Reposted by Erin MoriartyAmanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The Scholars' Lab Praxis Program turns 17 next year—if you're a UVA grad student (or know any), please consider applying & getting to work with amazing lab+library+interdisciplinary folks: 12211
Reposted by Erin MoriartyAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It has officially been one year since Trump took control of the nation’s capital using our own National Guard. 421165353
Reposted by Erin MoriartyBen Braithwaite @benbraithwaite.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Any sign language linguists with views on projects around 'AI' based automated translation between signed and spoken langs? I think this is both terrible and unfeasible for the Caribbean, but I don't have much contact with sl linguists since the twitter exodus, and am curious about what others think 032
Reposted by Erin MoriartyJulie A. Hochgesang @jahochcam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Pleased to share that “ASL Signbank” through Cambridge Elements (Sign Language Series) is out! It’s free for the next two weeks. You can find it here doi.org/10.1017/9781... Thanks to Erin Wilkinson and David Quinto-Pozos, editors of Sign Language Series, for their support! #ASLSignbank 13323
Reposted by Erin MoriartyMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class. 152129815103
Reposted by Erin MoriartyTed Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026 333198226482
Reposted by Erin MoriartyDaniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Glad to finally see this kind of coverage regarding sea level rise in the Chesapeake and Atlantic coast. Surreal also to see a PBS program with a Patreon, but that’s where we are in the US atm.youtu.beThe WORST Climate News I've Ever SeenYouTube video by PBS Terra 0125
Erin Moriarty @emoriartyh.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I love that I work at an university that has this kind of collection. 020
Reposted by Erin MoriartyM. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 31/03/2026An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players. 692770604
Reposted by Erin MoriartyLina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮) @linasigns.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Check out today’s blog from Camp Anthropology - Erin Moriarty and Octavian Robinson discuss the editing process of the Crip Linguistics Reader: campanthropology.orgcampanthropology.orgCaMP AnthropologyCommunication, Media and Performance 262
Reposted by Erin MoriartyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Once upon a time, you'd go to give a talk at another university and a nice administrator would hand you a W-9 to sign and they'd send you a check in the mail for the honorarium. Now you have to spend a half hour entering data on a Special Contractor Website that was designed in a lab by sadists. 982117166
Reposted by Erin MoriartyAndrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 14/03/2026For those impacted by this week's sudden closure of DIY HRT Cafe (hrtcafe. net), I have a live page on how to order hormones online with links to vendors and other live DIY sites including: DIY HRT Market The DIY HRT Directory 2.0 DIY HRT Directory HRT Coffee www.transgendermap.com/guidance/med...transgendermap.comHow to order hormones online – Transgender Map 13321
Reposted by Erin MoriartyDiane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026The University of Virginia Archival AI Protocol, a practical framework for evaluating AI company requests to use cultural heritage collections as training data.library.virginia.eduProtecting what remains: Introducing the UVA Archival AI Protocol | UVA Library 076
Reposted by Erin MoriartyRebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country. 2534241035
Reposted by Erin MoriartyArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 04/02/2026And people wonder why I stay home www.ocregister.com/2026/02/01/d...ocregister.comDeaf LA teenager says immigration officers assaulted him for not heeding commands‘He’s deaf! He cannot hear!’ people can be heard shouting on a video of Anthony Paredes being chased and apprehended. 05925
Reposted by Erin MoriartyJoshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 18/01/2026The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating. 535311157022
Reposted by Erin MoriartyDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/01/2026"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency." 010540
Reposted by Erin MoriartyBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out 378268718137
Erin Moriarty @emoriartyh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Sigh. Now I feel like a curmudgeon, yelling at the kids to get off my lawn. 030
Erin Moriarty @emoriartyh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026PSA for the UVA community: there are deaf professors on grounds. Riding your bicycle on the sidewalk or ramps is not safe because WE CANNOT HEAR YOU coming. Also, getting mad and giving me a dirty look because I didn’t move? 🤡 1102
Reposted by Erin MoriartyIndivisibleMontgomery @indivisiblemontmd.bsky.social · 25/12/2025In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind: showing up at protests has real impact - - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comHow effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: veryFrom emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history 531811735
Reposted by Erin MoriartyGallaudet University Press @gallaudetpress.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Now available! THE CRIP LINGUISTICS READER is a wide-ranging and groundbreaking collection that challenges normative ideas about what is considered “good language.” Visit our website for more information on this latest release from GU Press! gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/T/The-... 03218
Reposted by Erin MoriartyMatthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Excellent reporting from the Cavalier Daily about the right’s bad faith and paranoid obsession with syllabi at UVA. It’s worth keeping in mind that this contingent is led by people like Bert Ellis, who even Glenn Youngkin decided is too crazy to be trusted. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...cavalierdaily.comFaculty question the motives behind FOIA requests for course materials, text messagesAssoc. Sociology Prof. Ian Mullins acknowledged that FOIA can be a powerful tool for researchers and journalists, but claimed that some organizations and individuals use it as an intimidation tactic. 3165
