Today is #InternationalDayofPersonsWithDisabilities. To mark the days leading up to Anita Ghai's departure on 11th December last year, we have invited disability scholars to reflect on Anita's legacy. Read the contributions: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

🚨 NEURODIVERSITY IS MORE THAN... symposium 📅 4 March 2026, 9-5pm GMT, online. Free to attend, all welcome! Sign up below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...

Neurodiversity is More Than...

A symposium organised by Abs S. Ashley and Ombre Tarragnat

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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse Edited by David Bolt, now available in hardback, softback, and electronic formats. Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25. For more information and to order a copy: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse

In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...

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To celebrate #DisabilityHistoryMonth, browse the LUP reading list and enjoy free access to selected disability studies journal articles across the next month. bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖 @davidbolt13.bsky.social

Celebrating Disability History Month 2025

To mark Disability History Month in the UK, we’ve collated a reading list from our books and journals that engage with ideas and narratives of disability, particularly our leading journal, Th…

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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse Now available to pre-order, new book edited by David Bolt, including an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege. Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse

In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...

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I am delighted to be under contract to write a second edition of my 2019 book, Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide. #MoreThanNeeds

Why does Amazon think it is acceptable to sell merchandise that includes hate slurs and constructs people with #dwarfism as a novelty? Would any other #disability or #racial slur be acceptable?

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies Volume 19 Issue 3 Special Issue: Invitation to Dance: Performing Disability Politics through the Dancing Body Guest Editors: Stefan Sunandan Honisch and Gili Hammer The special issue can be accessed as a whole here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55464

ReaderBank has a sparkly new website! readerbank.org And new modules to help us better understand reading experiences, how the imagination works and what this means for mental health. Sign up to get involved in the world’s most ambitious study of the reading imagination! 🧵

“Struggle, stigma, or systemic barriers are not signs of weakness—but can, with the right support and agency, become part of a process of transformation and strength.” www.linkedin.com/pulse/neurod...

me: i could do this quickly and imperfectly 🧠: lol no me: well i guess i’ll just never start then

I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Activism

PDF | Collective mental health patient organising in England is usually dated to the nineteenth century and seen as arising in response to the mass... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

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Really excited to be a part of this fab edited volume! My chapter “Moments of Identification: Neurodivergent Sociality and Loss in Marvel’s WandaVision” questions the neurotypical/neurodivergent binary and embraces the ambiguity found in the spaces in-between: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse

In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...

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This looks amazing. Huge congrats @franzerva.bsky.social ! I can't wait to read yours and Marnie's chapters.

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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta... @drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta... @drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse

In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...

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Recent findings from @mencap.org.uk highlight the real-world impact of changes to PIP on people with a learning disability: buff.ly/SJnAhY0 Cuts to #PIP would mean stress, isolation & hardship - when PIP already fails to meet the additional costs of living with a learning disability. #disabled

Mencap research: The impact of changes to PIP

"Do You See Me?" is our new campaign A campaign is when people work together to try to change something. to make sure that people with a learning disability are fully included and valued in all…

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Looking forward to presenting with @luciejones83.bsky.social today on our work on disabled researchers and research culture! We're at the @ljmuofficial.bsky.social APSS faculty conference "Forever Curious."

We launched our Artist Collaborator search last week! Take a look here to learn more if you are an artist who lives on or with ventilation & would like to participate in a paid residency 🙌🏽 www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre... @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social

New article from NDHums co-lead, Abs S. Ashley exploring neurotrans affectual landscapes in the face of anti-trans violences.

Brilliant afternoon yesterday celebrating 15 years of #CCDS with powerful talks from some very important disability studies figures from Liverpool Hope! Thank you for all that you for disability studies - you are the reason we keep fighting ✊ #KnowledgeNotNeeds

A touching open letter from our fab SEN and Disability Studies students about the proposed redundancies at Liverpool Hope University: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

An Open Letter from Disabled Students Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University

An Open Letter from Disabled Students Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University To the Leadership of Liverpool Hope University, We are writing to express our disappointment regardi...

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On 28 June, the CCDS launched Dr Ella Houston's monograph Advertising Disability. The book is part of the Autocritical Disability Studies series edited by Prof David Bolt. In addition, there is a response by Dr Catalin Brylla. The launch can now be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOvd...

CCDS Book Launch: Dr Ella Houston's Advertising Disability

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Please consider signing and/or sharing this petition to stop compulsory redundancies at Liverpool Hope University #Solidarity ✊ chng.it/5zqNTByvfC

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Students gathering to protest mass redundancies at Liverpool Hope today 😍 I don't work there any more but I feel like I can still confidently say our students are THE BEST.

Jill Pluquailec of Sheffield Hallam has organised an open letter laying out the impact on #DisabilityStudies as a field - please do share and sign [add a comment with your info]

An Open Letter from the Disability Studies Community Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University

An Open Letter from the Disability Studies Community Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University To the Leadership of Liverpool Hope University, We, members of the international Disab...

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Devastated to learn that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope are at risk of redundancy. Lovely people and a brilliant team that has transformed the lives of so many students. If you know them please do reach out - things are very tough right now.

"If we imagine the poem is a body, is it possible to map the experience of chronic illness onto the space of the page?" Thanks to Jane Hartshorn for this latest exploration of creative practice research in our new 'In Practice' project. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/08/p...

Poetry as Chronic Illness Research: ‘Another Attempt’

Jane Hartshorn’s poetry experiments within the contradictory and temporary spaces of chronic illness, reflecting rather than controlling the experience.

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📣📣‼️ Registration for the CRITICAL NEURODIVERSITY STUDIES: DIRECTIONS/INTERSECTIONS/CONTRADICTIONS (CNSC) conference is now open! ‼️📣📣 Sign up here: ndhumanities.com/critical-neu...

New Book in the Autocritical Disability Studies Series - Stories on Disability Through our Voices: Born This Way by Yoon Joon Lee: www.routledge.com/Stories-on-D...

Stories on Disability Through our Voices: Born This Way

This book integrates the discipline of disability studies with the lived experiences of women with visible disabilities. It seeks to foreground the silenced voices of Korean and Korean American women ...

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#MedHums101 Medical humanities puts lived experience at the centre of health research. Check out some of our most read articles on this topic: thepolyphony.org/tag/lived-ex...

lived experience – the polyphony

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What can a synthesis of neurodiversity theory and care ethics offer to research on language, communication, and culture? I am interested in how neurodivergent experiences challenge normative assumptions about relationality, communication, and value. 🧵