Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️
@drshannak.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️they/them
🎓Social Work and WGS prof @ UM
💋Educator | Researcher | Activist
💜Disabled, AuDHD, queer, nonbinary, polyam Jewitchy fat femme
✊🏽Anti oppressive abolitionist
🖤💙❤️Mx. MI Leather Pride ‘22
Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇭🇹
🚫 AI
https://linktr.ee/DrShannaK
🎓Social Work and WGS prof @ UM
💋Educator | Researcher | Activist
💜Disabled, AuDHD, queer, nonbinary, polyam Jewitchy fat femme
✊🏽Anti oppressive abolitionist
🖤💙❤️Mx. MI Leather Pride ‘22
Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇭🇹
🚫 AI
https://linktr.ee/DrShannaK
I’ve been in two legal marriages with two different wonderful people over the years, as well as have meaningful relationships with my other partners. To me, legal marriage has always been about rights, especially as a disabled person. Ensuring my loves are insured, and can visit me in the hospital.
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I’ve been in two legal marriages with two different wonderful people over the years, as well as have meaningful relationships with my other partners. To me, legal marriage has always been about rights, especially as a disabled person. Ensuring my loves are insured, and can visit me in the hospital.
Honored by the James T Neubacher Award honorable mention for my 2nd time at UM. This award specifically calls out university members who have improved the lives of people with disabilities, and as many of you know, this is a foundation piece of my advocacy professionally and personally.
October 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Honored by the James T Neubacher Award honorable mention for my 2nd time at UM. This award specifically calls out university members who have improved the lives of people with disabilities, and as many of you know, this is a foundation piece of my advocacy professionally and personally.
From our action steps to reduce ableism in social work education panel. 💜
October 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
From our action steps to reduce ableism in social work education panel. 💜
1st in person meet up of folks from the Social Work Disability Justice League, here at #CSWE25. It’s been amazing meeting some people in person that I’ve been working with virtually (a super valid way to connect!) for years. Plus a lip reading accessible mask I’m trying.
We are lodgepole pines! 🌲
We are lodgepole pines! 🌲
October 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
1st in person meet up of folks from the Social Work Disability Justice League, here at #CSWE25. It’s been amazing meeting some people in person that I’ve been working with virtually (a super valid way to connect!) for years. Plus a lip reading accessible mask I’m trying.
We are lodgepole pines! 🌲
We are lodgepole pines! 🌲
Council on Disabilities and Persons with Disabilities meeting today to talk accessibility, mentorship, etc at #CSWE25 this AM
Please take our survey for social work PhD students and faculty on ableism and white supremacy culture: cswe.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
Please take our survey for social work PhD students and faculty on ableism and white supremacy culture: cswe.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
October 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Council on Disabilities and Persons with Disabilities meeting today to talk accessibility, mentorship, etc at #CSWE25 this AM
Please take our survey for social work PhD students and faculty on ableism and white supremacy culture: cswe.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
Please take our survey for social work PhD students and faculty on ableism and white supremacy culture: cswe.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
So begins #CSWE25 with a theme of disability justice and joy. Please mask as a form of community care, and come join me and members of the social work disability justice league at tonight’s opening plenary, 6:30 mnt time in the ballroom.
We take care of us! I’ll be using my red walker; come say hi!
We take care of us! I’ll be using my red walker; come say hi!
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
So begins #CSWE25 with a theme of disability justice and joy. Please mask as a form of community care, and come join me and members of the social work disability justice league at tonight’s opening plenary, 6:30 mnt time in the ballroom.
We take care of us! I’ll be using my red walker; come say hi!
We take care of us! I’ll be using my red walker; come say hi!
And it’s back to school for me! Sabbatical from teaching this past year so far, but back to teach Sexuality & Social Work and Social Work Pedagogy. Let’s do this!
September 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
And it’s back to school for me! Sabbatical from teaching this past year so far, but back to teach Sexuality & Social Work and Social Work Pedagogy. Let’s do this!
It’s been a minute. Reminders:
1) fuck generative AI
2) Genocide is happening in Gaza, Sudan, Congo, Tigray, Haiti, and more.
