Cassandra Grosh 👻🖤

regular reminder that we can trace features of autism through folklore back to like, the prehistoric era. the fuck do you think ‘changelings’ were

Absolutely livid to have my tax dollars paying for all of this instead of libraries, environmental protection, feeding children, due process, medical research, teachers, history, human rights, higher education accessibility, health care, poetry, clean water, safe food, art, and beauty.

We write to learn, and we write to think.

Those who don’t want us to write don’t want us to learn or think either.

writing in APA this week has been an interesting experience. on one hand, i've read SO MUCH on queer YAL. on the other hand, i feel like i've said SO LITTLE because of my methods & lit review sections.

Update: that same prof started to sing a song about Moses, when I didn’t hum along and looked confused he asked, “you don’t know it?”
The women at my table said, “we learned it in Catholic school.”
I responded, “oh, I’m agnostic.”
The prof said “the Bible is a foundational piece of literature”
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Screaming a little that my grad prof just said "I grade based on a feeling" and "I'm not trained to teach" when a student asked about the grading system and how they can improve their grade in the class.

Me: let's look at some of this R&R feedback
Me, many hours later: hm, I've found 20 articles to read.

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

Quite the metaphor…

MapQuest is NOT renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Our maps are like grandma's Thanksgiving recipes — once they're printed, they're not changing. The Gulf of Mexico stays put on MapQuest.

Any university that voluntarily shutters a DEI program, office or personnel “Because of Trumps Executive Order” is making a PR decision. Not a legal one.

Trumps EO does not change anti discrimination law. If anything, the EO is unlawful.

Universities should treat it that way.

stone text inlay: HERE WE ADMIT A WRONG

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-

Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

All of my mentees have heard me say to them, "They are lucky to have you."

Listen to me. Let me make it plain: ANYONE excelling *in any space designed specifically for them to fail* is doing amazing, sweetie.

Imagine being afraid of pronouns.

Very surreal to be in a 19th Cent. African American lit class right now—both my readings and the govt are saying black people have lower intelligence, shouldn’t work certain jobs….

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Follow He's not blaming DEl, he's blaming women and non white people. January 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM is Everybody can reply 10.2K reposts 549 quotes 67.9K likes

He also very directly and specifically blamed disabled people. And I am absolutely begging y’all to call it out and not leave us out of your activism. He literally named us. Why aren’t we on your list of at-risk groups?

the dissonance in responses—ranging from excitement to "why on earth is she doing that?"—when i give a presentation with QR codes/short URLs to my slide deck is always so interesting? shocking? i'm still learning and imperfect, but sharing slides is just a super simple way to engage in #udl

A graphic featuring a three-dimensional MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) pyramid with four color-coded sections. The base, in dark green, is labeled "Universal Design for Learning" with small planet and orbit icons. The middle section, in lighter green, is labeled "Targeted Intervention" with a target symbol. The next section, in orange, is labeled "Intensive" with an exclamation mark icon. The blue side of the pyramid highlights "High-Quality Core Expectations," "Access," "Universal Screening," and "Critical Skills, Research-Based Small Groups." Large bold text to the left reads, "MTSS is about prevention more than intervention." The "lead inclusion." logo is in the bottom right corner with the tagline "all belong. all learn. all succeed."

🔍 #MTSS/#RTI is more about prevention in ALL classrooms than it is intervention. Tier One is about creating warm, inclusive, universally designed environments that deliver the best instruction and respond with intervention at the first sign of need. #EduSky #UDL #EdLeaders

@mssackstein.bsky.social I loved the #UngradingChat prompts from last semester — will you be posting those weekly again?

If anything, RFK, Jr. permanently ended impostor syndrome. After today, no one should ever feel unqualified for anything, ever.

I think the phrasing here is really important, folks.

Still strongly support Palestine here, in case that makes any of y’all rethink your follow. I do not debate on it, just so’s we’re all clear on that. 🇵🇸

To be clear: this article is a free, public resource and you can do whatever you want with it (as long as you credit me).

Print out 1000 copies and give them to community centers. Sell the zine in your bookstore. Send it to all of your relatives.

You have my permission to distribute in any way.

How has it only been nine days . . . .

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ order creates a federal mandate defining gender as the sex of an embryo at conception.

Impacts: As all embryos have female sex characteristics at conception, all Americans are now defined as female under this order. (3/3)

This is how you do it...

Okay so if you do this during business hours there’s people involved:
1) switchboard
2) tell them your rep, district, & state
3) staffer asking for statement
4) staffer will ask for your address and email