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Kelly Fritsch

@kellyfritsch.bsky.social
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Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice. Author of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin (2026); Disability Injustice (2022); We Move Together (2021); Keywords for Radicals (2016).

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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 9h
The Smartwear Revolution project seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow in Participatory Research in Disability Justice: smartwearrevolution.com/wp-content/u... smartwearrevolution.com/team/join-th...
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 9h
The Co-Designing a Smartwear Revolution project is additionally seeking expressions of interest to create artworks, fashion creations and performances for a festival around the theme of SUPPORT in May 2028. smartwearrevolution.com/open-call/
A blue poster reads: We are inviting artists, designers, performers, and artist-researchers to propose work for a festival on the theme of support in Edmonton, Alberta in 2028. Share new or existing work exploring the topics of support, disability, smart textiles, technology, access, and embodiment.
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 9h
In person and virtual artist residency with the Co-Designing a Smartwear Revolution project: smartwearrevolution.com/air/
A yellow poster reads: We are seeking two artists to explore the intersection of art, disability, technology, fashion, and accessible design. Selected artists will engage with researchers and smartwear technologies to develop new creative work for our festival on the theme of support in Edmonton, Alberta in 2028.
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Our latest book review roundup includes new work by Eyal Weizman, Kelly Lytle Hernández, and Mark Lamster. Izzy Kornblatt sifts through Denise Scott Brown’s photographs, disability scholars Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire discover a kinship with broken infrastructure...and that’s just half of it:
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Bookshelf: Fall 2026 | Book Reviews in Places Journal
Recent books on 'ungrounding' in Palestine, cinematic cities, urban playgrounds, disabled infrastructure, pressed flowers, and more.
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
David Serlin reviews BROKEN WORLDS, DISABLED KIN by @kellyfritsch.bsky.social & @anneemcguire.bsky.social, who "rebut the solution-oriented approaches that typify design for disability...Being disabled kin together is how we manage the effects of living in a broken world." (@uminnpress.bsky.social)
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Bookshelf: Fall 2026 | Book Reviews in Places Journal
Recent books on 'ungrounding' in Palestine, cinematic cities, urban playgrounds, disabled infrastructure, pressed flowers, and more.
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Ryan Fritsch @upsideofdown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hanging out at my sister @kellyfritsch.bsky.social book launch at UToronto. Always a super cool and proud moment! Check out the book Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin from @uminnpress.bsky.social : www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...
An image of the book cover Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin at a book launch presentation.
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tyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we have lost so many people while police & politicians created a spectacle, raided DULF, stopped the expansion of an alt to the toxic supply, and put its co-founders through the needless consequences of this process that took years. DULF saves lives bsky.app/profile/godf...
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Non-medicalized safe supply for the win!
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And Toronto Oct 8, 6-9 pm, in conversation with Jiya Pandya, Lichen Hamraie, and Deb Cowen.
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Launch of Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire's BROKEN WORLDS, DISABLED KIN
Join Another Story Bookshop and University of Minnesota Press to celebrate Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival!
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And looking forward to speaking in Fredericton Oct 1, 11:30 am with @celesteeorr.bsky.social and @tobinatrix.bsky.social!
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
See you tonight at Dominion Chalmers, Ottawa! @uminnpress.bsky.social @morsini.bsky.social @nataliekt.bsky.social @anneemcguire.bsky.social @remiyergeau.bsky.social @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social carleton.ca/cdash/event/...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival Book Launch and Discussion - Carleton Disability and Access Studies Hub (C-DASH)
Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic ab...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Exciting event! @kellyfritsch.bsky.social is coming to STU in Fredericton to discuss her co-authored new book in conversation with @celesteeorr.bsky.social and @tobinatrix.bsky.social.
Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin by Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire

Book launch and public lecture on October 1 at 11:30am in Rotunda - Room 318, Brian Mulroney Hall at St Thomas University
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
my favourite typo is, & will always be, ‘the literary cannon’
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign organisation has warned...a survey of the 10 biggest manufacturers found most had plans to increase production." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Talking about Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin with @anneemcguire.bsky.social on the Good Robot Podcast thegoodrobotpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1786427/epis... @uminnpress.bsky.social
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Sustaining life in crisis with Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire - The Good Robot
What does it mean to live in a world that is already broken, and what can disability justice teach us about creating more livable futures? In this episode of The Good Robot, Eleanor Drage speaks with ...
