Yep, 17 years! <3

I know a lot of AVAR folks are disabled and although they most commonly have chronic pain or mental health disabilities, rather than mobility impairments, AVAR has done a ton of work to make archaeology accessible so might have suggestions!

Also on the off chance that they're a veteran, they should definitely check out American Veterans Archaeological Recovery: www.americanveteransarchaeology.org and even if they're not, Stephen Humphreys of AVAR might have useful resources or recommendations.

And I'd reach out to the Enabled Archaeology Foundation (UK based) as well!

Might be worth seeing if Kat Eichner at U of Idaho or Jade Luiz at Metropolitan State University Denver are doing a field school this summer, I know both of them have brought students with disabilities into the field before. Both do historical archaeology in the US.

Seconding @debscavator.bsky.social's coauthored article, and the Fraser and O'Mahony sources! The DAN workshop recording is online here: disabledarchnetwork.weebly.com/professional...

NO! I copied the link from the publisher saying it would give free copies! Grr. I will happily send a pdf to anyone who wants one.

My four-year-old and I have ongoing conversations about how Curious George is probably a chimp, not a monkey, and how Margret and H.A. Rey were probably just confused.

Here's the syllabus for anyone who is curious! www.lauraheathstout.com/uploads/4/9/...

We noticed a strong recency bias in our knowledge, which makes sense both because most people know more recent than ancient history and because disability studies as a field has a lot more people working on the recent past than older histories... this course is going to expand much farther back!

One of the students recently took a class on disability law, so they added laws like the Rehabilitation Act (and section 504), the ADA, and IDEA, as well as SCOTUS cases like Buck v. Bell. Students also knew about some great activists like Ed Roberts, Judy Heumann, and Alice Wong.

It's actually going to be two editorial board members; the editorial team won't be there! But we editorial board members are looking forward to chatting with prospective authors!

Yes, I've always wondered if Card has read his own work.

And the work is GREAT. When students get to pursue the interests that made them sign up for my class in the first place, and set deadlines that don't conflict with their other courses/jobs/family responsibilities/religious observance/bodily needs, they do such good work.