Reposted by Erin MoriartyBeatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often. 71890532
Reposted by Erin MoriartyIndivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Seen in the wild…#TDOR this Thursday, November 20. Join us downtown at 6 PM. 1146
Erin Moriarty @emoriartyh.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Just had a very strange interaction on 5th St. downtown C’ville with a woman driving a navy blue VW SUV with Alaska plates. As she drove off, with her husband and child in the car, she stared me down, then made a V gesture and flicked her tongue through it. What is wrong with people? 120
Reposted by Erin MoriartyUniversity of Virginia Library @uvalibrary.bsky.social · 11/11/2025There are a couple of seats newly open for this evening's "Zines for Change" zine-making workshop in the @scholarslab.bsky.social with Jess Walters! Read more and register! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15124934cal.lib.virginia.eduZines Now! Workshop: Zines for ChangeJoin us for an interactive workshop for Zines Now!, a year-long initiative showcasing the history of zines as an art form, highlighting future possibilities for the making and... 012
Reposted by Erin Moriartyonion person @junlper.beer · 10/11/2025if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader 10984281343
Reposted by Erin MoriartyJon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The reason they gave up is because the Democrats’ real constituency is upper middle class travelers worried about delays, not working class SNAP beneficiaries and people most harmed by the loss of health care. 1226
Reposted by Erin MoriartyAndrew Gurza @andrewgurza6.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Starving disabled people in the richest country in the world is a policy choice. 321663
Erin Moriarty @emoriartyh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Glad to see my undergrad is *finally* getting it done. 020
Reposted by Erin MoriartyMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/10/2025The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025. 34764812980
Reposted by Erin MoriartyZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Stephanie and Najia started "Deafies for Zohran" to make this movement accessible to their community. They even created a signature hand sign for “Zohran.” Sign up for a shift and wave 👋🏻 the next time you’re canvassing in Jackson Heights! 684845889
Reposted by Erin MoriartyScholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The A-Z exhibits include 2 from the lab: "P is for Point-Cloud Data" by Will Rourk & @arinbb.bsky.social (on 3D captures of historic artifacts+architecture); and "Z is for Zines" by @literaturegeek.bsky.social 186
Reposted by Erin MoriartySarah, manic pixie dream MILF @goatsarah.org · 29/08/2025I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13) 6455973321
Reposted by Erin MoriartyMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 28/08/2025This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 6100584303
Reposted by Erin MoriartyACLU @aclu.org · 21/08/2025The only way to fully protect the rights of DC residents is to make the district a state. Demand Congress supports DC statehood at aclu.org/dc_statehood_. 12471143
Reposted by Erin MoriartySenator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Washington DC’s 700,000+ residents deserve federal representation. DC statehood now. 16757631408
Reposted by Erin MoriartyChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/08/2025Over the weekend, the “sandwich thrower” posters went up all over DC. Instant icon of resistance. A remix of Banksy’s mural: not a Molotov, not a rock, but something just as disruptive, a hoagie hurled with defiance. 433159854298
Reposted by Erin MoriartyMother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/07/2025The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.motherjones.comLabor Department moves to end disability hiring goal for federal contractorsSecretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer plans to axe a longstanding, successful incentive program for disabled workers. 17428161549
Reposted by Erin MoriartyKen Wilson 👊🇺🇸🔥😉 @kcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Obviously hoping to return UVA to its roots and its glory days in the late 1830s, when students rioted and shot and killed the Dean. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...nytimes.comInside the Conservative Campaign That Took Down a University President 034
Reposted by Erin MoriartyChris Seaman @cbseaman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025This is a must-read story (including full text of letters from a FOIA request) by the Daily Cavalier about Trump admin's efforts to misuse federal antidiscrimination law in support of its ideological agenda against DEI at UVA. Kudos to the student journalists! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...cavalierdaily.comLetters from DOJ reveal threats to U.Va. over admissions policies, Ryan’s leadership“Time is running short, and the Department’s patience is wearing thin,” the final letter read 15690281
Reposted by Erin MoriartyAAUP @aaup.org · 01/07/2025We join with our VA AAUP Conference & UVa Faculty Senate in condemning the DOJ threats to withhold federal research funding in order to oust UVa President Jim Ryan for not bowing to political interference. We join with them in demanding an independent & public investigation into Ryan's forced exit. 313853
Reposted by Erin MoriartyAndrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 01/07/2025critical thread. anyone who finds the scenario laid out implausible needs to get their head in the game. UVA is not Charlottesville, but for better or worse our fates are intertwined. we stand or fall together. 23410
Reposted by Erin MoriartyJoseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Part of the story about the war on US higher ed right now is university board members who want to see changes for the school that they can’t achieve structurally or politically – their power not in fact being unqualified – inviting and enabling federal incursion to make those changes 3298101
Reposted by Erin MoriartyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025And, wow, I can’t believe I got here from there. Except that this administration’s performance of brute power will keep arresting, roughing up, pointing out, desecrating bodies because clearly signaling which bodies cannot count communicates to their base which bodies will always count. 119634
