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AGAINST TECHNOABLEISM: #philtech #STS #DisabilityStudies . Strong opinions and typos my won. Bluesky:

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Ashley Shew

11 months

Thinking about a series of articles that have come out in the past year re: #CyborgMaintenance . Most people don't realize how vulnerable we cyborgs are when we collaborate with research + with industry. We participate in systems that value "innovation"/$$$ over our lives.

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2 years

There is not a version of disability studies that can be "ABA-friendly," and I can't believe that needs to be said.

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It’s a relief to see so many people chiming in and calling taking people’s prosthetic limbs away abuse. It’s so common and regularly a topic in my amputee groups, and terribly abusive. It’s also something that’s abusive in the context of walkers, wheelchairs, AAC, and other AT.

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frankly I think he was a model of restraint

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3 years

Hey, college instructors. Big advice for the coming fall for in-person teaching: have a zoom link to class. While f2f instructors are not req'd to have an online/hybrid option, it's an important thing to allow when you don't want your students to show up sick.

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@ricearosie I still reflect tearfully on the friend who installed a grab bar in her guest shower for me. It means so much, and she was like “yeah, of course, I want you and other disabled guests and my grandma to be able to stay here comfortably.” Not a temp bar either (those suck)!

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Ashley Shew

4 years

Let's get some things stated clearly for college and universities planning on Fall reopening: 1. Your disabled people (faculty, staff, and students) are afraid. 2. Your planning should include specific planning that addresses disability community concerns.

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3 years

Reading over a former student's diversity statement, I just want to say what a boondoggle these statements are for scholars of color and international scholars and disabled scholars (+those at intersection). Questions of disclosure, and worries of discrimination abound.

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3 years

Hey, nondisabled faculty members (and administrators, for that matter), I need you to stop being precious about "getting back to normal" when normal is dangerous for some of your students and colleagues still. (And honestly it's not just the ones you expect.)

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Ashley Shew

3 years

In a world of online events, your event is not "open to the public" if it doesn't have captions.

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1 year

PSA: don’t part your truck like this: Image of a blue truck bed overhanging the sidewalk on the way to disabled parking

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1 year

I’ve sent my class in three teams to figure out how to get down off the Upper Quad if they can’t use stairs. Waiting at the bottom to clock in these times. Thanks to Martina for years of activities.

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3 years

We can't have addt'l remote work/class options because it would interfere with the educational mission of the university, but everyone please make sure to clear out this long list of parking lots by 2pm on Friday to make way for football.

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3 years

DEI professionals: say "disability," please. If you can't even refer to us as a group, you aren't going to be effective at inclusion along this dimension.

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3 years

Universities who brought students back to campus this Fall should be planning on increasing disability services budgets bc a large fraction of those infected in university openings are going to be disabled.

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1 year

@benwurgaft I do a burger flip: every time I wake in the night I flip to my other side so I can get golden on both sides.

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@CanGal_39 @wonder_cripple This angle makes it look even worse than the other pics I've seen.

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3 years

cw: eugenics. it's eugenics.

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New ‘do not resuscitate’ orders imposed on Covid-19 patients with learning difficulties

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1 year

Everyone is commenting on the deathramp, but I also want to add that stairs and railings need to be at predictable 90 degree angles and that this curve makes the steps/rails less navigable for everyone and especially blind people and people using crutches, canes, and prostheses.

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Wheelchairs are essential in providing mobility and part of our efforts to increase accessibility, we are funding projects like this ramp at @yaldei . #InternationalWheelchairDay

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Ashley Shew

4 years

My kids got wheelchair-using Barbies, and so are having the Barbies do a sit-in like the 504 sit-ins.

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Ashley Shew

5 years

Hear me out: something like malpractice, but for architects

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The New $41 Million Hunters Point Library Has One Major Flaw

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3 years

*whispers* Do it forever.

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Dear academic conferences: you NEED to offer virtual options this year. No excuses.

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Ashley Shew

9 months

Is your university paying a surveillance company to monitor faculty and student social media?

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Ashley Shew

3 years

I don't know how many times I'm going to have to say this in my life but Many studies of people with disabilities are not disability studies. Disability Studies is like Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies and Queer Studies.

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Ashley Shew

9 months

@oldenoughtosay Like other internal or company documents, but you note that it's unpublished.

