Prof. Shirley Lin
@profshirleylin.bsky.social
Associate Professor @brooklynlaw. Work Law, CRT & social movements. Board member, Society for Disability Studies. Legal theory nerd; former community organizer. (she/her) Opinions = own. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1398227
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More than 20 years after the term was coined, the neurodiversity movement sits at a crossroads.
Our latest forum, led by Robert Chapman with responses from @catherinetan.bsky.social, @profshirleylin.bsky.social, @drstevenkapp.bsky.social, Ari Ne'eman, Liat Ben-Moshe, and Kristin Bumiller
Our latest forum, led by Robert Chapman with responses from @catherinetan.bsky.social, @profshirleylin.bsky.social, @drstevenkapp.bsky.social, Ari Ne'eman, Liat Ben-Moshe, and Kristin Bumiller
The Future of Neurodiversity - Boston Review
The movement has made important progress, but focusing on rights and representation leaves too many behind.
www.bostonreview.net
Thrilled to contribute to such a fulsome discussion in response to "Futures of Neurodiversity." A dream invite from @bostonreview.bsky.social to address histories & movement leadership that centers DisCrit / race-critical analysis -- and other utilitarian approaches to law. #disabililty #lawsky
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Megyn Kelly said she thinks “there’s a difference between a 5 year old and a 15 year old” when it comes to sexual abuse. Megyn Kelly has a 14 year old daughter. Megyn Kelly is going to Hell.
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Megyn Kelly said she thinks “there’s a difference between a 5 year old and a 15 year old” when it comes to sexual abuse. Megyn Kelly has a 14 year old daughter. Megyn Kelly is going to Hell.
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Faculty doing what the administration won't- defending the institution.
“The fact of this case shows that the federal government is using the threat of legal and financial sanctions in order to coerce the University of California and to commandeer the University of California in imposing its own ideological and political agenda,”
www.courthousenews.com/uc-faculty-s...
www.courthousenews.com/uc-faculty-s...
UC faculty, staff ask judge to halt Trump's coercive funding cuts
A federal judge cited overwhelming evidence that the Trump administration was using civil rights investigations to go after universities that don't comply with the president's ideological agenda.
www.courthousenews.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Faculty doing what the administration won't- defending the institution.
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The Supreme Court once again butchers equity and the law of stays in the course of making the world a worse place. And Justice Jackson is once again there to call them out on it with an opinion that will be a must-teach in any Remedies class
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.gov
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The Supreme Court once again butchers equity and the law of stays in the course of making the world a worse place. And Justice Jackson is once again there to call them out on it with an opinion that will be a must-teach in any Remedies class
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Interesting article in Mother Jones: Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech.
In her book Predatory Data, Professor Anita Say Chan looks at the history and current use of data in devaluing human beings along eugenicist lines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
In her book Predatory Data, Professor Anita Say Chan looks at the history and current use of data in devaluing human beings along eugenicist lines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Eugenics isn't dead—it's thriving in tech
A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.
www.motherjones.com
January 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Interesting article in Mother Jones: Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech.
In her book Predatory Data, Professor Anita Say Chan looks at the history and current use of data in devaluing human beings along eugenicist lines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
In her book Predatory Data, Professor Anita Say Chan looks at the history and current use of data in devaluing human beings along eugenicist lines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown trib.al/5WGvUOq
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown
The only dining facility for junior troops at the Army’s Fort Leavenworth in Kansas has been closed due to funding issues.
trib.al
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”
More Young People Will Go Hungry Without SNAP
“We’re trying to make it, but it’s been hard.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”
Abominable.
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 12:10 AM
Abominable.
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Over 70 million Americans are set to lose SNAP benefits on November 1 if the shutdown continues.
86% of households receiving SNAP benefits include children, elderly and/or someone with a disability.
If you can, please consider donating to a food bank.
86% of households receiving SNAP benefits include children, elderly and/or someone with a disability.
If you can, please consider donating to a food bank.
U.S. Hunger Relief Organization | Feeding America
Feeding America is a nonprofit network of 200 food banks leading the fight against hunger in the United States. Learn how you can help end hunger in America.
www.feedingamerica.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Over 70 million Americans are set to lose SNAP benefits on November 1 if the shutdown continues.
86% of households receiving SNAP benefits include children, elderly and/or someone with a disability.
If you can, please consider donating to a food bank.
86% of households receiving SNAP benefits include children, elderly and/or someone with a disability.
If you can, please consider donating to a food bank.
