#dwarf and #disability activist. Educator. Recovered academic. Collective liberation. she/her/hers
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25 Apr 2019
#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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7 Mar 2023
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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Amy Sekhar♿️ retweeted
1 Nov 2022
“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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7 Oct 2022
Ratatouille without the sex scenes. 💀
Amy Sekhar♿️ retweeted
12 Aug 2022
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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24 Sep 2021
It keeps you from doing your work. Powerful.
Amy Sekhar♿️ retweeted
6 Aug 2019
Incredibly powerful, must-watch moment.
Thank you, @esglaude.
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Amy Sekhar♿️ retweeted
3 Nov 2020
I don't have a 280 character quip about why you should vote.
What I do have--what so many of us have--is a very real fear of the present & a dire sense of urgency to change the future.
Election results are a necessary step to making that happen. So please, VOTE.
#CripTheVote
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Amy Sekhar♿️ retweeted
We can blame Trump and Woodward all we want, but after a certain point, we’re going to have to come to terms with the fact you all saw disabled and elderly people as disposable and didn’t think it reasonable to hold your politicians and selves to account.
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Amy Sekhar♿️ retweeted
9 Sep 2020
This is voter suppression AND ableism
*flips all the goddamn inaccessible tables*
BTW, join #CripTheVote this Sunday, 9/13, 7 pm Eastern for a Twitter chat on voter suppression with guest host @the_tattooedjew
Details: cripthevote.blogspot.com/202…
9 Sep 2020
BREAKING: Mississippi voters with pre-existing conditions who have “higher risk of severe illness or death” if they contract #COVID19 should not be able to vote absentee, the State’s attorney general and secretary of state told the MS Supreme Court today. mississippifreepress.org/570…
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1 Sep 2020
I just left academia altogether (over the ableist and other bs).
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27 Aug 2020
Still processing: we live in a state where incarcerated people, many houseless, are paid slave wages to risk lives defending others' homes, then banned from fire work bc of a record. Then their pandemic based release is considered a "cause" of destruction. cnn.com/2020/08/24/us/califo…
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Amy Sekhar♿️ retweeted
27 Aug 2020
A 17 year old white supremacist domestic terrorist drove across state lines, armed with an AR 15.
He shot and killed 2 people who had assembled to affirm the value, dignity, and worth of Black lives.
Fix your damn headlines.
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Amy Sekhar♿️ retweeted
Jesus could get gunned down by the cops & y'all would be like
"he's an illegal immigrant who flipped a table in anger once so he got what he deserved."
#DefundThePolice
#AbolishThePolice
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