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you should check out #AcademicAbleism on twitter, if you haven’t already.
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Transcript, please?
Transcript: [Image is of a series of tweets all tagged #academicableism]
PhDisabled: When a student with disclosed dyslexia is expected to read out loud in class with no prior warning or chance to prepare #AcademicAbleism
PhDisabled: When a depressed psychology UG is told they just need to pull themselves together by the psychology department #Academic Ableism
M.Brock Moorer: “If you can’t cut it as a PhD student, I don’t know how you expect to get a tenure track job.” #academicableism
PhDisabled: #AcademicAbleism When disabled students must repeatedly ask for lecture materials they’ve missed bc academics aren’t proactively providing
Sarah Garland: #academicableism being told you rely too much on your friends/peers when university support is absent at best and harmful at worst
PhDisabled: #academicableism is when a new phd student is supposed to know what reasonable adjustments they need when they’ve never done a phd before
Chloe: #AcademicAbleism being sent threatening letters about your ‘poor attendance’ when you’ve informed uni abt absences bc of illness
PhDisabled:#AcademicAbleism is why many disabled and chronically ill students think their difficulties are their fault, not structurally created
M.Brock Moorer: “If you can’t cut it as a PhD student, I don’t know how you expect to get a tenure track job.” #academicableism
Zara: #AcademicAbleism means disabled students have to rely on twittet to find ways to openly discuss the discrimination they face w/out blame
Thank you!
