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Jaipreet Virdi

2 months

For Endometriosis Awareness Month, I'm launching my new research project on South Asian people's experiences with endometriosis. Learn more about the project: Interested in sharing your story? Contact me! #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth

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3 years

Disability design for the win! In 2012, Matthew Walzer, a teen with cerebral palsy, wrote to Nike asking for athletic shoes for disabled people. Nike invited him to collaborate in the design of the original adaptive Nike FlyEase shoe.

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Nike has unveiled their first hands-free shoe: the Nike GO FlyEase.

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5 years

These backpacks cost $120. Which also tells you something about privilege and class in America.

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5 years

This is America in 2019. #VideogamesAreNotToBlame #GunControlNow

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5 years

I repeatedly tell my students, eugenics is not a thing of the past. As recently as 2017, indigenous women were kept from seeing their babies until they consented to sterilization. They were told the procedure was reversible. 2017. Let that sink in.

Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborn babies until agreeing to sterilization, says lawyer...

At least 60 Indigenous women are pursuing a lawsuit alleging they were sterilized against their will, as recently as last year. Is there an issue of systemic racism within Canada's healthcare system?

www.cbc.ca

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4 years

Lesson from History: "I have never had typhoid in my life, and have always been healthy. Why should I be banished like a leper and compelled to live in solitary confinement with only a dog for a companion?” -Mary Mallon, an asymptomatic cook who spread typhoid fever in 1910s NYC

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Archeologists have found evidence that the ancient Greeks built ramps for disabled people, especially at healing sanctuaries and other sacred sites.

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3 years

Got am email that began with this brilliant line: "Sorry to bother you during what feels like the fourth level of Jumanji..."

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2 years

Hi, it's me. I lost my hair. Today, at the end of chemo cycle 1, I got dressed up and wore makeup for the first time in months, and wore this gorgeous head scarf with a yellow maxi dress. For a brief moment, I felt like myself again.

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Health care workers stand in the street in counter-protest to hundreds of people who gathered at the State Capitol to demand the stay-at-home order be lifted in Denver, Colo., on Sunday, April 19, 2020. Photos by Alyson Mcclaran, h/t @DaelNorwood

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I'm profoundly deaf. I spent years training myself to hear on the telephone with my analog hearing aids so I could call my friends. With digital aids, I lost that autonomy. Then I got a closed captioning phone. For the first time in 5 years, I dealt with a bank issue myself!

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5 years

Amazing. @AOC on Instagram giving a tour of the new HANAC public housing with ADA-compliant apartments. 35,000 people applied for 67 units!

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3 years

Discussing the deaf community & "the true meaning of listening" but no captions.

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A deaf teenager was tasered by police and put into handcuffs after he was unable to hear their orders or see their gestures in response to a domestic dispute.

Innocent Deaf Teen Loses Cochlear Implant As Cops Taser Him in the Back for Not Hearing Them

A deaf Tennessee teenager was unable to hear police, so they tasered him in the back as he walked down the sidewalk.

thefreethoughtproject.com

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3 years

Every time I show the FlyEase to students in my Disability+Technology class, they all express they want a pair 🤣

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Die-in protest at University of Delaware in front of Biden School of Public Policy & Administration

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"Do not Resuscitate" order for...being deaf.

Deaf Action

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A deaf resident at our supported accommodation in Edinburgh was given a DNR without his knowledge or consent all because of 'communication difficulties'! We are horrified that this man, in his 60's and full of life, has been given this... (1/6)

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"Disabled people are experts in finding new ways to do things when the old ways don't work. We are a vast think tank right in plain sight. A bottomless well of ingenuity and creativity." - @riva_lehrer

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4 years

This is an eugenics death panel that will disproportionality target disabled & POC patients. It already happened in Austin: doctors withheld treatment from Michael Hickson, a Black, disabled man with COVID-19 & he died.

Steven Spohn (Spawn)

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Arizona is preparing to implement SCORECARDS to determine eligibility for receiving care in a COVID world with limited supplies. The elderly & people with pre-existing conditions immediately fall into a lower category of priority due to life expectancy.

