My wedding is in four weeks (party in five), planning is in full swing, and today I wrote letters for Joseph Wetzel to open before the ceremony. I am so incredibly lucky to be marrying my outstanding partner. 💍👰🏻‍♀️

Early career academics should unionize in recognition that their institution is their common nemesis

The geekiest way to celebrate four weeks until your wedding is with margaritas and Magic: The Gathering. (I won.) ❤️💙

one of the most disconcerting realisations to have is that this applies at large. disability programs are so convoluted because they don't *really* want to help you. trans healthcare is so bad because they don't *really* want to help you. they don't want you to be present at all

#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityTwitter Does anyone have any favorite readings from a dis studies perspective about Outsider (Art Brut)/Intuitive/Self-Taught artist movements? I'm especially looking for how intellectual disability appears in these mvmts and their curation. Thx!

d'pharaoh woon-a-tai with a red handprint over his mouth in solidarity with missing and murdered indigenous women

I get that this is a joke but the Scholastic Book Fair isn’t: it’s a terrible annual reinscription of class hierarchies. It’s not that hard to develop an alternative book fair. Ask me how I know.

Police are shooting people over a $2.90 subway fare. There’s no way cops can be trusted to enforce a mask ban by determining who is exempt because they are wearing a mask for health reasons.

Writing my own citations

From the recommendation of Dr. Paris Wicker, Ph.D. I have made an amazon wish list to get me through the 5th year of the PhD. Here is my dissertating wish list: amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls…

“The fight for higher education is bigger than just us.” — AAUP president Todd Wolfson laying out a new vision for the future of higher education today in Philadelphia. Higher Education Labor United (HELU) AFT NEA UAW SEIU AFSCME AFT Higher Ed #defendhighered

Blackboard Ultra is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

I'm all for accessible cities with fewer cars. We also need to contend w/ the fact that street harassment makes cities less accessible. When I run an errand, it sucks to reroute my whole walk so the group of men harassing me wouldn't follow me home

Child writes someone a letter, and in doing so succinctly summarizes the purpose of writing someone a letter.

We are witnessing a resurgence of repression on college campuses that we haven’t seen since the late 1960s.

Support dissertators! It’s rough out here, y’all! #ThisDiss

Tyler Austin Harper A fun* question to ask other academics close to your own age: "How many of your friends from growing up are already dead?" *Not fun, to be clear. But a gut wrenching signifier of class.