Andrew Leland
@quailty.bsky.social
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In Baffler no. 81, @quailty.bsky.social examines three works by deaf artists: a memoir from Rachel Kolb, Sara Novic’s novel of deaf-anarchist insurrection, and the film “Deaf President Now!”
Manual Labor | Andrew Leland
How deaf artists and writers are grappling with a second Trump administration keen on dismantling the Americans with Disabilities Act.
thebaffler.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In Baffler no. 81, @quailty.bsky.social examines three works by deaf artists: a memoir from Rachel Kolb, Sara Novic’s novel of deaf-anarchist insurrection, and the film “Deaf President Now!”
I have an email newsletter open.substack.com/pub/vilejell...
"Help Yourself"
Trapped inside the podcast
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November 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I have an email newsletter open.substack.com/pub/vilejell...
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This made me cry a little. Everything is terrible but I'm so glad to be in this moment with these contemporaries.
In our new issue, @quailty.bsky.social considers contemporary deaf art and writing, which navigates the contradictions of deaf life in America as the second Trump administration threatens to dismantle the ADA.
thebaffler.com/salvos/manual-labor-leland
thebaffler.com/salvos/manual-labor-leland
Manual Labor | Andrew Leland
How deaf artists and writers are grappling with a second Trump administration keen on dismantling the Americans with Disabilities Act.
thebaffler.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This made me cry a little. Everything is terrible but I'm so glad to be in this moment with these contemporaries.
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Baffler no. 81, “After Words,” is online now, with work from Brace Belden, Bruce Robbins, Noah McCormack, @quailty.bsky.social, Sophie Pinkham, @chrislehmann.bsky.social, Mina Tavakoli, Gabriel Winslow-Yost, and more. Click below to start reading.
thebaffler.com/issues/no-81
thebaffler.com/issues/no-81
no. 81—After Words
The history of literacy is a list of complaints. Critics reliably decry each new technological development as an attention-stealing toy. Before recent grousing about ChatGPT…
thebaffler.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Baffler no. 81, “After Words,” is online now, with work from Brace Belden, Bruce Robbins, Noah McCormack, @quailty.bsky.social, Sophie Pinkham, @chrislehmann.bsky.social, Mina Tavakoli, Gabriel Winslow-Yost, and more. Click below to start reading.
thebaffler.com/issues/no-81
thebaffler.com/issues/no-81
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In our new issue, @quailty.bsky.social considers contemporary deaf art and writing, which navigates the contradictions of deaf life in America as the second Trump administration threatens to dismantle the ADA.
thebaffler.com/salvos/manual-labor-leland
thebaffler.com/salvos/manual-labor-leland
Manual Labor | Andrew Leland
How deaf artists and writers are grappling with a second Trump administration keen on dismantling the Americans with Disabilities Act.
thebaffler.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
In our new issue, @quailty.bsky.social considers contemporary deaf art and writing, which navigates the contradictions of deaf life in America as the second Trump administration threatens to dismantle the ADA.
thebaffler.com/salvos/manual-labor-leland
thebaffler.com/salvos/manual-labor-leland
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“This is absolutely a violation of federal law.”
For @motherjones.com, I reported about how reduction-in-forces in the Office of Special Education Programs will lead to disabled kids' needs not being met, as funding may not be distributed. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For @motherjones.com, I reported about how reduction-in-forces in the Office of Special Education Programs will lead to disabled kids' needs not being met, as funding may not be distributed. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump's new layoffs hurt disabled kids
"This is absolutely a violation of federal law."
www.motherjones.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“This is absolutely a violation of federal law.”
For @motherjones.com, I reported about how reduction-in-forces in the Office of Special Education Programs will lead to disabled kids' needs not being met, as funding may not be distributed. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For @motherjones.com, I reported about how reduction-in-forces in the Office of Special Education Programs will lead to disabled kids' needs not being met, as funding may not be distributed. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Template/script for contacting your Reps with respect to the DoEd cuts. I feel as disheartened about it as you, but the least we can do is take a moment to absolutely melt their servers exceptionalchildren.org/lac?vvsrc=/C...
Legislative Action Center
Take action with CEC's Legislative Action Center.
exceptionalchildren.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Template/script for contacting your Reps with respect to the DoEd cuts. I feel as disheartened about it as you, but the least we can do is take a moment to absolutely melt their servers exceptionalchildren.org/lac?vvsrc=/C...
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The agency plays a critical role in supporting students with disabilities, guiding families, funding key programs, and ensuring that states meet their obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education
Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.
www.npr.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The agency plays a critical role in supporting students with disabilities, guiding families, funding key programs, and ensuring that states meet their obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
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From ProPublica: “Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push.” Read more at https://f.mtr.cool/ohhwjocfjy
September 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
From ProPublica: “Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push.” Read more at https://f.mtr.cool/ohhwjocfjy
I wrote a post that opens a tiny window onto the terminally nerdy shit I've been distracting myself with lately
vilejelly.substack.com/p/onoff
vilejelly.substack.com/p/onoff
On/Off
Getting deeper into plain text
vilejelly.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I wrote a post that opens a tiny window onto the terminally nerdy shit I've been distracting myself with lately
vilejelly.substack.com/p/onoff
vilejelly.substack.com/p/onoff
Josh has shaped my thinking on blind identity, accessibility, technology, whiskey variety, and on and on: tremendously honored and just straight-up chuffed to be asking him questions about his brilliant new book in NYC next week. It's hybrid virtual and in-person so you better be there:
Please join me online or in person for the final stop of the 2025 Connecting Dots book tour!
