Jonathyne Briggs
@jonathynebriggs.bsky.social
Historian of autism and pop music in France (in no particular order), academic administrator trying to serve students at IU Northwest, always ready for karaoke.
Eric’s book is an important part of the conversation that is being silenced by the political wonks who haven’t left the 20th century.
I've spent the last decade writing about autism and saying politicians should stop talking about vaccines. When my book came out, it felt like politics was moving there. But I feel like my life's work has been completely erased by RFK Jr., Trump and Bill Cassidy. I feel completely disoriented.
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Eric’s book is an important part of the conversation that is being silenced by the political wonks who haven’t left the 20th century.
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If you want to learn more about Alice Wong and her work, you can find many links on her profile, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, or check out disabilityvisibilityproject.com, or her Wikipedia page.
Your library may also have her books, including audio/ebook editions (@multcolib.bsky.social does).
Your library may also have her books, including audio/ebook editions (@multcolib.bsky.social does).
Alice Wong (activist) - Wikipedia
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November 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
If you want to learn more about Alice Wong and her work, you can find many links on her profile, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, or check out disabilityvisibilityproject.com, or her Wikipedia page.
Your library may also have her books, including audio/ebook editions (@multcolib.bsky.social does).
Your library may also have her books, including audio/ebook editions (@multcolib.bsky.social does).
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What a giant. Yes, the Kurosawa and Kobayashi films, but also outstanding in some of the best by Naruse (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs), Teshigahara (Face of Another), Ichikawa (Conflagration), Okamoto (Sword of Doom, Kill), etc. R.I.P.
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
What a giant. Yes, the Kurosawa and Kobayashi films, but also outstanding in some of the best by Naruse (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs), Teshigahara (Face of Another), Ichikawa (Conflagration), Okamoto (Sword of Doom, Kill), etc. R.I.P.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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During the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, underground bands played in tiny venues and distributed their music via bootleg cassettes. Artist Iván Navarro is resuscitating their work via his label, Hueso Records.
It's "the soundtrack to Operation Condor," he says.
hyperallergic.com/1055340/digg...
It's "the soundtrack to Operation Condor," he says.
hyperallergic.com/1055340/digg...
Digging Into Chile’s Punk Underground
With Hueso Records, artist Iván Navarro wants to bring back the music of his youth from legendary Chilean indie and punk bands like María Sonora.
hyperallergic.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
During the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, underground bands played in tiny venues and distributed their music via bootleg cassettes. Artist Iván Navarro is resuscitating their work via his label, Hueso Records.
It's "the soundtrack to Operation Condor," he says.
hyperallergic.com/1055340/digg...
It's "the soundtrack to Operation Condor," he says.
hyperallergic.com/1055340/digg...
I can see him giving a great soundbite on how Loop’s Heaven’s End is a forgotten classic.
where does Zohran stand on Shoegaze? is he into MBV or more of a Slowdive guy ?
November 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I can see him giving a great soundbite on how Loop’s Heaven’s End is a forgotten classic.
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This open-access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities & rationales of key leaders in their own words.
Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
November 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This open-access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities & rationales of key leaders in their own words.
Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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I really wish more publications would run opinion pieces/analysis of what's happening with the state of disability education by adults who had IEPs and 504s, not just parents of disabled kids.
November 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I really wish more publications would run opinion pieces/analysis of what's happening with the state of disability education by adults who had IEPs and 504s, not just parents of disabled kids.
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We have some EXCITING NEWS!
ALL the episodes of Amy's Dead-End Dreamhouse S1 are now up on Nebula, along with hours of bonus content like the full interviews, musical performances, and more on the way!
Just head over to Nebula.tv/dreamhouse, and start daydreaming away. I won't tell your boss ✨
ALL the episodes of Amy's Dead-End Dreamhouse S1 are now up on Nebula, along with hours of bonus content like the full interviews, musical performances, and more on the way!
Just head over to Nebula.tv/dreamhouse, and start daydreaming away. I won't tell your boss ✨
October 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
We have some EXCITING NEWS!
ALL the episodes of Amy's Dead-End Dreamhouse S1 are now up on Nebula, along with hours of bonus content like the full interviews, musical performances, and more on the way!
Just head over to Nebula.tv/dreamhouse, and start daydreaming away. I won't tell your boss ✨
ALL the episodes of Amy's Dead-End Dreamhouse S1 are now up on Nebula, along with hours of bonus content like the full interviews, musical performances, and more on the way!
Just head over to Nebula.tv/dreamhouse, and start daydreaming away. I won't tell your boss ✨
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Il est là, il existe 😍
En librairie dès la semaine prochaine !
En librairie dès la semaine prochaine !
October 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Il est là, il existe 😍
En librairie dès la semaine prochaine !
En librairie dès la semaine prochaine !
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Now would be a good time to buy my book We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation, which dives into how bad and unfounded ideas about autism hurt #ActuallyAutistic people.
www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...
www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...
We're Not Broken
“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also...
www.harpercollins.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Now would be a good time to buy my book We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation, which dives into how bad and unfounded ideas about autism hurt #ActuallyAutistic people.
www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...
www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...
