A network for students, academics + activists focusing on the intersections of queer/trans and disability/crip studies.

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TSN in coalition with LGBTQ+ and disabled people's orgs and human rights groups have published an open letter condemning legal attacks on access to trans healthcare for autistic adults and the presumption of competence under the Mental Capacity Act. transsafety.network/posts/op…
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Currently the number of mentee applicants is significantly larger than our pool of potential mentors -please reach out to us if you're interested in being a mentor, or you know someone who'd be good! (@ndhumanities) 6/6
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Let's try that again! Applications for the Neurodivergent Humanities mentoring scheme close TODAY - full info at ndhumanities.com/2023/04/11/… @NdHumanities 1/n
It's the LAST DAY to apply for the Neurodivergent Humanities Network mentoring scheme: a year-long, non-hierarchical research partnership programme ndhumanities.com/2023/04/11/… via @ndhumanities
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Oooo baby it's June and you know what that means... Another round of #30DaysOfDisabledPride ! Follow the tag, answer the questions, boost responses. Today's Q: Introduce yourself! Name, pronouns, a lil about you, a selfie or a selfie of the soul (meme) if ya feel like it!
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This is key - Cripping Breath is a project that works in Crip time, acknowledging how impairment & the need for different orientations in & to time can positively shape the research process 💪
'The essential inclusion of diverse body-minds as researchers and research participants requires embracing snail time and snail pace for such inclusion. This work of slowing down is also the collective work of academics to make time for each other. Leave no snail behind!' 👇🔥🐌
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'The essential inclusion of diverse body-minds as researchers and research participants requires embracing snail time and snail pace for such inclusion. This work of slowing down is also the collective work of academics to make time for each other. Leave no snail behind!' 👇🔥🐌
This article describes QDS: a space for Queer Disability Studies academics&activists to find solidarity particularly those experiencing marginalisation due to queerphobia, transphobia, intersexphobia & ableism in Disability, Queer, Trans & Intersex Studies cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/…
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"Cripping Digital Storytelling: Disability, Accessibility..." discusses what to keep in mind when designing & replicating accessible online digital storytelling workshops to remove ableist barriers, amplify community, and celebrate difference. More: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/…
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"Building a Community for Queer Disability Studies: Lessons from the Snail" offers learnings from Trans, Queer, Intersex, & Disability Studies into a set of ‘lessons’ for groups seeking to develop solidarities w/in academic & activist communities. More: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/…
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Does your research, scholarship and/or practice explore #disability, #gender and #feminism? Check out our CFP for a special issue of @FemPsychJournal - Disability as a feminist issue 🙌 journals.sagepub.com/pb-asse… @CDSLeeds @LearningMet @DisabledAcadem @QueerDisability @HopeDSS
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Volume 12 Issue 1 of CJDS has dropped: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/…
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Thrilled to finally share the programme of Queer Dis-eases: Disruptive Histories, Politics, & Bodies! 📍 Badia Fiesolana @EUI_EU + Online 📌 22-23 May 2023 Keynote: @mara_pieri on Queer Chronopolitics Please circulate widely! Register: eui.eu/events?id=554822
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Call for Abstracts (deadline 31st July) for a one-day event to be held on 1st Nov. 'Approaching Rest, Work, and Activism through the Lens of Disability Politics: Relationships and Contradictions' More info: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa… @britsoci #DisabilityStudies #DisabledTwitter
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We are super excited to launch the 2023 ACTIVIST IN RESIDENCE programme!! This is a funded residency @uniofbrighton open to activists working around issues of #gender and/or #sexuality and #disability. Closing date: 31/3/2023. Apply here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/ctsg/20…
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I’m having a hybrid research event on 7th March! disabledcoops.uk/2023/02/01/…
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Check out Lilith Cooper's zine 'A Genealogy of Bedrooms' which you'll find here on @QueerDisability's website: queerdisabilitystudies.wordp…
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Replying to @QueerDisability
@QueerDisability blog now open for continued discussions. Such a fab resource and opportunity for important conversations around everything Queer, LGBTQ+ and Disability Studies queerdisabilitystudies.wordp…
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This is amazing! Pro-neurodivergent and pro-disabled anti-psychiatry, tools and exploration for queer identity, queer joy, queer embodiment, queer anarchy! Also, @ez_gender, you’re mentioned in this for your amazing archival and other important community work! ❤️
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"Xenoidentities, both individually and as a trans-gressive M.O., are fundamental to a broader transMad project of crafted, collective illegibility; intersubjective citation ... and collective care that refuses a politics of cure."
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"...Indeed, what if we replaced pathology’s narrow “path” with a trail lighted by the language of our comrades, whose linguistic interventions make and break gender in ways heretofore unimaginable?
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