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Join @anneemcguire.bsky.social and I for the Ottawa book launch of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin on Friday, Sept 25, 6-9 pm at Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 290 Lisgar St. We'll be in conversation with @remiyergeau.bsky.social, @morsini.bsky.social & @nataliekt.bsky.social carleton.ca/cdash/event/...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival Book Launch and Discussion - Carleton Disability and Access Studies Hub (C-DASH)
Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic ab...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I talked to a man who got stuck in an elevator, a wheelchair user who had to go on his balcony and shout to ask for food, a woman who had to sleep in her chair because she couldn't use her COPD machine. The crisis in Gary is the product of structural neglect and racism, but also climate change.
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Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 30/07/2026
A new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
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Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
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AK Press @akpress.org · 17/07/2026
It's Disability Pride Month. It's been a hundred degrees, the air's full of smoke, and we can't eat vegetables. All of this hits disabled people hardest. This month is a good time to reflect on how to incorporate disability analysis into our work. Need help? www.akpress.org/featured-pro...
A person wearing a t-shirt that reads "Hisssss at patriarchy" with a cartoon cat face holds a stack of books on disability including titles by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Alice Wong, Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Backup Plan, a new podcast series exploring the use of DNA to store data (instead of tape or hard drives etc).
cover image for the podcast— each square represents one episode with an image concept. thebackupplan.net
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I don’t know why this post doesn’t give his name, but it’s Jo Nagai. This is a true story. medium.com/@zehraanjum2...
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How a 10-Year-Old Boy’s Butterfly Experiment Silently Rewrote What We Know About Memory
In the world of science, breakthroughs often come from state-of-the-art labs with million-dollar equipment. But sometimes, they begin in a…
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Scott Neigh @scottneigh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The wave of austerity hitting Canada’s university sector and the Australian consulting firm that’s profiting from it. breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-... #cdnpoli
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A notorious consulting firm is selling austerity. Canada’s universities are buying ⋆ The Breach
The Nous Group, an Australian consulting firm, has raked in millions for “fixing” universities in financial freefall. Their solution? Corporatization
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 09/07/2026
Mark Carney is overseeing a massive expansion of AI data centres in Canada, and it’s raising all kinds of concerns. Marcus Werner reports on the fast-growing movement that’s rising against the wave of planned data centre projects—and in some cases, already winning. breachmedia.ca/inside-the-r...
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Inside the rising country-wide movement against AI data centres ⋆ The Breach
Canada is getting hit with an AI data centre boom. But resistance is emerging, getting coordinated, and already clocking wins
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Virtual Conference Announcement! The Society for Disability Studies is excited to announce our call for papers, themed Here and There, Then and Now: Disability Studies at the End of the World. sites.google.com/DisStudies.o...
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SDS Conference 2027
Call for Papers Note: A text-only version of the information below is available as a Google Doc at this link.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We will never know or properly appreciate how many lives have been saved by librarians. The right book in the right hands at the right time. Astounding.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
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‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed
Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today! Discussing Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin in Montreal at 4th Space, Concordia with Anne McGuire, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Nashwa Khan, and Gracen Brilmyer. @nataliekt.bsky.social @anneemcguire.bsky.social @gracenbrilz.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social www.concordia.ca/cuevents/off...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin | Events - Concordia University
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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 15/05/2026
living in the future has been a real fucking disappointment
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 26/04/2026
Coercion isn’t care, and new laws that enforce treatment and confinement are dangerous
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Coercion isn’t care, and new laws that enforce treatment and confinement are dangerous
Arguing that confining and treating people against their will is ‘compassionate’ greatly expands the role of policing in medical matters, often with few limits.
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Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My book FOR THE LONG HAUL: HOW TO STAY IN THE FIGHT FOR A BETTER WORLD is now available for pre-order! In the U.S., order from @akpress.org. In Canada, order from @btlbooks.com. It will be out in September! Find all the info at www.writingwithmovements.com/long-haul/
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“They’re targeting foreigners to establish the principle, but there’s no question it’ll be turned against all of us if they succeed.” - @jwdwerner.bsky.social Je suis Khalil. Incredible reflections from him. nymag.com/intelligence...
