Samantha Bassler
@sammee42.bsky.social
she/they 🏳️🌈(Bisexual) & Jewish Humanist.
Disability Justice Activist with Fibro, AuDHD, and c-PTSD. Musicologist & Music Theorist: early music, disability, trauma. Music Educator & Musician. Writer & Author. Academic, Indexer & Entrepreneur.
Disability Justice Activist with Fibro, AuDHD, and c-PTSD. Musicologist & Music Theorist: early music, disability, trauma. Music Educator & Musician. Writer & Author. Academic, Indexer & Entrepreneur.
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Samantha Bassler
@sammee42.bsky.social
· Aug 24
I believe very strongly that ideas of "professionalism" and "collegiality" have bias against Black, Brown, queer, trans, disabled, non-male, non-cis, and neurodivergent folk. I would also argue that these terms are weaponized against people who are marginalized. 1/2
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I'm actually shocked. Good on Dana Bash for asking the question, and I genuinely would not have expected Greene to answer the way she did.
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'm actually shocked. Good on Dana Bash for asking the question, and I genuinely would not have expected Greene to answer the way she did.
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As someone who doesn't work in insurance related fields, this sounds a whole lot like a marketplace for health insurance that's main goal is to provide affordable healthcare.
If only that already existed 🤔
If only that already existed 🤔
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
As someone who doesn't work in insurance related fields, this sounds a whole lot like a marketplace for health insurance that's main goal is to provide affordable healthcare.
If only that already existed 🤔
If only that already existed 🤔
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If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
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omg she’s going to have H Street burned to the ground
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
omg she’s going to have H Street burned to the ground
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THIS IS IT.
THIS IS THE ONE.
FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE SURVIVORS ALWAYS.
Help make this go viral. Please.
THIS IS THE ONE.
FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE SURVIVORS ALWAYS.
Help make this go viral. Please.
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
THIS IS IT.
THIS IS THE ONE.
FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE SURVIVORS ALWAYS.
Help make this go viral. Please.
THIS IS THE ONE.
FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE SURVIVORS ALWAYS.
Help make this go viral. Please.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
I have a student who wants to present on a transgender music issue of some kind for their Baroque/Classical Music History final presentation. Any ideas?
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I have a student who wants to present on a transgender music issue of some kind for their Baroque/Classical Music History final presentation. Any ideas?
I’ve got another article on music and PTSD coming out soon. It is due to journal REALLY soon but I am super stuck on the conclusion. Anyone wanna read it & give thoughts?
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I’ve got another article on music and PTSD coming out soon. It is due to journal REALLY soon but I am super stuck on the conclusion. Anyone wanna read it & give thoughts?
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Gen AI is the final form of the Capitalist notion that your productivity is your only worth. Something entirely antithetical to disability & human rights. That so many buy into it as “accessible” is pathetic, honestly.
I think I put my finger on why I hate prompt-based AI music generation so much from an education perspective. It isn't about the output (though I do hate that.) It isn't the "inhuman" nature of it (whatever, I am fine with people programming 808s.) It's the part about "accessibility."
October 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Gen AI is the final form of the Capitalist notion that your productivity is your only worth. Something entirely antithetical to disability & human rights. That so many buy into it as “accessible” is pathetic, honestly.
I was reading about the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide today. It makes sense. I think that it is social isolation and the invalidation of my experience from a certain employer that contribute to my occasional suicidal ideation--especially the invalidation of my experiences living with c-PTSD. 1/
Interpersonal theory of suicide - Wikipedia
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September 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I was reading about the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide today. It makes sense. I think that it is social isolation and the invalidation of my experience from a certain employer that contribute to my occasional suicidal ideation--especially the invalidation of my experiences living with c-PTSD. 1/
I believe very strongly that ideas of "professionalism" and "collegiality" have bias against Black, Brown, queer, trans, disabled, non-male, non-cis, and neurodivergent folk. I would also argue that these terms are weaponized against people who are marginalized. 1/2
August 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I believe very strongly that ideas of "professionalism" and "collegiality" have bias against Black, Brown, queer, trans, disabled, non-male, non-cis, and neurodivergent folk. I would also argue that these terms are weaponized against people who are marginalized. 1/2
Convo on FB: Context matters & everyone is a little bit neurodivergent or on the spectrum. Strikes me as erasing lived experiences of people who struggle & experience discrimination due to our neurodivergence… kinda like “All Lives Matter” or “I don’t see colour” but nowhere near that extent.
