One of the 1st cinematic portrayals of disability, the 1898 silent film 'The Fake Beggar' prod. by Thomas Edison drew on extant notions that disabled people faked their impairments to elicit charity, but also used disability as a comedic device.https://t.co/vqzJ6C0Dnc.#DisHist pic.twitter.com/K7COfVVvIp
— DisabilityHistoryAssociation (@DisabilityHistr) November 16, 2019
Swearing, and autistic people in crisis.
— Ann Memmott PgC MA (She/They) (@AnnMemmott) November 23, 2019
A thread.
Many autistic people are very polite indeed.
Some use shocking words.
Why?
Some possible reasons…/
Whoever made these time cards—well done. #UCEA19 pic.twitter.com/TemnJIUqMb
— Kayla Johnson, PhD (@DrKaylaHIED) November 22, 2019
A tricky thing about working while chronically ill (and poor) is that when something goes wrong that fucks with my ability to get your work done, it's often not a single, simple, discrete thing.
— Alex Haagaard (they / them) (@alexhaagaard) November 18, 2019
.@CFSHRC past president says that conference costs go up because ASL interpreters are expensive. Access is expensive but embedded in the org’s values.
— ruth osorio (@rorhetorician) November 15, 2019
I have feelings about this. #FemRhet2019
On the environmental health effects of machine noise, e.g., from data centers: "In addition to causing shivering, sweating, difficulty breathing, + blurry vision as a result of vibrating eyeballs, low-frequency sounds can also, apparently, produce ghosts" https://t.co/gj7np6w22j
— Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern@saturation.social (@shannonmattern) October 11, 2019
Today I had a student fall asleep in class. And you know what happened??? I LET THE STUDENT SLEEP.
— Melissa Ashman (@appliedcomms) October 4, 2019
And you know what happened next? Nothing. The world kept spinning and everything was fine. #RealCollege
Anti-Ableist Composition 