Aparna Nair
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Lives with epilepsy.
wondering how you can be "very much in the center but slightly more towards than against" eugenics
And no, eugenics was not just mass sterilization and euthanasia. It was also positive eugenics--which is what this is.
And no, eugenics was not just mass sterilization and euthanasia. It was also positive eugenics--which is what this is.
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
wondering how you can be "very much in the center but slightly more towards than against" eugenics
And no, eugenics was not just mass sterilization and euthanasia. It was also positive eugenics--which is what this is.
And no, eugenics was not just mass sterilization and euthanasia. It was also positive eugenics--which is what this is.
You can ask very limited questions about service animals; legally the questions are restricted by the ADA to the following in the US
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
You can ask very limited questions about service animals; legally the questions are restricted by the ADA to the following in the US
It is not just the right; many centrists, liberals do not care either.
Here is Matty Y.
This isnt about political affiliation, at all.
Here is Matty Y.
This isnt about political affiliation, at all.
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It is not just the right; many centrists, liberals do not care either.
Here is Matty Y.
This isnt about political affiliation, at all.
Here is Matty Y.
This isnt about political affiliation, at all.
I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con."
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con."
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
And here are two senior editors at @theatlantic.com smugly telling us on X how accommodations are now a "problem"
Maybe @yappelbaum.bsky.social and @giladedelman.bsky.social would like for disabled students to be drummed out of education altogether--perhaps institutionalized?
Maybe @yappelbaum.bsky.social and @giladedelman.bsky.social would like for disabled students to be drummed out of education altogether--perhaps institutionalized?
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
And here are two senior editors at @theatlantic.com smugly telling us on X how accommodations are now a "problem"
Maybe @yappelbaum.bsky.social and @giladedelman.bsky.social would like for disabled students to be drummed out of education altogether--perhaps institutionalized?
Maybe @yappelbaum.bsky.social and @giladedelman.bsky.social would like for disabled students to be drummed out of education altogether--perhaps institutionalized?
Those individual strands of dried out turkey meat are not inspiring me
November 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Those individual strands of dried out turkey meat are not inspiring me
Here is one, I have two or three, I think
November 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Here is one, I have two or three, I think
I collect all manner of ephemera/things-I have a wooden prosthetic hand from Morocco, Braille clocks from the USSR, antique spectacles, print and material culture of all sorts.
I find them all fascinating.
But I draw the line at collections/objects like this, because these HAVE to be haunted.
I find them all fascinating.
But I draw the line at collections/objects like this, because these HAVE to be haunted.
November 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I collect all manner of ephemera/things-I have a wooden prosthetic hand from Morocco, Braille clocks from the USSR, antique spectacles, print and material culture of all sorts.
I find them all fascinating.
But I draw the line at collections/objects like this, because these HAVE to be haunted.
I find them all fascinating.
But I draw the line at collections/objects like this, because these HAVE to be haunted.
Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this.
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this.
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
at this point, it takes real commitment to pretend that using genAI images is the same as clip art or a "random google search"
(not quoting this person, because no desire to dunk, but, christ)
(not quoting this person, because no desire to dunk, but, christ)
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
at this point, it takes real commitment to pretend that using genAI images is the same as clip art or a "random google search"
(not quoting this person, because no desire to dunk, but, christ)
(not quoting this person, because no desire to dunk, but, christ)
Seems unfair that the dogs woke up, demanded breakfast and walks and did their business and then just went back to bed when my work day is only beginning
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Seems unfair that the dogs woke up, demanded breakfast and walks and did their business and then just went back to bed when my work day is only beginning
It’s snowing lightly outside
I have a nice cup of London fog going.
The dogs are hogging the electric blanket.
And there is maybe nothing better than two dogs lying on your lap (except maybe three dogs)
I have a nice cup of London fog going.
The dogs are hogging the electric blanket.
And there is maybe nothing better than two dogs lying on your lap (except maybe three dogs)
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It’s snowing lightly outside
I have a nice cup of London fog going.
