Jaipreet Virdi

Against an abstract backgeound of blue and white, an artwork by Resting Museum, pink/purple text against pink/purple background says ‘Disabled Legacies, Beyond Access and Inclusion | 26-28 February and 26-28 March, Central London | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art | What is Research Now?’

Proud to announce Spring 2026’s What Is Research Now? from Paul Mellon Ctr, co-convened by Sria Chatterjee, Kenny Fries, & myself.

DISABLED LEGACIES: BEYOND ACCESS AND INCLUSION

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26-28 Feb & 26-28 Mar 2026
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Hearing Happiness Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America. At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went si...

Last was "Hearing Happiness" by @jaivirdi.com, who brilliantly illustrates the history of deafness "cures", showing how quack cures seamlessly blended with science and the ableism/techno-solutionism underlying them Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (6/6)

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Dr. Jaipreet Virdi historian of medicine, technology, and disability

New update!

I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.

Latest book: Echoes of Care (‪@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social‬)
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Surprise -- @coreenanne.bsky.social & I have a biography on Kerridge coming out, perhaps next year :)

Walter Crane engraving of workers labeled with the names of the continents joining hands around a globe

Eight hours work, eight hours rest, eight hours for what you will. Happy May Day.

I would add that they don't actually understand that HE is an industry, that it can actually collapse, that academic jobs are real jobs, that actual people will be unemployed, and will struggle to find alternative employment. That a shuttered uni takes down a city the same as a shuttered factory

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Just thinking of all the people I’ve seen targeted by Alabama legislators over the years — undocumented immigrants, transgender Alabamians and their families — who still walked into the Statehouse, looked lawmakers in the face and told them they were wrong.

Yes my Friday morning inbox opens with abusive emails. Jerks.

I don't get it. It's an email.

Waste of time? My dude, you writing a response took longer than reading my email.

Dear scholars, scientists, doctors and advocates - we need your voices and expertise more than ever. If there was ever a time to bring the Ivory Tower right into the middle of the Public Square, it's now.

There has been so much devastation, but for my communities this is especially devastating. I cannot overstate how much we owe to the Office of Digital Humanities & the incredible people who have worked there. The work won’t end, but it will be severely curtailed

Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.

Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

I don’t understand how we so quickly forgot the supply shock lessons of Covid. Do people not remember what it was like to just not be able to get ahold of stuff required for daily existence?

I am telling you, manufacturers that can’t absorb these tariffs are going to simply stop assembly lines.

This! Research shows that protests 1) raise awareness, 2) empower people (especially the disadvantaged), and 3) exert pressure on elites.

Anyone saying they don’t work is unfamiliar with the research and the history of movement building.

Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow

“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.”

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Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

Absolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.

My sweet, precious Bennie boy, my little deafie shadow...always in my arms. I miss you.

We lost our sweet Ben.
There are no words to express our heartbreak.

My sweet, precious Bennie boy, my little deafie shadow...always in my arms. I miss you.

We lost our sweet Ben.
There are no words to express our heartbreak.

any author who gets on the side of “libgen is bad” goes on my “i will pirate you even when i have a job” list

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Video Shows an Octopus Riding a Mako Shark Near New Zealand Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight arms.

Welcome, sharktopus overlords!

Opinion | The legacy of Helen Keller: a sanitized radical In our current social and political climate, discourse around diversity is ever present. These debates, despite what some may have you believe, are not a new point of discussion. Americans

"Americans are often very well aware of activists such as Fredrick Douglas, Martin Luther King Jr., and Susan B. Anthony, yet one of the most influential and outspoken activists in the last 150 years is largely relegated to being remembered as a ‘miracle’, and recently even as a hoax."