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Andrew Leland @quailty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sandy is the GOAT. Last chance to take what is surely an amazing class

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Nathan Wolek @profwolek.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Hey, that’s a photo of Andy Slater working with some Young Sound Seekers! Check out this article for @transom.bsky.social by Andrew Leland.

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Transom @transom.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

When an NPR station got its first blind reporter they called Andrew Leland for guidance. That moment led Andrew to write a manifesto on how blind audio journalists and their colleagues can work together, covering field recording, DAWs, editing, and belonging. transom.org/2026/why-and...

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Why (and How) to Hire a Blind Producer

Why (and How) to Hire a Blind Producer - Transom

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The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting @idabwellssociety.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This weekend is your last chance to apply to this year's Investigative Reporting Internship and Fellowship! These highly selective programs train students and professional journalists to be investigative journalists. Apply by 11:59 p.m. ET on January 11: idabwellssociety.org/training/

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 05/11/2025

In Baffler no. 81, @quailty.bsky.social examines three works by deaf artists: a memoir from Rachel Kolb, Sara Novic’s novel of deaf-anarchist insurrection, and the film “Deaf President Now!”

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Manual Labor | Andrew Leland

How deaf artists and writers are grappling with a second Trump administration keen on dismantling the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

This made me cry a little. Everything is terrible but I'm so glad to be in this moment with these contemporaries.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 28/10/2025

Baffler no. 81, “After Words,” is online now, with work from Brace Belden, Bruce Robbins, Noah McCormack, @quailty.bsky.social, Sophie Pinkham, @chrislehmann.bsky.social, Mina Tavakoli, Gabriel Winslow-Yost, and more. Click below to start reading. thebaffler.com/issues/no-81

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no. 81—After Words

The history of literacy is a list of complaints. Critics reliably decry each new technological development as an attention-stealing toy. Before recent grousing about ChatGPT…

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 28/10/2025

In our new issue, @quailty.bsky.social considers contemporary deaf art and writing, which navigates the contradictions of deaf life in America as the second Trump administration threatens to dismantle the ADA. thebaffler.com/salvos/manual-labor-leland

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Manual Labor | Andrew Leland

How deaf artists and writers are grappling with a second Trump administration keen on dismantling the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

“This is absolutely a violation of federal law.” For @motherjones.com, I reported about how reduction-in-forces in the Office of Special Education Programs will lead to disabled kids' needs not being met, as funding may not be distributed. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Trump's new layoffs hurt disabled kids

"This is absolutely a violation of federal law."

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Template/script for contacting your Reps with respect to the DoEd cuts. I feel as disheartened about it as you, but the least we can do is take a moment to absolutely melt their servers exceptionalchildren.org/lac?vvsrc=/C...

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Legislative Action Center

Take action with CEC's Legislative Action Center.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The agency plays a critical role in supporting students with disabilities, guiding families, funding key programs, and ensuring that states meet their obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

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Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

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Disability Culture Lab @disabilitylab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

From ProPublica: “Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push.” Read more at f.mtr.cool/ohhwjocfjy

ProPublica: "Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push" by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards. "Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. 'How low can you go?' one advocate asked. 'How can you do this to children?'" Photo of the Department of Education building by J. David Ake/Getty Images

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Andrew Leland @quailty.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I wrote a post that opens a tiny window onto the terminally nerdy shit I've been distracting myself with lately vilejelly.substack.com/p/onoff

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On/Off

Getting deeper into plain text

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Andrew Leland @quailty.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Josh has shaped my thinking on blind identity, accessibility, technology, whiskey variety, and on and on: tremendously honored and just straight-up chuffed to be asking him questions about his brilliant new book in NYC next week. It's hybrid virtual and in-person so you better be there:

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

If your organization has been affected by DOGE cuts or RFK Jr.’s cuts to the Administration for Community living, message my Signal at emgarcia.85

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Andrew Leland @quailty.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Stumbled across this ~30-year-old TNY piece about online discourse and it's at once shockingly quaint and entirely prescient www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

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Insults on the Early Internet

“In any other medium, these words would be, literally, unspeakable.”

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 07/05/2025

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)

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Materialist Institute for Research @ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

“Another recalled taking a planeload of children and their escorts on a domestic transfer from the southern border to an airport in New York. He tried to slip snacks to the kids. “Even the chaperones were like, ‘Don’t give them any food,’” he said. “And I’m like, ‘Where is your humanity?’”

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Andrew Leland @quailty.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I have two new stories up: first is on disability politics under Trump 2.0, second is me feeling bad about a new feel-good documentary about blindness . Both linked on my "Substack" here! open.substack.com/pub/vilejell...

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How MAGA Scrambled Disability Politics

And: a feel-bad take on a feel-good blindness doc; reading and listening recommendations; (not much) more!

