#DeafBlind

Professor Elsa Sjunneson, MA

snarkbat

So it's Deafblind Awareness Week, uh, now. I'm Deafblind. I feel like most people who follow me on twitter know this already. But visibility days, while they often feel silly,

Professor Elsa Sjunneson, MA

snarkbat

OKAY. So I have sat down and taken a look at this whole "Helen Keller is a fraud" business on tiktok and I maybe have some Thoughts that I would

Ross Showalter

rosshowalter

Paul Hostovsky has a forthcoming poetry book called DEAF & BLIND. I won’t read it. I don’t think there needs to be another book about hearing gawking. A thread— In

Haben Girma👩🏿‍🦯

HabenGirma

Helen Keller’s birthday is June 27 & it’s #Deafblind Awareness Week. Helen knew she benefited from white privilege. A fierce activist, she protested, wrote articles & donated to orgs working

Haben Girma👩🏿‍🦯

HabenGirma

The first time someone called me fake news, I laughed. Then another insisted a Deafblind person couldn’t go to Harvard. Nearly every disabled person has experienced the old, “You’re faking

Haben Girma👩🏿‍🦯

HabenGirma

My eyes move involuntarily, each one swinging to its own music. They’ve danced this way for as long as I can remember. I can’t see it myself, but the jeering

Dr Amy Kavanagh👩🏼‍🦯 🦮

BlondeHistorian

Non disabled people are appalled that teenagers don’t believe Helen Keller was real.I’m blind & grown adults are SHOCKED all the damned time that I work, own a home &

Perkins School for the Blind

perkinsvision

Sometimes it’s easier to believe what we want to over what is true. #HelenKeller was an extraordinary little girl. Her story is well-documented. To call her a fraud, to deny

Disabled & Deaf Uprising

DisDeafUprising

One thing we have been thinking of & we want input. We have been thinking of John Lee Clark's "Tactile Art" and Kathi Wolfe's Love and Kumquats and Constance Merritt's

Professor Elsa Sjunneson, MA

snarkbat

Good morning! It’s #LeadOnADA30 time! Today is the Deafblind Protest 101 thread. I went to a rally this morning. Let’s talk about how I decided to go, what I did

Whitney Weirick

WhitneysWave

#CogswellMacyAct will uphold the civil rights of American students w sensory disabilities by protecting their access to free appropriate public ed 1/@DB_Coalition @ceasd1868 @NAD1880 @AFB1921 @ClercCenter @GallaudetU @RITNTID @NAOBIDC @Jann

Holly Scott-Gardner

CatchTheseWords

Thread: today is international disabled peoples day, #IDPD, and while all the talk around inclusion is nice, we need to start with meaningful change. Here are some suggestions. We're trying

Professor Elsa Sjunneson, MA

snarkbat

I see a viral tweet about disability and relationships so. Oops it’s time for a thread. The implication that a disabled or chronically ill partner is a burden is toxic

‿·⪦˒˒ Adrean Clark

adreanaline

Ok, since i’m trapped by a adorable cat on my lap here’s a thread on why expecting English captions to ASL videos is problematic — What most people do not

Jillian Weise (Cy)

JillianWeise

Can we talk/sign/ProTactile about something? My disclosures: I'm hearing. I'm working on learning sign. I do not know it. But I'm having a very top secret DM right now and

carlisle 🧏🏻🏳️‍🌈🎨

carodoodles

I've been thinking about this- what would the 100% accessible city be like? What would the city planning look like? Id say- obviously no stairs whenever possible (and if stairs,

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