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UCA LibGuides: Referencing with APA: Internal Report

UCA LibGuides: Referencing with APA: Internal Report

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Ashley Shew

5 years

Just a reminder that disability simulation and other "awareness" exercises that have people pretend to be disabled are trash.

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5 years

But to be a solid ally, you have to stop pretending that blindfolded participants can teach you about blind people and that you know what we need, what technologies have implications for our lives. You can only learn those things by spending time with our community.

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Ashley Shew

5 years

Just your reminder that disability studies is not "studies of people with disabilities." Simi Linton writes, "Disability studies... aims to expose the ways that disability has been made exceptional and to work to naturalize disabled people - remake us as full citizens...

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Ashley Shew

3 years

You ever type out the sentence "I care by not putting my respiratory droplets on students.," and just pause to consider the state of the world?

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Ashley Shew

4 years

7. Most of your disabled people are not documented -- and many will not want to document their disabilities for fears of retribution or the doubt it sows about your capability in an ableist world (which certainly we have). 8. Ableism is the sauce we are all marinated in.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

I feel like I keep repeating, but the ADA is an insufficient approach to accommodations for covid-19. It is not built for family members of disabled people. It is not built for older nondisabled people. It is not built for pandemic accommodations.

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A bit of personal news: I have requested the opportunity to work from home for the fall semester because of my daughter’s heart condition. I found out this afternoon that it was rejected because it is my child’s condition and not mine.

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3. If your planning is not disability community informed, you are doing it wrong. 4. Covid-19 impacts disability communities in greater ways -- we are immunosuppressed, mentally ill, chronically ill, elderly, have symptoms to exacerbate, have complicating factors, and more.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

It's me again. Just your reminder for universities and colleges that your ADA team is an inadequate route toward managing work accommodations during Fall 2020.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

Hey. I'm just popping in to say that anything like an attendance policy or any strict deadlined work during Fall 2020 is a MONSTROUS thing to do, and is the opposite of caring about community health and student safety.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

5. Covid-19 will also produce more disabled people - the long term effects of the virus are becoming more clear. 6. Planning for Fall 2020 should recognize that people will be sick (and sick for longer times), have flare ups of various conditions, etc.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

PSA: It's okay to skip some events this year and not put them online/virtual. You can also do shorter events. There's no reason the 3 hr event with social time and food needs to be 3 hrs now, I promise.

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Ashley Shew

7 years

Made a blog post of my recent tweet thread on technoableism, cyborg bodies, and Mars (in part so I don't lose it):

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Ashley Shew

5 years

Just hearing from a friend how @UCLA did not have a ramp to their graduation stage, so a wheelchair using student did not get to cross stage to get their diploma. Egregious oversight, way to ruin what should be a happy event for a graduate and their family.

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Ashley Shew

6 years

If you aren’t designing for access for disabled people, why don’t you want disabled people to visit your website, or go to your meeting, or work in your workplace, or be able to exist on your campus,.... or just have the same things (jobs, opportunities, safety) as everyone else?

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Ashley Shew

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Disability status Getting a new leg is weird because I'll be presented my expensive fancy new shiny object, and then I won't be able to get my leg in, and then my prosthetist will run and put some corn starch in the socket, and then it will be fine again.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

I want more plays on the dis in disability instead of the ability. Fewer ABLE accounts and disABILITY things - and more DISgruntled about Inaccessibility, DISappointed in poor planning, DISaster planning for disabled people, DIStinguished fellows, DIStractions...

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Ashley Shew

3 years

I will emphasize on our first day that students should stay home if they (or anyone they live with!) is sick. For all of our safety, stay home; I will also switch us to zoom if someone in my household is sick.

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Ashley Shew

3 years

This crap is an absolute FU to people with mobility disabilities who might also want to use sidewalks. The city just waiting for an ADA lawsuit pictured here is @City_of_Roanoke .

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Ashley Shew

5 years

"He has a motivational poster on the wall of his office that says The only disability is a bad attitude. Clearly, it’s the excellent outlook that turns the three flights of stairs to his office into a magic broom that I lacked in getting there."- @Imani_Barbarin

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Ashley Shew

3 years

You'll have more students able to attend if you have the ready-zoom. Other stuff you can do No mandatory attendance policy. Let sick people rest. No documentation of illness, that is a barrier. Record yourself for students who will miss a lot of class and make it available.

