E Krebs, PhD 🧂

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. 🧵

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.

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.

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.

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. 🧵

Link with full event info, including details on accessibility, location, registration, and more: fordham.edu/academics/depa…

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.

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 I will also attach links to an old reading list on disability history - I haven't taught that in years so it's out of date, but may be useful to others! 1/5

🚨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/2024/11/1…

"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.

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

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.

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.

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

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/1C3RJpE…

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. 🧵

Surely if I just internet a little harder, the election results will show up