The dogs are hogging the electric blanket.
And there is maybe nothing better than two dogs lying on your lap (except maybe three dogs)
I have a nice cup of London fog going.
The dogs are hogging the electric blanket.
And there is maybe nothing better than two dogs lying on your lap (except maybe three dogs)
I realize this is a journalistic hook--but its a harmful one to frame it as the "dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism"
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/monks-behavi...
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/monks-behavi...
November 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I realize this is a journalistic hook--but its a harmful one to frame it as the "dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism"
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/monks-behavi...
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/monks-behavi...
Also, turns out the OP being defended here was just coat-trailing
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Also, turns out the OP being defended here was just coat-trailing
I have to say, Ronacher's post is the one in genuine bad faith; coat trailing of the worst kind.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I have to say, Ronacher's post is the one in genuine bad faith; coat trailing of the worst kind.
My new puppy, which I’m kind of low key sure is a fox spirit reborn, just sighed so hard one would imagine he had the weight of the world on his furry itchy shoulders
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My new puppy, which I’m kind of low key sure is a fox spirit reborn, just sighed so hard one would imagine he had the weight of the world on his furry itchy shoulders
These people talk like conmen and our universities are just inviting these companies and their technologies into our midst, to prey on our students
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
These people talk like conmen and our universities are just inviting these companies and their technologies into our midst, to prey on our students
Yes, I foster failed sigh, his name is Sugar and he’s ten months old
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Yes, I foster failed sigh, his name is Sugar and he’s ten months old
Its so exhausting to see the media talk about autism like this--why can't we talk about it with the complexity it deserves, instead of stigmatize the millions living with it?
What kind of journalist doesn't understand that the "shocking numbers" are simply because more people are diagnosed now??
What kind of journalist doesn't understand that the "shocking numbers" are simply because more people are diagnosed now??
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Its so exhausting to see the media talk about autism like this--why can't we talk about it with the complexity it deserves, instead of stigmatize the millions living with it?
What kind of journalist doesn't understand that the "shocking numbers" are simply because more people are diagnosed now??
What kind of journalist doesn't understand that the "shocking numbers" are simply because more people are diagnosed now??
Reading Olivia Nuzzis writing has really helped with this: it’s made me feel so lucky and confident
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Reading Olivia Nuzzis writing has really helped with this: it’s made me feel so lucky and confident
I think US journalism is just so broken that it cannot perceive how truly awful and puerile people like Nuzzi are; and this piece is just more evidence of this brokenness
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I think US journalism is just so broken that it cannot perceive how truly awful and puerile people like Nuzzi are; and this piece is just more evidence of this brokenness
There is something intensely bleak about students using gAI in an assignment asking them to respond to a text about enslaved people--so sad.
Students are being misled into stripping themselves of the ability to read, write, think by our own universities and Big Tech
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Students are being misled into stripping themselves of the ability to read, write, think by our own universities and Big Tech
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
There is something intensely bleak about students using gAI in an assignment asking them to respond to a text about enslaved people--so sad.
Students are being misled into stripping themselves of the ability to read, write, think by our own universities and Big Tech
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Students are being misled into stripping themselves of the ability to read, write, think by our own universities and Big Tech
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
How is this man so loud and yet so very wrong?
If he was any kind of person who actually could learn I’d invite him to read the work of people who live with chronic debilitating pain but he isn’t capable of learning anything
If he was any kind of person who actually could learn I’d invite him to read the work of people who live with chronic debilitating pain but he isn’t capable of learning anything
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
How is this man so loud and yet so very wrong?
If he was any kind of person who actually could learn I’d invite him to read the work of people who live with chronic debilitating pain but he isn’t capable of learning anything
If he was any kind of person who actually could learn I’d invite him to read the work of people who live with chronic debilitating pain but he isn’t capable of learning anything
A scratch is a scratch, I guess, Charlie says
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A scratch is a scratch, I guess, Charlie says