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2 years

Super excited to announce my new project, DEAF FUTURITY. This project examines the design and engineering of hearing aids, from aesthetics of 20th century devices, to new prototypes that attempt to redesign how we think of deafness, and deaf/tech collaborations.

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3 years

Google Chrome has live captioning. Here how it looks when I scroll past an uncaptioned video on Twitter. Settings > Advanced > Accessibility > Live Caption (toggle on). Please share. #accessibility #AccessIsLove

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3 years

All the more reason disability history needs to be mandatory in all school curricula. A thread explaining that teens don't believe Helen Keller could have achieved all that she did 👇🏼

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3 years

Guys, something insane happened to me today. I am on a text chain with my teenage nieces and nephews along with my mom (their grandma) and today my mom asked them if they knew who Helen Keller was... And their response was that Helen Keller was a fraud who didn't exist.

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"No further evidence of cancer" Definitely teared up at my post-chemo appointment with the oncologist yesterday.

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3 years

Oooh my new essay is out early on @aeonmag ! "Culture influences technological design. What happens, then, if we change our expectations? If we stop stigmatising disability and see beauty in difference?"

Let’s use bold, beautiful hearing aids to celebrate deafness | Psyche Ideas

Hearing aids have always been designed to be concealed, yet they’re a beautiful affirmation of deafness – and should be seen

psyche.co

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Jaipreet Virdi

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4 years

Working on my lecture on positive eugenics and OH WOW this 1939 image....

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2 years

I've been holding off on explaining what's going on, but I guess this is a good time. During my October surgery for endometriosis, the surgeons found an ovarian tumor & I've been diagnosed with cancer. The pain worsens every day. This second surgery was supposed to help.

Jaipreet Virdi

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2 years

*in tears* What I was worrying would happen, happened: increasing covid hospitalizations forced the hospital to cancel my surgery. Will be suffering for a while longer, as there's no indication when surgery will be rescheduled. I'm just...hopeless. numb. I don't know.

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Jaipreet Virdi

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Going through archives from 1970 and came across this powerful illustration.

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3 years

I know Lady Gaga is wearing an earpiece here but damn, I would love a hearing aid designed like this.

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2 years

Biographers often ignore Harriet Tubman's disability. As @drcooperowens writes, Tubman "offered up a version of freedom where a disabled Black woman sat at the center...where Black women were liberators, & where liberation was communal and democratic."

Harriet Tubman’s Disability and Why it Matters - Ms. Magazine

In Harriet Tubman's version of freedom, Black women were liberators and a disabled Black woman sat at the center of democracy.

msmagazine.com

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Jaipreet Virdi

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7 years

. @BetsyDeVos is this what you plan to do with your pencil while public school teachers work hard to educate and protect students?

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4 years

Masks for accessibility during the pandemic created by student Ashley Lawrence: "I just saw that people were making masks on Facebook for everyone to have instead of the throwaway masks, and I was like, what about the deaf and hard of hearing population?"

College student makes masks for the deaf & hard of hearing

A college senior from Versailles put her stir-craziness to good use with a project that will help the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community.

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4 years

Can I just say? As a kid who went through this? This is traumatic.

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4 years

It seems they use "auditory training" to teach these kids to make sense of sound so that they can join hearing peers at mainstream schools. I assume many of these kids use power hearing aids and/or cochlear devices, but this is still not an effective method of "listening."

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*in tears* What I was worrying would happen, happened: increasing covid hospitalizations forced the hospital to cancel my surgery. Will be suffering for a while longer, as there's no indication when surgery will be rescheduled. I'm just...hopeless. numb. I don't know.

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5 years

@shaunking @0rf @BernieSanders . @shaunking is there a closed captioned version? I'm sure other deaf people would also like to watch & listen! Thanks!

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3 years

For all of you talking about rehauling the way academic conferences should be organized in the After Times to be more accessible and inclusive, this is a friendly reminder disabled scholars have been pushing for this for YEARS.