3) COVID isn’t over. Each infection is likely to infect more and more systems
4) Trans people belong (and are) everywhere)
5) Community is everything
6) Cats are the best
1) fuck generative AI
2) Genocide is happening in Gaza, Sudan, Congo, Tigray, Haiti, and more.
3) COVID isn’t over. Each infection is likely to infect more and more systems
4) Trans people belong (and are) everywhere)
5) Community is everything
6) Cats are the best
September 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It’s been a minute. Reminders:
1) fuck generative AI
2) Genocide is happening in Gaza, Sudan, Congo, Tigray, Haiti, and more.
3) COVID isn’t over. Each infection is likely to infect more and more systems
4) Trans people belong (and are) everywhere)
5) Community is everything
6) Cats are the best
1) fuck generative AI
2) Genocide is happening in Gaza, Sudan, Congo, Tigray, Haiti, and more.
3) COVID isn’t over. Each infection is likely to infect more and more systems
4) Trans people belong (and are) everywhere)
5) Community is everything
6) Cats are the best
This beautiful image by @transpainter.bsky.social is haunting.
June 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This beautiful image by @transpainter.bsky.social is haunting.
Wishing a meaningful and celebratory Juneteenth to all my comrades.
Ways you can help celebrate as non-Black folks:
Ways you can help celebrate as non-Black folks:
June 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Wishing a meaningful and celebratory Juneteenth to all my comrades.
Ways you can help celebrate as non-Black folks:
Ways you can help celebrate as non-Black folks:
Here is me presenting a cunnilingus class at Bookwoman in Austin in 2012. They were SO welcoming and one of the first stores to carry my first book.
Please support them as you are able.
Please support them as you are able.
June 18, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Here is me presenting a cunnilingus class at Bookwoman in Austin in 2012. They were SO welcoming and one of the first stores to carry my first book.
Please support them as you are able.
Please support them as you are able.
Oh! I forgot I ran into some queer crip DJ folks too and we got this super cute picture!
June 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Oh! I forgot I ran into some queer crip DJ folks too and we got this super cute picture!
And ran into my other partner, Emily at Pride because queer, trans, and polyam 🤷🏻♀️
June 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
And ran into my other partner, Emily at Pride because queer, trans, and polyam 🤷🏻♀️
Happy Pride/Wrath from Ypsilanti, MI. Check our cute Pride fits, remember that kink and Leather belong here, and of course, mask up! This is my first Pride since the Pandemic(s) started, and I went with my partner Allie.
June 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Happy Pride/Wrath from Ypsilanti, MI. Check our cute Pride fits, remember that kink and Leather belong here, and of course, mask up! This is my first Pride since the Pandemic(s) started, and I went with my partner Allie.
MCAS is not my favorite. Everything is itchy & swollen. EVERYTHING (including my esophagus). It’s been FIVE weeks into this flare. My brain has been foggy AF, my joints and hands/feet are so painful, and this headache is killer. Prednisone taper starts today.
It was made MUCH worse by long covid.
It was made MUCH worse by long covid.
June 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
MCAS is not my favorite. Everything is itchy & swollen. EVERYTHING (including my esophagus). It’s been FIVE weeks into this flare. My brain has been foggy AF, my joints and hands/feet are so painful, and this headache is killer. Prednisone taper starts today.
It was made MUCH worse by long covid.
It was made MUCH worse by long covid.
My first Pride that I walked in as an out queer person (I identified as bisexual at the time) was 20 years ago this year. I’ve only gotten queerer and more visible, especially now, especially for those who feel like they cannot be.
June 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My first Pride that I walked in as an out queer person (I identified as bisexual at the time) was 20 years ago this year. I’ve only gotten queerer and more visible, especially now, especially for those who feel like they cannot be.
I’ll be talking on this panel in two weeks about the intersection of transness and disability when it comes to health and especially mental health disparities here in Michigan.
It’s free! Come register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
It’s free! Come register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I’ll be talking on this panel in two weeks about the intersection of transness and disability when it comes to health and especially mental health disparities here in Michigan.
It’s free! Come register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
It’s free! Come register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
In more fun news, peonies (are starting to) be POPPIN!
