Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴)
@travisclau.bsky.social
(he/him/his) Assistant Professor, Poet: c18/c19 British Literature/History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)/Health Humanities/Disability Studies
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What's Left is Tender by Travis Chi Wing Lau — Small Harbor Publishing
www.smallharborpublishing.com
It's officially release day for WHAT'S LEFT IS TENDER, a book that I truly didn't think I had it in me to write: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/whats-...
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Now, the CDC Museum's future is on the rocks. The museum doesn't have a director even though a former supervisor is trying to keep the doors open. One of the museum's most popular programs is Disease Detective Camp, a summer program for high school students 👇
CDC Museum's Future Is on the Rocks
'You can't just throw a museum away,' former staffer says
www.medpagetoday.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Now, the CDC Museum's future is on the rocks. The museum doesn't have a director even though a former supervisor is trying to keep the doors open. One of the museum's most popular programs is Disease Detective Camp, a summer program for high school students 👇
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Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
I recently got digital copies of my most recent x-rays, and seeing my spinal curvature for what it is always has the sobering effect of reminding me that my pain is real, that this is what I carry as part of my daily lived experience.
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I recently got digital copies of my most recent x-rays, and seeing my spinal curvature for what it is always has the sobering effect of reminding me that my pain is real, that this is what I carry as part of my daily lived experience.
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“… ‘I am Ozymandias, Candle of Candles / Look on my wicks, ye Mighty, and despair!’…”
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November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
“… ‘I am Ozymandias, Candle of Candles / Look on my wicks, ye Mighty, and despair!’…”
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Another week another press release for "AI" art history disguised as journalism.
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Another week another press release for "AI" art history disguised as journalism.
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
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Since this guy came on board, Louisiana has had a record pertussis year, with 2 infant deaths in the state. Now RFK Jr gave him a promotion up to the CDC.
CDC’s new top deputy had ordered his state health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations amid a flu surge www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2
Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Since this guy came on board, Louisiana has had a record pertussis year, with 2 infant deaths in the state. Now RFK Jr gave him a promotion up to the CDC.
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I did, you know, I did make a book (with a LOT of other people) and it's got my name on the front and everything. eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/81...
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I did, you know, I did make a book (with a LOT of other people) and it's got my name on the front and everything. eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/81...
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I wrote something! My latest book is on the far right politics of fear surrounding immigration, birthrates, and population change. The so-called "replacement" narrative that has mobilized extremist acts of mass violence, the rehabilitation of white nationalism, and the current deportation frenzy.
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I wrote something! My latest book is on the far right politics of fear surrounding immigration, birthrates, and population change. The so-called "replacement" narrative that has mobilized extremist acts of mass violence, the rehabilitation of white nationalism, and the current deportation frenzy.
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My latest article, “The Legal Somatics of Body Bequests Before the Anatomy Act 1832”, is published in Mortality, an interdisciplinary journal on death and dying. In the article, I analyze the medico-legal history of 18th- and 19th-century body bequests in England and Ireland. doi.org/10.1080/1357...
The legal somatics of body bequests before the Anatomy Act 1832
Without the authority of legislation in the United Kingdom, some bequeathed their bodies to physicians, surgeons and apothecaries to dissect and create anatomical specimens in the eighteenth and ea...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
My latest article, “The Legal Somatics of Body Bequests Before the Anatomy Act 1832”, is published in Mortality, an interdisciplinary journal on death and dying. In the article, I analyze the medico-legal history of 18th- and 19th-century body bequests in England and Ireland. doi.org/10.1080/1357...
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Hi @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I published this last year but with our TCM appearances last month we are once again asking to buy our book!
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Hi @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I published this last year but with our TCM appearances last month we are once again asking to buy our book!
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
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IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
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I wrote a book about smell and had folks imitate the cover.
Suggestions for what pose best represents TTRPG Actual Play (the subject of my next book) would be welcome.
Suggestions for what pose best represents TTRPG Actual Play (the subject of my next book) would be welcome.
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I wrote a book about smell and had folks imitate the cover.
Suggestions for what pose best represents TTRPG Actual Play (the subject of my next book) would be welcome.
Suggestions for what pose best represents TTRPG Actual Play (the subject of my next book) would be welcome.
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Apropos of nothing in particular, I once ran across the suggestion that RLS titled the book Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (no The, that is) to mimic a sensational newspaper headline.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Apropos of nothing in particular, I once ran across the suggestion that RLS titled the book Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (no The, that is) to mimic a sensational newspaper headline.
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Promote your books!
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Promote your books!
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
Woo hoo, I wrote a book about people selling information about sex competing with/hating on other people selling information about sex!
www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...
Woo hoo, I wrote a book about people selling information about sex competing with/hating on other people selling information about sex!
www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
Woo hoo, I wrote a book about people selling information about sex competing with/hating on other people selling information about sex!
www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...
Woo hoo, I wrote a book about people selling information about sex competing with/hating on other people selling information about sex!
www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...
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Mine isn’t out yet but will be on Feb 10th! bookshop.org/p/books/in-s...
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Mine isn’t out yet but will be on Feb 10th! bookshop.org/p/books/in-s...
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Academics need to tell families and friends, especially at holidays, that there are forbidden questions:
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
Because @lollardfish.bsky.social says we should promote our books: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477313138/
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Academics need to tell families and friends, especially at holidays, that there are forbidden questions:
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
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For a small fee, I will go to your historian enemy’s seminar presentation and say “I guess I’m just wondering what the “so what” of this paper is?”
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
For a small fee, I will go to your historian enemy’s seminar presentation and say “I guess I’m just wondering what the “so what” of this paper is?”
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Not out yet, but my forthcoming book Coverage Denied is available for preorder! www.amazon.com/Coverage-Den...
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Not out yet, but my forthcoming book Coverage Denied is available for preorder! www.amazon.com/Coverage-Den...
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Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
From Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities.
We center these tradi...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
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It’s hard to share snippets from FEAST as people who’ve read it might attest, but here’s a page from a chapter following Janice, one of the central characters, as she relives the day she was devoured by the Leviathan when the Empress of Ireland sank in 1914
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It’s hard to share snippets from FEAST as people who’ve read it might attest, but here’s a page from a chapter following Janice, one of the central characters, as she relives the day she was devoured by the Leviathan when the Empress of Ireland sank in 1914