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The latest issue of Disability Studies Quarterly is on the theme of Indigeneity + Disability. What a fantastic collection of papers! All open-access and available here:

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4 years

This photo is going to be on a book cover one day. Thousands of cars arriving at San Antonio Food Bank. Story: via @mysa

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3 years

I'm teaching "History of Medicine" and "Health Activism" next semester. Within a week, both classes were full. Now, more than ever, we need history of medicine courses offered at all levels and we must prioritize hiring historians of medicine.

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4 years

For those of you who are struggling with your mental health and anxiety during this crisis, my sister shared this infographic that you might find useful 💜

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@ME_McCullough Don't Have A Cow, Man: Gender & Representation of Farm Animals

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3 years

Disabled folks have been warning about the decline of accommodations in the Covid After Times. And it's started 👇🏼

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In a deaf school in 1938, 5 year old David received a letter from his mother. Knowing he was learning language through symbols and pictures, she illustrated her letter -- happy with this means of communication, David went around the school sharing his letters.

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Jaipreet Virdi

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2 years

Hi, it's me. A year later, I'm finally going back to teaching. Peep these post-chemo baby hairs making their appearance. They're long enough that it's time to forego the hats. And yes, this is the wallpaper in my home office!

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4 years

It's finally here!!! A book with my name on the cover!! I'm so pleased to have co-edited this wonderful collection of essays on Disability and the Victorians. Available here:

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5 years

This captures the essence of disability technology.

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4 years

Yesterday I had a conversation with the lovely @NyleDiMarco about the importance of deaf activism and bilingual education for the deaf. A bonus! I shared some of the hearing aid artifacts in my collection and discussed deafness history 😊

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4 years

If you want to understand what "defund the police" means, @yeahitschill has created a graphic showing where NYC's budget is spent. The police department gets as much as all other social services combined.

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4 years

Look what came in the mail today!!!!! My book is here!! It's real!! Hello #HearingHappiness , welcome to the world!

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"On Gallaudet: they wanted to recruit deaf people from all over the world. Give then a sense of identity. And an appropriate education and provide them with a home. Their own space." @NyleDiMarco on the importance of education for the deaf.

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4 years

Here's an idea for @nytimes : have The Ethicist step down and give a column to @SFdirewolf .

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2 years

DISABILITY AT HOME: Did you know less than 5% of housing is accessible? A new website created by @mauldin_laura documents the ingenuity & creativity that caregivers and disabled people use to make their home accessible. What a fascinating project!

Home

Visit the post for more.

www.disabilityathome.org

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4 years

No. A pandemic is not a reason to put pressure on academics to "make use of their time."

Coronavirus Confinement Can Help Educators Advance Careers

Teachers and administrators who find time can advance their careers in key ways.

www.psychologytoday.com

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2 years

One for the @aahmhistmed #AAHM22 crowd. #IFYKYK

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4 years

Thank you for sharing, @NyleDiMarco ! Many of us likely have been or will be infected & exhibit symptoms of COVID-19. Unless you're seriously ill, have respiratory issues, or are immunocompromised, PLEASE STAY HOME to recover so resources are available for high-risk people.

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Jaipreet Virdi

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3 years

A sign language glove from 1870s:

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2 years

Here's hoping the third time's the charm. Off to surgery, see you on the other side, friends x #FuckCancer #EndoSucks (Photo from October surgery but pretty much the same thing now)

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2 years

It's not official-offical yet and I have so many feels I can't quite articulate them, but what a day to recieve this news that I've been recommended for Tenure 🎉 Soon, I'll officially be a #BadAssProf !

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4 years

When airlines bring me, a deaf person, a wheelchair.

Rabbi Ruti Regan

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4 years

Hey #DisabledTwitter : What are some examples of accessibility fails you've encountered at the hands of people who thought they were doing the right thing and expected you to be grateful for?

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4 years

@Imani_Barbarin @DoorDash This reminds me of another ableist thread I saw, about a driver refusing to deliver food to the door. A commentator replied: "It's DOORDash, not CurbDash"

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3 years

This is the first time I've seen a Note on Access in an academic book. Thank you, Susan Burch & @uncpressblog for this model of how we can cultivate more accessible histories and accessible futures ! #AcademicTwitter #twitterstorians

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3 years

Today I learned an adorable fact about (a species of) bees.