June 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Josh has shaped my thinking on blind identity, accessibility, technology, whiskey variety, and on and on: tremendously honored and just straight-up chuffed to be asking him questions about his brilliant new book in NYC next week. It's hybrid virtual and in-person so you better be there:
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You might enjoy The Country of the Blind by @quailty.bsky.social if you're looking for "good nonfiction to kick off the summer: multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S1... #AskALibrarian
The Country of the Blind — Multnomah County Library
The Country of the Blind — Leland, Andrew, — A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness - and his quest to learn all he can about blin...
multcolib.bibliocommons.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
You might enjoy The Country of the Blind by @quailty.bsky.social if you're looking for "good nonfiction to kick off the summer: multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S1... #AskALibrarian
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If your organization has been affected by DOGE cuts or RFK Jr.’s cuts to the Administration for Community living, message my Signal at emgarcia.85
May 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If your organization has been affected by DOGE cuts or RFK Jr.’s cuts to the Administration for Community living, message my Signal at emgarcia.85
Stumbled across this ~30-year-old TNY piece about online discourse and it's at once shockingly quaint and entirely prescient www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Insults on the Early Internet
“In any other medium, these words would be, literally, unspeakable.”
www.newyorker.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Stumbled across this ~30-year-old TNY piece about online discourse and it's at once shockingly quaint and entirely prescient www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
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After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)
May 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)
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We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.
April 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.
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“Another recalled taking a planeload of children and their escorts on a domestic transfer from the southern border to an airport in New York. He tried to slip snacks to the kids. “Even the chaperones were like, ‘Don’t give them any food,’” he said. “And I’m like, ‘Where is your humanity?’”
NEW: GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…
propub.li
April 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“Another recalled taking a planeload of children and their escorts on a domestic transfer from the southern border to an airport in New York. He tried to slip snacks to the kids. “Even the chaperones were like, ‘Don’t give them any food,’” he said. “And I’m like, ‘Where is your humanity?’”
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This world tour of disability news includes work from @thesicktimes.bsky.social @quailty.bsky.social @francesryan.bsky.social @disrightsuk.bsky.social @womenenabled.bsky.social @validityfoundation.bsky.social @ianhamiltonbbc.bsky.social and many more.
www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/fami...
www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/fami...
A familiar place
Five years of Covid, forced back to work, and curated news from 39 countries
www.disabilitydebrief.org
March 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This world tour of disability news includes work from @thesicktimes.bsky.social @quailty.bsky.social @francesryan.bsky.social @disrightsuk.bsky.social @womenenabled.bsky.social @validityfoundation.bsky.social @ianhamiltonbbc.bsky.social and many more.
www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/fami...
www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/fami...
I have two new stories up: first is on disability politics under Trump 2.0, second is me feeling bad about a new feel-good documentary about blindness . Both linked on my "Substack" here! open.substack.com/pub/vilejell...
How MAGA Scrambled Disability Politics
And: a feel-bad take on a feel-good blindness doc; reading and listening recommendations; (not much) more!
open.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I have two new stories up: first is on disability politics under Trump 2.0, second is me feeling bad about a new feel-good documentary about blindness . Both linked on my "Substack" here! open.substack.com/pub/vilejell...
Is deletion the new cancellation
February 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Is deletion the new cancellation
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Debra Ruh shares an example of weaponizing performative accessibility against other communities. In this case a bench clearly meant to block homeless people versus help anyone (including wheelchair users).
www.linkedin.com/posts/debrar...
#a11y #accessibility
www.linkedin.com/posts/debrar...
#a11y #accessibility
February 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Debra Ruh shares an example of weaponizing performative accessibility against other communities. In this case a bench clearly meant to block homeless people versus help anyone (including wheelchair users).
www.linkedin.com/posts/debrar...
#a11y #accessibility
www.linkedin.com/posts/debrar...
#a11y #accessibility
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In a brutal time, what a gift to see intrepid people start something new:
Signal Hill is a new audio magazine. Trailer out now. signalhill.fm
Signal Hill
cargo.site
signalhill.fm
February 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In a brutal time, what a gift to see intrepid people start something new:
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It’s an active crime scene!
(everything’s gone bonkers, sometimes you need to laugh or you’ll cry)
(everything’s gone bonkers, sometimes you need to laugh or you’ll cry)
February 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It’s an active crime scene!
(everything’s gone bonkers, sometimes you need to laugh or you’ll cry)
(everything’s gone bonkers, sometimes you need to laugh or you’ll cry)
All this talk of DeepSeek's innovation arising from the limitations its engineers worked under recalls the long history of disabled geniuses making breakthroughs under their own sort of constraints. Nice to see another puncture-hole in the myth of the supremacy of the nondisabled, the hyperresourced
February 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
All this talk of DeepSeek's innovation arising from the limitations its engineers worked under recalls the long history of disabled geniuses making breakthroughs under their own sort of constraints. Nice to see another puncture-hole in the myth of the supremacy of the nondisabled, the hyperresourced
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I haven't paid money to the NYT for a few years (even though I miss the Cooking stuff especially!) because I have too much uh... self respect ... but I nonetheless sometimes open the homepage and do a depressing exercise where I control search "trans" and yesterday there was literally nothing.
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I haven't paid money to the NYT for a few years (even though I miss the Cooking stuff especially!) because I have too much uh... self respect ... but I nonetheless sometimes open the homepage and do a depressing exercise where I control search "trans" and yesterday there was literally nothing.