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Amy Gaeta

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2 years

I can’t stop thinking about how the divorce rate for men leaving their really sick wives is so high that nurses are taught to warn women patients when they get diagnosed with a serious illness

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4 years

It’s not a revolution if it’s not accessible

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4 years

Antines Davis taught a group of Milwaukee protesters how to sign “ #blacklivesmatter ” in #ASL

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3 years

As someone who does this quite often, they are not ignoring you. They are overwhelmed. They are forgetful. They are trying to figure out what it means to care for themselves and actually do it. They do not hate you. They, in fact, probably miss you.

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3 years

“Well we can’t wear masks forever!” is such a funny thing to say because yes we totally could and probably should.

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3 months

Cool so it’s not taking anyone’s job

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3 years

If Osaka was white, media outlets & brands would be holding her up as a mental health & self care icon right now.

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3 years

very uncomfortable and frustrating to hear people, in person, at work, on tv, etc, talk about the pandemic in the past tense....just yesterday alone, 12 thousand people died from covid.

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3 years

Proofreaders deleting my em dashes as if they aren’t my emotional support punctuation

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7 months

Aaron Schwartz, we will remember you

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7 months

Exciting news! #JSTOR is now free in 1,000 correctional facilities worldwide, benefiting over 500,000 incarcerated individuals, demonstrating JSTOR's commitment to inclusive #education . Learn more about the #JSTORAccessInPrison program:

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2 years

Everyone I explain long COVID to & call it a mass disabling event thinks I’m feeding into conspiracy theories because, they say, “if that’s was true, the government would be panicking.” Have you not paid attention to anything in American history ever

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4 years

Just got a cold email from a tenured professor telling me she assigns my essay in her classes. Please put junior, grad student, adjunct, & non-academic scholars’ work on your syllabus — AND TELL THEM. It made my entire day.

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5 years

Does anyone else have twitter crushes? Not even romantic crushes, but when they like or retweet your posts, you are extremely proud?

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3 years

Academia is cool because you can give a talk at Ivy League schools and then go home to eat an uncrustable for dinner because you can’t pay $20 for takeout

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3 years

Dating is so awful. I just want to eat pastries in bed and watch movies with someone that actually likes me and isn’t ableist garbage

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4 years

As vaccines begin to roll out, I’d like to start a petition to now to keep a Zoom option available for every in-person event.

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5 years

If you begin talking about the coronavirus by saying “it’s only really fatal for the elderly and chronically ill people” then stop. Try “The elderly and chronically ill people are the most vulnerable to its effects.” How you say things matters, it really matters.

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5 years

Academics: Has any non-academic ever grossly OVERESTIMATED what your salary? Someone thinks I'm "making bank" because I teach at a big university...I'm a grad student TA....ha I'm interested in why people think academics are rolling in cash. Academic poverty is very real.

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4 years

Having mental illness does not absolve you from your responsibility to not inflict harm on others.

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3 years

Someone close to me said it was “kinda uncomfortable” that I call myself disabled. Lol well that sucks for you.

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2 years

I repeat: the point of a strike is to disrupt the rhythms of daily life. It is to show to utterly dependent we are on the labor of the underrepresented and mistreated. A few bad days for rest us is worth supporting the long term quality of life for thousands of striking workers

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5 years

I got this email and THIS GIRL WON A FELLOWSHIP AND HER RESEARCH IS NOW FULLY FUNDED, NO WORK, UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2020. PHD HERE I COME.

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5 years

Hi friends: I am waiting for a very important email, hopefully holding good news. Please send me good vibes 🙌 Your support earns my eternal gratitude.

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5 years

The new @Netflix show "In The Dark" is about a young blind woman who's also a partier and gets caught up in a murder case. Netflix DOES NOT offer audio descriptions for the show. A show about the blind inaccessible to the blind.

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4 years

The GameStop story scares Wall Street because people will realize that the stock market isn’t just for the very rich and educated. It’s actually pretty simple to use with some basic research. Creating financial illiteracy is a yet another class gatekeeping tactic

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2 years

Academics are going to get so much more annoying

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2 years

Long form tweets of 4,000 characters will be launched in early February.

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4 years

Getting a flu shot and the nurse goes “you won’t even feel it, who feels these days anyway.”

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2 years

It’s actually a pretty big privilege to just leave this app. For some people, this is the one place where they can be themselves and feel a sense of community

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2 years

The way people get mad and annoyed when you mentioned that there is still a pandemic is such a strong indicator of the type of aggression and shame that upholds normalcy and ableism

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5 years

My university is having a "Netflix and Chill" movie night. They do know "chill" means "fuck," right?