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4 years

Just had to withdraw from an important meeting because there were no captioning for me and captioning apps weren't working properly. This is getting really annoying. I hate zoom.

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4 years

Kamala Harris is not just going to be the first woman Vice-President or the first Black woman Vice-President. She's also going to be the first Indian vice-president and that means a lot too.

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4 years

Stop teaching design students to build prototypes of useless disability technology. #DisabilityDongle

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These students just blew minds with their wheelchair prototype

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3 years

If you're an anti-vaxxer just get the fuck off my feed. Unfollow me. I don't get paid to educate the world and have no time to engage.

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2 years

So far, I'm not impressed with 2020 Part III.

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4 years

I wish every journalist, writer, news reporter etc. writing about #COVID19 and wanting to put it into context would contact the many qualified historians of medicine who specialize in history of public health, epidemics, and medical infrastructure. And pay them as constants.

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3 years

Now *this* is an earring to wear with my hearing aids!

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4 years

"If you're poor, you're dead."

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4 years

Just lock the country down. Pay people to stay home. This is getting worse and worse.

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4 years

📍BREAKING—US sets another new record of 83,000 #COVID19 cases in a single day. This comes after 77,000 cases were reported the day before (itself the highest ever). Smashing the previous record just a day later is insane! This is only getting worse. 100k/day possible soon.

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🎉FELLOWSHIP🎉 I am pleased to announce the new Jaipreet Virdi 2021 Fellowship in Disability Studies at @MedicalHeritage , to support up to $3000 for research projects on disability & medical technologies. #histSTM #DisHist Deadline: April 19 Details:

Call for Fellowship Applications: Jaipreet Virdi 2021 Fellowship for Disability Studies - Medical...

The Medical Heritage Library seeks a motivated fellow to assist in the continuing development of our education and outreach programs. Under the guidance of a member of our governance board, the...

www.medicalheritage.org

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"If we’ve learned one thing as disabled design critics, it is that stories inform the way we design. Disabled people are the original FlyEase consumer." New article by me and @elizejackson for @FutureTenseNow @Slate on the Nike GO FlyEase.

Why Won’t Nike Use the Word Disabled to Promote Its New Go FlyEase Shoe?

Disability is not a bad word.

slate.com

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2 years

A nightmare.

CP24

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Vaughan woman with Stage 4 cancer has surgery postponed indefinitely 'because of the situation with COVID-19'

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Dear corporations, When I DM you asking for assistance & begin my request with the phrase, "I'm deaf", please do not send a follow-up message with a phone number and ask me to call. For fuck's sake. It's 2020. Inclusivity is not hard with all this *gestures wildly* technology.

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3 years

Almost burst into tears at the doctor's office this morning when I learned my doctor implemented my suggestion to have the staff wear clear masks. I can't even describe how great it feels to understand every single thing they said so I could be fully informed about my health.

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4 years

This @novapbs site is a great resource for teaching the case of Mary Mallon (aka Typhoid Mary), public health, and quarantine in early 20th century United States. #AcademicTwitter

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2 years

I'm 40. I wish I was diagnosed 20 years ago. Because maybe, just maybe, then endometriosis wouldn't have damaged my body--and my life--the way it did. We need better advocacy, testing, and practices for dealing with this disease, especially with the risks of cancer.

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4 years

Hey deaf friends, did you know you can use Google Meet to caption telephone calls? I had a meeting that I thought was a video call but it wasn't; was pleasantly surprised at how accurate the captioning was!

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6 years

Don't give hate a place to exist. This is a new campaign launched by the Scottish government and police. This is how it should be done.

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3 years

Tonight this goodest girl is getting a very special dinner and lots of cuddles for being a hero.

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4 years

So pleased by color coordination aesthetics have been recognized. Benny deserves +100 points for being the sweetest puppy on video though!

