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mindy ptolomey
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girls, disability, neurodivergence, creative methods + zines | education | University of Glasgow | Gender + Education Association Exec | Dates-n-Mates Scotland trustee | books + weights 📚🏋️‍♀️
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mindy ptolomey @mindyptolomey.bsky.social · Nov 14
For new friends - my work centres:

🦋 facilitating personal, institutional + cultural transformation

🎨 arts-based + creative research

🙍🏻‍♀️🙎🏽‍♀️ people who experience exclusion especially disabled + neurodivergent girls + young women

I love to read + lift weights! 📚 🏋️‍♀️

Loving it over here so far! 🌌
mindyptolomey.bsky.social
An absolute joy to be part of this supervisory team with @lisabradley.bsky.social and Mia! Iris’ practice-led arts-based research centres creativity and collaboration to change dominant understandings of dementia care. Thank you for your supportive engagement @julie67.bsky.social #CRMethods
julie67.bsky.social julie67.bsky.social @julie67.bsky.social · May 16
Lovely to convene Iris’s Annual Progress Review and hear about her use of art and creativity in the research process. Well done to Iris and her supervisors Mia, Mindy and Lisa for their support and hard work. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgtransform.bsky.social @mindyptolomey.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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drhelenkara.bsky.social
Reminder! 📢 I’m chairing 'How Creative Research Methods Challenge Power Dynamics in Knowledge Production', for @policypress.bsky.social soon. Secure your spot today!

📅 24.03.2025 | 📍 Zoom

Register here: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#CRMethods #AcademicSky #PhDSky
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How Creative Research Methods Challenge Power Dynamics in Knowledge Production. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the w...
Join us for an insightful and thought-provoking discussion exploring how creative research methods challenge power dynamics in knowledge production. Chaired by Helen Kara, a leading voice in creative...
bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us
March 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
mindyptolomey.bsky.social
Thanks @britishacademy.bsky.social for inviting me to have a wonderful conversation with Lu Williams about our work with zines + their pasts, presents, + futures as creative media for resistance, community, self expression + more! A joy to be in the gorgeous brand new events space too✨ #CRMethods
Two white people with long brown and pink hair on a stage in front of a seated audience A sign saying art club reclaims your narrative worh grrrl zine fair A white woman standing next to a sign saying the British academy
February 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
mindyptolomey.bsky.social
Join me online/in person 29th Jan 2-4pm UK time for a talk from the iconic Angela McRobbie! I’ll be responding + sharing insights from my arts-based research w/ disabled, girls celebrating Angela’s work + the legacy of the CCCS sign up ⬇️
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/soci... @uofglasgow.bsky.social
What is a Girl Today? Reflections on Young Women and the Politics of Popular Culture
Celebrating the publication of Feminism, Young Women and Cultural Studies: The Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards (Goldsmiths Press/MIT)
www.birmingham.ac.uk
January 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
mindyptolomey.bsky.social
Rarely have I been so enriched by reading - literary criticism but make it page-turningly good. For lovers of beautifully crafted + edited prose, with deftly woven themes + insights on gender on + off the page in works including Ibsen’s plays, the Brontës + Plath #books #reading
A book called seduction and betrayal by Elizabeth hardwick with introduction by Joan Didion that has an old oil painting on the cover a woman is in a dark room wearing a white night dress
December 6, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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drhelenkara.bsky.social
The deadline for proposals for #ICRMC25 is on Friday! (Though we won't be doing the final inbox check till Mon because of time zones etc, so if you need a little longer...) all info here creativeresearchmethods.com #CreativeResearchMethods #conference
Creative Research Methods Conference 2024
The International Creative Research Methods Conference is an annual gathering for academics of all disciplines who are interested in using creative methods in their research.
creativeresearchmethods.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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riacheyne.bsky.social
Brilliant call for papers for a special issue of the open access journal lambda nordica: "Speculative Futurities – Queer and Crip Interventions" edited by Anna Bark Persson and Josefine Wälivaara:
www.lambdanordica.org/index.php/la...
Abstract deadline 20 Dec 24
Call for papers: Speculative Futurities – Queer and Crip Interventions | lambda nordica
www.lambdanordica.org
November 29, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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francesryan.bsky.social
“As someone who relies on the state for my survival, I have a healthy distrust of giving it any more power over my life than it already has. Though some people want the right to die, many of us are still fighting for the right to exist.”

Must read by Liz Carr: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
MPs may trust doctors to manage assisted dying. Disabled people like me cannot | Liz Carr
Two friends recently woke up in hospital to find ‘Do not resuscitate’ orders on their notes. We’re all too aware that some lives aren’t valued as much as others, says the actor and disability rights a...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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zaranosaur.bsky.social
Hello new followers and old!

