♿️ 🏳️🌈 Thesis Title: The Anti-Ableist University: A Study into the Factors that Exclude Disabled University Students in the United States and United Kingdom
Mar 2, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Real-talk: #DisabilityStudies — however good the intentions of the researchers within are — is still situated in #academia and therefore is not exempt from the elitist problems that come from the "#IvoryTower". This is a five-part thread because I have Things To Say. 1/5
2/5: #DisabilityStudies / #Disabled#Researchers have a fascinating habit of dismissing Minority. "Your research doesn't mention BIPOC/LGBT/etc. disabled folx?" "Those are only a small % of the population." So are we? Disabled people are a minority. That's the point. ...Isn't it?
