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⚠️Almost exactly a year later, this bot has become defunct thanks to Twitter/X's new policies. However, @dysfluent is considering how the bot can work on other platforms to continue the spread of stammering pride. Stay tuned.

Dysfluent Issue 2 is finally ready to pre-order! 📖 The magazine is a compilation of interviews and visual artwork celebrating and challenging stammering pride. Pre-order a copy of the magazine here: dysfluent.bigcartel.com Orders will ship in November 🚀 #stammer #stutter

⚠️Almost exactly a year later, this bot has become defunct thanks to Twitter/X's new policies. However, @dysfluent is considering how the bot can work on other platforms to continue the spread of stammering pride. Stay tuned.

This bot acknowledges the groundbreaking work done by the people quoted on this Twitter page, and is grateful for their publications. It hopes the frequency and visibility of the Twitter bot format will instil feelings of pride, gain and power of stammering 🌟 (8/8)

Hi there 👋 This bot was created by @dysfluent, as a response to Stutter No More, a Twitter bot that perpetuates narratives of overcoming stammering 😒 (1/8)

“Every time we stutter, we make it a safer place for those people to talk. Every time we stutter, we show someone else what stuttering sounds like.” 
– Chris Constantino (2016)
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“For me on reflection it was the words left unspoken, spiralling around my mind before crashing against a cruel unseen barrier that caused me so much shame.”
– Stephen Greene, Stutterverse (2022)
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“We are a better culture because there are people who stutter in it.”
– Barry Yeoman, StutterTalk 670 (2019)
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“I get to learn from other people who stutter a better way to live.” 
– Peter Reitzes, StutterTalk 714 (2022)
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“I have every right to my words
just like all my friends
we are like the songbirds
our song never ends…”
– Bevin Murphy, ‘My Stutter’ (2019)
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“A sense of belonging is nourishing to one’s identity as a person who stutters.Being in the company of others who stutter and our allies is my favourite way to assure my Identity.”
– Stephen Greene, Stutterverse (2022)
#stammeringpride

“Stammering pride can only be fully understood in relation to prejudice.”
– Campbell, Constantino & Simpson (2019)
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“[The stuttering dimension] is a place for curiosity, insight and social connection.”
– Emma Alpern (2019)
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“Stammering Pride is a counter narrative to the dominant societal narrative around fluency.”
– Campbell, Constantino & Simpson (2019)
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“It comes back to us [as people who stutter]: we should be focusing our resources and energy to educate so we can shift the way society engages with us.”
– Chaya Goldstein, StutterTalk 670 (2019)
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“It comes back to us [as people who stutter]: we should be focusing our resources and energy to educate so we can shift the way society engages with us.”
– Chaya Goldstein, StutterTalk 670 (2019)
#stammeringpride

“Take space in communication. Specifically, occupy half the space in a one-to-one conversation. Inform listeners by showing up, participating, and self-disclosing by stuttering with pride rather than apology.”
– Vivian Sisskin, Redefining Stammering (2021)
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“We wear our vulnerability on the outside, and that invites emotional intimacy with others. We slow down conversations, fostering patience.”
– Barry Yeoman (2019)
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“Ever since coming out [as a person who stutters] I’ve really been able to step in my power more.”
– Maya Chupkov (2022)
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“Stammering pride puts forward a new idea of stammering: it’s not necessarily a problem or something that needs to be fixed… maybe it is just a different way of speaking that has value in itself.” 
– Nora Trench Bowles (2022)
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“Ever since coming out [as a person who stutters] I’ve really been able to step in my power more.”
– Maya Chupkov (2022)
#stammeringpride

“The two-way nature of interaction creates an opportunity for every listener to meet the openness and authenticity of stammering in a way that fosters shared respect and intimacy.”
– Campbell, Constantino & Simpson (2019)
#stammeringpride

“A sense of belonging is nourishing to one’s identity as a person who stutters.Being in the company of others who stutter and our allies is my favourite way to assure my Identity.”
– Stephen Greene, Stutterverse (2022)
#stammeringpride