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vicky¹²⁷
badguyhyunli
how offensive can NCT get? : a thread of things nct/members should’ve been 'cancelled' for a long time ago, but make it within the last year and a half lets
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Wyatte
wyattehall
Some people asked me to discuss the @ACLU tweet on language deprivation so a brief thread incoming. My bona-fides? I have been deaf since infancy and "language deprivation scientist" is
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moodraker
mookraker
And in order to experience the most significant mood whiplash I can, I have followed that up with Robocop.It's always so strange watching this film. The privatization of police in
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Ed Overbeek
EdOverbeek
I'm sure people will accuse Princeton of "erasing history". That's backwards. Keeping Wilson's name meant ignoring the facts that disqualified him from the honor. Acknowledging history is the opposite of
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bk 🪱
DAlSHCU
last day of #AutismAcceptanceMonth so let’s talk about functioning labels and the term “asperger’s” a thread first i wanna talk about functioning labels. what are they exactly?well, they’re basically
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vinceton
vincentvangoin1
The fact that a supposed "linguistic relativist" doesn't know the usage of quotes in the English language to justify and create disproportionate outrage towards a black man on twitter should
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Zoe Wool
zoewool
Our roundtable on future of digital disability with @sfdirewolf and Sandy Ho was aggressively zoombombed. It wasn't pranking or mere inconvenience. It was nothing short of violence. Here are some
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Kaitlin Stack Whitney
KStackWhitney
the current @nytimes ethicist is constantly promoting ableism. this week is unfortunately hardly the first time. a thread of receipts (don't click through if you will be sad or enraged)
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𝙳𝚎𝚜𝚎’𝚁𝚊𝚎 𝙻. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚎 (she/her) 🏳️🌈
deseraestage
This is important: @cdcgov came out with a report in 2018 that showed that 54% of Americans who died by suicide between 1999-2016 did not have a known mental health
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Karl Knights
Inadarkwood
The further away I get from education, the more I realise how much my experience was informed by #AcademicAbleism. Here's a thread on #WhyDisabledPeopleDropOut My encounters with #AcademicAbleism began early.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil
gwensnyderPHL
Some of the blowback is disingenuous, but some folks seem to be actually confused about why I have zero tolerance for white dude dirtbags using "white women" rhetoric to couch
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Bill Fitzgerald
funnymonkey
Yesterday, a conversation came up about video use in the classroom, and requiring cameras.As many people have noted, requiring cameras is a bad idea, for reasons of equity, privacy, promoting
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Micaela Connery
MicaelaConnery
Seeing news about #Covid19 running rampant through large group homes (+institutions) is devastating.+ fact that people with disabilities aren't getting access to the same testing and care is disturbing.+ we
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🧠 nd mgn 🤖
mgnbrainpain
as someone who doesn't feel an instinctive ickiness about giftedness/2e, but considers both terms (though moreso 'giftedness') to be a failure of language, I have Some Thoughtshttps://twitter.com/ADHDdesigner/status/138017358750
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Indhira María Hasbún
IndhiraM_Hasbun
I've been reflecting on the similarities/differences between the current COVID-19 crisis and my own experiences with natural disasters growing up in the Dominican Republic, specifically hurricane Georges in 1998 (I
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Uju Anya
UjuAnya
You hear US politicians disgracing themselves on TV shouting critical race theory (CRT) is a pox on all our houses, they're gonna ban it, slap it, flip it, rub it
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