I was lucky to publish something with the amazing @nursingclio.bsky.social team. However, it’s not about positive developments.
This may be a bit late - big scary server thing took us offline! - but glad to publish this essay. Briggs considers the development of autism diagnoses & how it shaped autistic peoples' lives very differently in the US and France. #histmed #dishist @nursingclio.bsky.social 🗃️https://wp.me/p6hgwQ-9hG
Transatlantic Diagnostics: A Tale of Divergences in the History of Autism
A comparative analysis of how France and the United States have scientifically investigated autism over the course of the later twentieth century has much to teach us about how practices of scienti…
wp.me
October 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I was lucky to publish something with the amazing @nursingclio.bsky.social team. However, it’s not about positive developments.
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I am learning here that a lot of people did not know that Trump is demanding $1 billion from UCLA. He is.
October 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I am learning here that a lot of people did not know that Trump is demanding $1 billion from UCLA. He is.
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They're gassing one of the richest neighborhoods in Chicago today
October 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
They're gassing one of the richest neighborhoods in Chicago today
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Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff.
19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...
19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...
Trump’s attempt to gut special education office has some conservative parents on edge
The president called the layoffs a part of cuts to “Democrat programs,” but children across the nation would be impacted.
19thnews.org
October 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff.
19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...
19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...
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No one should ever speak the words "Asperger's Syndrome" to us ever again. Hans Asperger's job was to decide which children the Nazis should just kill and which they might yet make use of. He should have no role in any discussion of any disability.
October 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
No one should ever speak the words "Asperger's Syndrome" to us ever again. Hans Asperger's job was to decide which children the Nazis should just kill and which they might yet make use of. He should have no role in any discussion of any disability.
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This is why disability justice and race justice are bound up together. White supremacy isn’t simply racist, it is also fundamentally ableist
A 15 year old autistic child named Emmanuel Garcia went missing Oct 4th. Houston PD found him & gave him to ICE despite his Mom having filed a missing person’s report.
He’s now in an immigration facility for unaccompanied minors.
His Mom is pleading for his return:
youtu.be/4PQPtimpVQ4
He’s now in an immigration facility for unaccompanied minors.
His Mom is pleading for his return:
youtu.be/4PQPtimpVQ4
Vigil held for Emmanuel Gonzalez Garcia, the teen being held in federal custody
YouTube video by KHOU 11
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This is why disability justice and race justice are bound up together. White supremacy isn’t simply racist, it is also fundamentally ableist
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It was my honor to serve my final year on the Herbert Baxter Adams prize committee (after receiving the award in 2019)—sending big congrats to this year’s winner, @lottelydia.bsky.social for Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/789140...
Imperial Island by Charlotte Lydia Riley | Penguin Random House Canada
This riveting new history tells the story of Britain’s journey from imperial power to a nation divided—one that alternately welcomes and excludes former imperial subjects and has been utterly transfor...
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca
October 16, 2025 at 5:39 AM
It was my honor to serve my final year on the Herbert Baxter Adams prize committee (after receiving the award in 2019)—sending big congrats to this year’s winner, @lottelydia.bsky.social for Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/789140...
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A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week
He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared
They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him
Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility
They kidnapped a disabled child!
He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared
They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him
Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility
They kidnapped a disabled child!
October 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week
He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared
They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him
Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility
They kidnapped a disabled child!
He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared
They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him
Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility
They kidnapped a disabled child!
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There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.
America’s children deserve better than this.
America’s children deserve better than this.
October 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.
America’s children deserve better than this.
America’s children deserve better than this.
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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
I lost my son 22 years ago today. Hug your loved ones.
The Flaming Lips - When Yer Twenty Two (Official Audio)
YouTube video by flaminglips
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October 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I lost my son 22 years ago today. Hug your loved ones.
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Steve's book is all the more relevant today than when it came out a decade ago. Do yourself a favor and buy a copy if you don't have it. Steve work matters and is a candle in the shroud of disinformation from Washington these days.
Hey everyone! I'm extremely excited to announce that today marks the release of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Steve Silberman's ground-breaking NeuroTribes, with a new foreword by John Elder Robison.
Neurotribes by Steve Silberman: 9780399185618 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
This New York Times–bestselling book upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differ...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Steve's book is all the more relevant today than when it came out a decade ago. Do yourself a favor and buy a copy if you don't have it. Steve work matters and is a candle in the shroud of disinformation from Washington these days.
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The Chicago ICE raid has proven once again that US citizenship is irrelevant. It is race or perceived race that matters. Anyone Black or brown is a target. Our Christofascist regime is accelerating ethnic cleansing tenfold.
Elections will not save us from this.
Elections will not save us from this.
October 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The Chicago ICE raid has proven once again that US citizenship is irrelevant. It is race or perceived race that matters. Anyone Black or brown is a target. Our Christofascist regime is accelerating ethnic cleansing tenfold.
Elections will not save us from this.
Elections will not save us from this.