Kylee-Anne Hingston

Victorian literature, disability studies, children's literature | Assistant Prof @stm1936 | She/Her | profile pic by retrospect photography

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

It’s hard to be kind when every major institution is built on ableism and white supremacy plus cultural bias that reinforces the message that being disabled is a fate worse than death

[Kylee-Anne Hingston @KyleeAnneH]

@StructuredSucc Yep. Had a good friend diagnosed as bipolar and as borderline personality before she got her ADHD diagnosis, which was the only one that stuck.

[Kylee-Anne Hingston @KyleeAnneH]

How many times I saw the word "tapestry" in undergrad papers in the 20 years I've been marking papers before the invention of ChatGPT: 2. Maybe 3.

Number of times in the two years since the invention of ChatGPT: 60. Maybe 70.

[Sarah Dowling @SarahMDowling1]

Despicable. Utterly, totally despicable.

[Kylee-Anne Hingston @KyleeAnneH]

Tell Canada: Support ICJ's important decision on South Africa’s case against Israel. Take steps to end genocide in Gaza! @justintrudeau @melaniejoly @bobrae48 @cjpme https://t.co/qwPIryOXma

[Dr. Kirsty Liddiard @KirstyLiddiard1]

** Disability research job opportunities**

Come & work @iHumanSheff & join our exciting research community! We have FIVE positions coming soon within a new @wellcometrust project which will explore anti-ableist research cultures.

https://t.co/ZlNNoNgPcy

[Kylee-Anne Hingston @KyleeAnneH]

@PhDhurtBrain Oh hello, that is also me.

[Kylee-Anne Hingston @KyleeAnneH]

@Imani_Barbarin I would say that if you can do good work--thinking and advocacy work--without the financial, emotional, and physical costs of earning a doctorate, then do that good work instead.

[Structured Success @StructuredSucc]

When you have a disability or neurodevelopmental condition, your need for accommodations doesn't just end when you leave school.

Why is it that our access to accommodations so often seems to though?

[Mik Scarlet @MikScarlet]

@VotePursglove Be even better if you enforced the equality act & building regs, maybe create a fund to help businesses be more accessible, with free information, & ended trying to cut support & benefits for disabled people. A carchy hookline isn't what we need.

[Dr. Jessie Male 🍉 @ProfJMale]

An element of academia which continues to floor me is that three people in a department can teach the same amount of classes, but one person makes 100k+, another makes 45k, and another makes 18k...and students have zero awareness of this difference.

[Sara Luterman @slooterman]

The fight for marriage equality isn't over according to disability advocates. Disabled people who rely on programs like SSI face steep penalties if they choose to tie the knot. I wrote about it @19thnews. https://t.co/qj6GerNThc

[Aaron Ansuini 🍋🪴🌱 @AaronLinguini]

There is NO reason why I should not be able to become a teacher. It’s not like I’m not needed, and it’s not like I’m not capable.

Concordia has simply decided that if I can’t stop having this disability, then I can’t become a teacher.

[Aaron Ansuini 🍋🪴🌱 @AaronLinguini]

I am a student teacher with a 4.2 GPA. For my internship, I worked with high school students who couldn’t attend school in person and needed to learn online.

These students EXIST, need teachers, & deserve access to education that meets THEIR needs.

[Aaron Ansuini 🍋🪴🌱 @AaronLinguini]

Discrimination isn’t just happening magically while the university sits by helplessly—this is something they are DOING. They are making CHOICES that deliberately result in this exclusion.

They can literally choose to stop and actually create inclusion ANY TIME.

[Aaron Ansuini 🍋🪴🌱 @AaronLinguini]

They refused to authorize the *transcriber* to get equipment from IT services.

So first it’s that they simply can’t find anyone willing to do it…

And then when someone IS willing to do it, they ban them from getting the equipment needed (a laptop) to make it happen.

[Aaron Ansuini 🍋🪴🌱 @AaronLinguini]

On Tuesday, upon discovering that the access center made 0 arrangements for me to access my class, the transcriber for my class went to the access center HERSELF to request authorization to get a laptop from IT services so SHE could open a zoom session. The access center refused.

[Aaron Ansuini 🍋🪴🌱 @AaronLinguini]

Universities made remote access possible when it THEY needed it to work.

When they removed this technology, they created barriers to inclusion themselves.

Now they’re acting like these barriers are impossible to mitigate and beyond their control.