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1 year

@terrormcgorry “I’m so glad my legacy is me using a slur”

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4 years

People saying Britney Spears doesn’t need a conservatorship because she’s mentally stable...no, the conservatorship is abusive no matter her mental health/mental illness status.

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Amy Gaeta

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4 years

how did Dolly Parton and Guy Fieri actually become the federal government

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Guy Fieri has raised $21.5 million for unemployed restaurant workers, which means Guy Fieri has done more for unemployed restaurant workers than Congress has in the last 8 months.

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3 years

Temperatures are literally hotter than a human can survive right now, affecting marginalized ppl the most. Understated is how climate change is causing more ppl to develop disabilities/ worsen existing conditions. All while care systems are increasingly crumbling & privatizing

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4 years

Disabled person: yeah I just got this new [accessibility device goes here] Nondisabled people: OMG IM SO SORRY *touches your new access device* Disabled person: OMG IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU? DO YOU LOVE IT? DOES IT WORK WELL? CELEBRATE!!

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3 years

I am dead serious when I say that photos of strangers’ pets have benefited my mental health better than cognitive behavioral therapy ever did

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TERFs use the pretense of wanting to “protect ciswomen” to hide their deeper belief that the category of woman should only include those upholding western, white normative femininity in manner, form, and aesthetics. It’s a fascist project that serves empire to its core

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3 years

Stock up for Autism Awareness Month.

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3 years

Sorry I can’t respond to your email from 5 weeks ago that requires a two sentence reply because I just can’t okay

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3 years

Refuse to believe that any disabled person exists who only has one disability; these things are a package deal

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@GaetaAmy

3 years

No more cover letters, CVs, or teaching statements. Academic job committees are getting my birthchart, fav possum memes, cat photos, headshots, my top viral tweets, a coupon to the Cheesecake Factory, and some loose pieces of candy corn.

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4 years

Growing up is cool because you learn your entire personality is a trauma response

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4 years

How do you say to someone “you’re talking so loud it physically hurts me” without them taking it as a personal attack? Sensory access is so misunderstood.

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3 years

My hot take for Disability Pride Month is that it’s okay if you don’t have disability pride. Developing or getting a disability can be the result of trauma and systemic violence. “Pride” isn’t to be forced upon or expected of any disabled person.

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4 years

People to stop using “highly productive” and “strong work ethic” as compliments. It just validates people who have been manipulated into sacrificing their health & social life for work.

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3 years

I cant stop laughing at “bisexual awareness week” bc it makes us sound like a threat and a special cause and I choose to be both

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3 years

GUESS WHAT SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS A MASK MANDATE NOW

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@GaetaAmy

3 years

My sister’s school district isn’t requiring masks so I’m currently writing an extensive, 8 paragraph essay directly to the mayor and every school board member. I was made to ruin lives through my writing.

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The "don't listen to sad music" generic mental health advice so deeply misunderstands that a primary comfort of sad music is that it gives you a medium to understand your emotions & not feel alone with those emotions

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3 years

Check on your “resilient” friends because I guarantee they are carrying more than any one person can hold

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@GaetaAmy

3 years

imagine being like "yeah I was radicalized by @JortsTheCat telling me that it's always the right time for a labor revolution"

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2 years

"Well I've never heard of that" YES THAT IS THE PROBLEM

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4 years

Roll call for anyone that’s seen & reported death threats & abuse on this app that Twitter has done nothing about.

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4 years

People are shocked when I tell them my high risk friends are planning to quarantine until early 2022. As if this is an overreaction or “oh poor them.” I’m done trying to convince people we’re living in a pandemic.

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6 years

Survey data collected by @UWMadison UHS about why students consider leaving— organized by racial identity. Shocking but not not shocking.

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2 years

Is there a term to describe health bragging? Like when nondisabled people go out of their way to flaunt how “healthy” they are as a way to show superiority? Not ableism but something more specific

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3 years

One of the scarier parts of this never ending pandemic is who keeps revealing people to be. Not politicians or doctors, not your boss, but your friends, cousins, partners, etc. Everyone you spent a lifetime thinking they’d never hurt anyone.

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2 years

Please support Alice Wong’s recovery, home care, and ICU bills. Alice is truly the best of us in the disability community and she deserves all our care

Help Alice Stay In Community, organized by yomi wrong

Our comrade, friend, collaborator and fierce Tiger Mischief Maker, Alice Wong, needs us. A… yomi wrong needs your support for Help Alice Stay In Community

www.gofundme.com

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4 years

If you’ve been vaccinated because you’re eligible in your area, there is no reason to feel guilty. Getting vaccinated keeps us all safer.

