Dr. Jessie Male 🍉
@ProfJMale
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Accessibility consultant, nonfiction writer, disability studies/memoir scholar & educator. Rescue dog mama & vintage clothing seller. Wears many hats. She/her.
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined March 2012
When my Aunt Joyce died very early in the pandemic, I did not have space to properly grieve. Nearly three years later, I'm grateful to @LateralJournal and co-editors Theodora Danylevich and Alyson Patsavas for giving this piece--these memories--a home.
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RT @trajan317: Tonight I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with…
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May he finally rest in power and peace.
Dear friends of Refaat Alareer around the world, I want to share with you that after a long and painful search we have finally found Dr. Refaat Alareer’s body, which had been buried in a makeshift cemetery. Today, we moved him, along with his brother Salah, his sister Asma and other 4 of his relatives, to Ibn Marwan Cemetery near Al-Shujaiya, the neighborhood where he was born, lived, and now rests eternally. Please keep him in your prayers, and may his family and friends find strength and peace.
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The garbage spewed by RFK Jr. is an important reminder of the need for teaching disability history. It's arguments like his that reinforced practices like performing (often experimental) procedures on Black people w/o anesthesia. Racism and medicalization are inextricably linked.
"We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that's given to Whites, because their immune system is better than ours." ---RFK Jr. So what vaccine schedule should I have received? His answer was dangerous. I will be voting no.
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RT @SenSanders: LIVE: Many Americans have pressing questions about vaccines and their public health impact. I've brought together doctors a…
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RT @MosabAbuToha: One last letter to James Woods: When our house was bombed on October 28, 2023, I did not have a house or a safe place to…
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Shame on her publisher, her ghostwriter and Holker. The process hasn’t been honored to tell this particular complex negotiation of pain.
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RT @AlannaBennett: Now’s a good time to remember California JUST voted to keep unpaid/criminally underpaid prison labor (slavery) and that…
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RT @Carlos_Film: Fascinating that Demi Moore (THE SUBSTANCE) and Sebastian Stan (A DIFFERENT MAN) just won Golden Globes for movies about o…
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RT @Variety: Sebastian Stan won a Golden Globe for "A Different Man" and told Hollywood that "our ignorance and discomfort around disabilit…
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Let this win for A Different Man be a reminder that stories about disability don’t need to devolve into pity or fear. That great art can entertain and confront social stigma. That it is important to center artists and directors who create out of lived experience.
The #GoldenGlobes award for Best Male Actor – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy is yours, Sebastian Stan! Congrats on winning the 🏆 for A Different Man!
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RT @adorewordss: virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions: “to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to…
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RT @awpwriter: In this month’s issue of THE WRITER’S CHRONICLE, “The Big Conversation: Writing (and Publishing) Disability” is free for all…
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Thrilled to share this interview on disability writing and publishing, featuring the fabulous Sonya Huber, Keah Brown, and Leona Godin, published in the December issue of The Writer's Chronicle!
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RT @NYCLU: This case will forever be a symbol of New York's failure to adequately care for people with mental health needs and those experi…
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I’m leading two workshops—one on curating accessible course content and another, on public facing writing. Nov 15 & 18 over Zoom. 2-3:30. Information below and in alt-text. Open to Pitt and non-Pitt scholars, writers and educators! Registration links also below.
Two workshops on accessible writing and teaching happening in the coming days! Open to non-Pitt affiliated individuals; registration required! Nov 15: Curating Accessible Course Content, 2-3:30 Nov 18: Public Facing Writing: Turning Our Scholarship Towards the Mainstream, 2-3:30
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RT @Jensen_McRae: don't donate to anymore politicians. or the women's march. donate to local mask blocs. donate to local mutual aid orgs. d…
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