Lots going on behind the scenes event-wise at the moment (including an absolute dream event that I’m very close to finalising for Waterstones Deansgate!) but here’s a little sneak peek at what’s coming up at Blackwell’s Manchester over September and early October…