Lilly Sellati

Rome Prize winner, phD candidate in art history @Yale, disability advocate, voracious SFF reader, pup mother (she/her)

[Disabled Academic Collective @DisabledAcadem]

A reminder - if you're an educator please don't trust that Disability Services is fully serving your students. It's not. You don't need to go through the super medicalized, hierarchical, "you should feel lucky we gave you anything at all" accommodations system. 1/8

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

DeSantis banning AP African American Studies is a reminder of that old quote -- White privilege is when your history is the curriculum and every other history is an elective.

[Lilly Sellati @LillySellati]

I just entered for a chance to win the Orbit Loot Sweepstakes! NoPurNec18+Rules @ https://t.co/X8H4rVAJqo #orbitloot https://t.co/sSsXIBL3IR

[Aparna Verma (updates only) @Spirited_Gal]

What if I told you that there’s a gender-flipped Orpheus & Eurydice story in which a strong queen, who refuses to let her gentle husband go, tricks Death himself to win him back?

[J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges]

I have a message for disabled grad students:

Don’t let them break you. I see you fighting to be here—in your seminars, in your committee defenses, in your emails with academic offices and administration. You’re not fighting alone, and I’m so damn proud to be fighting with you.

[Bayt Al Fann @BaytAlFann]

The art of calligraphy on a dried leaf was practised widely in Ottoman Turkey. This was difficult & delicate work. The leaf was dried, & the tissue removed to leave the skeletal membrane, with gold ink applied over it.

Here are 22 exquisite examples, past & present

A thread…

[Beth Morton @beth_morton]

This week’s #MigraineChatAMA invited Qs abt rebound headache: a topic I wish was more rigorously studied for lots of reasons. The research in this thread is not w/o limitations or issues.

Nothing shared is medical advice. Talk to an HCP before making changes. #MigraineChat /1

[Ms. Petey @MsPeteyAutLib]

"Trauma Informed" does NOT mean "I have trauma, so I can relate."

"Trauma Informed" does NOT mean "I'll be 'extra nice' because people have trauma."

"Trauma Informed" indicates:
🧵

[Tordotcom Publishing @TorDotComPub]

Have you ever wondered how Christopher met the Princess of Mariposa? Visit @tordotcom on 10/26 for a FREE Wayward Children short story!

[Nia | The Chronic Notebook @chronicnotebook]

When people imply that managing stress levels is enough to control a chronic illness they underestimate the inherent stress that comes with being sick and in pain 24/7 - physically, mentally, subliminally, unconsciously.

[Yuumei @Yuumei_Art]

Autumn is foxy season 🦊

All I want to do is curl up and watch the leaves change colors 🍁🍂

#Autumn #fox #art #digitalart

[Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd]

Be honest- would you let this ghost haunt you?
#Halloween

[just E @redhotdisabled]

a short and incomplete thread of common ableist microaggressions and why they’re bad 🧵:

[Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd]

Retweet if you agree

[todd dillard @toddedillard]

it's ceased to be a to-be-read pile of books and has become an art installation on the passage of time

[J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges]

Sometimes access refers to the ability to say no, to bow out, and to refuse. Inaccessibility includes not only forced exclusion but also compulsory participation.

[collagen machine broke @chronicallybeee]

me:
my immune system: i don’t like it
me: what don’t you like?
my immune system: it’s bad
me: WHAT is bad?
my immune system: it

[Abalone Mountain Press @AbaloneMountain]

The Indigeneity & Disability Justice Digital Zine is now live! To view click the link in bio! A BIG Thank you to Johnnie Jae for creating the cover and designing the zine. #indigenouspeoplesday#release#digitalzine# Indigeneity #DisabilityJustice#zine#disabledwriters