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 Learn more: jaivirdi.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaivirdi.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaivirdi.com/post/3lw5metx7ic2zNew 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) https://www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-care-products-9780228023654.php https://jaivirdi.com11 Aug 2025 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:3shg4bernxpmbc4nq5yrscoy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw5metx7ic2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jaivirdi.com/post/3llbvzxi3es2tWe lost our sweet Ben. There are no words to express our heartbreak.26 Mar 2025 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:3shg4bernxpmbc4nq5yrscoy/app.bsky.feed.post/3llbvzxi3es2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jaivirdi.com/post/3llbvzxi3es2tWe lost our sweet Ben. There are no words to express our heartbreak.26 Mar 2025 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:3shg4bernxpmbc4nq5yrscoy/app.bsky.feed.post/3llbvzxi3es2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jaivirdi.com/post/3lkbanxrej22n"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." https://www.newsrecord.org/opinion/opinion-the-legacy-of-helen-keller-a-sanitized-radical/article_2e5f09b2-f917-11ef-9cd3-b74393b1c6d5.html13 Mar 2025 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:3shg4bernxpmbc4nq5yrscoy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkbanxrej22n