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Ashley Shew

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I'm an STS + disability studies person who reads a lot of disability narrative, not a scientist. When I hear people describing physical and behavioral therapies for children as "intensive" and requiring a high number of hours each week, /1

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Ashley Shew

3 years

The pandemic isn't over even though some administrators are acting like it. Make your class something possible even with disruption -- disruptions we can and should expect given *gestures around*.

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Ashley Shew

2 years

Pretending to have a disability in public to bring awareness is not an empathy-building exercise. There is research in disability studies and testimony from disabled writers about this. UVA has some great people in disability studies they should engage.

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‘Empathy Kits’ Offer a Look Into What It’s Like Living With a Neurological Disorder

Five-minute “Empathy Kit” videos, created by undergraduate students in a course on neurodegenerative diseases, offer outlooks on what it is like to live with a neurological disorder.

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Ashley Shew

3 years

There are real worries about being discriminated against because of what they want to talk about in their diversity statement, because of how they think about diversity from their lived experiences.

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Ashley Shew

8 months

Why Aren't Disabled Astronauts Exploring Space? | WIRED

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Why Aren’t Disabled Astronauts Exploring Space?

Journeying into the future will require embracing disability—and recognizing its power in our changing world.

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Ashley Shew

3 years

And I love editing a narrative to help someone look their best, but there is no good way to narrate some things because of the biases of the expected audience.

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Ashley Shew

7 months

@QueenofTacos You didn't know the meme game you were passing up in that potential colleague.

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Ashley Shew

5 years

I'm imagining a paper "Disabled People Only Get To Be Heros When They Are Fictional Mutants," and if someone wants to go ahead and write this instead of me, that'd be great.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

Here's the Accessible Campus Action Alliance's Statement on Disability and Campus Reopening (co-signed by @DAatVT ). Thanks to the ACAA for this crucial document that should be consulted by all colleges and universities in planning for Fall.

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Ashley Shew

3 years

It's time for a crip space thread. There's a lot of work on crips in space that is exciting - and I'd love to direct everyone to that and also put this in context to current disability movements.

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Ashley Shew

3 years

It's weird how much covid vaccination news coverage either completely glosses over the poor uptake among immunocompromised people or fails to represent we exist at all. More people are immunosuppressed than is ever discussed, and few "look" disabled so that you would know it.

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Ashley Shew

2 years

@cheryleehouston Large faculty thing where we are talking about accommodations: one details a situation where she didn't believe a student, took away his crutches. She tells the story like she's smart + disabled people are faking. Hers was the worst, but there was plenty of other cringe.

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Ashley Shew

5 years

Not all people who "work with people with disabilities" are respectful or helpful or good. #ThingsDisabledPeopleKnow

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Ashley Shew

3 years

Making a zoom link to your f2f available to students will be really useful, especially as you have students out for illness, family illnesses and deaths, and other big life problems. Build the plan for remote access early, and it'll make things smoother.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

Gearing up for the Americans with Disabilities Act 30 year anniversary #ADA30 -- and feeling a bit glum about how disabled people are still fighting every day for basic no-frill access. Let's celebrate our people, our community, not a law, this July 26th.

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Ashley Shew

3 years

"delta appears to be about 225% more transmissible than the original SARS-CoV-2 strains... people who are infected with delta have — on average — about 1,000 times more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts..." Yes, mask up.

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Delta Is Surging. Here's What You Need To Know To Stay Safe

The highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus is spreading fast and driving new cases and hospitalizations. Here's what you need to know to keep yourself and your kids from getting sick.

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Ashley Shew

5 years

Thinking about how the phrase "for people of all abilities" is used instead of actually saying "inclusive of disabled people." The first one doesn't fully appreciate/recognize that disabled people have often been left out and does not make a firm commitment to our inclusion.

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Ashley Shew

3 years

Honestly it’s been a really taxing year in witnessing nondisabled faculty talk about disabled students in ways that serve as warning to disabled faculty and staff.

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Thinking about all the disabled college faculty who have made massive accommodations for students bc that’s how inclusion works within a higher education system that just sees disabled faculty as, at best, less desirable cogs.

