Who will tell the doctors (academic, nondisasbrled) that their tech fetishes & paranoias are absolutely related to their delight/disgust about disability?

#CyborgLifeIsDisabledLife
Am I telling the doctors (academics)?

Is that what I'm doing? When I take their title and say: The title 'dr' ? I don't want it. The title 'dr' got way too much ableist detritus on it. You can call yourself that. I decline to call myself that.

#YrHonorificDoesNotHonorMe
lower case lower case lower case

dr

I'm on social media where I can lower case the title as the title does not deserve uppers
"Take it, almost, where you will." Matthew Arnold

Thank you, Matt. It appears I have taken it, entirely, where I will. #Who #BritishGuy Professor of #Poetry at #Oxford #When #LongLongAgo
"Do you ask me whether Dryden’s verse, take it almost where you will, is not good?"

I do not, Matt. I do not care at all about Dryden's verse. 😂 But I do love that phrase of yours: TIAWYW

poetryfoundation.org/articles/69374…

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Mar 24
I switch bodies between crutches & tech so I'm all geo-spatially confused. If you also switch bodies, then you get it. If you're uncomfortable w/ lang of "switching bodies" then "changing embodiment" or "flipping form" works fine
Somebody wants a drawing. And I'm kind of down to draw so let's do this
Before that, a clarification: Crutches are tech.

So I actually mean something like ... I switch bodies between tech (old tech/crutches) and tech (new tech/otto bock) etc etc
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Mar 22
Flashback. I'm in Buenos Aires and a writer asks me (but in Spanish) "who do you read NOT from USA?" and I'm thinking, thinking, and then writer says, "Let me guess. Bolaño."

I start laughing. He starts laughing. Then we're just laughing. At USA writers.
It helps if you know that I am USA writer, so I was very much laughing at myself. And this was in 2009 at the height of The Bolaño Fervor. Had I read the man? No. Was everyone in NYC telling me to read the man? Nearly everyone.
I hear he's pretty good.
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Mar 7
Lex posts are generally about:

1) The same person named Sammy fucking everybody up in California & 1000 ppl writing "help me get over my ex they're so beautiful"

2) User not found: these are lost heterosexuals aka queer next year

3) People who garden
I have never met SO MANY GARDENERS in my life. I could start a Garden of Eden
This reminds me @AskiasEmporium I owe you something for that publication & I swear I am on it.

Thank you very much for accepting the poem "Are There Any Lesbians Left in the Garden." I'm so happy that poem has a home w/ Columbia
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Mar 6
How many students are going to tell me what men did to them before somebody at my work place does something to protect our students
I am disgusted. I am receiving yet another revelation. I am holding space for that student.
If you are a student and you are being harmed then I am asking to plz reach out to any of the following places:

FSU Victims Advocate (850) 644-7161. This is confidential & I trust them. But they are Univ affiliated.
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Mar 6
Some poets: We hate The New York Times more than The New Yorker. Actually, we love The New Yorker.

Really? That's interesting.

The @nytimes had an entire series called THE DISABILITY SERIES. So that happened.

Remind me, again, when @NewYorker last pubbed disabled writer?
And while we're here: How many openly & out disabled editors does @NewYorker actually employ? How many staff? How many tech people? How many ANYONE AT ALL openly and out as disabled at #TheNewYorker
Poets of a Certain Pedigree & possibly my Elders in Disability Studies:

"Cy, this is not the way to go about it."

Really? Interesting.

Because I've been "going about it" the other way, by writing poems, for FIFTEEN YEARS and nothing has changed.

#ChangeIt #DisabilityPride
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Mar 5
What's up with @NewYorker for the abled poets who just haven't noticed their favorite zine reeks of fascism + ableism:

@TheBrooklynRail : ... in response to the ableism in her poem “The Star Market” in The New Yorker. In the penultimate stanza, your speaker interrupts herself to
say, “No one likes the poetry police. I’m not the poetry police.” Can you say more about what you mean by that? And have there been instances in which readers have reacted negatively to your criticisms and activism?
@TheBrooklynRail : Do you have any suggestions for dealing with defensiveness or fragility in the face of dissent?

Cy: I’m thinking of how Žižek, when answering a question, often says, “Did you see this movie? It’s not even a good movie.” Right? And then he moves on
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