Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Thank you, Senator Erin Maye Quade. @erinmayequade.bsky.social 000
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Beautiful to read; beautiful to see my doctor’s name among the co-authors. 040
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 13/02/2025www.kare11.com/article/news...kare11.comDept. of Education cancels grant program, affecting 185 students at St. Thomas pursuing careers in special edThe university's president says the program was flagged by the Trump administration as a DEI initiative. 020
Reposted by Joyner EmerickAttorney General Keith Ellison @ag.state.mn.us · 07/02/2025Donald Trump’s executive order targeting gender-affirming care is illegal and deeply hurtful, so I'm suing to end it. I will not stand by and let Trump weaponize the federal government against young people trying to be themselves and against doctors providing the best care they can. 24431117
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 06/02/2025POV: home with my disabled child looking at my wife's labs as she lays in a hospital bed begging the nurse to get imaging of her chest cuz I’m begging her to beg, & the nurse making excuses to avoid putting in the order all night. This morning the CT they finally gave her found clots in both lungs. 130
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025My thoughts on the new Hechinger Report article re: Inclusion. “Equal academic performance is not a reasonable goal across Special Education and shouldn’t be the measure of successful inclusion. However, successful inclusion could be a measure of academic integrity.” tinyurl.com/483wer9ktinyurl.comNeuromessA comment-essay I wrote in the MPS Academics Advocacy Group, where this article was posted for discussion. I read the article. I think the most salient parts are near the end. One of the claims is.... 020
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Any other autistics just so bored of this vaccine-autism misinformation campaign? Like, this busted ass old thing again? Really? 110
Reposted by Joyner EmerickKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Include disabled people in your resistance planning. In many ways we’re built for resistance, as we have to find creative and sustainable ways to survive every single day. This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another. 201894543
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Can we talk about the Grammys a little bit more? Just another day or two, then I’ll get right back to the dystopia doom feed-o-matic, I swear. 120
Reposted by Joyner EmerickThe Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 03/02/2025Janelle Monae ATE that tribute my god 1252
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025New EO this evening pertaining to K-12 Ed. I have reached out to the Chair of my Board, the office of our Supt, and leadership of our educators’ union. Let’s go. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govEnding Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White HouseBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and 020
Reposted by Joyner EmerickErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/01/20251. Getting word that we have another anti-trans EO tonight, this time targeting teachers. It directs the federal government to work with state AGs to put teachers who use trans kids pronouns in jail through "sexual exploitation" laws or "practicing medicine without a license." From a RW source: 18435471149
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I don’t know all the details of the litigation over the past years, but this outcome is a heartbreaking atrocity and does not seem to be the will of the majority of this body’s constituency. For shame. www.kare11.com/article/news...kare11.comLakeville district board votes to remove inclusive poster seriesThe series has been the subject of litigation for several years. 010
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Classic deli tuna macaroni salad with candied jalapeño relish mixed in. Can recommend. 000
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Purchased and queued up. Really excited to get into it. 000
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 26/01/2025As a high school student, Stop The Reroute, Minneapolis, late 90s. Rad documentary here: tinyurl.com/yc232ycz As a U of Wisconsin system student in the early 2000s, membership in United Council, a USSA org. It was neat to come across this recent article referencing that work. tinyurl.com/3hvbb6m2tinyurl.comWhat DSA Can Learn From Organizational Death in the Student MovementA decades’ long right-wing assault on membership organizations led to the collapse of the US Student Association in 2017. What can organizers take away from the last decade of organizational death in… 030
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Kids are such great comrades when you forget what you’re even fighting for anymore. 051
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 25/01/2025My Medicaid WAIVER funds disability support services in my home and community, which I receive having WAIVED my right to an institutional placement funded by the state. If state and federal cuts to Medicaid and disability service are substantial, I won’t be able to WAIVE that right any more. 100
