Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️
🏳️⚧️they/them
🎓Social Work and WGS prof @ UM
💋Educator | Researcher | Activist
💜Disabled, AuDHD, queer, nonbinary, polyam Jewitchy fat femme
✊🏽Anti oppressive abolitionist
🖤💙❤️Mx. MI Leather Pride ‘22
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- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️Instead of focusing on legalising assisted suicide for disabled people, maybe we should try to make the world more habitable for us?
- In my polycule, we have one neurodivergent fae, one autistic murderbot, one AuDHD Ms. Frizzle, one autistic Morticia, and one AuDHD artificer.
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to - create safe spaces - protect schools - get kids TO school - check on neighbors - deliver groceries - help pay the rent - let people know of danger - feed the helpers, too! - and on and on
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️I keep seeing posts going "when ICE comes to MY city, we'll be out in the streets even harder" and man, I get that sentiment but I need everyone to understand that the work in Minneapolis is partly confrontational but MORE IMPORTANTLY aaallll the stuff organized in the background to help neighbors
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:
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- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
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- Folks who think ICE isn’t in our communities? They are just doing it more quietly. They’ve been here in Michigan kidnapping our neighbors for months.
- Stop pretending it’s business as usual. Social work faculty, talk to your students about community organizing, community care, mutual aid. Have them do break outs to talk about the role(s) they want to play right now. Do safety planning work. Share various theories of change. Do not be complicit.
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- Another Minnesotan was just beaten by six agents, pepper sprayed, pistol whipped, then shot in the back. Ten times. The ICE agent then said “boo hoo” to those witnessing it in horror. Abolish ICE.
- Also. Yes. Things are bad on the home front. Annnnnd. Iran has murdered at least 5,000 folks (could be closer to 20,000), and still are throttling communication. Gaza is freezing and starving and under attack. West Bank too. Sudan is experiencing horror. Congo is being mined for our phones.
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️One of the things I was most worried about is starting to come to fruition. RFK Jr. will succeed in eliminating all of our vaccines if allowed to remain in office. His disinformation campaign and the falling demand for vaccines will cause American companies to stop making them.
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️Pro tip: If you are attending a rally or action, wear a N95 mask & bring extras to give to others. High quality masks can serve triple-duty: they prevent you and others from getting sick from airborne viruses, they keep your face warm in the freezing cold, & they can protect against surveillance.
- If anyone is still on TikTok, please don’t be. It’s a snitch app and is unsafe for you and the folks to connect with there.
- According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
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- The moral injury of watching cis folks silent on the trans genocide in the U.S., activists spouting community care while not masks/respirators, colleagues hosting meetings while not talking about the kidnappings happening on streets. Things are not normal. They have not been for a very long time.
- I had another appt with the UM Post Acute Covid Sequela clinic today. More testing (neuro psych this time to assess memory), more new interventions (hyper mobility PT! Trying a CPAP!), more home exercises, more CBT support groups. Long COVID has taken away so much of my life, and is a full time job.
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️Thousands rally against ICE in Minneapolis amid below-zero temperatures www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.
- Talking to a fellow professory friend tonight as we prep classes for next week. She asks me if I ever feel like we are setting out deck chairs on the Titanic. Such a relief. I feel crazy (intentional word choice) at the silence in higher ed, the push to run this semester like normal.
- Just putting this here.
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- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️Several people have died in ICE custody and because of ICE detention. Renee Goode’s murder is a crime everyone could plainly see but make no mistake, there are many families who will never see their father, mother, sibling, or parent again because of ICE.
- Reminder that Covid isn’t over (and either is RSV or the flu, both of which are hitting harder this year due to immune damage from multiple covid infections). Mask up folks.
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use. So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes
- You know how we’ve been telling you to connect locally, build community, invest in one another, mask up, learn basic OpSec, etc.? This is a great time to put some of this all to use. Resist. Revolt. Reclaim. Build the world we deserve, rather than suffering quietly through the one we have.
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things
- This. Whether you support the outcome of this president being removed from power, this is still not the way. Capitalism, colonialism, white supremacy, all in action today.
- Reposted by Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at. Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.
- Poll for folks interested in me, my work, and/or things I like to talk about. 1) would you listen to a podcast of me (and guests)? If so, what type of topics are of interest? And what platforms do you get podcasts from? Picture of Oliver, a large grey cat, who found the bathroom heating vent.
- Never stop talking about Palestine.
- If you are not aghast and actively working to protect the basic safety and humanity of trans children, to protect our neighbors from 🧊, to make sure people have food and housing, to ensure Black folks aren’t getting lynched and working to end MMIWG, wearing a mask to protect disabled folks…
- Heartbroken over the loss of another queer (Bi+!) crip ancestor in the passing of Loraine Hutchins. She was always so kind and supportive of me from the day we met at an intersectionality workshop I taught. Her bi pride and inclusivity activism has had such impact. Her memory is already a blessing.
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- Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her. May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
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- I’ve been in two legal marriages with two different wonderful people over the years, as well as have meaningful relationships with my other partners. To me, legal marriage has always been about rights, especially as a disabled person. Ensuring my loves are insured, and can visit me in the hospital.
- If anyone would like to watch the Social Work Disability Justice League's opening plenary at the Council on Social Work Education's Annual Conference with me, Laura Wernick, and Vandana Chaudry on Disability Justice & Disability Joy, we start at about 20:00 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vxt...
- thankful to Kelli for this: “By the time something is beyond urgent, they are rolling into the emergency department with multiple chronic and acute issues," Kattari said. "They then feel let down and betrayed once again by the system that harmed them previously." pridesource.com/article/navi...
- Literally none of the reports from the @transequality.bsky.social 2022 USTS have the world disability in them, which is wild, as at last count, 42% of trans Michiganders reported a disability, and 39% of trans people in the 2015 USTS did the same.