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Andrew Leland @quailty.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Is deletion the new cancellation

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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Debra Ruh shares an example of weaponizing performative accessibility against other communities. In this case a bench clearly meant to block homeless people versus help anyone (including wheelchair users). www.linkedin.com/posts/debrar... #a11y #accessibility

A park bench meant for probably three people, but the seat of the middle third is absent and the retained backrest has an accessibility symbol on it (the white on blue wheelchair user icon).

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Amelia Schonbek @ameliaschonbek.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

In a brutal time, what a gift to see intrepid people start something new:

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It’s an active crime scene! (everything’s gone bonkers, sometimes you need to laugh or you’ll cry)

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Andrew Leland @quailty.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

All this talk of DeepSeek's innovation arising from the limitations its engineers worked under recalls the long history of disabled geniuses making breakthroughs under their own sort of constraints. Nice to see another puncture-hole in the myth of the supremacy of the nondisabled, the hyperresourced

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I haven't paid money to the NYT for a few years (even though I miss the Cooking stuff especially!) because I have too much uh... self respect ... but I nonetheless sometimes open the homepage and do a depressing exercise where I control search "trans" and yesterday there was literally nothing.

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Andrew Leland @quailty.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Lotsa reporting on Trump's scapegoating of DEI for the DC plane crash; less news on his blaming people with intellectual disabilities. The DEIA program offers employment to talented and stigmatized disabled workers in government-- a stigma Trump is reinforcing. www.aapd.com/disability-o...

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Leading Disability Organizations: President Trump’s Blame of Deadly Plane Crash on Disabled Federal Workers Is Baseless, Irresponsible - AAPD

For Immediate Release: January 30, 2025 Contact: Jess Davidson, jdavidson@aapd.com; 202-465-5528 WASHINGTON D.C. – In remarks today at the White House, President Trump cast potential blame for the tra...

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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

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Jo @thebedroompunk.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

One of the ways that I've been processing the loss of David Lynch is by reading words about his work. One of my favorite pieces was written by Howard Hampton and produced for the radio by The Organist, a program that I loved dearly (shoutout @quailty.bsky.social). www.kcrw.com/culture/show...

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Death in Twin Peaks | The Organist

Twin Peaks was never just a TV show: it was an obsession and an apparition. In its 2017 incarnation, the real-life deaths of several cast members hang spectrally over the proceedings.

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Laura Mauldin @lauramauldin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Need to figure out how to make your home more accessible? How to rig up something to do it safely? Are your parents aging into needing these kinds of hacks & tips? I maintain a website that is a repository of ideas from disabled ppl & caregivers I talked to across the US www.disabilityathome.org

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Disability At Home

Visit the post for more.

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Andrew Leland @quailty.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

thought about trying out @zed.dev on macos and wow is it really 100 percent inaccessible with voiceover? I'm used to apps where some features are hard to nav with a screen reader; been a while since i've found one that can tell you that a window is open and... nothing else????????

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erin l. durban @erindurban.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’m sure there are more folks out there who I haven’t connected with yet in disability anthropology or who use ethnographic approaches to critical disability studies. Send me a note if you’d like to be added! ❤️ #disability #anthropology #ethnography #CriticalDisabilityStudies

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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 16/10/2024

Dear friends, please help us support the Palestinian writer and journalist Hedaya Shamoun and her family, who will be moving to Middletown this fall on a fellowship. Any amount helps. Thank you for your generosity. www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...

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Donate to Support Hedaya Shamoun's Safe Arrival, organized by Merve Emre

Over the past few months, we (Merve Emre, Isabella Hammad) have been working with the… Merve Emre needs your support for Support Hedaya Shamoun's Safe Arrival

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/08/2024

Bernie Sanders "The time has come to start treating the Long COVID crisis as the public health emergency that it is. That means educating medical professionals, doing a much better job at disease prevention, and doing everything we can do to find treatments and cures for Long COVID."

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Bernie Sanders: America Must Confront Its Long COVID Crisis

Long COVID is real. It is negatively impacting tens of millions of people throughout the United States and the world. We can no longer ignore it, or its sufferers’ treatment needs.

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Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com · 20/09/2023

I have a piece in the Washington Post today about those for whom the “post-Covid world” is not so “post.” Thanks in advance to anyone who’s reading 🎉🌱 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Know what makes ‘post-covid’ life complicated? Cancer.

My husband has bone-marrow cancer. For us, the pandemic is only as over as it is safe to reenter the world: not particularly.

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Sophie Mac @sophiemac.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

It's @quailty.bsky.social's personal experience, also commentary on how we all regard disability and our relationship with it, whether we have a disability or not. It educated me about others' experience, but sometimes described mine, too. Incredibly human, fascinating. A must read for all #Booksky

A picture of The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland in hardback. The book is lying on my hotel bed from last week. There's a white duvet visible underneath the book. I highly recommend this book. I enjoyed it so much more than I ever thought I would

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