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Ashley Shew

3 years

The Zoom link can be managed in a few ways -- by request you zoom people in, a standing zoom that you set up at the ready, or by asking another student to be the day's zoom administrator while you lecture (make them a co-host and let them voice any questions from the chat).

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Ashley Shew

2 years

I'm about to teach a class on technology and disability (and taught bioethics last semester), and it's embarrassing that @VT_Provost won't let us even request that students to wear masks in our classrooms during a pandemic.

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My healthcare ethics course is mask optional lmao

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1 year

They also noticed that once they got into the buildings from side, tunnel, and back doors that the normal entrance information of office directories and maps didn’t exist in the entrances for disabled people.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

"People will soon begin dying avoidable deaths from COVID-19 and the University will be culpable." @UMich 's student paper has a blistering op-ed from an anonymous staff member about leadership failure, conflict of interest, and accountability.

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Op-Ed: The University’s summer of lies

Correction: This piece has been corrected to indicate that while Regent Weiser himself would profit as he still receives payments from McKinley Associates Inc. — a national real estate investment...

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Ashley Shew

5 years

This is the real disconnect that some administrators + profs don't realize: even turning in those letters from disability services offices often puts students in a vulnerable position - and those students have probably had bad experiences w giving profs these letters.

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Ashley Shew

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often reporting exciting short term gains in function, I wonder about the toll that is taking on the social and psychological wellbeing of that child. What is it to be sentenced to 20-40+ hours a week of therapy? I don't care how kind the therapists are. /2

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Ashley Shew

4 years

I dislike "wellness" speak. There have been critiques of the language of wellness for 2+ decades in the medical humanities, so I'm not here to rehash all that. But, as a multiply disabled person, it's tiring. I'm never going to be well, that doesn't make me less valuable.

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Ashley Shew

2 years

Love this conversation between @SFdirewolf and @edyong209 about his new book, AN IMMENSE WORLD. I want the next installment to be @edyong209 's interview of @SFdirewolf for YEAR OF THE TIGER.

Orion Magazine - What Counts as Seeing

Alice Wong: I've been thinking a lot about the titles of your books, An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes, because I think most humans don't really

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Ashley Shew

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Don’t let them say the VT encampment is being rowdy or presents a safety issue. Here’s the very chill drillfield on this Sunday evening and a pic of police walking around the VT encampment with zip ties. This was all about 40 minutes ago.

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Ashley Shew

5 years

Tweet it louder: INACCESSIBILITY IS A CONTINUING HARM THAT SENDS A MESSAGE OF EXCLUSION.

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Gregory Mansfield

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Inaccessibility is not just a one-time barrier that excludes a specific disabled person who seeks to gain entry. It is a continuing harm that sends a clear message of exclusion to all disabled people that we are not welcome.

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@mabegoses @slooterman Not to mention that ramps and elevators are also useful for ambulatory mobility-related disabled folks, people with wagons and strollers, package delivery folks, movers,...

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Ashley Shew

2 years

@DavidRadcliff Best use of this format. We can close it down now.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

People in the disability community are uniquely equipped to manage life under our current pandemic, at the same time our lives are at greater risk and eugenic rhetoric has increased.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

It seems like some really problematic positioning to say that dorms are *not* the biggest concern for universities, and that indiv behavior is what we need to worry about. Seems like prep to blame students for a coming covid19 outbreak.

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Ashley Shew

3 years

I just want to reiterate that making disabled people take the long way around means that some of us won't make it. I mean this in so many ways, though for me it is literal and the stakes are low. For others, extra time en route, extra work, makes showing up impossible.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

Another fact: Faculty and staff can be disabled too. And undergraduate students too.

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3 years

@crispycrise @zarqawiyyah A.M. said wrong answers only.

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Ashley Shew

2 years

Disability status doom spiraling over mask mandates being rescinded prematurely

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Ashley Shew

4 years

Disability status I don't have cancer this week. Good news.

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Ashley Shew

2 years

When I see the term "emerging scholar," I imagine someone clawing their way out of mud and debris. Sometimes this suits.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

The thing is: there are many good, knowledgeable people who cannot walk/talk/hold a glass... many who I would prefer to Trump at his most physically fit. Maybe we could stick to what a disaster Trump's policies/actions are instead of maligning disability.

