A4: No, not right now. I feel disability is a legal issue only about accommodations in #academia. Racism is clearly wrong, but ableism is condoned becoming a traumatic event. I wish #AcademicTwitter and #HigherEd would listen to Disabled researchers and to partner with us in 1/

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calling for change. Being disabled, we only have so many spoons. There is only so much each disability advocate can do and it should not be disabled scholars brought into toxic environments forced to change them. My free labor of disability advocacy needs to end leading to 2/

Q3 Here on #DisabilityTwitter with @DisInHigherEd @APHADisability @academicvoices @dismhmatters and more, YES! But on a bad pain day getting out of my handicap space without a cane meeting the gaze of a wheelchair user, I feel the gaze of judgement of if I am an able person 1/

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who just stole their space or am I legitimately disabled with my placard. I once parked at my lab on campus, I had a old man white accuse me of stealing my mom’s handicap placard and demanding that I leave the space for someone who needed it. Eventually I ended up saying that 2/

Being Black & #disabled has been a journey for me to process being seen as a strong Black woman yet it juxtaposes against disability seen as weakness in our society. It has felt disallowed at points to be proud of my disabilities or to even recognize disability beyond visible 1/

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disabilities. I am so grateful for everything that I have learned over the past few years that have helped me to come to this place I am in now and all the amazing people who have been there for me along the way like @Tinu, @manijadegarcia, the @DisInHigherEd team and
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I just want to quote tweet this because this is our reactive mental health system. I think rigorous prevention and understanding of drivers of chronic pain to suicide and then creating evidence based programs to pain providers would save lives. It is not in the midst of denied 1/

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care that talking to a mental health counselor could change it. I believe that mental health being reactive rather than proactive is costing many people their lives. Chronic pain providers cannot exact trauma of negligence and denying the validity of our pain without 2/

Thank you so much. @JADEdisjustice is designed to be community driven & as an undergraduate I have some ideas (thread coming), but I have no idea how it aligns to designing a dissertation. @DisInHigherEd @DisabledAcadem @DisInGradSchool, thoughts on the question below? For me, 1/

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I first want to say thank you @trazle_kulshar for your question. It means the world. I think that one of the most striking parts of the article that I shared was the difference in the student success rates, 30% in nondisabled students and 13% in disabled students. With 2/

Oh my gosh, I am SO EXCITED for the Disability Awareness Track to start tomorrow with our @CripCampFilm Movie Night! Thanks again @UCSanDiego for allowing this track celebrating our Disability community & @ASUCSDExternal for your support.
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Please remember @UofCalifornia, all campuses are welcome. Registration links are now in my bio from @ASUCSDExternal’s link tree.

I am excited to welcome @APHADisability to @UCSanDiego & for DAPi, a Disabled Student Honors society, to share who they are. I also scheduled
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I am so excited to see the Disability Awareness Track, I created featured in @UCSanDiego This Week & to have @Olas_Truth to share Black Disabled History with us. It is an Untold story that I look forward to hearing her share. This is open to the @UofCalifornia system as well. 1/ Alt text cont.: explained Nolan, who is studying human health psychology. “It is an opportunity for students who live with chronic health conditions, whether physical or mental, to come and understand more about the Disability community that is beginning here at UC San Diego.” 2/

Input #DisabilityTwitter: "Most instututions are are federally funded and thus has to include disability in statements. Unfortunately, disability is a spectrum & doesn't have it's own culture. (Deaf culture is the outlier) So it's hard to be seen as a unified culture. 1/ This was my question: Why do you believe that disability has made it into DEI statements of most institutions, yet has remained limited to accessibility and accommodations without being seen as a cultural group deserving of diversity program focused on disabled students in 2/

Happy New Year to all of my Twitter friends! One of my goals this year is to expand my business in financial education & planning for 2 reasons.

1. I want to build my savings for my upcoming move for grad school

2. I want to help as many people in the US and Canada as I can 🧵 Tomorrow at 9am PST, my business will be hosting an open house where you will learn who we are, what we do and what might be in it for you.

If you are looking for an opportunity, you need no experience just a will to learn along with integrity.

If you want to plan for your

I have a long story and advice needed because I think I lost funding along the way this day because of one teacher and surprising me a mandatory attendance requirement then accusing of academic dishonesty less than 3 hours to the deadline @dismhmatters @DisInHigherEd 1/

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December 1st and I felt like I had all the support in the world to succeed. So much people edited for me provided feedback, I was calm and ready to finalize my applications that day to submit by 8:59pm on December 1st since SOPHAS is on EST and I noticed a note that funding 2/

I am so excited to announce my 1st first author publication of my protocol for my "Systematic Review of Universal Preventive Interventions Designed to Improve Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health in Children Under the Age of 13." Let me share more 1/

crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/displ… Our review question is: Does implementation of universal preventive interventions in family, community, health care, and school settings with recipients from birth to 12 years old avert the development of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders later in life? 2/

Yes #MoodMonday can be a thing! #PsychTwitter, do you want to help make this a thing with me? Three emotions: Hopeful, grateful and confused. What three emotions on your mind? Nope, I am going thread 🧵 life here because sometimes you need more than 3 emotions when mental 1/

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health and disability have been kept divided. I live with Fibromyalgia and PTSD. The things that trigger my PTSD almost immediately lead to my Fibromyalgia causing me intense pain. The uncontrollable pain of the Fibromyalgia triggers memories of the uncontrollable nature 2/

Thank you again @riley_ilyse for inviting me to guest lecture in your course. Speaking on intersectionality and inclusion on disability in higher ed was amazing. Watching a Zoom webinar afterwords of an Angela Davis event, the joy turned to despair as disability was left out. 1/ There is a Black healing space afterwords, but there is no healing in those spaces for me. I mention Black and Disabled. I have said words that don’t belong together, that don’t make sense, that evokes a reality that they don’t want to realize. We don’t fit in that truth 2/