This month @DisInHigherEd is celebrating disability in higher education and I have some thoughts as I sit awake at 1am with a low blood sugar. #DisabledInHigherEd #DisabledinSTEM #DEHEM #DisabledInNeuro #type1diabetes

Watching the tweets roll by with mostly a trickle of lights and reshares it makes my heart sad.

Acknowledgement, visablity & celebration of disabled people in higher ed & the world at large is so incredibly important. We are the butts of jokes, blamed/gaslit for our disability,

Or just flat out not believed. Disabled people are continually shamed or pushed out of their field or made to feel less than for the days we have just simply run out of spoons. Often times the buildings are literally not built for disabled people. Many of us hide our disability

Day to day or succumb to institutionalized ableism or our own internalized ableism & disabled people are weeded out at each step. Higher ed needs the vast array of disabled perspectives. Desperately.

Colleagues, friends, please like & share & celebrate your disabled peers. You

May not know how many people you do not know are living with chronic illness and disability in your field and what your support means to them.

I cannot promise to be as loud and proud about my diabetes as I usually am. This week my mom was placed into hospice care and my spoons

Are very low. What I can promise is that the disabled daughter of a disabled mother sees this month and is seeing her community.

Fight, uplift, and stand up for disabled people this month and always. Sometimes we do not have the energy to do it ourselves. #DisabledinSTEM