Jaipreet Virdi
Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
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- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiProud 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 www.britishart.ac.uk/about/news/w... 26-28 Feb & 26-28 Mar 2026 @jaivirdi.com @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social many more ✨
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiLast 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)
- 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) www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiEight hours work, eight hours rest, eight hours for what you will. Happy May Day.
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiI 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
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiJust 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.
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiDear 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.
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiThere 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
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiHi! 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.
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiI 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.
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiI 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.
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiThis! 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.
- Reposted by Jaipreet Virdi“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.” wapo.st/4jdXL8m
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiCan 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.
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiAbsolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.
- 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.
- Reposted by Jaipreet Virdiany author who gets on the side of “libgen is bad” goes on my “i will pirate you even when i have a job” list
- Reposted by Jaipreet Virdibeing 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:
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiWelcome, sharktopus overlords!
- "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."
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiUses the word "proudly" in the first sentence. Says it is the "first arrest of many to come" in the second sentence. If you think this ends with "Hamas Students" you are not paying attention
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiNice to meet you. I write about the Deaf Church in Norway during WWII. The minister for the deaf was high up in the resistance and some teachers were in the resistance.
- Finally able to introduce myself properly to @bsky.app ! Hi all, I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Delaware. I think & write about disability technologies, disabled perspectives, and medical/scientific authority. Hearing aids are my niche topic
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiFinally able to introduce myself properly to @bsky.app ! Hi all, I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Delaware. I think & write about disability technologies, disabled perspectives, and medical/scientific authority. Hearing aids are my niche topic
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiClearly. Same with Seffy.
- Lizzie climbed on my lap, forcing me to put my laptop down. Clearly this means no work is allowed, only cuddles.
- I got the flu shot in October but the virus circulating now (in northern DE) is a nasty one. Experiencing the worst case of flu in years, 4 days and counting. Be careful out there.
- 🚨POSTDOC JOB🚨 History of Modern (19th century-present) Medicine or Public Health at University of Wisconsin-Madison #AcademicSky #HistSTM #HistMed mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...
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- I don't know what else to say. I've never experienced the level of racism anywhere else as I have in the U.S., where I'm constantly being classed as "the other." It reduces you and chips away at your soul.
- I didn't want to share this at first because it seems tiny compared to everything else in the world... But it's 10:30am on Saturday morning, I couldn't sleep because I had nightmares, and I found myself sobbing over my morning coffee recalling what happened. This is going to stay with me.
- From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
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- From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
- Folks who have joint issues / frozen shoulder: what bags are you carrying to work? I can't do backpacks (worsens my hip pain) and it's annoying carrying a briefcase in my hand all the time.
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- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiAnother #book to add to my reading list. Excited to see more #disabled #history being published! #BookSky
- From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiI'm a proud member of the hearing impaired unit all through schooling, despite the questionable name, it was a kinship system that mended hearing aids to learning BSL. Looking forward to reading Echoes of Care.
- From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiEchoes of Care by Jaipreet Virdi chronicles the historical shift that created complicated interdependences between medical intervention, language, and education to shape deaf people’s experiences in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Out now! buff.ly/3WAD1yu
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiHow to be Disabled in a Pandemic is a collective research effort (w/ @harriskornstein.bsky.social among many others) to document ableism & disability activism in NYC during the first 4 years of COVID-19. Out next month from @nyupress.bsky.social -- a surprise of advance copies in yesterday's mail:
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- Every morning she brings Lamb from the bedroom, gives me this look, asking for help to carry Lamb to the sofa.
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- Oh yes I wanna learn more!
- Reposted by Jaipreet VirdiMy Dad was caught in the last big outbreak in the UK. His childhood was horrendous, and though he has a lived a full life he has gone through a lot of unnecessary suffering. He wore a caliper until he was in his 40s, developed spinal problems due to the asymmetry of his body. /1
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- Watched the new movie MARIA on Netflix. It's beautifully done -- highly recommend if you're browsing for something to watch tonight !
- Gonna say it LOUD: it's ableist if you can't provide paper menus at a restaurant. Fine, have the app and QR code...but you're telling me you can't print a copy of the menu for people who ask for printed one?
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- Reposted by Jaipreet Virdi🚨 New Starter Pack Alert! 🚨 I’ve put together a list of Women You Deserve to Know — a collection of admirable women. Check it out and discover some incredible women. I’ll be adding more in due course, so stay tuned! go.bsky.app/BgNQSUuat://did:plc:hwpr34rbumu3gty56cetcssx/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lcgjfphadv2e
- Reposted by Jaipreet Virdiwww.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Hydrotherapy and mental health - a long connection
- Reposted by Jaipreet Virdi"Pain Unseen: Narratives of Endometriosis" - launch of a digital exhibition about #endometriosis, curated by the Museum of Women's History in Stockholm. The exhibition is part of the EU-funded project, #ENDOs www.kvinnohistoriska.se/pain-unseen Shared by Avril Tynan. One for you @jaivirdi.com?
- <opens planner> Tuesday's agenda: read for new project & attend a friend's book talk <closes planner> Today's gonna be a niceeeee day
