Dr Emma Sheppard
@emmas.bsky.social
Sociologist, Aberystwyth. Critical disability studies. Overthinking trauma, bodies, pain, time, sexuality, crip rage, queer joy. Knitter, sewist, reptile herder, forever exhausted. She/her. 🏳️🌈
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Dr Emma Sheppard
@emmas.bsky.social
· Apr 24
Lads, I am very rubbish at posting here, but: I wrote a thing, and it is now out with Feminist Theory. doi.org/10.1177/1464... - it's called The Necessary Pleasures of the Crip Killjoy and it's about thinking with brain fog and discomfort and violence and joy in refusal.
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So let’s break this down a touch more via the Swedish angle because it has been a thing for years (and I’ll admit it’s a bit annoying to see people notice it only now but hey better late than never I suppose).
The exact way this has gotten wielded is psychiatrists pondering statistics aloud
The exact way this has gotten wielded is psychiatrists pondering statistics aloud
Hey, disability studies people. We need to talk about this: www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/n... - because we know where it's come from, right? You know that research behind this has come from people in our field, right?
NHS 'to test trans young people for autism and ADHD'
Trans young people will allegedly be 'screened' for autism and ADHD according to planned NHS guidance on youth gender clinics.
www.thepinknews.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
So let’s break this down a touch more via the Swedish angle because it has been a thing for years (and I’ll admit it’s a bit annoying to see people notice it only now but hey better late than never I suppose).
The exact way this has gotten wielded is psychiatrists pondering statistics aloud
The exact way this has gotten wielded is psychiatrists pondering statistics aloud
Hey, disability studies people. We need to talk about this: www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/n... - because we know where it's come from, right? You know that research behind this has come from people in our field, right?
NHS 'to test trans young people for autism and ADHD'
Trans young people will allegedly be 'screened' for autism and ADHD according to planned NHS guidance on youth gender clinics.
www.thepinknews.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Hey, disability studies people. We need to talk about this: www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/n... - because we know where it's come from, right? You know that research behind this has come from people in our field, right?
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Genuinely if I had been outflanked on the left by Tim Martin and Wetherspoons and I considered myself to be a left wing politician, I would resign and spend the rest of my career in a cave reflecting on how I let my brain get so rotted by columnists about who shits where
April 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Genuinely if I had been outflanked on the left by Tim Martin and Wetherspoons and I considered myself to be a left wing politician, I would resign and spend the rest of my career in a cave reflecting on how I let my brain get so rotted by columnists about who shits where
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Crip guests in my essay echo @emmas.bsky.social's "There is joy in the ashes of the future-not-to-be, there is pleasure in their discomfort with our joy and our rejection."
Also online as a BSL video, with captions & audio description - and an embodied Footnote played by Deaf actor Ciaran Stewart.
Also online as a BSL video, with captions & audio description - and an embodied Footnote played by Deaf actor Ciaran Stewart.
"Writing from the Groin" video essay by Sandra Alland (BSL with AD and CC)
YouTube video by BOPTheatre
youtu.be
April 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Crip guests in my essay echo @emmas.bsky.social's "There is joy in the ashes of the future-not-to-be, there is pleasure in their discomfort with our joy and our rejection."
Also online as a BSL video, with captions & audio description - and an embodied Footnote played by Deaf actor Ciaran Stewart.
Also online as a BSL video, with captions & audio description - and an embodied Footnote played by Deaf actor Ciaran Stewart.
Lads, I am very rubbish at posting here, but: I wrote a thing, and it is now out with Feminist Theory. doi.org/10.1177/1464... - it's called The Necessary Pleasures of the Crip Killjoy and it's about thinking with brain fog and discomfort and violence and joy in refusal.
April 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Lads, I am very rubbish at posting here, but: I wrote a thing, and it is now out with Feminist Theory. doi.org/10.1177/1464... - it's called The Necessary Pleasures of the Crip Killjoy and it's about thinking with brain fog and discomfort and violence and joy in refusal.
Ending this week in Social Theory with "It Ain't Half Racist Mum" from Stuart Hall (and Box of Broadcasts) - as rounding up Hall's work on TV discourse, encoding/decoding.
March 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Ending this week in Social Theory with "It Ain't Half Racist Mum" from Stuart Hall (and Box of Broadcasts) - as rounding up Hall's work on TV discourse, encoding/decoding.
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And remember, Stock resigned voluntarily, after receiving the full & unconditional backing of the university.
Possibly because she thought she was getting a new gig at the University of Grievance, Austin...
Possibly because she thought she was getting a new gig at the University of Grievance, Austin...
If you want to know why the Uni of Sussex is being punished, it is because they failed "to atone for its mistreatment of Kathleen Stock".
March 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
And remember, Stock resigned voluntarily, after receiving the full & unconditional backing of the university.
Possibly because she thought she was getting a new gig at the University of Grievance, Austin...
Possibly because she thought she was getting a new gig at the University of Grievance, Austin...
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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
March 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
Magnificently, I have a publication out. Myself, Tamar MacLellan and Erika Hawkes wrote about what an arts approach did for us when talking about trauma in HE. It's in the Journal of Learning Development in HE: doi.org/10.47408/jld...
Thinking through drawing: an arts-based approach to trauma-informed pedagogy
| Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
doi.org
March 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Magnificently, I have a publication out. Myself, Tamar MacLellan and Erika Hawkes wrote about what an arts approach did for us when talking about trauma in HE. It's in the Journal of Learning Development in HE: doi.org/10.47408/jld...
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Oh this is a *really* good point! 🧵
"if you live long enough you will experience some kind of disability" is weirdly counter to social model theory in a way that bugs me.