My disabled-led, disability-majority transcription and closed caption company @aat-transcribes.bsky.social is running a sale:

Get 10% off all edited and quality controlled services booked by 2 Dec.

Email us today for a quote & to book #EthicalAlternativeToAI
aat-transcribes.bsky.social Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social · Nov 25
The end of the year is closer than you think!

Take advantage of our end of autumn sale & book in your transcription/captioning projects before 2 Dec for 10% off our edited & quality-controlled services.

Beat the December rush & get a quote today at academicaudiotranscription.com/our-prices 🍂
Autumn leaves around the edges of an orange, sun-dappled background. Text in the centre of the image reads: End of Autumn Sale! 10% off edited & quality-controlled services. Offer ends 2 Dec. Discount not applicable to services booked at the transcription-only rate; only the edited and quality-controlled rates. Academic Audio Transcription logo is in bottom right corner.
November 26, 2024 at 8:43 AM
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bennosaurus.com
Youth studies starter pack! A work in progress - please send suggestions (and feel free to nominate yourself)

I miss our youth studies chat on the other place.... here we go! 💥

go.bsky.app/DbniWGw
November 18, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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georgejulian.bsky.social
This #LearningDisability Starter Pack includes a growing number of #JusticeforLB ers go.bsky.app/J6k8Rsr inc @sarasiobhan.bsky.social @lizpiercy.bsky.social @jennywalkabout.bsky.social @alexadwilson.bsky.social @profkrc.bsky.social @karachrome.bsky.social @davidh7.bsky.social @sabasalman.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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riacheyne.bsky.social
This. It shouldn't be a guest lecture or a one-off training session or a project; universities need to be resourcing and investing in Neurodiversity Studies, and neurodivergent inclusion, for the long term.
drrobertchapman.bsky.social Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · Nov 22
Atm i'm being asked almost every week to give more uni talks, mainly as there are neurodivergent students interested in neurodiversity theory everywhere. It's nice to be asked, but would be much nicer if humanities departments actually advertised paid, neurodiversity themed lectureships.
November 22, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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ruthndwrites.bsky.social
Fantastic starter pack for people interested in public involvement and coproduction #academicsky @academic-chatter.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/PWEAnFR
November 20, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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louca-mai.bsky.social
Love this parable on #coproduction & really relevant to #PublicInvolvement and #CommunityEngagement too.
May also be of interest to people who attended #NIHRAMC24 re: #ResearchImpact + a great example of using #CreativeMethods to share complex ideas.
Thanks @ruthndwrites.bsky.social!
ruthndwrites.bsky.social Ruth Naughton-Doe @ruthndwrites.bsky.social · Nov 20
Great blog post on the work that goes into good PPI work and the barriers we face. I always think of the ‘Parable of the Blobs and the Squares’ when I think of trying to involve people in our rigid systems youtu.be/eJDO1rcJbBw?...
November 20, 2024 at 4:31 PM
mindyptolomey.bsky.social
traffic.gov.scot/gritter-tracker get on Scotland’s snow gritter map where you can follow the journeys of ‘Gritty Gritty Bang Bang’, ‘Coldfinger’, ‘Blizzard of Oz’, and more! ❄️🌨️🤍
A map of lots of vehicles with fun names to do with snow like salt Disney and double Snow 7 and spready mercury
November 20, 2024 at 4:12 PM
mindyptolomey.bsky.social
bsky.app/start/did:pl... it’s a #CRMethods started pack! Thanks for making it @drkcarrutherst.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 1:38 PM
mindyptolomey.bsky.social
So exciting! For those (very, very few) of us who are committed to researching with disabled girls toward social transformation these things don’t come around too often! Can’t wait to read and review this @francesryan.bsky.social
francesryan.bsky.social Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · Nov 19
For the evening crowd, I’m excited to show you the cover for my new book, Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life.

Stay tuned tomorrow for the pre-order details every author must shamelessly plug.
November 19, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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louca-mai.bsky.social
@nihrarcs.bsky.social webinar: 'the invisible labour of #PublicInvolvement' with me & Stan Papoulias, chaired by @elspethma.bsky.social. Thurs 5/12/24 15:30-17:00
Info & booking: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Fcz7CzBW2u...
@arceastofengland.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social
@penarc.bsky.social #PPI
Flyer with text: This is the first in a series of ARC National events on Patient and Public Involvement research which aim to foster conversations and methodological development of patient and public involvement, inclusive involvement and co-production. The first webinar will explore the importance of understanding the perspectives and needs of the NIHR public involvement workforce, both for embedding public involvement in health and care research, and in relation to new NIHR requirements for inclusive research and sustainable community engagement with a facilitated discussion. Thursday 5th December 2024, 15:30-17:00 Who should attend? Anyone who is interested or involved in supporting, facilitating or leading Patient and Public Involvement.
November 19, 2024 at 11:25 AM
mindyptolomey.bsky.social
Wow what a creative, exciting, and inclusive programme @scottishtrans.bsky.social have put together for their FREE annual conference in Glasgow 💘
scottishtrans.bsky.social Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · Nov 18
Our 2024 Conference, Create and Change, takes place on SATURDAY 🏳️‍⚧️🤩

Have a look at some more of the wonderful workshops you can take part in!

