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Kit Ryan @limpinglibrary

disability, poetry, and sometimes some dragons. I'm a librarian and academic interested in cripping your kidlit. All opinions are my own.

Joined August 2012
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Kit Ryan@limpinglibrary
25 May 2022
It's out! Thank you @ladyredjess and @amandatink for helping 'Who Gets to Survive the Apocalypse? Disability Hierarchy in Post-Disaster Fiction in Australian YA' out in the world as part of this issue. Always love to write about how #CripLit & #kidlit help us imagine crip futures
Australian Literary Studies@ALSjournal
24 May 2022
Australian Literary Studies is proud to publish our latest issue edited by @ladyredjess and @amandatink: Writing Disability in Australian Literature. A major intervention in Austlit scholarship with important new work, read more here: australianliterarystudies.co…
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This one's mine! Looking forward to seeing some you there in person or online
CripKidLit@CripKidLit
17 Apr 2024
Replying to @CripKidLit
10. What can the Air Temples in Avatar: The Last Airbender tell us about performative accessibility? Can the linguistic case structure of a fictional language help us express real-world feelings around cure and crip time? In a world full of magic, who are miracle cures even for?
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Can't wait!
Elizabeth Leach-Leung@ezlabeth
21 Mar 2024
We're less than a month away! Join us in-person at @CamEdFac or online for two-days of #disability in #childrenslit
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@ImaniBarbarin@disabled.social@Imani_Barbarin
18 Mar 2024
The only thing people can imagine about disabled people is our deaths and they’re usually the cause of it.
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Dr Amanda Tink@amandatink
16 Oct 2023
For Les Murray's birthday: Les Murray said his autism shaped his poetry – his late poems offer insights into his creative process theconversation.com/les-murr… theconversation.com/les-murr…

Les Murray said his autism shaped his poetry – his late poems offer insights into his creative...

Les Murray’s habit of rearranging and recontexualising his poetry was a reflection of his distinctive way of perceiving the world.

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Australian Literary Studies@ALSjournal
31 May 2022
Kit Kavanagh-Ryan (@limpinglibrary) uses crip readings of Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn Chronicles and Ambelin Kwaymullina’s Tribe sequence to determine whether they reinforce or subvert current understandings of disability bit.ly/3NJVVMA
Picture of the cover of The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, it is a close-up shot of a young woman's face.

ALT Picture of the cover of The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, it is a close-up shot of a young woman's face.

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mixing up our voices, @SarahStivens
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Honoured to a contributor to this exciting collection
Australian Literary Studies@ALSjournal
19 May 2022
Come celebrate ALS special issue, Writing Disability in Australia, edited by @ladyredjess and @amandatink. To be launched by Dr Scott Avery – readings from @katerina_bry and Anna Jacobson Online, captioned bit.ly/alsspecialissuelaunch bit.ly/alsspecialissuelaunch
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Between end of session teaching, pointy end PhD hell and a brutal flare up of winter, I haven't been able to manage long form fiction for months. A year? Time is weird. @KDEdwards_NC's Hourglass Throne is so good and so beautifuly paced I pulled an all nighter to listen to it.
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Knowing they're together in all their arguments and catscradle connections, growing in all their own ways, I trust this series. And it has been cathartic and vivid and heartbreaking and often bloody funny.
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I know The Hourglass Throne is thr end of only a single cycle. I want to be there until the end. Tldr: 11/10, @KDEdwards_NC books makes my dehydrated houseplant self want to grow some new leaves. Would lose sleep again. Also, the audio is stellar.
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Dr. Laura M. Jimenez@booktoss
7 Mar 2022
Good morning @ncte @ILAToday @BUWheelock It is the 10th anniversary of the book “Wonder”. After 10 yrs of wondering why the book is so popular I wrote a review. #SpoilerAlert #TrashRepresentation #StopAssigning #NotOwnvoice #BookTwitter booktoss.org/2022/03/06/not-…
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Kris Kneen (they/them)@krissykneen
28 Feb 2022
If you need a quick break from the disasters of the world have a listen to this abc.net.au/radionational/pro…

Isabel Allende writes about her mother, Markus Zusak gets your fanmail - ABC listen

Isabel Allende says her latest novel, Violeta, was inspired by her mother but also by Allende's own life. Also, readers who send fan mail and the writers who reply with Markus Zusak, Anita Heiss,...

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interviewing @joseph_elliott for #TheBookShow was an absolute pleasure. Listen in for disability, queerness, and the worldbuilding of one of my favourite series. (Plus, @NicholsClaire has a great lineup this episode. I mean, just listen!) abc.net.au/radionational/pro…
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