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May 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I recently gave a talk with @svyantek for @AccessCompUW, and the topic of what "advice" I had for disabled people navigating accommodations in #HigherEd came up again and again over the following weeks as I attended other talks and workshops in our conference high season. 🧵
I found the transcript and I'm going to share what I said to the audience with you all: "I'm really tired of being put in the position of giving advice to the people who are being harmed. ...
... I'm really frustrated with the lack of participation and interest from people who are making the choices that harm. At this point, the only advice I have is not for you (disabled people). You do you, and you survive however you need to. ...
My advice is for the administrators: Get your shit together and stop being a dick. You're killing people for arbitrary outdated abusive senses of what is professional and proprietary and "normal". Knock it off."

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Here's what people don't understand. Institutions are making these decisions based on the conceit that the number of immunocompromised people in their "community" is negligible. 🧵
Not only is this false (even one person is significant) but the public health consequences are most likely to be for those who do not "count" within the institution's "community".
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THERE IS NO CAMPUS BUBBLE.
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Sep 28, 2021
As an autistic person I can imagine only 3 possible explanations for why people always ask "did everyone have a relaxing weekend?"
1) they actually manage to relax over the weekend and can't imagine that most other people literally can't?

2) other people actually CAN and I'm just physiologically incapable of relaxation?

3) some sort of ritualistic trolling/joke that I am not in on.
Is this a version of "how are you doing?" where they literally don't care about the answer?

How do you answer a question when you know they 1) definitely don't want the truth 2) can't tell you what the right answer is 3) will definitely socially punish you for wrong answers.
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Sep 24, 2021
The Jolene take nobody asked for, except those assholes criticizing Lil Nas X for having (and I quoteth) "flattened emotion":
First of all "flat affect" is a dog whistle that leverages neurobigotry and madphobia to endanger the lives of BIPOC and Neurodivergent and Queer folks. So don't do that.
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Aug 3, 2021
Okay but also let's talk about how these spam emails disproportionately prey on students with cognitive disabilities. Every time one of my students get scammed by these, they have dyslexia.
It's not that they aren't savvy. It's that they don't pick up the clues that the letter is fake, because they either miss the grammatical inconsistencies or assume that it is a failure of their reading and not of the letter itself.
So when you're a first Gen student who comes from the working class, and you need more money but you're afraid work will conflict with academics, a flexible job posting that looks like it's coming from the University is so tempting.
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Jul 29, 2021
OH MY GOD. For the FIRST TIME EVER, a reviewer has BOTH told me that my manuscript's structure is inadequate AND GIVEN ME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE NEW STRUCTURE. BLESS THIS REVIEWER. BLESS THEM. #AcademicTwitter
OH MY GOD. They even marked SPECIFIC sentences that can be pulled from other places in the manuscript to go under the new recommended structure. They literally did the work. They recognized my argument and are helping me make it clear to people with linear brains. T_T BLESS THEM.
They gave me recommendations for how change presentation of a list into a two column table for improved readability. They are so nice I love them I want to meet them and ordain them into my academic polycule.
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Jul 28, 2021
The ADA turned 31 (#ADA31) so I'm going to tell you about the ADA case that Universities absolutely would lose if anybody had the resources to bring it to trial.

Spoiler: no one does 🧵
Universities' COVID-19 response confirmed two things:
1. Universities can offer remote instruction as an accommodation for both students and faculty
2. Universities affirm that the quality (and cost) of remote, hybrid, or otherwise digitally mediated instruction is equal to fully in-person face-to-face instruction.
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