August 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Convo on FB: Context matters & everyone is a little bit neurodivergent or on the spectrum. Strikes me as erasing lived experiences of people who struggle & experience discrimination due to our neurodivergence… kinda like “All Lives Matter” or “I don’t see colour” but nowhere near that extent.
Musicologists & music theorists, thoughts? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Musicologists & music theorists, thoughts? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A Jew was mad re: Mamdani & 'globalize the intifada' and this is what I said (more context downthread, read the whole thing before responding):
Original context of conversation here and next skeet
Original context of conversation here and next skeet
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.
Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
June 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A Jew was mad re: Mamdani & 'globalize the intifada' and this is what I said (more context downthread, read the whole thing before responding):
Original context of conversation here and next skeet
Original context of conversation here and next skeet
NEWEST PUBLICATION ALERT! My article on UDL and trauma-informed approaches to aural skills! :)
Bassler, S. (2025). Trauma-Informed and Universal-Design Approaches for Rigorous Training in Aural Skills. In Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Post-Secondary Music Class (pp. 104–113). Routledge.
Bassler, S. (2025). Trauma-Informed and Universal-Design Approaches for Rigorous Training in Aural Skills. In Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Post-Secondary Music Class (pp. 104–113). Routledge.
March 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWEST PUBLICATION ALERT! My article on UDL and trauma-informed approaches to aural skills! :)
Bassler, S. (2025). Trauma-Informed and Universal-Design Approaches for Rigorous Training in Aural Skills. In Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Post-Secondary Music Class (pp. 104–113). Routledge.
Bassler, S. (2025). Trauma-Informed and Universal-Design Approaches for Rigorous Training in Aural Skills. In Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Post-Secondary Music Class (pp. 104–113). Routledge.
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"What we are fighting for is not “utopian”, or unachievable. Much of it already exists in other countries, and poll after poll shows that it is exactly what the American people want."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Can Trumpism be defeated? Absolutely. Here’s how | Bernie Sanders
What we are fighting for is not ‘utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"What we are fighting for is not “utopian”, or unachievable. Much of it already exists in other countries, and poll after poll shows that it is exactly what the American people want."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“Accidentally” — no - as with the nuclear safety people and everyone else they were deliberately fired with malice aforethought and the effort to control the gratuitous damage by trying to rehire them is a reminder that the ones who do need firing are the firers
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“Accidentally” — no - as with the nuclear safety people and everyone else they were deliberately fired with malice aforethought and the effort to control the gratuitous damage by trying to rehire them is a reminder that the ones who do need firing are the firers
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response:
“We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”
“We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”
February 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response:
“We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”
“We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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I am done reacting to every little chaotic thing this administration does. They want our attention, confusion and fear and they CANNOT have it. I am filling my life with peace, joy and so much work. Resistance is putting yourself and your community first.
January 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I am done reacting to every little chaotic thing this administration does. They want our attention, confusion and fear and they CANNOT have it. I am filling my life with peace, joy and so much work. Resistance is putting yourself and your community first.
Well this is disgusting that this is what "liberated" is to some people. Gross.
Hate is the only thing being liberated in the New Age of Trump. But you can't solely attribute this to him. People freely using the r word has been making a comeback before this year.
January 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Well this is disgusting that this is what "liberated" is to some people. Gross.
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Support The Music Community - Fire Loss + Resource Tab
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January 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
here too
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Here are a couple spreadsheets of LA music folks affected by the fires, I haven't vetted these personally but if you're looking for ways to help this is a good place to start docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Musicians Affected by Fires
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January 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Here are a couple spreadsheets of LA music folks affected by the fires, I haven't vetted these personally but if you're looking for ways to help this is a good place to start docs.google.com/spreadsheets...