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If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

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[silicon-based life form sci-fi author voice] yeah so this galactic civilization, they’re made from carbon, so they have bones. their leader is the uh, high bonespeaker, rules from the seat of their government, the big skull

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Customer: (not on record) DMV: ISIS CAR Verdict: DENIED

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interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has

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Snow in Nogata 野方

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You’re a random nobody

Me to a newborn baby

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mooom come pick me up bioessentialists found my poast :(

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Mr. Whiskers - We Can Read [workbook]. 1962.

Internet Archive

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fave season and why?

autumn! in new england specifically: the foliage, the colors, the crispness, the flavors, the back-to-school, the coziness and outfit opportunities. i turn full pinterest psl mode

what’s one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier?

tbh just taking a break and reading. if i feel too tense or whatever i just sit on my couch with a book and some gentle background noise and it's like magic!!

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#ontological always trips me up as a word#no matter how many times i google it when it comes up and i try to figure out what it means in context#i'm pretty sure i agree with this post#but OP have you considered that if you're talking about neurodiversity#many neurotypes struggle with jargon#and accessibility should be an important consideration when discussing disability theory?#just meant gently of course-- i also struggle with using jargon in explanations when i should go with more widely known terms!

i'd just like to take some time, now that this has def breached containment, to point out some tags on this post - i recognize that the language i use might be unfamiliar or challenging. my goal isn't simplicity, it's creativity and precision. when coming across words you're not familiar with or can't remember (like ontological, which relates to the philosophy of 'being/existence'!) i encourage everyone (esp my undergrad students in their first theoretical courses) to embrace complexity and not-knowing as part of the path to learning more about themselves and others.

the fact is that "disability theory" as such is not always, or even often, reducible to simple language. we invent complex terms for the same reasons queer and trans people invent new identities: "plain language" has never held space for us. i believe in jargon as a vital tool toward self expression, and a vital challenge to demands that we confine, simplify, and make ourselves transparent and interpretable.

i make posts for the people who are open to receiving them, and do so using the language necessary to make my points. my accessibility goal is not to remove complexity or challenge, but to make sure everyone - regardless of their relationship to exclusionary academic institutions - has the opportunity to participate. "theory" and "jargon" not only saved & changed my life, but are at this moment words applied to our terms simply because disability theory as such is new.

my wish is that everyone who encounters any kind of "theory" that seems intimidating or dense takes it as an opportunity and a pleasure to decode. maybe you'll think it's worthless, maybe you'll love it. but part of learning is encountering friction. access doesn't always equate to ease.

the neurotypical invents the neurodivergent. neuro(non)normativity is a constant negotiation of social conditions + relation to capital + carceral frameworks of legal, educational, medical systems. “neurotype” is not an ontological status. it is a mirror held to the world in which it exists.

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what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

answered! but another smaller one is that i swept my balcony yesterday even though it's my all-time least favorite chore haha

do you collect anything?

i guess i collect books - esp small press/limited/handbound titles! i also collect stickers and stationery, but for the purposes of using them in my journal or sending to people etc.

fave song at the moment?

a group i love, goat girl, just released a single + an extra song and i've really been loving them! very low-fi sticky hot summer evening kinda deal.

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