Powerful words by @jeffpreston: "One thing that I really want to encourage you in grad school to begin to think about is the ways in which your path through the program. There is no such thing as a normal pathway through the grad program... (1/9)
These are all myths that we build into an ableist structure that is the Academy, which states that you must work all the time at high levels that you will make no mistakes that you are basically this unbelievable perfect human being... (2/9)
And then you internalize all of that and say well I'm the problem then, for not fitting into this machine that is fundamentally dehumanizing in nature... (3/9)
One thing that I really encourage you and I want you to believe in genuinely is if you have a disability. If you're a disabled person and you've been actively hiding that I get it, I fully understand I definitely understand the stigma out there, but... (4/9)
the more of us, that speak out the more of us that claim our right to access the more that we are visible, the easier it's going to be for the people that come behind us.
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Ultimately the academy is full of disability. We just refuse to talk about it, or to acknowledge it, disabled people are at the core of basically every innovation in our world ever. (6/9)
We are everywhere, but that's a part of the story that we never tell which helps push disability to the margins. So if you have the ability, if you have the capacity, if you even have just the spirit in the moment to embrace it and the claim that
disability status.
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disability status.
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It is actually a really beneficial thing for the people that come afterwards and if you don't want to fight alone, there are many of us are willing to fight with you. (8/9)
Because, enough is enough. We need to make the academy accessible.
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