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It is incredibly troubling in the midst of 3 major crises, the leader of our country has trouble talking, walking, holding a glass. He cowers in the WH, gasses protestors & makes no effort to lead or address any crisis. And no member of his regime or Republican will speak out?

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Ashley Shew

3 years

Just a reminder that "persons" is crime/legalistic language - persons of interest, missing persons. What you mean is people with disabilities or disabled people. We're a group, not lone people wanted in investigations.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

Not to mention "what immunocompromised people need is for EVERYONE ELSE to be wearing PPE" (thanks anony caucus member). Making people out/document themselves as high risk places an individual burden where a community one exists.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

@ReutersScience I think about how the existence chemobrain/brainfog for chemo patients was denied for so long even though patients knew what was up. I'm glad covid patients are being taken seriously on this.

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One of the students has her brother visiting this weekend, and he’s a wheelchair user, so this was a weird kinda prep. We talked about how we’re about to have a whole bunch of visitors with graduation - who will need signage that is missing for the routes.

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Ashley Shew

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Against Technoableism made the shortlist selection for the Non-Obvious Book Awards. Thank you, @Non_Obvious , Rohit Bhargava, and @Inc !

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Ashley Shew

4 years

I'm not sure what burns my biscuits more: A work anniversary email that gives me advice about blood pressure, BMI, and waist measurement *during a pandemic* Or that my scitech uni's wellness unit is promoting a highly problematic measure like BMI. It's embarrassing.

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Ashley Shew

1 year

@KateSpitzmiller Just like our memory/history of polio is about post-polio syndrome...

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Ashley Shew

2 years

There's something really nasty about a one-two punch of a uni president noting that <5s cannot be vaccinated and that immunocompromised families are at risk and a provost message telling us that ADA only applies to personal + documented disabilities and no one else has an excuse.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

This might be a late night ramble, but it doesn’t make any sense that staff members have to pay handsomely to park on campus to go do their jobs while university presidents get free housing.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

Students in my tech & dis chose to do more ADA/accessibility surveys this semester than in the past - in buildings I don't know as well - and honestly I thought I was over being shocked at how inaccessible things are, but, friends, I am indeed shocked at a few of the locations.

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Ashley Shew

4 years

PSA: students blow into their instruments and spread droplets more effectively that way. this is not a good invention and will lead people into thinking they are being safe when they are being reckless. @nmsu h/t @StarFeuri

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Ashley Shew

1 year

My spouse, describing a small tree he’s fussing with in our yard: “Half of it is dead, and it has no desire to even stand up straight.” Me, yelling in recline from the porch: “SAME.” #DisabilityStatus

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Ashley Shew

1 year

@badinfinity2 @LegalThey This is well put. Thank you. I wish the same advice were given to families of disabled kids too.

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Ashley Shew

1 year

My book is up on the @wwnorton website, and I am so excited. I love the cover design so much. It's bright yellow and green with lots of disability tech wingdings (hearing aids, prostheses, lift equipped vans, glasses, and pills) in purple, gray, orange.

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Against Technoableism

One of BookRiot's Ten Best Disability Books of 2023 A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and...

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Ashley Shew

6 years

So many narratives about disability tell us that disabled people should be ashamed if they aren't "overcoming" in the appropriate way - either by passing or acting nondisabled or getting fixed. To love yourself as someone with a disability is to resist this narrative.

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@Imani_Barbarin

6 years

The most radical thing you can do as a disabled person is to like yourself. Then...love yourself. I know that sometimes these blanket statements are unhelpful, but here’s how: pick one thing about yourself that you like. It can even be something small, like your eyes

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Ashley Shew

1 year

One student who is heading into our PhD program took pics to show us, and I have some additional stuff I’ll post later.

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Ashley Shew

2 years

Disability status Wore my "Access Delayed is Access Denied" shirt to the covid testing appt I booked 5 days ago when my spouse started feeling sick. I started symptoms last night. I later spilled food on myself and have changed into my "What @Imani_Barbarin Said" shirt.

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Ashley Shew

3 years

@SnoringDoggo "Listen to the sounds around you." Me: *Listens to the loud buzzing sound of tinnitus ringing and wants to scream*

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