April 28, 2025
Flea marketing
Opening day of Brooklyn Flea with a friend, one rainy morning earlier this spring.
April 27, 2025
My message to UGA on the Call for Constructive Engagement
I wrote to the president of my alma mater, the University of Georgia, asking him to sign on to the Call for Constructive Criticism, a statement by over 400 American educational institutions against undue political interference in academic life.
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Dear President Morehead,
I’m a graduate of UGA (2004; A.B. Drama, B.S. Biology) who’s been watching with alarm the continuing incursions of the Trump administration into the intellectual life, independence, and integrity of our colleges and universities. I was, however, heartened to read the public statement from the American Association of Colleges and Universities, A Call for Constructive Engagement, and that the leaders of over 400 institutions of higher learning had become signatories.
I was wondering this week whether you had considered adding your signature.
I treasured my time at UGA; the education I received there as well as the ways I was allowed to explore and challenge myself as a human being, have been assets in the life and career I’ve built since graduation, and it would mean a great deal to me as an alumna to see UGA take a stand for academic integrity and autonomy, in support of its fellow institutions of higher education, and especially in defense of its international students.
If UGA cannot, for whatever reason, become a signatory of this document, are there other actions you are taking towards these ends?
Sincerely,
[My name]
April 2, 2025
Autism Acceptance Month 2025
Hi all–I obviously didn’t get any writing posted this month, and I don’t really know how April will be, either, but I am doing a little something for Autism Acceptance Month. I’ve got a thread started over on Bluesky, where I’ll be posting one book, resource, or piece of writing per day that seems to maybe have fallen out of the autistic community’s common knowledge, but that I wish people were still reading.
With the autistic community seemingly so based around short-form social media platforms, I suspect it can be hard for newcomers to even look for a lot of our foundational works as well as broader and deeper ways of talking about autism, and I think we owe it to ourselves to keep those things in our collective memory.
Some pieces are likely to be ones already in my autism resources list here, but some won’t be!
Chavisory's Notebook 