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Upon reading this: omfg
October 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Upon reading this: omfg
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every university admin that is selling out trans people now—just like every one that sold out anti-genocide protestors before, with UCLA maybe more disgusting than any of them—is telling you what they will do to literally any other group of people in the way of their salaries & privilege
b. Specify that Title IX compliance means UCLA will not allow male students to compete in any athletic program restricted to women, ensuring that only female students are eligible to compete as members of women’s athletics.
October 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
every university admin that is selling out trans people now—just like every one that sold out anti-genocide protestors before, with UCLA maybe more disgusting than any of them—is telling you what they will do to literally any other group of people in the way of their salaries & privilege
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At long last, and after untold legal fees, UC has released the DoJ's proposed settlement terms to UCLA. Over $1B in fines, invasive monitoring, ideological vetting of international students, exclusion of trans athletes, etc. This would destroy the university as we know it.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
ucop.edu/communicatio...
October 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
At long last, and after untold legal fees, UC has released the DoJ's proposed settlement terms to UCLA. Over $1B in fines, invasive monitoring, ideological vetting of international students, exclusion of trans athletes, etc. This would destroy the university as we know it.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
ucop.edu/communicatio...
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Here is the source - which used government docs for their reporting: popular.info/p/ice-boosts...
ICE boosts weapons spending 700%
A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.
popular.info
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Here is the source - which used government docs for their reporting: popular.info/p/ice-boosts...
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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Millions took to the streets yesterday to be heard and that matters.
But the real work happens everyday in our communities. Get organized, lead with love, and move in solidarity.
We got us.
But the real work happens everyday in our communities. Get organized, lead with love, and move in solidarity.
We got us.
October 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Millions took to the streets yesterday to be heard and that matters.
But the real work happens everyday in our communities. Get organized, lead with love, and move in solidarity.
We got us.
But the real work happens everyday in our communities. Get organized, lead with love, and move in solidarity.
We got us.
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Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
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We have a choice:
👉Deploying National Guard to D.C.: over $1.8 million per day
👉👉Deploying National Guard & Marines to LA: over $2.2 million per day
👉👉👉Deploying 20,000 National Guardsmen for one year: projected to cost $9.9 million per day
Voting in midterms 🗳️: Priceless and you #savedemocracy
👉Deploying National Guard to D.C.: over $1.8 million per day
👉👉Deploying National Guard & Marines to LA: over $2.2 million per day
👉👉👉Deploying 20,000 National Guardsmen for one year: projected to cost $9.9 million per day
Voting in midterms 🗳️: Priceless and you #savedemocracy
October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We have a choice:
👉Deploying National Guard to D.C.: over $1.8 million per day
👉👉Deploying National Guard & Marines to LA: over $2.2 million per day
👉👉👉Deploying 20,000 National Guardsmen for one year: projected to cost $9.9 million per day
Voting in midterms 🗳️: Priceless and you #savedemocracy
👉Deploying National Guard to D.C.: over $1.8 million per day
👉👉Deploying National Guard & Marines to LA: over $2.2 million per day
👉👉👉Deploying 20,000 National Guardsmen for one year: projected to cost $9.9 million per day
Voting in midterms 🗳️: Priceless and you #savedemocracy
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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
In a response essay invited by Ohio State Law Journal, co-author Michael Nunn @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social '24 and I address labor activism that embraces bold new organizing models amid political polarization, steep corrosion of the rule of law, and open antagonism toward LGBTQIA+ communities. /1
Social Justice Unionism: Intersectionality in the Twenty-First Century Workplace
In <i>“Strike with Pride”: Unionizing as an LGBTQ Rights Strategy</i>, a remarkable wave of organizing at Starbucks tests two pillars of work law: the anti-disc
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October 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In a response essay invited by Ohio State Law Journal, co-author Michael Nunn @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social '24 and I address labor activism that embraces bold new organizing models amid political polarization, steep corrosion of the rule of law, and open antagonism toward LGBTQIA+ communities. /1
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“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
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Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025
October 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025
🚨: "allowing ICE to use to spyware 'threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech'”
Summer Lee and other lawmakers have sent a letter to the DHS demanding information on any plans ICE has to use Graphite, a spyware program that can access — without the owner’s knowledge or consent — a phone’s location data, photos, and encrypted applications, including WhatsApp and Signal.
Lawmakers Demand Information About Potential Use of Paragon Spyware by ICE
The lawmakers warned that allowing ICE to use spyware “threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech.”…
buff.ly
October 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
🚨: "allowing ICE to use to spyware 'threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech'”
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Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”
October 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”