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Absolutely stunning. Plants. Shelves. Decor. That chair. Benny asleep. Mandatory 2 pt deduction for multiple copies of own book. Let us revisit soon. 8/10 @jaivirdi

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🧵I know how hard it is to organize a conference, especially in the middle of a pandemic. But, accessibility needs to be embedded from conference design from the start, for that is the best means for ensuring equitable spaces. DEI work isn't inclusive without disability.

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Medical experiments on girls detained in camps. Where have I heard of this before?

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3 years

What an incredible resource! Today, ENSLAVED: PEOPLES OF THE HISTORICAL SLAVE TRADE launched, bringing together in this invaluable resource more than 600,000 records of enslaved individuals. View here: Congratulations to all who worked on this!

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I'm fed up with viewing uncaptioned videos here or excuses for not captioning. Let's start a shift: no more retweeting or engaging with content that is not captioned or accessible.

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For people with Down Syndrome, COVID-19 is ten times deadlier. Researchers suspect background immune abnormalities, combined with extra copies of key genes in people with DS, makes them especially vulnerable.

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OMG OMG OMG Hearing Happiness is awarded @BSHSNews Hughes Prize for best general book in #histSTM "This book can be an inspiration to young historians, who may realise that they, too, have a unique insight into a particular aspect of science or medicine.”

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5 years

Oh hell no. This tweet by @TerryRossio infuriates me. @Lollardfish is correct: anti-vaxxers are NOT A PERSECUTED MINORITY. You know what they are? Dangerous. Let me educate you on infectious disease and the history of vaccination.

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4 years

YES! Captioning should be available across ALL social media platforms.

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3 years

One more time for those in the back: AUTO CAPTIONS ARE NOT GOOD SUBSTITUTES

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3 years

@srdjanluzajic @RebeccaRideal They didn't. A ramp is inclusive and better for elderly, children, or even people using canes, crutches, or carried in litters.

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2 years

I can't function most days. I can't write. Sometimes I can't walk. There's endo everywhere, including in my ribs. It's the worst it's ever been. Now this goes on for longer.

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4 years

Dear #AcademicTwitter : are you looking for readings on disability history? The syllabus for my graduate seminar DISABILITY HISTORIES is updated and includes themes on race, slavery, colonialism, eugenics, and more! #twitterstorians #histSTM #dishist

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1 year

Another disabled ancestor looking over us. Than you for all you've done for the community, @judithheumann and for marking the way for a generation of activists. Thank you for sharing your story with us and showing us how to fight the good fight. I hope you are at peace.

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5 years

I WROTE A BOOK!!! "Through lyrical history and personal memoir, Hearing Happiness raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure." Coming March 2020 via @UChicagoPress :

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As you all know, I'm open about aspects of my health issues, especially regarding endometriosis & cancer. It's my hope that people who read my tweets become more aware of the disease and more importantly, someone is helped with this advocacy. A thread on the latest battles.

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@jaivirdi

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Caption your videos. #AccessIsLove

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Jaipreet Virdi

@jaivirdi

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Boosting this again for folks who missed it the first time around, and especially for students & faculty who are dealing with inaccessible online spaces. #AcademicTwitter #Twitterstorians

Jaipreet Virdi

@jaivirdi

3 years

Google Chrome has live captioning. Here how it looks when I scroll past an uncaptioned video on Twitter. Settings > Advanced > Accessibility > Live Caption (toggle on). Please share. #accessibility #AccessIsLove

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Jaipreet Virdi

@jaivirdi

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Quarantine Day 10. I woke up to chest pain and shortness of breath. I have a fever again. I woke up and cried. Everything I was holding inside spilled out and left me raw.

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Jaipreet Virdi

@jaivirdi

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CAUTION* *Me reading this sign and deciding to be scary even though I'm not sure who's supposed to be cautioned...

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Jaipreet Virdi

@jaivirdi

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@933Aidan "The women would be told that they could not leave until their tubes were tied, cut or cauterized." There's no rate of children dumped into the foster system that can ever, ever justify coerced sterilization of women. Ever.

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Jaipreet Virdi

@jaivirdi

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How the hell do you organize a "public engagement" lecture across multiple platforms and don't provide captions or transcripts?

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