Thread by @DisabledAcadem

I'm glad that so many people agree with yesterday's thread about mentorship. But I am also skeptical that able bodied colleagues will fight for inclusion at all levels of higher ed. 1/8

Are you going to change TT review processes? Will you fight adjunctification? Will you invest in faculty accommodations? Will you acknowledge that some faculty would do better with fairly paid part time positions? Will you accept that I am less productive in terms of output? 2/8

Will you recognize mentorship as labor? Will you recognize the risks I take every day to be vocal about discrimination in higher ed? Will you acknowledge that disabled faculty can't just move every year to stay in the game? That we have access needs to meet that guide us? 3/8

Will you acknowledge that conferences and archival trips need to reserve remote access for our career advancement? Will you give us grants to access these remotely when they're fully open? Will you consider this "fair"? 4/8

Will you see our work as equal to your own? As valuable, in of itself, because of the diverse perspectives we bring to the academy? Will you acknowledge that we are the best suited researchers, authors, and investigators of issues in OUR own community? 5/8

Will you consider the ethical obligations you have when working in disability studies? Will you take on the labor of actually learning allyship and responsibility to the community? Will you coauthor with community members? Will you recognize disabled expertise? 6/8

Because so far I haven't seen those trends happening on a wide enough scale. And I desperately want to feel safer, and make sure my disabled colleagues are safer, in our academic environments. I want to fewer microaggressions and greater celebrations of my identity. 7/8

Essentially I want to belong. And to thrive in this career track. But to do so means that able bodied colleagues need to truly see the ableist norms that they uphold, big and small. 8/8 #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter