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Kathy Flaherty @ConnConnection
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If you haven’t read this yet, I suggest you do. If you’re part of #DisabilityTwitter, it’s likely these are lessons you’ve already learned. Despite the fact that I’ve been in this game a long time, I still sometimes worry about being liked. 1/?
2/? It’s really only in the last couple of years that I’ve realized that being overly concerned about whether people like me or not only serves to elevate my frustration with the world and make me a less-effective advocate.
3/? That does not mean I go out of my way to be an asshole or rude. However, it *does* mean that I am going to refuse to engage in bullshit debates based on “what-aboutism”s
4/? I will listen as respectfully as I can - or read your reply tweets, as the case may be - but there are several fundamental things I refuse to concede. Among those is respect for ALL people’s legal rights to make decisions about their lives.
5/? One of the most challenging things about being a disability rights lawyer representing disabled clients is one of the most challenging thing about being ANY kind of lawyer representing ANY client: the client retains ultimate decision-making authority
6/? It is NOT a lawyer’s job to control a client or make decisions about things that impact the client’s life. It is a lawyer’s job to advise, to counsel, to inform the client of the likely outcomes of various ways to proceed
7/? But guess what’s NOT my job? Making the decision. For better or for worse, I have personally experienced many of the challenges faced by @CTLegalRights clients - I’ve been civilly committed to a psych hospital, I’ve been forcibly medicated, I’ve been subject to seclusion.
8/? I’ve had excellent legal representation; I’ve had what I consider less than zealous advocacy. At times, I’ve represented myself (and we all know what THAT means.) That experience informs how I do my job. One thing I know for sure?
9/? That all of us at @CTLegalRights are dedicated to one thing - and one thing only - zealously advocating for the expressed preferences of our clients. That is our job.
10/10 Was seriously not intending this thread to turn into a plug for @CTLegalRights - however, if you enjoyed this thread, please check out our website at clrp.org and learn more about us.
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It took me a while to gather my thoughts re: the 26 pages of the 300 pages of the Malloy-Wyman report that concern the issues I care most about professionally and personally: mental health, health care generally, housing, and disability. I finally have. Stay tuned.
The first mention of mental health is in the context of gun safety reform. Too many people have written about the need to talk about mental health for the sake of mental health, and not simply within the context of preventing gun violence so this was disappointing.
It’s rather remarkable to see the words “recovery-oriented approach” and “severe and persistent mental illness” in the same sentence.
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This whole Bastani PhD thing has left me quite surprised about the number of people, including high profile journalists, who don’t actually understand what a PhD is, how it is awarded, what the standards are, or what the qualification means. So I’m going to do a thread.
A PhD is, in the UK and most English speaking countries, the highest academic qualification one can obtain. It requires years of study under the guidance of an academic supervisor, and in most places some form of examination on presentation of the the thesis. In UK that’s usually
a viva voce, in the presence of at least two experts in the subject that the PhD is about. In most institutions, the criteria a thesis needs to show importantly includes:
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(1)QARMY🕵So you #think the #QArmy is just a bunch of #people sitting at the #computer doing nothing?

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A THREAD: Do y'all know what "access intimacy" is? If you don't, may I suggest you start with @miamingus' excellent article exploring the term and its applications: leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/acc…

And, a story about what access intimacy looks like for me.
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As @miamingus writes, "It has looked like relationships where I always feel like I can say what my access needs are, no matter what. Or i can say that I don’t know them, and that’s ok too. It has looked like people not expecting payment in the form of emotional currency... (1/2)
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45 Days Of @ElvisCostello: a twitter megathread in anticipation of the Oct 12 release date of LOOK NOW, the new LP by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

This is either a bright idea or a brilliant mistake, but this is only, this is only, this is only the beginning...
I did something similar to this 5 years ago, in anticipation of EC & @theroots' Wise Up Ghost LP, on tumblr.

(You can still find all those posts if you look, although a lot of the YouTube links etc are now dead ends. It was 40 Days Of EC then, so for 2018 I'm upping it to 45.)
Mostly I will be going chronologically from the early years right up to the present, but it feels right to start out with Costello's 2002 song, "45."

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#Fact 1 - The Wage Gap is real. People who says it's not haven't read the data.

However, in places like the USA, the wage gap is *not* mostly due to sexism like many #femnist #WomenInScience are claiming it is today. Disparate outcomes doesn't imply disparate treatment.
Women typically choose fields that are lower paying; even in the #STEM fields. To attribute that to sexism only or even mostly is a very dishonest way of deriving an answer for this complex disparity.

Sources:

cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/upl…

npr.org/sections/money…
When the US Department of Labor Statistics took into consideration personal choices, non-wage benefits, hours worked, experience, education, and other variables that contributes to the wage gap the percentage of earnings decreases to approximately 3%.

shrm.org/hr-today/publi…
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Are you one of those people who's looked back on 2017 and convinced yourself that you haven't achieved anything? Worried about catching up with your mates who seem to have done much better?

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