Reposted by Joyner EmerickMinnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 24/01/2025In a major victory for Minnesota House Democrats, the state Supreme Court ruled that 68 House members must be present for a quorum, which means the lower chamber has had no official proceedings during a Democratic boycott.minnesotareformer.comMinnesota Supreme Court sides with House DFL, invalidating House GOP’s work for last two weeks • Minnesota ReformerIn a major victory for Minnesota House Democrats Friday, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that 68 House members must be present for a quorum, which means the lower chamber has had no official proceed... 325260
Reposted by Joyner EmerickNaomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025And we all gasped simultaneously at the idea of Janelle Monae playing Jareth the Goblin King in a Labyrinth sequel and fell silent for several seconds because we all instantly wanted this to exist SO BADLY. 51077
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Minnesota SF 507 protects access for parents with disabilities and parents requiring linguistic assistance in their children’s IEP process. tinyurl.com/yuunu8c8tinyurl.comSF 507 as introduced - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026) 020
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I get that we need to stay aware, but a couple national politics news pit stops a day is good for me, what else y’all got? 240
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Being wildly unpopular for being extremely effective is SUCH an autistic mood. 110
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Again, if you need actions at the community level (and you do), here. 022
Reposted by Joyner EmerickMishell Baker @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain. 500143314493
Reposted by Joyner EmerickNick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I'm gonna live to outlive this malignancy, and even if they live in its shadow my kids have their whole lives ahead of them with the next four years in the rear view. It's not choosing escapism or ignorance to focus on building a bridge to *that* world starting today. 2393
Reposted by Joyner EmerickNeuro Support Services @neurosupports.bsky.social · 19/01/2025As an educator, as an organizer, as an advocate! #specialeducation #iep #iepadvocate #disability #autism #adhd ##learningdisability 0103
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I sometimes talk about patterns in our processing or our sensitive, multi-dimensional sensory processing systems. But honestly when caregivers of newly identified kids ask me what they should know, the first thing I say is that we get tired and need a lot of time for recovery. True for most all. 140
Reposted by Joyner EmerickAutistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 18/01/2025It can be hard to find information on gender affirming care in language that is easy to understand. We’ve got you covered with our resource “A Self-Advocate’s Guide to Gender Affirming Health Care,” available in plain language and Easy Read:buff.lyProud and Supported Series - Autistic Self Advocacy NetworkDefinitions and Beyond There are many ways to identify. Everyone is different and that's good! This guide, “Definitions and Beyond,” will explain some of the ways people identify. Maybe you are… 04315
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Question for #edusky re: #ungrading. As a student, I didn’t care about grades. Parents not engaged enough for threat of consequence, didn’t perceive college was an option for me generally. Only neg outcome was disappointing teachers I respected, so coping=disengaging from teacher relationships. 1/ 230
Reposted by Joyner EmerickJustin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 18/01/2025I understand the argument, especially at earlier grades, that some of that process needs to be bounded for students -- not that I agree with it, but I understand the argument! it's just no one then plants the flag and goes "at this age, kids will finally generate and revise a Montaigne-ass essay" 121
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025In the perpetual conversation about which kids experiencing which conditions are able to learn at which academic levels of rigor, this is what nobody but nobody seems to get: YOU CAN DECREASE DEMANDS WITHOUT LOWERING EXPECTATIONS. And that should be a tier one reality. 020
Reposted by Joyner Emericktuttleturtle @tuttleturtle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Please support the removal of subminimum wage but also don't act like it affects all disabled people equally. It doesn't. 051
Reposted by Joyner EmerickLaura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 14/01/202510.) Prisons Must Fall by @prisonculture.bsky.social and Jane Ball, illustrated by @ollycostello.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/pris...bookshop.orgPrisons Must Fall a book by Jane Ball, Mariame Kaba, and Olly CostelloFrom Mariame Kaba, New York Times-bestselling author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us, and social worker Jane Ball comes a powerful book showing the harm that prisons cause and exploring alternatives, g... 1309
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 14/01/2025So…is this like the MN Nice version of Jan 6th, or? 130
