Workplace DEI reporter @MorningBrew | Gracie award winner |♿disability in media advocate ✨email: parisi at morningbrew dot com
Apr 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Quick 🧵with quotes from my interview with Admiral Rachel Levine.
On coming out at work: "...people understood that I was not just tolerated, and not even just accepted, but truly welcomed for the diversity that I brought [to] the medical center and to the College of Medicine."
On LGBTQ+ progress: "While we’ve made so much progress for LGBTQI+ community...At the same time, we have a lot of challenges ahead and you can see that in the proliferation of the very negative actions and policies and laws that have cropped up in many states..."
Mar 10, 2022 • 75 tweets • 35 min read
I've seen a lot of people worried about what's happening to disabled Ukrainians & how to help them.
Luckily, there's great reporting happening & organizations that are helping disabled Ukrainians get to safety.
Just took a flight from JFK to SYR for a girlfriends bridal shower on @JetBlue and they left my wheelchair in NYC
So now I'm essentially legless and have lost my independence because I was dismissed by staff at every stage of this flight