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New books released this week! -Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-making by @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and @anneemcguire.bsky.social -Two now in paperback: Beautiful MN biographies on architect Elizabeth Scheu Close and judge Miles Lord
Book cover for Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival by Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire. Against a white background, drawing of a plant with leaves of printed images of soil, water, wiring, and microscopy. Birds and a bee fly away.Book cover for Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture by Jane King Hession. Woman pointing at architectural model upper left. Title in red square to the right. Modernist house in woods, lower right. Author in blue field to left.
Book cover for Miles Lord: The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice by Roberta Walburn. Large black-and-white photo of man in judge’s robes before the Great Seal of the US. Title in large yellow letters across chest, subtitle in white below.
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
In Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, books can be ordered from @mngupbooks.bsky.social (30% off using promo code FFS26) mngbookshop.co.uk/978151791973...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin
A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-makingWe live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and kill throug...
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
In the US, books are available direct from University of Minnesota Press (30% off using promo code MN94380) www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin
A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-makingWe live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and kill throug...
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
In Canada, print copies are in stock in some local bookstores, including @anotherstoryto.bsky.social in Toronto and @octopusbooks.ca in Ottawa. Books are also available from University of Toronto Press (30% off using promo code MNUTPS26) utpdistribution.com/978151791973...
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Thrilled that Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, collaboratively authored with @anneemcguire.bsky.social is now published with @uminnpress.bsky.social An open access version of the book can be found here: manifold.umn.edu/projects/fri...
Flyer showing open access version of the book available at
https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/fritsch-mcguire-9781452976501Flyer showing US ordering info with 30% off using code MN94380 at the following link: 
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919733/broken-worlds-disabled-kin/Flyer for ordering from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East with 30% off using promo code FFS26 at the following link: 
https://mngbookshop.co.uk/9781517919733/broken-worlds-disabled-kin/
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Excited to be in conversation with @louhicky.bsky.social in Cambridge April 17!
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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Coming to @4sweb.bsky.social 2026? @kellyfritsch.bsky.social and I are organizing an open panel on 'Confronting Contemporary Eugenics" (see p. 72 of the accepted panels for details). We'd love to consider your submission! #STS #antieugenics #disabilityjustice #socialmovements
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"Food Processor" might be the most ominous sounding kitchen appliance. What does it do? Subjects it to The Process. Your food will be Altered by the Process. Please do not resist.
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MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Funny/not funny. Ontario government calls Ring of Fire minerals ‘the most ethical on Earth,’ while passing legislation that suspends treaty rights, species protections, and human rights — to benefit extractive industries. ricochet.media/indigenous/o... via @ricochetmedia.bsky.social
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Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development
Discover how the Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development and its implications.
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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
“In three known cases, palliative patients died without pain medications and one patient died without nutrition because supplies were delayed” #onpoli
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Gabrielle Peters @mssinenomine.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"Almost a year after the report’s release, there is no plan to substantially act on any of the UN’s recommendations. Government officials guessed right: mainstream news outlets have largely ignored the report’s criticisms of MAiD. " @spichaksimon.bsky.social breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...
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Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying ⋆ The Breach
Calls by disability advocates and the UN to halt an expansion of medically assisted death have gone largely unacknowledged by the federal government
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
If only sociologists would stop talking about structure & agency.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:
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Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Pre-order and get 30% off: In the US, use code MN94380 on this website: z.umn.edu/19733 In Canada, use code MNUTPS26 on this website: utpdistribution.com/978151791973... In Europe, Asia, Africa, and Middle East, use code MNMNGS26 on this website: mngbookshop.co.uk/978151791973...
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
By showing that care for disabled life is inseparable from care for the infrastructures, environments, and more-than-human entanglements that sustain us, we ask what it means to be accountable not only to one another but also to the fragile material relations that make collective life possible.
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Charting a politics of solidarity capable of cultivating worlds where we sustain each other instead of the systems that harm us, Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin traces how relations of care, access, and justice are fostered amid social, ecological, and political collapse.
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Available for pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social: Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, co-authored with @anneemcguire.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791973...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin
A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-makingWe live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and kill throug...
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