i have not been able to stop thinking about this question since @autostraddle received it, and i really think that @theheatherhogan did an incredible job answering this with both compassion and necessary honesty:
https://t.co/Ba01iTdXbw
We need to talk about how often disabled instructors, attempting to provide radical access with flexible deadlines & participation requirements, wind up with their courses deprioritized by students who are desperately trying to shoulder other instructors’ hostile pedagogies.
I won’t apologize for the person I’ll become if we get Elizabeth Olsen, Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza playing witches on screen together. #AgathaCovenOfChaos
“Caring is anxious—to be full of care, to be careful, is to take care of things by becoming anxious about their future, where the future is embodied in the fragility of an object whose persistence matters.”
— Sara N Ahmed (@SaraNAhmed)
No more emails. If you want something from me you must approach me slowly and calmly with a piece of apple or carrot in your palm with your fingers flat and extended so I do not bite them
Me trying to get the one brain cell left after having COVID for the second time to work for long enough to respond to my 10,000 emails from students telling me they also have COVID
I’ve been giving my college students sparkly star stickers to thank them for coming to class today and in return they have been giving me 🌟the world!!🌟Participation is off the charts this is amazing 🤩