Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️
@drshannak.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️they/them
🎓Social Work and WGS prof @ UM
💋Educator | Researcher | Activist
💜Disabled, AuDHD, queer, nonbinary, polyam Jewitchy fat femme
✊🏽Anti oppressive abolitionist
🖤💙❤️Mx. MI Leather Pride ‘22
Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇭🇹
🚫 AI
https://linktr.ee/DrShannaK
🎓Social Work and WGS prof @ UM
💋Educator | Researcher | Activist
💜Disabled, AuDHD, queer, nonbinary, polyam Jewitchy fat femme
✊🏽Anti oppressive abolitionist
🖤💙❤️Mx. MI Leather Pride ‘22
Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇭🇹
🚫 AI
https://linktr.ee/DrShannaK
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ALL of these topics are social work issues, and I hope that my fellow social work folks; students, faculty, staff, social workers, alumni, retirees, and others, will join me in this work. Let’s commit to creating the world we want to live in!
This. I work up to 60 hours a week and have, I kid you not, over 800 starred emails I need to respond to. I am exhausted!
They never tell you how much paperwork and busywork is involved with being tenure track. It’s like a death by a thousand forms.
Fucking nonsense.
Fucking nonsense.
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
This. I work up to 60 hours a week and have, I kid you not, over 800 starred emails I need to respond to. I am exhausted!
Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
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Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️
If you aren't yet thinking "AI must be destroyed" there is something wrong with you
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If you aren't yet thinking "AI must be destroyed" there is something wrong with you
I’ve been in two legal marriages with two different wonderful people over the years, as well as have meaningful relationships with my other partners. To me, legal marriage has always been about rights, especially as a disabled person. Ensuring my loves are insured, and can visit me in the hospital.
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I’ve been in two legal marriages with two different wonderful people over the years, as well as have meaningful relationships with my other partners. To me, legal marriage has always been about rights, especially as a disabled person. Ensuring my loves are insured, and can visit me in the hospital.
If anyone would like to watch the Social Work Disability Justice League's opening plenary at the Council on Social Work Education's Annual Conference with me, Laura Wernick, and Vandana Chaudry on Disability Justice & Disability Joy, we start at about 20:00 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vxt...
CSWE Annual Conference 2025: Opening Plenary Panel Discussion on Disability Justice and Joy
YouTube video by Council on Social Work Education
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October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If anyone would like to watch the Social Work Disability Justice League's opening plenary at the Council on Social Work Education's Annual Conference with me, Laura Wernick, and Vandana Chaudry on Disability Justice & Disability Joy, we start at about 20:00 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vxt...
thankful to Kelli for this:
“By the time something is beyond urgent, they are rolling into the emergency department with multiple chronic and acute issues," Kattari said. "They then feel let down and betrayed once again by the system that harmed them previously."
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“By the time something is beyond urgent, they are rolling into the emergency department with multiple chronic and acute issues," Kattari said. "They then feel let down and betrayed once again by the system that harmed them previously."
pridesource.com/article/navi...
Navigating Trauma Caused by Healthcare — and Why LGBTQ+ Folks Are Impacted More Often
I was a nurse with more than 20 years of clinical experience when I developed a raging infection after a knee replacement. Let's just say the words "20 cc
pridesource.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
thankful to Kelli for this:
“By the time something is beyond urgent, they are rolling into the emergency department with multiple chronic and acute issues," Kattari said. "They then feel let down and betrayed once again by the system that harmed them previously."
pridesource.com/article/navi...
“By the time something is beyond urgent, they are rolling into the emergency department with multiple chronic and acute issues," Kattari said. "They then feel let down and betrayed once again by the system that harmed them previously."
pridesource.com/article/navi...
Literally none of the reports from the @transequality.bsky.social 2022 USTS have the world disability in them, which is wild, as at last count, 42% of trans Michiganders reported a disability, and 39% of trans people in the 2015 USTS did the same.
October 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Literally none of the reports from the @transequality.bsky.social 2022 USTS have the world disability in them, which is wild, as at last count, 42% of trans Michiganders reported a disability, and 39% of trans people in the 2015 USTS did the same.
Honored by the James T Neubacher Award honorable mention for my 2nd time at UM. This award specifically calls out university members who have improved the lives of people with disabilities, and as many of you know, this is a foundation piece of my advocacy professionally and personally.
October 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Honored by the James T Neubacher Award honorable mention for my 2nd time at UM. This award specifically calls out university members who have improved the lives of people with disabilities, and as many of you know, this is a foundation piece of my advocacy professionally and personally.
This this this
Yeah, I'm a single issue voter
Every single issue matters to me
Trans rights, LAND BACK, free Palestine, Black lives matter, disability justice, tenant rights, house the homeless, and Me Too is just the fucking tip of the iceberg
Every single issue matters to me
Trans rights, LAND BACK, free Palestine, Black lives matter, disability justice, tenant rights, house the homeless, and Me Too is just the fucking tip of the iceberg
I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.
October 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This this this
1st in person meet up of folks from the Social Work Disability Justice League, here at #CSWE25. It’s been amazing meeting some people in person that I’ve been working with virtually (a super valid way to connect!) for years. Plus a lip reading accessible mask I’m trying.
