1/ After chatting with @eugenemcfadden I've been thinking about embodiment. These things that are supposedly in our heads: #depression, #anxiety, #autism, #ADHD are for me PHYSICAL. Here are some thoughts on depression, and how it is different from sadness 🧵 @eugenemcfadden 2/ When you are sad, you are perhaps a little more of yourself. It makes you a little Cartesian; your mind, it seems, is noticing that you are feeling things, and knows it will have to wait this absurdity out, until you can go back to the numb comforts of normality.

1/ One for #TeamEnglish — some ideas for explaining what we mean by analysis 🧵
Students struggle with what analysis is. But the reality is we do it all the time. I've found that showing them images and asking them what they are images are *of* helps. Take these two images: 2/ Some students say, 'hands' or 'fist', but most don't — most say things like 'aggression', 'tension', 'generosity', 'openness', 'begging'.

1/ I've been thinking about my status as a neurodiverse educator: I'm #ADHD, and on the pathway for an #autism diagnosis. There's not a lot of discussion about what working life is like for neurodiverse educators, so I'm doing my own research and I plan to discuss it here. 🧵 2/ I'm going to start with a core tension the neurodiverse face: the DOUBLE EMPATHY PROBLEM.

1/ With exams looming nearer, I thought I'd do some threads on aspects of the #Literature texts. cc. #TeamEnglish. Here are some thoughts about HANDS 🤝 early on in #RomeoAndJuliet 🧵 2/ Hands in the Prologue are synecdoche: they’re a stand-in for the dignified persons to whom they belong: Capulet, Montague and Escalus.

1/ Re: @TTRadioOfficial interview with @PhilBeadle @RogersHistory on #SLANT and the fallout, because I’ve seen lots about how it is impossible for SLANT to be anything other than positive, according to their experiences. But there's more to it than that, as I'll explore here 🧵 @TTRadioOfficial @PhilBeadle @RogersHistory 2/ Paradigms determine the ‘order of the visible and invisible’, but if we don’t interrogate them, things stay invisible. Privilege is one of those things. It determines the ‘order of the invisible’, but it is only *really* invisible to those whom it benefits.