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All things disability, fantasy, feminism, neurodiversity. Academic Support Worker to Prof David Bolt.

Liverpool, England
Joined July 2024
Today is the start of #DisabilityHistoryMonth2024 Read about how @DisMatters aims to transform disability inclusion and representation in health research and explore the latest work from our team here: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab… #UKDHM
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It’s the end of #ADHDAwarenessMonth and in true ADHD fashion, I’ve put off writing this the whole month. 🧵 The diagnostic criteria for ADHD is centred around hyperactivity, impulsivity and inattention (though it’s more an inability to regulate our attention). There is SO MUCH MORE to ADHD than those three words, like... • Emotional dysregulation • Poor working memory • Difficulty with organisation • Risk taking behaviours • Our brains just never shutting off!
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Announcing the Rushton Lecture featuring Kaite O'Reilly, 3rd December 2024 🥳 If you are passionate about disability rights & equitywithin the arts and beyond, this event will resonate with the “quiet riot” within. ✊ Link for tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/dada-annu… #DDFI40
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📢 Presenting the first performance as part of DaDaFest International 40, Mark of A Woman by Chisato Minamimura 📢 Unity Theatre | 29th November | 7pm | £5 This incredible performance concludes our #DDFI40 Launch Party, be sure to come along 📷 unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/…
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it's always the disabled who are accommodating the non-disabled. it's always the oppressed who are accommodating the oppressor. it's always the neurodivergent who are accommodating the neuro-normative. and yet, the shrieks of the latter are always accusing us that we "don't do enough for them"
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there are thousands of unpaid carers @Keir_Starmer providing hours & hours of unpaid care, they’re definitely working. They don’t go out to work, they stay in, day after day, many providing 90 + hours of care a week. They have no savings, no back up plan, many living in poverty!
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As the title already makes it clear, @PilsonAnna, @EmmaYeo5, @RutterNik shout out, ‘Yeah, embrace your anger. Fuck them.’ with their feminist collaborative #autoethnography reimagining their position as disabled women in academic spaces. #FR137: doi.org/10.1177/014177892412…
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You can walk in to a psychiatric appointment and be diagnosed with a personality disorder within minutes. You wait on a waiting list for an autism or ADHD assessment for YEARS. The absurdity of our system will never not baffle me.
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Please join us October 30, 2024 from 12 to 1:30 PM Eastern for a discussion on Open Access publishing. Our phenomenal panel features @MarcelLaFlamme_ from @PLOS, Jeff Brune from @DSQJournal, Johanna Meetz, and Tanya Titchkosky from @OISEUofT and @DisMatters 1/2
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me atop my hoard of unread books:
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EVENT: "Comedy, Community and Social Change" as part of the Liverpool Comedy Festival 📅 Thursday 24 October 19:30 - 21:00 (doors open at 19:00) 📌 @RoyalCourtLiv Studio Space ✅ Free to attend! 🎫 Get your ticket(s) here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/comedy-co…
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I have said it before and I will say it again: We are not going to “wellness”, “good vibes” or “one on one therapy” our way of out of a mental health crisis that is a direct outcome of structural and economic violence and inequality.
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