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4 years

@9Oskissy Where is her Pepsi. I am upset.

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4 years

Strange how every woman knows multiple women who were sexually abused by men, and so few men know abusers

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2 years

@rachsyme 25 dollars. Very loud. Warm. Fast. Good.

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4 years

Under discussed in convos access barriers to diagnosis is how many parents refuse to believe their kid could be disabled.

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4 years

An email template I’ve been using for meetings that could be emails: Due to accessibility reasons, I have limited capacity for video conferencing. I am requesting that you accommodate my physical and mental needs by instead conducting this conversation over email.

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4 years

I’ve now gotten confirmed reports from multiple cities that seagulls have been attacking and sometimes even knocking news and police drones out of the sky at the protests. I hope this makes you smile.

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2 years

Disability rights means everyone is deserving of their access needs being met.

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5 years

My job is to teach, however, oh and also did I mention that an academic's job is often literally to produce new knowledge? Hey, sorry if I'm "worthless" to society, I am just over here developing a model of thought to explain this garbage fire of social and political life.

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Growing up, I say things like: "we should house the homeless" or "water should be free." And adults would say "haha you'll think otherwise when you're older. Then you'll get it!" I am 27 and thank fuck I do not get it.

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Unless you believe in all disabled people’s rights to access, self determination, consent, and other rights that affirm their humanization and agency, do not enter a profession where you’ll be working primarily with disabled people

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Using the term post-pandemic is just irresponsible and an erasure of the present. Blown away by how much I see academics use it.

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3 years

All medical and popular advice for neurodivergent people is just like "have you tried being neurotypical?"

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3 years

It is absolutely socially and psychically alienating to have consciousness that the pandemic is arguably at its worst, and then go out in public to see the world just proceeding 'as normal'

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Neurodivergent culture is just saying words in funny voices aloud for no reason several times a day

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The “wrongdoing” here is a woman of color asserting her autonomy in a way that doesn’t create entertainment to consume & profit from

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3 years

just found a typo in a job cover letter that I already sent to a university...please tell me this is not actually a big deal.

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4 years

“We are talking about diversity” is an actual thing that was said to me today when I brought up disability representation. I’m tired.

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2 years

being a first-gen academic and explaining to your unbelievably proud parents why you can't land a solid job is so demoralizing

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5 years

Today in “I Can’t Believe We’re Still Doing This Shit:” Someone (non-disabled) who knows me well said it was insulting to other disabled people to call myself disabled. Disabled folk, sorry for insulting you all with my mere 4 chronic conditions....

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5 years

Tonight, a former student told me she's been accepted into SIX top medical schools in the U.S. She is a first-generation college student, disabled, and has specifically stated that she wants to be an "anti-ableist primary care doctor" Give me this future.

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3 years

Disability life: Always being the only young person in a waiting room filled with seniors

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5 years

When I explained that I'm literally paid at the poverty line, this same person followed up with "well how can you afford to travel so much?" Uuuuh mind your business and I have 2 other jobs and a majority of my travel is for work. Also, MIND YOUR BUSINESS.

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Language structures reality, including imaginations, ideas of the future, identities, actions, and more. It contours the bounds of what is possible and thinkable. The language we collectively use to discuss covid, as everything else, can have material effects on other people

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I am once again reminding neurotypical people, if I ask you to be quieter, it’s not a personal attack or attempt to shut down your personal expression. It’s because my ears are so sensitive that simply hearing a doorbell at the wrong time can make cry. Thank you.

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5 years

Is there a list of disabled owned stores (including Etsy) and businesses? If not, can we start one? Share your favorite shops and self promote please :) #DisabledTwitter #DisabilityTwitter

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2 years

Hahah this girl got a PhD

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4 years

Yearly reminder that silent fireworks exist and yet are RARELY SOLD AND USED.

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5 years

For so long, I thought I had to act professional (in a dry, conservative sense) on social media for my career. So, seeing junior, TT, and tentured professors be absolute weirdos & badasses on social media really comforts my strange self.

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@GaetaAmy

3 years

@strauss_matt I’ll be reporting this ableism to your university program advisor. Have a nice day.

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4 years

On disability community day of mourning, I especially mourn those who have no one to remember them, those forgotten or left for dead in institutions, prisons, ‘care’ facilities, civilian spaces turned into war zones, shelters, streets, and alone in their homes.

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Disability culture is needing at least 3-4 days to mentally and physically recover from a single social event

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