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public history student, charity fundraiser and trustee, writer and reader, disabled + ND and loud about it https://aspacewithin.substack.com/
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Spring is showing signs of being here and I am delighted about it

I need abled people to understand that breaking someone's wheelchair is like breaking your legs. Both of them. They want to get away with breaking people's legs.

Me, every time I pick up my phone to a new attack on disabled people's rights:

One of my small joys in life is sending @lozzagilbert.bsky.social the most incomprehensible selection of TikToks imaginable on a daily basis

So I'm immediately seeing a problem with my new module "Mending the Past: History and the politics of guilt and reparation" in this department

"The whole system is designed for students not to use it" is a very accurate summation of the current situation Pre-reform DSA wasn't perfect but doing it again post-reform, it felt like a much more half-hearted and disorientating process. Always more questions than answers for me + friends

We are excited to share that we have been asked to consult on a new research project funded by the Office for Students. The project aims to develop staff training and is co-led by disabled student groups from three different universities. 1/3 www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/disable...

I wrote about how our young disabled selves shape our activism, and why that’s ok lucywebster.substack.com/p/looking-ba...

"yeah I can help with the work social media, it won't take me long so I have capacity!" *spends over an hour overthinking colour combinations*

On today's edition of ???? - the wheelchair company who I was supposed to have a meeting with today completely ghosted me, and DSA decided to randomly send me a left handed mouse rather than right handed, thus rendering it fairly unusable for me

walking around the house like a regular nosferatu. bad posture and t-rex arms i am a decrepit creature of the night

something humbling about loudly relocating my fingers on the quiet floor of the library

Does this platform put replies to threads on tl? Or am I just making a book thread into the void here

Local ADHDer Finally Finishes Day's Only (Short) Task At 9pm: more news at 5

Just remembered the time a few years ago my old rheumatologist told me to "go to the uni gym and find a nice looking physio student to teach you proper form" as if that was in any way a treatment plan and now I can't stop thinking about it