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Historian | Disability Scholar Activist | Assistant Professor at | Author of | Deaf & forever a radical

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    Apr 6

    I'm 40. I wish I was diagnosed 20 years ago. Because maybe, just maybe, then endometriosis wouldn't have damaged my body--and my life--the way it did. We need better advocacy, testing, and practices for dealing with this disease, especially with the risks of cancer.

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  2. May 13

    No better way to send love to my favourite women's health historian <3 [Alt-text of QT image: Rachel Gross' book, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage, resting on a wood table]

    Thanks to for this perfect early birthday present of ’s new book. It and your friendship are the best gifts a women’s health historian could ask for 🥰
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    May 11

    Rage Writing really does a soul good. On Saturday I started writing the first chapter of my book, , a cultural/medical history of endometriosis. Five days later, I'm 75% done with this chapter. A sneak peek into this book:

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    May 13

    “The medical world and the media approach deafness as a binary—in their view, one must either choose to assimilate via surgery or choose the deaf community, sign language, and isolation from the “real world.” But the choice is a false one, a failure of the hearing imagination.”

    People have a lot of feelings about the end of TRUE BIZ. I've got some, too:
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    May 13

    While the level of deaf visibility may feel new to most, as it did once to me, we need to unds that scores of talented deaf writers & creatives have always been there, & have always deserved to be heard. What’s changing now is the hearing world’s willingness to listen.-

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    May 13

    The dark center of an image of a black hole is called the “shadow.” But the black hole doesn’t block the light behind it — it actually distorts space so much that some of the light behind it wraps all the way around! It’s dark because that’s where the black hole SWALLOWS light.

    An image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. The image is a bright orange/red oval ring of light with some brighter blobs around it and a dark “hole” in the center.
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    May 13

    Wrote a bit about representation, internalized ableism, and learning through community that deaf stories are worth telling.

    ‘The vehicle for my feelings’: how sign language helped a deaf author find her voice
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    May 11

    “In order to fully understand the harm of lifting the mandate, we have to consider it in the context of ongoing attempts to hide disabled people (and our deaths) from view.” I wrote for on masks, disabled oracles (re: ) & community.

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    May 10

    In 1992, I was 9, I refused consent to adoption. They finalized on 4 of my siblings. They later “rehomed” two while they were teenagers and gave one back to the fostercare system. They only kept my infant brother. The local newspaper did not retract the “hero” story on them.

    Wait til you guys hear about “rehoming”. The “domestic supply of infants” comes with a return policy.
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    May 12

    What's fucked over the wheelchair industry? Wait for it Wait for it Wait for it Gonna be a big surprise Private equity and unregulated industry consolidation!!!!!!

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    May 11

    Please amplify this

    Douchebag insulting a "female physics prof" for including work on energy distribution to indigenous people in her tenure app
    If you are a physics prof & a woman up for tenure, & this sounds like it may refer to your portfolio, I have his whole thread in which he quotes & mocks it. Someone on your committee should be kicked off. Get in touch if you think it's yours.
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    May 11

    Barbie, the 63-year-old American doll manufacturer, is releasing a new set of dolls in June as part of its ongoing efforts towards diversity and inclusion.

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    May 11

    Bu adam, o kadar önemli bir adam ki, ne yazsam olmayacak. O yüzden biz de derdimizi videoyla anlatacağız. Ustalara Saygı Kuşağı serisinin ilk bölümünde, sizi altyazıların babası Emerson Romero ile tanıştıracağız. O zamana dek 'ye ait bu harika thread'i okuyabilirsiniz.

    a banner with blue background and beige text that says: Deaf history series with dr. jaipreet virdi episode 11 Emerson Romero. On the left is a black and white picture of a white man smiling, wearing a tuxedo and holding an umbrella.
    Welcome back to another episode of ! This week’s feature is Cuban-American Emerson Romero (1900-1972), a silent film actor known by his stage name Tommy Albert, and innovator of deaf technologies, including film captioning.
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  14. May 11

    Rage Writing really does a soul good. On Saturday I started writing the first chapter of my book, , a cultural/medical history of endometriosis. Five days later, I'm 75% done with this chapter. A sneak peek into this book:

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    May 9

    Folks, I need your best (worst) examples of disabled representation in TV, film, books, and media. Those times we were infantilised, dehumanised, fetishized, demonised, mythologised, othered. It's for A Thing.

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    May 10

    Dr. Lauren Thaxton has already heard about local patients who have been miscarrying, and couldn't get a pharmacy to fill their misoprostol prescription. "The pharmacy has said, 'We don't know whether or not you might be using this medication for the purposes of abortion,'"

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    May 9

    the best best: When Abortion Was a Crime by , just out with a new preface too

    Best books to read on the history abortion and contraception in the U.S.? I'm looking to add them to my summer reading list.
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  18. May 9

    "Babies were not cheap & baby selling proved to be such a lucrative business that New York City authorities uncovered a million-dollar adoption racket in 1959 that included loan sharking and gambling." on "the adoption racket" history

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    May 8

    And all the Native children stolen from their families to be "adopted" by more "civilized" parents. Professor Golden's book, Babies Made Us Modern, is a must read.

    I wrote a history of babies in the United States I can't stop thinking about the line in the SCOTUS draft regarding "the domestic supply of babies," sales of enslaved people in the 19th C & 20th C infant sales.Babies are not commodities. Wombs are not public property.
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    May 8

    I wrote a history of babies in the United States I can't stop thinking about the line in the SCOTUS draft regarding "the domestic supply of babies," sales of enslaved people in the 19th C & 20th C infant sales.Babies are not commodities. Wombs are not public property.

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  21. May 9

    A low-carb diet emerged in 1863...and was definitely still in place in the 1850s.

    Reminder that people in the 1950s didn’t fast They didn’t eat low carb They didn’t avoid dessert
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