E Krebs, PhD

**Dad comes to visit my NYC apartment**

"Did you caulk this shower yourself?"
"Your washing machine sounds like an airplane taking off."
"You know all your lightbulbs are different colors, right?"
"Your toilets are terrible. Let's replace them."
"Do you have a drill? Or a saw?"

Being disabled and chronically ill is beyond lonely. Far too many people in society can’t comprehend illnesses which are permanent & unrelenting but don’t necessarily kill you. As a result they EXPECT you to get better.

When you don’t - they abandon you.

🧵/1

We asked trans people directly why they're at elevated risk for suicide & what is needed for suicide prevention
Published in an awesome trans-led journal: BATS
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/3/1-...
#transrights #suicideprevention #research
@saltysicky.bsky.social @annadocherty.bsky.social

From the book's conclusion: "I hope we will more easily say what hurts, to ourselves and to each other and with each other, and do the work of figuring out together how to go on living while it hurts. I hope we can be gloriously and awfully unwell together."

As Dr. Khúc writes: "[T]he university renders students & faculty differentially unwell but effectively silos them from school other, leaving both ignorant of the other's unwellness. Accountability to the institution (and to meritocracy) requires us to refuse accountability to each other." (121-122)

As a disability/Mad justice advocate & teacher, I think about accessibility and care all the time. And I also regularly fail in both pursuits. This book pushed me to dive deeper into my higher ed investments & think about how they impact my engagement with my students.

"Dear Elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss" is the best book I've read in years.
If you're an academic--especially one invested in pedagogy, accessibility, or mental health--I can't recommend it enough.

Fantastic to have Mimi Khúc at Fordham today. We all need more real talk about unwellness on college campuses. We need even more real talk about how our institutions create and perpetuate that unwellness.

If you work in higher ed, PLEASE read her book.
www.dukeupress.edu/dear-elia

flyer with my headshot with short black hair on yellow background with gray bird silhouettes, dark blue and olive text: UNWELLNESS AND STRUCTURES OF CARE A Transdisciplinary Panel Discussion WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2024 11:30 AM TO 1:30 PM BEPLER COMMONS ROSE HILL CAMPUS FORDHAM UNIVERSITY Joined by: BASULI DEB EMILY KREBS NATALIE LOO MARGARET SCHWARTZ NATALI VALDEZ @slothprof * appearing by zoom REGISTER FOR THIS IN-PERSON EVENT HERE QR code

see you tomorrow Fordham! looking forward to being unwell together ❤️

Something(s) I wish folks knew: Accessibility is not a "one and done" practice. Access needs change, and accessibility varies by context & disability. Also, lots of folks have invisible disabilities and/or don't disclose disabilities, so accessibility helps folks who you may not think are disabled!

Congrats!!

I teach an intro to disability studies class and one of the major assignments is an accessibility audit...and Im always surprised at how routinely amazing it goes. It just opens up students' eyes to space, and how public and private spaces are all too often designed AGAINST disabled people

Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ member Yusef Salaam wins New York City Council seat Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam won a seat Tuesday evening on the New York City Council.

Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam has won a seat on the New York City Council, more than three decades after he was wrongfully accused and convicted as a teenager

The conflation of critiquing Israel with anti-Semitism is a tactical rhetorical move. It protects Zionism & the state of Israel from critique, even when that state is committing genocide.

It also makes it really freakin' hard to talk about current events in classroom settings.

Douglas C Baynton's "Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History"

Alt text bot (photo included is of Blinken getting on a plane)

“We will use smaller bombs” should be the Democratic Party motto

I’m seeing so many masks being worn at protests around the country right now. Thank you! Solidarity means fighting together to stop a public health disaster abroad while also engaging in health justice praxis locally. Our struggles are connected. 😷✊️

The title slide from my AoIR presentation, "Here to have fun and fight ableism": #Autisktok user bios as neuroqueer microactivist platform affordances

Really excited for my first AoIR this week! 💫 I'll be presenting a collaborative WIP on user bios and neuroqueer rhetorics.

I'm a humanistic researcher of disability and new media who's currently working on a book project about shitposting and platform hygiene. Would love to meet some of y'all IRL!

11 years into my academic career, I finally bought an external monitor, a mouse, and a mechanical keyboard. I am ~unstoppable~.

Israel-Palestine war live: Gaza 'is being strangled' as food and water begin to run out Israel's shelling and siege causing 'unprecedented human catastrophe', UN says

More than 1,000 Palestinians are missing under the rubble in buildings bombed by Israel in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence - in addition to more than 2,600 already confirmed dead. The UN says Gaza is ‘being strangled and it seems that the world right now has lost its humanity.’

MARINA

The moderation on Twitter/X is obviously a dumpster fire, but they're now allowing a government regime that's currently committing genocide to disseminate propaganda via sponsored "ads" which is... beyond dystopian.

Fordham sent no messages about mourning or loss, just a public safety alert about potential protests in NYC related to the "Israel-Gaza conflict." They just wanted us to know that NYPD would be all over both campuses. 🙄

Incredible...

Ben Howard's "Every Kingdom" because I love a good cry in the woods.

Fordham Bans Students for Justice in Palestine — Palestine Legal

I teach at a Jesuit university that holds social justice & human dignity at the core of its stated mission. It also banned Students for Justice in Palestine bc the club would "run contrary to the mission & values" of the school.

Human dignity and justice, but not for Palestine.

Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon Israel’s use of white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing a question and answer...

BREAKING: Israel has used white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, putting civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries.

White phosphorus causes excruciating burns and can set homes afire. Its use in populated areas is unlawful.

The landing page for Jess’s website

✨updated my website ✨

If you’re new here, hello! I’m Jess. I’m an assistant professor of comm technologies writing a book about disability, platform hygiene, and aspirational labor.

My website houses my research and teaching. It’s also a good way to get in touch! www.jessrauchberg.com

Part of me hates Twitter but it's done so much for my academic work. Over 1,200 people downloaded my dissertation & latest critical suicidology article after today's thread. I've made key research partnerships that stemmed from angsty Tweets. And yet, the platform never fails to be a dumpster fire.