Dear Grad Student

Disabled in Grad School: Ableism, Accessibility, & Burning It All Down (PART 2)


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In this episode of Dear Grad Student, Elana chats with Cait Kirby and Kayden Stockwell, of @DisInGradSchool, about being disabled in grad school. This is PART 2 of 2. You can find Part 1  HERE

In this episode they discuss: polls,  accommodations, identity-first vs. person-first, the 2020 election , & shout out Black, Indigenous, People of Color pushing the disability movement forward.

Mentioned in this episode: 

  • @DisInGradSchool's daily actions, including links to the templates
  • Cait's thread about stuttering
  • Jake Tapper CNN segment #CripTheVote
  • Supreme Court taking up the ACA
  • @DisInGradSchool's thread highlighting work on the intersectionality of race and disability
  • ACA Litigation update

@DisInGradSchool has a list of Disability Advocates on Twitter -- this list is always growing!

Academia-related Disability accounts on Twitter to follow: @DisInHigherEd, @DisabledStem, @DisabledAcadem, @chron_ac, @ChronInvisSTEM, @ND_in_STEM, @AcademicAbleism, @DisMHMatters, @StemDisabled, also: #DisabledinSTEM

Cait's website --> CaitKirby.com
Kayden's website --> kaydenstockwell.com

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Transcripts edited by Kayden Stockwell, follow him @KaydenStockwell and at www.kaydenstockwell.com

Music provided by: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4171-open-those-bright-eyes
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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