Laura Mauldin

Scholars -- a friend was invited to be a reviewer for the NEH fellowship pgm. The invite says this yr "will focus on projects in American history and culture and Western civilization." Are people doing this or protesting or what? Do we have a collective plan?

AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.

What’s Driving the Spike in College Students with Disabilities

Just once, I’d like to see the NYT actually talk to disability studies scholars about disability before they write articles laden with the most ableist tropes that totally go unchecked. A real disservice. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Monica!!! 💖

Life on the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis There was a time when Jade thought, We can handle this. She first met John over the phone. It was 1990, and she worked for a California nursing agency, where she processed payroll. At the time, Jad…

What a dream to have a piece out in LitHub today -- an excerpt from my new book that you can check out here! lithub.com/life-on-the-...

What We Owe to Caregivers (SSIR) Laura Mauldin's In Sickness and in Health examines the plight of family caregivers and the ableism that causes them to suffer their burden alone.

Incredible review of my new book IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH in the Stanford Social Innovation Review by @mcgowankat.bsky.social "Her thesis in a nutshell: Instead of functional systems, we have The One." ssir.org/books/review...

Life on the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis There was a time when Jade thought, We can handle this. She first met John over the phone. It was 1990, and she worked for a California nursing agency, where she processed payroll. At the time, Jad…

What a dream to have a piece out in LitHub today -- an excerpt from my new book that you can check out here! lithub.com/life-on-the-...

It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans don’t see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. That’s why they hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they don’t believe in doing the work.

They are all failed celebrities who think the job is being a celebrity, exemplified by kash patel who thinks his job is having government jets fly him and his girlfriend from one event to another bsky.app/profile/jkar...

As my partner puts it, AI is a technology that is reproducing the pre-existing knowledge economy, while also pulling the rug out from under that knowledge economy by changing how labor is understood as well as the exchange value of labor in the workplace, in academia as well as more broadly.

Brought to you by the "pro-life" party

ICE Took Wael Tarabishi's Full Time Caregiver Away... and it Killed Him Wael Tarabishi was a 30 year old disabled man who's father Maher was his full time caregiver. ICE took Maher in October, leaving Wael without support. He died three months later.

On this Disability Day of Mourning, let’s honor Wael Tarabishi, a disabled man who died when ICE took his caregiver away.

Wael told them he would die without his father who was his “arms, legs & lungs”.

ICE took him anyways.

Wael died 3 months later:

www.disabledginger.com/p/ice-took-w...

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both

5 Calls can help you make the call:

5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

Cabinet Apocalypse A News Review in an Imagined Conversation

A list of things you might do if you were trying to end the republic. In other words: a news review.
snyder.substack.com/p/cabinet-ap...

Cover of The Lancet:

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The reality here is that universities would love to hire visible and capable conservative scholars. That they have to create separate centers, and then hire people who would never make it in an open search, underlines the fact that its not anti-conservative bias, its a lack of strong candidates.

It’s all eugenics.

‘Love Is Not a Plan’ - UConn Today UConn researcher talks about the different forms that caregiving can take, the result of absent social safety nets, and how ableism permeates the culture

Had a great convo with UConn Today magazine about my new book IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH! today.uconn.edu/2026/02/love...

‘Love Is Not a Plan’ - UConn Today UConn researcher talks about the different forms that caregiving can take, the result of absent social safety nets, and how ableism permeates the culture

Had a great convo with UConn Today magazine about my new book IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH! today.uconn.edu/2026/02/love...

A true publishing event... The collected writings of the esteemed Katherine McKittrick, out now from the @uminnpress.bsky.social.

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791706...

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Screen shot of the Apple News app with the text over it that says not a big deal or anything but I’m in your phones news app this weekend! Had an amazing convo with Apple News about my new book!

Thrilling but weird to be in peoples phones! I spoke with Apple News about my new book and it’s in your phone’s app this weekend! You can listen to it there or in Apple Podcasts - links to follow below

“In sickness and in health”: what no one tells you about caring for a loved one Podcast Episode · Apple News In Conversation · February 19 · 24m

Heres the link on Apple Podcasts and yes there is a transcript for access! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

“In sickness and in health”: what no one tells you about caring for a loved one — Apple News In Conversation How our health-care system depends on spouses for caregiving labor — and what that means for couples.

Here’s the link to the segment on Apple News apple.news/AsvesAHLxQ9-...

Screen shot of the Apple News app with the text over it that says not a big deal or anything but I’m in your phones news app this weekend! Had an amazing convo with Apple News about my new book!

Thrilling but weird to be in peoples phones! I spoke with Apple News about my new book and it’s in your phone’s app this weekend! You can listen to it there or in Apple Podcasts - links to follow below

New VA Rule Ties Disability Ratings to Medicated Symptoms, Drawing Fire From Veterans Groups Under a previous court precedent, VA examiners were required to consider what a veteran’s disability would look like without medication. Under the new rule, the rating is based on how the veteran pres...

If veterans groups showed more solidarity in reforming SSI/SSDI process to be less cruel, I think in return there would be more backlash from non-veteran disabled folks regarding this. www.military.com/benefits/vet...

Laura smiling in front of the WHYY studios

Today I sat down for an hour long conversation with the fantastic Maiken Scott of @thepulse.whyy.org and we talked allll things disability and caregiving. It’ll air across a bunch of NPR stations soon!

Me sitting in an Acela train seat that all brand new grey leather

I’m en route to Philly today to tape the show @thepulse.whyy.org and to do an event at Head House books tonight (6:30pm! Come on out Philly) and this Acela train is gorgeous—brand new and I feel like I’m in Europe. Oh infrastructure, I love thee!