cass hartblay (she/they)

While it’s true one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, I’m wholly enamoured with the cover art for my new book. It looks phenomenal. Read about the artwork that begat the cover design here: cassandrahartblay.net/2025/10/21/o...

In honor of my book coming out next week, I got some new professional photos taken and spiffed up my website. Hard to believe that the previous version, up since 2014, was more than 10 years old!!

Last week at @4sweb, I got the honour of being on a on Disability Access, Infrastructure, & Technoableism panel w/ @chartblay.bsky.social , @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, & Raquel Velho, learning from & speaking w/ them & @disabilitystor1.bsky.social & @besswww.bsky.social, as commenters & interlocutors…

My 1.5 yo child pointed at this photo in a coffeeshop and said, “mama!” So now I know what movie I’m watching next time I can stay awake

It’s slave labor. The goal of the whole tariff grift is a new global chattel slavery order. 🤬

love to get letters from the government asking if i’m jewish

Canadian disability advocates’ critiques of MAID (Canada’s medical assistance in dying policy) backed by new UN report. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

This is the wildest story I have literally ever read. In any normal circumstances, a half-dozen senior officials would be forced to resign over this—starting with the National Security Advisor. And I doubt anyone will face any accountability at all.

I believe the firings and the AI have the same purpose: to get humans out of the loop of evaluating contracts. To automate the process of spending government money. To rig up a computer that sends taxpayer dollars directly to the broligarchy.

Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

See, college kids, you can’t trust ChatGPT to do your work for you

Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

This is a bigger scandal than people realize. It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance. If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was. Putin.

Today, the current occupant of the White House and his lap dog @JDVance tried to act tough. Zelenskyy made it clear to the world how weak they are. They have reduced the United States position to be nothing more than Putin or bust. Zelenskyy smartly chose to go home.

Once again, I've never heard an instance of "DEI forces" dictating what a professor can or cannot teach, but I've seen more and more of this garbage from the other direction.

In the opening of my book out next year with Ecco, I cite stats on how common disability is (6 in 10 US adults have a chronic condition, 26% of US adults have a disability) and use its ubiquity as a place to start talking about ableism and what it means to be human, and how we need care.

Same!

I’ll be on a virtual panel tomorrow on “bodies in focus” in Eurasian studies. It’s the end of a great series. The discussion will focus on intersectional liberation. What would you all like to hear me talk about? slaviccenter.osu.edu/events/bodie...

Things are changing quickly. US lawmakers are now voting under credible threats of bodily harms and untimely deaths.

Elon Musk not being the leader of DOGE is a legal+technical distinction that contradicts public representations made by Musk, DOGE + President Trump about the billionaire's position in the government, and continues to raise questions about operations that Musk claimed to be "maximally transparent."

If you work in any aspect of disability at HHS and are already seeing new changes or guidances as RFK Jr. takes over or DOGE comes in, please message me on Signal.

If any parents of children with disabilities received similar emails like this, message me on Signal at emgarcia.85

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.