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Aug 2 13 tweets 5 min read
This is strange. Usually when parents are mentioned, it means parents of disabled children. But that’s not the case here. Disabled people were clearly testers. No mention of disabled folks having agency or decision making power. Segmenting us with children is infantilizing. Highlighted text reads: The pack went through over four yearText reads: The breakthrough came when observing how our con
The implication seems to be that making something accessible also means it’s unsafe for children? Not quite sure.
Oh yep. That’s what she meant. Highlighted text reads: “Child safety is always the number
As @jaivirdi and I wrote in this piece (about another P&G packaging design), inclusively designed product packaging focuses primarily on mobility and tokenizingly on blindness. There are no other disability segments. fastcompany.com/90696611/olays…
What this does is ensure that very specific charities continually get approached to provide testers, despite massive organizational failures. Here’s an example of @RNIB, a favorite corporate go-to. Lighthouse is another favorite for blind segments.
For mobility segments, MDA seems to be a corporate fav despite folks with muscular dystrophy absolutely despising them. I’d encourage you to check out the #EndTheTelethon hashtag.
I have been so lucky to have an opportunity to work with @hassankhaderali in my research. He’s someone with muscular dystrophy that companies aren’t going to reach by going through a large scale charity like the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
I feel that my original post inadvertently misidentified @spazgirl11 in an important way. Cara was kind enough to respond, describing how the CPF also gets taken up by corporations easily. Cara is another person who would be an epic leader of a disabled research process.
These large scale, non-disabled led, disability charities have become a user/tester pipeline, and do absolutely nothing to address the inherent and oppressive power dynamics this creates.
I hate this dynamic so much, that this is how my LinkedIn profile has read for the past year (specifically the bottom paragraph). Which reminds me, I need to head over to LinkedIn to shitpost P&G there. Screenshot of text: I am currently focused on analyzing powe
I’m not convinced a cardboard box needs 2,000 testers when the cardboard box maker hasn’t shown it knows how to value even one of them.
This is how I came across this announcement.

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Aug 3
How about I describe my experience in the @Ted Residency, when its billionaire funder, @ruthannharnisch of the @harnischfound told me I was "a destructive force in a world you hoped to improve" And I should "Disable [my] socials until you get the help you need."
An hour later, my ex, @MegRhi texted me, asking me to have Ruth Ann stop texting her employer's board members, as though I could stop a billionaire on a rampage
It's ok that none of this means anything. But it nearly killed me. And I will hold onto the terror and pain I felt forever. @CyndiStivers is complicit.
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Aug 2
This one is loaded. And as an agender person who doesn't love talking about my period, I am experiencing some dysphoria. So please bear with me.
Let's start with what @may_gun wrote about the abled POV. This 'Partner Content' features 3 students, all identified as recent graduates of CCS, their research rhetorically professionalized. How, then is the disabled person described? Screenshot of text: During ...
Researchers are not taught about the pressure research subjects feel to create a tangible problem where none may exist. I am inclined to believe this anecdote was a response to the research subject wanting to be useful to a naive researcher.
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Jul 31
If we are going to have a conversation about disability and Lockheed Martin, we cannot brush over DisabilityIN's role in awarding them a best place to work, with a perfect, 100 disability inclusion rating, year after year.
In 2018, DisabilityIN awarded them as the employer of the year
a thread on the l#WheelchairToWarfarePipeline
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Jun 17
I’m sounding an alarm here. Please pay attention. Microsoft is partnering with the World Bank to extract data (and labor) from disabled people, while failing to center disabled people in policy decisions about how that data will be used. Help me demand answers to two questions:
1. How many unaffiliated disabled people were a) in the room at all, and 2. How were their insights taken into account when this ‘Data Hub’ was being workshopped?
I’m telling you, if we don’t hit the brakes on this ASAP, it’s going to further marginalize a lot of disabled folks under the guise of bridging the disability divide.
Read 12 tweets
May 29
Thinking about how terms like mapping and project are used in design for social innovation programs, and how easily they get taken up to cause harm. [ID: screenshot of a Twitter account called the Gender Mapping Project. The tagline reads no human is born in the wrong body]
Also thinking about who these programs employ and how susceptible faculty is to feeling inspired by such a message as ‘no human is born in the wrong body’ and how it’s up to the harmed students to explain what it’s really saying.
Everything about this screams grad school thesis to me. And what is the program going to do? Fail the student because their social innovation is hateful or pass them because they applied the language, ideas, and methods they were taught?
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May 27
Wondering if we’re past corporate inclusive design announcement season. Notable announcements include Microsoft, Reebok/Zappos, CVS, Skims (Kim Kardashian’s ‘shapewear’ brand), Starbucks, and Apple. Also pay attention to how many of these brands are actively union busting.
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