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7 Jul, 3 tweets, 2 min read
THE JRC IS STILL ALLOWED TO ELECTROCUTE AUTISTIC PEOPLE SO WHEN I TELL YOU I'M FUCKING TIRED OF YOUR WEARABLE INTERVENTIONS FOR AUTISM RESEARCH THIS IS PART OF WHY

#StopTheShock

*and if you think your research is unrelated DON'T WORRY I'LL EXPLAIN WHY YOU'RE WRONG SOON ENOUGH
Hey #HCI, #AssistiveTech, #DisabilityTech researchers, there are facilities which use wearable devices to electrocute disabled patients.

Would really love a statement condemning the JRC from my @acmtaccess community right now.

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21 Jun
Let's talk about #PrideMonth, #RainbowCapitalism, and #ArtTheft.

@Dickies has released a Pride collection for June, featuring LGBTQIA artists. One of those artists, #AmberIbarreche, designed Art Bibs (overalls) featuring Ibarreche's word&symbol art motifs.

PLOT TWIST 🧵
Dead-center on these art bibs is a heart with the words "Learn the Heart Way". How nice. However, what's the background of this heart? A pride flag. BUT. It's not just ANY pride flag. It's the #NewPrideFlag.

And this is where the #ArtTheft comes in.
The #NewPrideFlag was designed by Black Indigenous Queer creator, Julia Feliz. #AmberIbarreche's art bibs' dominant artistic feature is the unattributed, uncompensated labor of a Black Indigenous Queer community organizer and activist.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE
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7 Jun
Frontiers in Human Robot Interaction Research, as imagined by me, a disabled researcher who's tired of your shit. 🧵
1) A socially assistive robot for autistic people but instead of "correcting" autistic "social deficits" it absolutely roasts other people about their own ableism.
2) A reconfigured amazon alexa that mounts to a power chair that yells at people when they do something rude. "Do not touch!", "Talk to me, not my PCA.", "Bark Bark!", "*cicada noises*"
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5 Jun
Okay so let's talk about this.

First, to protect my job, this didn't happen at Purdue.

Second, no one literally said "you cannot be PI because you are disabled"

However! 🧵
What did happen was that repeatedly throughout my graduate studies, every time I wrote research protocols that engaged with autistic people (adults and children) directly, I had to justify how they were competent to consent.
That's right. I had to prove that autistic people are capable of understanding research and of having the agency to consent to participation. There's no two ways about it. This is institutionalized, systemic ableism.
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27 May
Our paper "Oh No, Not Another Trolley!" has been accepted to @IEEESSIT. We survey CS majors about their exposure to ethics in CS courses and their ethical reasoning in 5 scenarios from real-world examples of algorithmic decision-making support in healthcare & #COVID19. 🧵
While many students were able to articulate potential threats to equity and mortality for people marginalized by racial, gender, and class oppression, none concurrently recognized disabled or chronicaly ill people as a specific class vulnerable to systemic bias.
(additionally, students that recognized racial discrimination in algorithmic decision-making did not recognize how ableism strengthens racism.)
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14 Jun 20
Hello everyone! Now would be a really... Apropos time to look up Aktion T4 and learn about this programme of the Nazi regime.

Why?

Because it's happening again.

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Even before T4 was formalized, they were testing the public tolerance for mass murder by playing shell games with disabled people.

Disabled children, elders, and "hysteric" relatives were sent to congregate care settings. Local drs encouraged families "it's for the best".
For all sorts of reasons. Hospitals for the disabled could provide "better treatment" (even lying and saying they could recover and come home "healthy"). That a productive German family should not be burdened with such care. That it was a civic duty.
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13 Jun 20
I attended a future faculty development program for marginalized prospective faculty at a large R1 land grant Uni.

Constantly there were tenured faculty, often white women, but also other POC, telling BIPOC students about "fit" unironically.

#FitIsBullshit 1/
#FitIsBullshit because departments will keep a known abuser in their ranks while saying a black candidate just doesn't "fit".

Fit is bullshit because departments will keep someone with a stack of student complaints but a queer candidate just doesn't "fit". 2/
#FitIsBullshit because colleges will tout their "human development" programs as progressive while disabled candidates just don't "fit". 3/
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