Amy Sekhar♿️

#dwarf and #disability activist. Educator. Recovered academic. Collective liberation. she/her/hers

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

#WhyDisabledPeopleDropOut A thread. As a former faculty member, I have heard several colleagues complain about accommodations as being frivolous. If they are willing to say these things in front of a very visibly disabled colleague, what do they say behind closed doors? 1/

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@RebeccaCokley Do you know how much support they will give around accommodations? ASL, etc?

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@Imani_Barbarin The number of times I let people play with my crutches so they could see how fast they could go, how long they could balance, etc. Yeah, just to have something to do during big recess that wasn’t pretending to be sick so I could stay inside in the library, where it felt safer.

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@DrSamiSchalk @SFdirewolf Though I feel like our energy paths have crossed through time and space: 1) at Earlham while I was a visiting prof for a semester; 2) at IUPUI while I was working at the Equity Center. I feel like somehow our wheels have been in at least one hallway in common. Right?

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@DrSamiSchalk @SFdirewolf Living my dream!

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@kimkgarrett do you have a take on the Richmond, Indiana, industrial fire? … because we aren’t getting much info, and I’m trying to organize out here. Of course it’s the same communities disproportionately impacted.

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@djhoover1013 Glad to see he’s wearing a mask. The number of people nonchalantly existing as if our lungs aren’t under assault is bewildering.

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@RebeccaCokley @Medium You’d better outlive me, but if I have to, I will tell the story about the time I accidentally tried to run you down with my wheelchair. And then YOU bought ME a coffee?!

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@DrSamiSchalk This looks amazing and makes me slightly regret leaving academia.

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@mattbc .@AbdulElSayed a perfect topic for #AmericaDissected. Seriously, Matt is a person you want to talk to.

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@AnySomebody @BlondeHistorian @GuideDogAva Service dog shade is real. Mine gets pissy if I turn my wheelchair on (it makes a sort of click) and don’t go anywhere. The nerve. He’s like, “I was napping, and now I’m at attention for nothing. Thanks for nothing.” Spoken silently with a side eye and a huff.

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

Disappointed #WhatADay hasn’t covered the death of #JudyHeumann. There’s not generally great disability coverage by actually disabled folks on @CrookedMedia, which has always bugged me, but the death of a major civil rights leader?

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@Stromae mon chien est plus “sexy” que ton chien robot.

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

“To avoid the marriage penalties faced by couples in which one partner is disabled, the union was ceremonial rather than legal. This shielded Ms. Torasso from future financial responsibility and allowed Mr. Carbone to retain the disability benefits he needed to afford care.”

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

Ratatouille without the sex scenes. 💀

[blaire erskine @blaireerskine]

DON’T let your kids watch hocus pocus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Raymond Chang @tweetraychang]

My friend who is a Chief Diversity officer shared that there have been a growing number of complaints by white faculty and staff that the jobs were being reserved for people of color and that their voices were being silenced.

They decided to look at the numbers.

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@BlondeHistorian There is nothing like working dog side-eye. Also stink-eye. My first assistance dog was a master of both.

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@RebeccaCokley @SFdirewolf Thanks so much for the update. I have been checking for news. Sending her all the love and strength.

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

As a veritable mutant, yes. This.

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

@jackiantonovich This happened to my husband and it was so scary. Take care of yourself!