We are lodgepole pines! 🌲
We are lodgepole pines! 🌲
October 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
1st in person meet up of folks from the Social Work Disability Justice League, here at #CSWE25. It’s been amazing meeting some people in person that I’ve been working with virtually (a super valid way to connect!) for years. Plus a lip reading accessible mask I’m trying.
We are lodgepole pines! 🌲
We are lodgepole pines! 🌲
I cannot tell you how joyous it was to share the stage with my disabled comrades, members of the Social Work Disability Justice League in the audience, my partner in the front row, talking about what disability justice means in a social work context, and how we can co-create the future we deserve.
We’re so excited for the CSWE opening plenary featuring Q Caucus member and former co-chair, @drshannak.bsky.social! They’re on a panel talking about disability justice and disability joy. 🤩
#oneCSWE #CSWE25
#oneCSWE #CSWE25
October 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I cannot tell you how joyous it was to share the stage with my disabled comrades, members of the Social Work Disability Justice League in the audience, my partner in the front row, talking about what disability justice means in a social work context, and how we can co-create the future we deserve.
One of my fav things about conferences is connecting PhD students with faculty, whether they share interests, methodologies, or are at locations they hope to work at.
If you’re a queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, racialized, immigrant, or other marginalized doc student #CSWE25, come say hi!
If you’re a queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, racialized, immigrant, or other marginalized doc student #CSWE25, come say hi!
October 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
One of my fav things about conferences is connecting PhD students with faculty, whether they share interests, methodologies, or are at locations they hope to work at.
If you’re a queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, racialized, immigrant, or other marginalized doc student #CSWE25, come say hi!
If you’re a queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, racialized, immigrant, or other marginalized doc student #CSWE25, come say hi!
Reminder that AI is often wrong, harmful to our planet, racist/ableist/classist/sexist (because that’s what it has scraped), increases local water and electricity costs, and more.
Stop using generative AI. Period.
Stop using generative AI. Period.
Universities across the world seeing this:
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
October 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reminder that AI is often wrong, harmful to our planet, racist/ableist/classist/sexist (because that’s what it has scraped), increases local water and electricity costs, and more.
Stop using generative AI. Period.
Stop using generative AI. Period.
Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️
This was worse then you could possibly imagine. Holy fucking shit.
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
October 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This was worse then you could possibly imagine. Holy fucking shit.
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
Council on Disabilities and Persons with Disabilities meeting today to talk accessibility, mentorship, etc at #CSWE25 this AM
Please take our survey for social work PhD students and faculty on ableism and white supremacy culture: cswe.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
Please take our survey for social work PhD students and faculty on ableism and white supremacy culture: cswe.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
October 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Council on Disabilities and Persons with Disabilities meeting today to talk accessibility, mentorship, etc at #CSWE25 this AM
Please take our survey for social work PhD students and faculty on ableism and white supremacy culture: cswe.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
Please take our survey for social work PhD students and faculty on ableism and white supremacy culture: cswe.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
I also have so many extra masks if you need them.
So begins #CSWE25 with a theme of disability justice and joy. Please mask as a form of community care, and come join me and members of the social work disability justice league at tonight’s opening plenary, 6:30 mnt time in the ballroom.
We take care of us! I’ll be using my red walker; come say hi!
We take care of us! I’ll be using my red walker; come say hi!
October 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I also have so many extra masks if you need them.
So begins #CSWE25 with a theme of disability justice and joy. Please mask as a form of community care, and come join me and members of the social work disability justice league at tonight’s opening plenary, 6:30 mnt time in the ballroom.
We take care of us! I’ll be using my red walker; come say hi!
We take care of us! I’ll be using my red walker; come say hi!
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
So begins #CSWE25 with a theme of disability justice and joy. Please mask as a form of community care, and come join me and members of the social work disability justice league at tonight’s opening plenary, 6:30 mnt time in the ballroom.
We take care of us! I’ll be using my red walker; come say hi!
We take care of us! I’ll be using my red walker; come say hi!
Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️
If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
Sami is super badass and would be a dream to work with!
Job Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Sami is super badass and would be a dream to work with!
When having to click the “I am human” verification, does anyone else have a panic moment each time where your brain asks “but are you actually human?” Or is that just me?
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
When having to click the “I am human” verification, does anyone else have a panic moment each time where your brain asks “but are you actually human?” Or is that just me?
One benefit of being polyamorous is as a chronically ill disabled person who can’t drive much anymore, I have three delightful partners and one meta to take me to my plethora of medical appts. So thankful; I don’t know what I would do without this community care.
September 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
One benefit of being polyamorous is as a chronically ill disabled person who can’t drive much anymore, I have three delightful partners and one meta to take me to my plethora of medical appts. So thankful; I don’t know what I would do without this community care.
Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️
This move by the Trump administration is an overtly discriminatory civil rights violation. Trans people have the same legal rights as other Americans — end of story. There are lots of good reasons to keep certain people from owning guns. Being trans isn't one of them. https://cnn.it/4niJnxG
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics
Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.
cnn.it
September 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This move by the Trump administration is an overtly discriminatory civil rights violation. Trans people have the same legal rights as other Americans — end of story. There are lots of good reasons to keep certain people from owning guns. Being trans isn't one of them. https://cnn.it/4niJnxG
Given how our county has historically treated Mad people, this is terrifying
Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics
Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.
edition.cnn.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Given how our county has historically treated Mad people, this is terrifying
Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️
It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.
September 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.