cw: suicidal ideation
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Suicidality is not as straight-forward as the sanitized, saneist narratives presented to soothe normal people. Suicidality is not binary (suicidal vs. not). Suicidality is a complex experience that many people navigate everyday. I am one of them. For context, I’ve experienced suicidal ideation since I was 11- maybe younger. This year, 2022, is the first time in my memory where I have had moments of wanting to live into an unknown future. For at least 15 formative years, I had little hope and no will to be alive.

I am preparing to explain, for the umpteenth time, why disabled students need disabled mentors (rather than nondisabled “peer” mentors) to teach us how to navigate accommodations, disclosure, and #AcademicAbleism. #DisInHigherEd If you have had one or several #DisabilityMentors who shaped your experience of disability pride, community, and #DisInHigherEd, please share and use the hashtag! #DisabilityTwitter #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

“All supposedly educated people have ceased to believe that the dead can become visible as spirits, and have made any such appearances dependent on improbably and remote conditions.” -Freud, The Uncanny #GhostlyMatters What are the implications of the scholarly dismissal of the ghostly- on scholarship, on spirits, and on haunted academics and academies? #GhostlyMatters #AcademicAbleism

Pulling some important quotes from (thesis-related) close reading of the @autselfadvocacy Navigating College handbook. #AutisticsInAcademia #helenreads “Remember one thing: You made it to college because you have potential. You are in college because you demonstrated capability to get here.” -Samantha April Davis, Worth