Lydia Ocasio-S
@drlydiaocasio-s.bsky.social
Believer • Advocate for Family, Community, & Disability Justice • Assistant Professor + Researcher in Special Education & Critical Disability Studies in Education • Motherscholar • Author • ✍🏾 💕💚
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EMBRAACE: A Collaborative Framework Empowering Families of Color Navigating Augmentative and Alternative Communication Supports and Services
Speech and language impairment is the second most common disability category for
which children are served in public schools under the Individuals...
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🚨New pub🚨 Families of Color have concerns, views, & experiences that call for a more collaborative approach servicing their children who use AAC systems. Dr. Karla Armendariz and I developed a holistic framework to help guide practicing clinicians.👇🏾
pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...
pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...
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There's perhaps no better way to celebrate the Christmas octave than to tap into Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity), and Imani (Faith).
Kwanzaa is almost here, and Catholic institutions around the country will celebrate events promoting the "Nguzo Saba" (Seven Principles) of the weeklong commemoration from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1.
Check out our handy national listing to find an event near you. buff.ly/ZrY9hoO
Check out our handy national listing to find an event near you. buff.ly/ZrY9hoO
December 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
There's perhaps no better way to celebrate the Christmas octave than to tap into Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity), and Imani (Faith).
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WHAT IS CAUSING THE RISING DEMAND, CNN
Residents in mid-Atlantic states like Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania who have spent the last few years plagued by high electricity bills just got some bad news: Relief is not on the way.
There’s just not enough electricity to meet rising demand. https://cnn.it/4ja4CAR
There’s just not enough electricity to meet rising demand. https://cnn.it/4ja4CAR
December 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
WHAT IS CAUSING THE RISING DEMAND, CNN
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Using stolen material. Stolen from writers and artists.
This series does not teach AI writing or content replacement. It focuses on workflow efficiency, analytics, and tools that support—never replace—human creativity.
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Using stolen material. Stolen from writers and artists.
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Shout out to all the fools who fell for the free speech grift. You helped this along.
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Shout out to all the fools who fell for the free speech grift. You helped this along.
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And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
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The propagandists who started the backlash to the 1619 project and critical race theory admitted they were lying to achieve segregationist goals. Calling the movement that resulted a moral panic is accurate.
I'm sorry you got taken by hucksters, but that's on you.
I'm sorry you got taken by hucksters, but that's on you.
"Moral panic"? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
December 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The propagandists who started the backlash to the 1619 project and critical race theory admitted they were lying to achieve segregationist goals. Calling the movement that resulted a moral panic is accurate.
I'm sorry you got taken by hucksters, but that's on you.
I'm sorry you got taken by hucksters, but that's on you.
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a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product
December 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product
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Color me shocked.
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients' Race Data and Being Racist With It
A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.
futurism.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Color me shocked.
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I’m not a boxing fan but a steady stream of the world’s worst men getting knocked out makes a strong case for the sport. If they can promise to keep it going I’ll get on board (and have some recommendations).
December 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I’m not a boxing fan but a steady stream of the world’s worst men getting knocked out makes a strong case for the sport. If they can promise to keep it going I’ll get on board (and have some recommendations).
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December 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Necrocapitalism getting more ghoulish and literal by the day.
“Rather than relying on an implant or a patient's own body fat to add volume to hips or augment breasts, alloClae — which can cost as much as $100,000 per procedure — uses donor fat from a cadaver as a first-of-its-kind body filler.”
Corporate types are clamoring for a new kind of plastic surgery — using dead people's fat
Corporate types are waiting weeks for — and spending big on — alloClae, which cuts out the recovery time typically associated with body enhancements.
www.businessinsider.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Necrocapitalism getting more ghoulish and literal by the day.
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Text to speech and spellcheck are not generative, hope that helps clear up any "fuzzy" lines.
December 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Text to speech and spellcheck are not generative, hope that helps clear up any "fuzzy" lines.
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Given the discourse, I’m reminded of this classic paper that’s still influential among sociologists of race and ethnicity.
It argues that prejudice arises from a relative sense of “group position” when one group believes resources are their perogative.
Jobs are the paradigmatic example.
It argues that prejudice arises from a relative sense of “group position” when one group believes resources are their perogative.
Jobs are the paradigmatic example.
Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position on JSTOR
Herbert Blumer, Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position, The Pacific Sociological Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1958), pp. 3-7
www.jstor.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Given the discourse, I’m reminded of this classic paper that’s still influential among sociologists of race and ethnicity.
It argues that prejudice arises from a relative sense of “group position” when one group believes resources are their perogative.
Jobs are the paradigmatic example.
It argues that prejudice arises from a relative sense of “group position” when one group believes resources are their perogative.
Jobs are the paradigmatic example.
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oh look a real unemployment problem
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November reut.rs/49gilCM
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November
The unemployment rate for two U.S. groups that are often the most vulnerable to job loss in a softening economy - Blacks and teenagers - surged to the highest levels in more than four years in November, Labor Department data showed on Tuesday.
reut.rs
December 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
oh look a real unemployment problem
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What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.
December 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.
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I don’t have to embrace anything that means me and us harm.
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I don’t have to embrace anything that means me and us harm.
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Framing of Black and Latinx School Closure in Redeveloping Hartford, Connecticut. Berkeley Review of Education, 13(1).
dx.doi.org/10.5070/B813...
dx.doi.org/10.5070/B813...
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Framing of Black and Latinx School Closure in Redeveloping Hartford, Connecticut. Berkeley Review of Education, 13(1).
dx.doi.org/10.5070/B813...
dx.doi.org/10.5070/B813...
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Gift link to the article quoting folks lying about shutting down student speech over alleged "DEI" concerns.
This is just racist, sexist censorship and unlawful viewpoint discrimination.
This is just racist, sexist censorship and unlawful viewpoint discrimination.
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Gift link to the article quoting folks lying about shutting down student speech over alleged "DEI" concerns.
This is just racist, sexist censorship and unlawful viewpoint discrimination.
This is just racist, sexist censorship and unlawful viewpoint discrimination.
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One of the frustrating trends in our current moment is folks lying to our faces about what they are doing — in this case, stifling student speech by gutting publications—and claiming otherwise. It's insulting.
As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps saying, there should be sanctions for public lying.
As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps saying, there should be sanctions for public lying.
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
One of the frustrating trends in our current moment is folks lying to our faces about what they are doing — in this case, stifling student speech by gutting publications—and claiming otherwise. It's insulting.
As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps saying, there should be sanctions for public lying.
As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps saying, there should be sanctions for public lying.
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This is a brag from the family group chat. My brother’s art peice protesting the so-called Alligator Alcatraz is showing in Miami.
www.axios.com/local/miami/...
www.axios.com/local/miami/...
Miami art fair exhibit protests Alligator Alcatraz
Protest art — and political demonstrations — are not new to Miami Art Week.
www.axios.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is a brag from the family group chat. My brother’s art peice protesting the so-called Alligator Alcatraz is showing in Miami.
www.axios.com/local/miami/...
www.axios.com/local/miami/...
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Are we nurturing a person’s capacity to express their truth or gently steering them toward an institutional ideal of what normal speech/language/communication should be? 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
www.routledge.com/White-System...
www.routledge.com/White-System...
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Are we nurturing a person’s capacity to express their truth or gently steering them toward an institutional ideal of what normal speech/language/communication should be? 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
www.routledge.com/White-System...
www.routledge.com/White-System...
Because at the end of the day so many are only pseudo-outraged and their concerns on media/social media follow the herd. Many are more interested in likes/engagement than their values. We saw this in 2020 and it’s even more glaring now. Also it’s capitalism 101: villain to victor trajectories.
Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Because at the end of the day so many are only pseudo-outraged and their concerns on media/social media follow the herd. Many are more interested in likes/engagement than their values. We saw this in 2020 and it’s even more glaring now. Also it’s capitalism 101: villain to victor trajectories.
The question is not if, but it’s how ill are these chemicals going to make us, our disabled and immunocompromised folks, our elderly, our children in the womb, and our future children?
This is critical information we need to know right now.
This is critical information we need to know right now.
The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food.
The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of what are called "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The question is not if, but it’s how ill are these chemicals going to make us, our disabled and immunocompromised folks, our elderly, our children in the womb, and our future children?
This is critical information we need to know right now.
This is critical information we need to know right now.
Rest in eternal peace. 🙏🏾🕊️
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Rest in eternal peace. 🙏🏾🕊️
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The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY