This article describes the creation of a peer-led group of neurodivergent faculty, staff and librarians at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. It introduces both the author’s personal motivations for launching a network and seeking partners. It offers suggestions for other neurodivergent educators or organizers to support their peers in higher education workplaces.
Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries is an RLUK programme of events that aims to foster conversation around decolonisation and inclusive practice in collecting, describing, presenting, and engaging with content in research library collections. It seeks to raise awareness about the opportunities and challenges of dealing with, contextualising, and engaging with offensive collections while also identifying and sharing examples of good practice.
On Hello Computer newsletter this week: "Does my walking stick help more with being autistic than it does with chronic fatigue?"
Read and sign up: https://pete.news/hellocomputer/can-my-walking-stick-be-my-hidden-disabilities-stick/
Years of scapegoating rhetoric & politicians casting #disabled people as “scroungers” have reinforced prejudices about the blue badge parking scheme & led to “envy & resentment” instead of equal access, according to a 4-year research project
#chronicillness #hiddenillness #invisibleillness #Spoonies #Hiddendisability #Hiddendisabilities @mecfs
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME @longcovid
#LongCovid #PosturalOrthostaticTachycardiaSyndrome #POTS @pots
Blue Badge* Myths – Busted
*a blue badge is what a disabled parking badge/permit is called in the UK
https://x.com/DRDisabilityReb/status/2003444813694116345?s=20
#Disabled #Disability #Hiddendisability #Invisibledisability #chronicillness #hiddenillness #invisibleillness #Spoonie
@mecfs
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME @longcovid
#LongCovid #POTS @pots
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