March 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Oh this is a *really* good point! 🧵
Now taking suggestions for where I left my sunglasses.
March 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Now taking suggestions for where I left my sunglasses.
Today had one of those seminars which went off track from the beginning, but was nonetheless great.
We should have talked about risk as social/cultural. And we sort of did - but we talked about risk vs fear, the orgasm gap, student loans, and crafting.
We should have talked about risk as social/cultural. And we sort of did - but we talked about risk vs fear, the orgasm gap, student loans, and crafting.
March 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Today had one of those seminars which went off track from the beginning, but was nonetheless great.
We should have talked about risk as social/cultural. And we sort of did - but we talked about risk vs fear, the orgasm gap, student loans, and crafting.
We should have talked about risk as social/cultural. And we sort of did - but we talked about risk vs fear, the orgasm gap, student loans, and crafting.
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can Labour please, please just tot up the number of voters with a) more than ten million quid and b) less than ten million quid, and do the fucking maths on what the country would prefer.
Labour MP Dawn Butler calls on the Government to impose a wealth tax of 2% on assets over 10 million, rather than cutting benefits.
"That's a better way to bring money in to help fill the black hole that we found ourselves in," she says.
"That's a better way to bring money in to help fill the black hole that we found ourselves in," she says.
March 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
can Labour please, please just tot up the number of voters with a) more than ten million quid and b) less than ten million quid, and do the fucking maths on what the country would prefer.
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Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall's speech today laid out plans to cut disability and sickness benefits by billions.
❌ No truly moral choice would leave disabled people without support designed to allow them to lead a dignified life, or facing hardship. 1/4
❌ No truly moral choice would leave disabled people without support designed to allow them to lead a dignified life, or facing hardship. 1/4
Liz Kendall unveils UK benefits cuts set to leave many sick and disabled worse off
Liz Kendall unveils UK benefits cuts set to leave many sick and disabled worse off
Welfare secretary announces changes aimed at cutting bill by up to £5bn in face of opposition from Labour MPs
* UK politics live – latest updates
Liz Kendall, the welfare secretary, has faced down angry Labour MPs to unveil drastic cuts to the UK’s…
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall's speech today laid out plans to cut disability and sickness benefits by billions.
❌ No truly moral choice would leave disabled people without support designed to allow them to lead a dignified life, or facing hardship. 1/4
❌ No truly moral choice would leave disabled people without support designed to allow them to lead a dignified life, or facing hardship. 1/4
Today: trying to get my smart meter fixed, organising training, writing seminar. Maybe screaming into the void
March 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Today: trying to get my smart meter fixed, organising training, writing seminar. Maybe screaming into the void
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Two templates - one for people who are directly affected and one for allies. Please write to your MP
and let them know how immoral, counterproductive and devastating- these cuts will be www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-an...
and let them know how immoral, counterproductive and devastating- these cuts will be www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-an...
Act Now: Write to Your MP About Welfare Benefit Cuts
Take Action, Today
www.inclusionlondon.org.uk
March 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Two templates - one for people who are directly affected and one for allies. Please write to your MP
and let them know how immoral, counterproductive and devastating- these cuts will be www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-an...
and let them know how immoral, counterproductive and devastating- these cuts will be www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-an...
The scriptwriters for Doctor Odyssey are trying to make orcas the bad guys and it's not working.
March 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The scriptwriters for Doctor Odyssey are trying to make orcas the bad guys and it's not working.
Today's seminar discussed the selfie as cultural product and I am now going to crumble to dust
a cartoon character says " the very instant i became old " in front of a red phone
Alt: Prof Farnsworth from Futurama - a wrinkled old man with a very pointy bald head,wearing a lab coat. He says "the very instant i became old"
media.tenor.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Today's seminar discussed the selfie as cultural product and I am now going to crumble to dust
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This is such a vital piece by @davehitchcock.bsky.social on the university funding crisis, which has been a decade in the making.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-...
A Decade of Crisis
The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
March 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This is such a vital piece by @davehitchcock.bsky.social on the university funding crisis, which has been a decade in the making.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-...
I am now *that* person whose pets are busy being absolute clowns while I'm doing a Proper Teams Meeting. Muting myself because SQUONKY TOYS TIME.
March 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I am now *that* person whose pets are busy being absolute clowns while I'm doing a Proper Teams Meeting. Muting myself because SQUONKY TOYS TIME.
We interrupt today's doom scrolling with this, which is very informative
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
We interrupt today's doom scrolling with this, which is very informative
Today I am panic-reading before reading group, meeting a dissertation student, and discussing research and teaching. And preparing for my mum's arrival tomorrow.
March 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Today I am panic-reading before reading group, meeting a dissertation student, and discussing research and teaching. And preparing for my mum's arrival tomorrow.
Lads, what do you do when you can't procrastinate writing with lecture prep? SEND HELP. I might actually have to write.
March 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Lads, what do you do when you can't procrastinate writing with lecture prep? SEND HELP. I might actually have to write.
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Absolutely disgusting. It's ripping support from the most vulnerable. These people are unable to work because they are disabled. They've transformed disability welfare into a work benefit.
This "Labour" government deserves to be annihilated.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This "Labour" government deserves to be annihilated.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Starmer decries ‘worst of all worlds’ benefits system ahead of deep cuts
PM expected to announce billions in savings from personal independence payment, the main disability benefit
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Absolutely disgusting. It's ripping support from the most vulnerable. These people are unable to work because they are disabled. They've transformed disability welfare into a work benefit.
This "Labour" government deserves to be annihilated.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This "Labour" government deserves to be annihilated.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...