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Month: November 2025

Disability Studies job postings at SFSU

San Francisco State University has two disability studies tenure track jobs opening up that may be of interest to GOAT readers!

https://news.sfsu.edu/news/sfsu-expands-disability-studies-grant

The grant will establish two tenure-track faculty positions with specific expertise in disability studies. The new positions will help the University expand its course offerings in disability studies, which will give students a wider range of options to learn about the field.

The first position will be in the School of Design and will specialize in universal and accessible design.

The second position will be in the College of Ethnic Studies and will focus on intersectionality and its relevance to disability studies.

The grant will also support the creation of a faculty director position at SFSU to deepen collaboration with the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability. The institute is now located at The Arc San Francisco, a nonprofit that partners with adults with developmental disabilities through education, employment and community engagement in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties.

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Bad habits, enabled!

It’s always good to find DIY material for adaptive and assistive tech that acknowledges our full humanity and capacity for “the dignity of risk”. We demand the right to our bad habits!

Here’s a funny one from the excellent DIY book Aids to Make You Able (1981), from their short section on smoking,

One-handed rolling!

rolling papers

The diagram is not very helpful, somehow. Did we need a diagram to say, you can buy a little plastic device to roll a joint, put it on your lap, and roll with one hand? I guess maybe we did!

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