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Asst prof of health & culture / director of disability studies @FordhamNYC. Research on suicide, disability, mad justice. Alum @UUtah, @UofDenver x2. 🚲 🧗🏻

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It's #WorldSuicidePreventionDay! As a suicidologist and someone who has experienced chronic suicidality since age 9, I want to offer some insights that mainstream prevention orgs don't often share. 🧵
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Texas Tech — a PUBLIC research university — recently banned LGBTQ topics ("sexual orientation & gender identity") from all future graduate students' theses & dissertations. texastech.edu/downloads/26-4…
A screenshot from the memorandum with the following text: "Student-Directed Work and Research: General independent student research (e.g., standard term papers) and student-selected performance pieces remain exempt from these content restrictions. However, a strict temporal constraint applies to all formal academic credentialing. Graduate theses and dissertations may only center on SOGI topics as a strictly temporary teach-out exception, explicitly limited to currently enrolled students completing their degrees within formally identified teach-out programs. Upon the conclusive termination of all designated teach-out programs, no degree- culminating student research within the TTU System will be permitted to center on SOGI topics. Faculty Scholarship Exemption: Although future faculty hiring guidance will prioritize recruitment in alignment with this memorandum, currently employed faculty members may continue to research and publish topics of their choosing."

ALT A screenshot from the memorandum with the following text: "Student-Directed Work and Research: General independent student research (e.g., standard term papers) and student-selected performance pieces remain exempt from these content restrictions. However, a strict temporal constraint applies to all formal academic credentialing. Graduate theses and dissertations may only center on SOGI topics as a strictly temporary teach-out exception, explicitly limited to currently enrolled students completing their degrees within formally identified teach-out programs. Upon the conclusive termination of all designated teach-out programs, no degree- culminating student research within the TTU System will be permitted to center on SOGI topics. Faculty Scholarship Exemption: Although future faculty hiring guidance will prioritize recruitment in alignment with this memorandum, currently employed faculty members may continue to research and publish topics of their choosing."

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This is part of a sweeping removal of LGBTQ content from almost all other areas of the university. Even if folks aren't troubled by queerphobia, everyone should be concerned about this profoundly anti-free speech move. Controlling student research topics at this level is wild.
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More here: erininthemorning.com/p/texas…

Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics

The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.

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ThePOTSPostman
@ThePOTSPostman9 Dec 2025
People think you’re “choosing” what to do in a day with chronic illness. They don’t understand you’re budgeting energy like money. If you shower, maybe you can’t cook. If you run errands, maybe you can’t socialize. If you work today, tomorrow you might be bed-bound. One medical exam can mean a flare for a week. If you push once. You pay twice. Every action has a cost that no one else can see.
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Alice Wong 王美華@SFdirewolf15 Nov 2025
Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

ALT Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

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Was just prompted to evaluate a student's "emotional stability" as part of recommendation for grad school. This was a required entry based on a multiple choice scale that asked me to rank them in relation to my other students. This is a wildly ableist and unhelpful measure. 🧵
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And why would it be part of an ADMISSIONS rec? This prompt opens applicants to all sorts of bias from recommenders based on a wide range of social identities and other factors. It also feels like a poorly disguised--and potentially illegal--question about disability status.
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Yes, grad school is emotionally taxing. I'm not here to deny that emotional health is a factor in a person's ability to complete a grad program. But programs need to focus on supporting students through their stress, not screening them out as potentially 'unstable' ahead of time.
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Interested in disability & health justice? Please join us for "Vent: Making & Debating the New York State Ventilator Allocation Protocols" with Dr. Mara Mills. This public event is on 3/25 at 5pm EST - in person @FordhamNYC and via livestream. Access info threaded below.
An event flyer on a tan background with a photo of a woman speaking at a podium. The title is "Vent: Making and Debating the New York State Ventilator Allocation Protocols." The info on this flyer is included in the next tweet in an accessible text-based format.

ALT An event flyer on a tan background with a photo of a woman speaking at a podium. The title is "Vent: Making and Debating the New York State Ventilator Allocation Protocols." The info on this flyer is included in the next tweet in an accessible text-based format.

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Link with full event info, including details on accessibility, location, registration, and more: fordham.edu/academics/depart…
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Brought to you by popular demand, here is the reading list that I'm using to inform my course on Academic Ableism. I will also attach links to an old reading list on disability history - I haven't taught that in years so it's out of date, but may be useful to others! 1/5
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Palestine Legal@pal_legal13 Nov 2024
🚨BREAKING: Five legal orgs sent a letter warning Pomona that its unprecedented suspensions violate First Amendment principles and California law. They also deprive students — mostly first-generation, low-income, and/or of color — of housing and food. palestinelegal.org/news/2024…
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"Your body, my choice" is clearly repulsive. And yet, it's the same framework that the majority of the country applies to those deemed disabled or mentally ill on a regular basis--without batting an eyelid. "Bodily autonomy," except for disabled people.
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Tricia Dearborn@TriciaDearborn9 Nov 2024
So many manuscripts/proofs I've seen recently have used the term "post-pandemic", and, like a good editor, I note in my comments that while the WHO announced the end of the emergency phase in May 2023, the pandemic is ongoing. I will keep doing this for as long as it remains true
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BREAKING: With 71.3% of the vote, the Faculty Senate of the University of Michigan (the governing body representing tenure-track, research, and clinical faculty, lecturers, librarians, deans, and executive officers) has moved to censure the University of Michigan Regents.
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Matthew@CrowsFault10 Mar 2022
People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider's webs. It's not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go.
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Many, many people woke up this morning feeling like the next 4 years are impossible or even unlivable. A day to share some crisis support resources. 🧵
A graphic with the following text: Non-Carceral* Crisis Lines in the USA: (*Does NOT engage with police or other forms of involuntary intervention) Samaritans NYC: 212.673.3000 THRIVE Lifeline: 313.662.8209 (text only) 
Trans Lifeline: 877.565.8860 (for trans callers)
 Call BlackLine: 1.800.604.5841 (for BIPOC callers)

ALT A graphic with the following text: Non-Carceral* Crisis Lines in the USA: (*Does NOT engage with police or other forms of involuntary intervention) Samaritans NYC: 212.673.3000 THRIVE Lifeline: 313.662.8209 (text only) 
Trans Lifeline: 877.565.8860 (for trans callers)
 Call BlackLine: 1.800.604.5841 (for BIPOC callers)

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THRIVE Lifeline put together a fantastic resource document containing info on a wide range of non-carceral resources. Please download & share! Some of the orgs they feature: @projectlets, @WldflwrAlliance, @strongheartsdv, @CentersKiva. drive.google.com/file/d/1C3R…

THRIVE Non-Carceral Resource List.pdf

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And here's a list of voluntary, short-term, overnight peer respite centers around the US: power2u.org/directory-of-pee…

Directory of Peer Respites - National Empowerment Center

Directory of Peer Respites A peer respite is a voluntary, short-term, overnight program that provides community-based, non-clinical crisis support to help people find new understanding and ways to...

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