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Calling back this podcast episode of Integrated Schools where @shubhab.bsky.social and I talked about Disability Justice and Special Ed. integratedschools.org/podcast/s9e1...integratedschools.orgS9E14 - The Intersections of Disability, Race, and Segregation - Integrated SchoolsWe often talk about school segregation from a racial and /or class perspective, but an equally concerning issue is the segregation of kids based on dis/ability. And while many disabled students are m... 041
Reposted by Joyner EmerickMargaret Middleton @magmidd.bsky.social · 11/01/2025This is one of the reasons queer history is so important. It's also why our interpretation of queer history must extend past an archive that reduces queer lives to a series of interactions with the state. 1284
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Favorable, but not to be misconstrued as ruling that contract language aiming to protect workforce diversity is legally defensible. Instead, that a taxpayer’s complaint about disbursement of public funds is not grounds to dispute collective bargaining agreements. sahanjournal.com/education/mi...sahanjournal.comMN high court dismisses suit over Mpls protections for teachers of colorThe Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a Minneapolis taxpayer does not have standing to challenge a provision in the Minneapolis Public Schools teacher union contract aimed at protecting teachers of c... 120
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 09/01/2025This is my union and my contract. Care work is work. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...cbsnews.comMinnesota's contract with 35,000 home care workers expires on FridayAn important deadline is fast approaching for the more than 35,000 workers who care for some of Minnesota's most vulnerable residents. 171
Reposted by Joyner EmerickJoyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Aaron Scott is a beloved friend & mentor. Buy his book! “For White folks alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism comes this mouthy, practical guide to resisting, organizing, and holding conversations with…anyone who has been misled by White Christian nationalist ideas.” tinyurl.com/225sjr9stinyurl.comBring Back Your People: Ten Ways Regular Folks Can Put a Dent in White Christian NationalismFor White folks alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism comes this mouthy, practical guide to holding conversations with your cousin Randy and others who have been misled by White Christian natio... 022
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Aaron Scott is a beloved friend & mentor. Buy his book! “For White folks alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism comes this mouthy, practical guide to resisting, organizing, and holding conversations with…anyone who has been misled by White Christian nationalist ideas.” tinyurl.com/225sjr9stinyurl.comBring Back Your People: Ten Ways Regular Folks Can Put a Dent in White Christian NationalismFor White folks alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism comes this mouthy, practical guide to holding conversations with your cousin Randy and others who have been misled by White Christian natio... 022
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Perpetual (hot?) take: The mis-categorization of The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” as a romantic love song does not hold a candle to all of us singing our hearts out to Alanis Morisette’s “Hand’s Clean” like it was a cute offbeat crush bop. I still love it but the horror hiding in plain sight. 130
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 23/12/2024After seven happy and comfortable bonus months on palliative care after kidney disease and GI cancer dxs, it was excruciating to say goodbye to our baby this week, exactly 11 years to the day after we brought her home. Edward was a cat who loved her humans more than anything. We miss her terribly. 1190
Reposted by Joyner EmerickLiz Bettini @lizbettini.bsky.social · 17/12/2024New pub today, focused on the ethnoracial diversity of the special ed teacher (SET) workforce. We found that -- at current rate of change -- the SET workforce will NEVER be ethnoracially representative of the population of students w/disabilities. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/VPMXC...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 11514
Joyner Emerick @mx-joyner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Baking began tonight. The trajectory: our usual five plus one new variety. The line up represents years of family curation. It’s ritual now. First, the dough for the Pfeffernüsse, a frosted german biscuit with the whole spice cabinet tucked into an unassuming pale brown lump. Last year’s pictured. 110
Reposted by Joyner EmerickThe Map Center @mapcenter.com · 17/12/2024A mom just came in SO EXCITED to find a map store bc her son would LOVE it. She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid." I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends. 318165151627
Reposted by Joyner EmerickBeth Hawkins @bethhawkins.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Curious about the training on the language of disabilities @mx-joyner.bsky.social helped provide education reporters at @edwriters.bsky.social national seminar? They and their co-panelists were fantastic. VERY grateful they pushed reporters to include sources with lived experience. Game changingewa.orgHow to Avoid Dehumanizing People With DisabilitiesDisability experts and advocates explain why the language used for people with disabilities needs improvement in education. 1239