May 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
In more fun news, peonies (are starting to) be POPPIN!
Are you trans, nonbinary, gender diverse, agender, gender queer, Two-Spirit, a person of trans experience, or another non cisgender identity? Do you live in Michigan? Are you 18 years or older?
If so, please consider taking the 2025 Michigan Trans Health Survey at MITransHealthSurvey.com!
If so, please consider taking the 2025 Michigan Trans Health Survey at MITransHealthSurvey.com!
May 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Are you trans, nonbinary, gender diverse, agender, gender queer, Two-Spirit, a person of trans experience, or another non cisgender identity? Do you live in Michigan? Are you 18 years or older?
If so, please consider taking the 2025 Michigan Trans Health Survey at MITransHealthSurvey.com!
If so, please consider taking the 2025 Michigan Trans Health Survey at MITransHealthSurvey.com!
My partner & I will be vending at this Art for Aid Solidarity market this Saturday, May 10th, at Vertex coffee in Ypsilanti, MI. We will be there 12-3pm selling my prints/their hand crafted leather work. 80% of profits go to food sovereignty charity in Palestine and locally.
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
May 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My partner & I will be vending at this Art for Aid Solidarity market this Saturday, May 10th, at Vertex coffee in Ypsilanti, MI. We will be there 12-3pm selling my prints/their hand crafted leather work. 80% of profits go to food sovereignty charity in Palestine and locally.
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
I’m autistic. Almost everything I have struggled with regarding being autistic is living in a world that doesn’t understand and make space for autistic people. A world that seeks to fix, cure, and eradicate people like me (sound familiar? Similar language is being used around trans folks).
April 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’m autistic. Almost everything I have struggled with regarding being autistic is living in a world that doesn’t understand and make space for autistic people. A world that seeks to fix, cure, and eradicate people like me (sound familiar? Similar language is being used around trans folks).
I am a Jewish, queer, trans/nonbinary grandchild of Holocaust survivors liberated from Auschwitz and Treblinka.
I came home to find this in my mailbox, postmarked from Grand Rapids, about 2.5 hours away.
ID: a swastika made of pride flags.
I came home to find this in my mailbox, postmarked from Grand Rapids, about 2.5 hours away.
ID: a swastika made of pride flags.
April 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I am a Jewish, queer, trans/nonbinary grandchild of Holocaust survivors liberated from Auschwitz and Treblinka.
I came home to find this in my mailbox, postmarked from Grand Rapids, about 2.5 hours away.
ID: a swastika made of pride flags.
I came home to find this in my mailbox, postmarked from Grand Rapids, about 2.5 hours away.
ID: a swastika made of pride flags.
Written by a friend who is here on a visa. They asked I share this widely.
TO RETURN
I'm not gonna fight for this country
not gonna fight
to stay
I've already had my other country to fight for
at least eight times
my other country
to retun to
my motherland
my mother's land
my mother
to return to
TO RETURN
I'm not gonna fight for this country
not gonna fight
to stay
I've already had my other country to fight for
at least eight times
my other country
to retun to
my motherland
my mother's land
my mother
to return to
April 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Written by a friend who is here on a visa. They asked I share this widely.
TO RETURN
I'm not gonna fight for this country
not gonna fight
to stay
I've already had my other country to fight for
at least eight times
my other country
to retun to
my motherland
my mother's land
my mother
to return to
TO RETURN
I'm not gonna fight for this country
not gonna fight
to stay
I've already had my other country to fight for
at least eight times
my other country
to retun to
my motherland
my mother's land
my mother
to return to
Have you EVER visited or used Scarleteen over the past 26 years? You might recognize the taglines “Sex ed for the real world” or “queer sex ed for all since 1998. If yes, are you 18 or older?
tinyurl.com/ScarleteenSu...
tinyurl.com/ScarleteenSu...
April 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Have you EVER visited or used Scarleteen over the past 26 years? You might recognize the taglines “Sex ed for the real world” or “queer sex ed for all since 1998. If yes, are you 18 or older?
tinyurl.com/ScarleteenSu...
tinyurl.com/ScarleteenSu...