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Amy Sekhar♿️

@frocine

#dwarf and #disability activist. Educator. Recovered academic. Collective liberation. she/her/hers

Katılım Nisan 2009
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#WhyDisabledPeopleDropOut A thread. As a former faculty member, I have heard several colleagues complain about accommodations as being frivolous. If they are willing to say these things in front of a very visibly disabled colleague, what do they say behind closed doors? 1/
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@Imani_Barbarin The number of times I let people play with my crutches so they could see how fast they could go, how long they could balance, etc. Yeah, just to have something to do during big recess that wasn’t pretending to be sick so I could stay inside in the library, where it felt safer.
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@DrSamiSchalk @SFdirewolf Though I feel like our energy paths have crossed through time and space: 1) at Earlham while I was a visiting prof for a semester; 2) at IUPUI while I was working at the Equity Center. I feel like somehow our wheels have been in at least one hallway in common. Right?
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@kimkgarrett do you have a take on the Richmond, Indiana, industrial fire? … because we aren’t getting much info, and I’m trying to organize out here. Of course it’s the same communities disproportionately impacted.
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@djhoover1013 Glad to see he’s wearing a mask. The number of people nonchalantly existing as if our lungs aren’t under assault is bewildering.
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@RebeccaCokley @Medium You’d better outlive me, but if I have to, I will tell the story about the time I accidentally tried to run you down with my wheelchair. And then YOU bought ME a coffee?!
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@AnySomebody @BlondeHistorian @GuideDogAva Service dog shade is real. Mine gets pissy if I turn my wheelchair on (it makes a sort of click) and don’t go anywhere. The nerve. He’s like, “I was napping, and now I’m at attention for nothing. Thanks for nothing.” Spoken silently with a side eye and a huff.
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@BlondeHistorian @GuideDogAva Does Ava ever get annoyed at you not believing her the first time? I feel like there’d have to at least be a doggy eye roll going on when you give the command the second time haha
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Disappointed #WhatADay hasn’t covered the death of #JudyHeumann. There’s not generally great disability coverage by actually disabled folks on @CrookedMedia, which has always bugged me, but the death of a major civil rights leader?
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“To avoid the marriage penalties faced by couples in which one partner is disabled, the union was ceremonial rather than legal. This shielded Ms. Torasso from future financial responsibility and allowed Mr. Carbone to retain the disability benefits he needed to afford care.”
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My friend who is a Chief Diversity officer shared that there have been a growing number of complaints by white faculty and staff that the jobs were being reserved for people of color and that their voices were being silenced. They decided to look at the numbers.
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@BlondeHistorian There is nothing like working dog side-eye. Also stink-eye. My first assistance dog was a master of both.
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