Join us on the 23rd November at the Boardwalk - find out more about the workshops & sign up for a free ticket: www.outsavvy.com/event/22598/...
A Graphic describing some of the Scottish Trans Conference Workshops. There are three white boxes, the first box describes the workshop led by Living Rent, the second box describes a workshop led by Scottish Trans and the third box describes a workshop led by Black Creative Studios. You can read the full descriptions in the link in the post.
November 18, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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sagewell.bsky.social
Join us for a chat on creating sustainable lives for neurodivergent folks in academia! We'll discuss the benefits of working in disability scholarship & autism research, disability justice, self-care, & pacing. Dec 4th, 4pm ET. Register: shorturl.at/NYQNy #AcademicSky #DisabilityStudies #Disability
A digital flyer for Council for Exceptional Children Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities Diversity Committee's Community Chat Series featuring 2 smiling women-one white with short brown hair and glasses and one black with curly black hair and glasses. The main title reads "Creating Sustainable Lives: Empowering Neurodivergent Folx To Thrive In Academia" presented by Jennifer Macko, MAT, Doctoral Student and Janelle Johnson, MA, LMFT, Doctoral Candidate from North Carolina State University. The event is scheduled for December 4th, 2024 at 4pm ET. The description explains that the presentation explores sustainable living through neurodivergent women's experiences in academia, discussing the benefits of disability-focused scholarship and how it fosters sustainability, drawing on disability justice principles and Audre Lorde's insights on self-care and pacing. The session will conclude with a guided discussion and audience Q&A. Registration is available at https://shorturl.at/NYQNy
November 18, 2024 at 3:56 PM
mindyptolomey.bsky.social
Thanks to @britishacademy.bsky.social ECR Network for a fab event @ananobo.bsky.social @lisabradley.bsky.social + I shared our BA funded research on developing a neurodivergent-led research agenda using arts-based approaches w/ #neurodivergent girls + young women #CRMethods @uofglasgow.bsky.social
A poster that says what we found - the workshops revealed insights into how neurodivergent girls and young women wish to engage with research. Key themes included the importance of flexible creative spaces and the space needed to unpack and challenge deficit based perspectives A white woman with brown hair wearing a microphone stands in front of a slideshow on a screen
November 18, 2024 at 4:21 PM
mindyptolomey.bsky.social
This is a gorgeous creative exploration of life with an Energy Limiting Condition 🪫🧜‍♀️🔋 #disability #ChronicIllness #CRMethods
drbevans.bsky.social Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · Oct 26
Some weekend reading for you: Freedom is Rest, a comic book by @louisekenward.bsky.social and Julian Gray based on research into better future care for people with Energy Limiting Conditions #MECFS #ChronicIllness #LongCovid #Fibromyalgia #EDS #autoimmune disbeliefdisregard.uk/wp-content/u...
A mermaid and an orange fish. Text reads freedom is rest, written by Louise Kenward, art by Julian Gray
November 17, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...

‘a male classmate… asked if I was OK. I nearly melted with relief. See, I knew not all guys were ignorant! Then, before I responded, he continued. Why, he wondered, are so many girls crying?

Great to see @nytimes.com making space for girls. More please! #GirlsRights
Opinion | I’m 16. On Nov. 6 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft.
On the day after the election, it seemed boys and girls woke to a new reality.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
mindyptolomey.bsky.social
Enjoyed this collection - a bold snapshot of the breadth of Levy’s powers featuring the intimate autobiographical style she is renowned for alongside literary criticism, art criticism, + uncanny fiction often dabbling with/against Freud + surrealism🩷 #books #reading
A book the position of spoons and other stories by Deborah levy it has a black and white photo of the Lower half of a girls body with some wooden spoons on the ground
November 17, 2024 at 3:29 PM
mindyptolomey.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/broligar... some clear cut gems in here from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social including:

💎 ‘listen to women of colour’ (I would add listen to disabled people)

💎 “know what you stand for and what you think is good”

💎 find a way to connect to those you disagree with
How to Survive the Broligarchy
The Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. Here's 20 lessons in how to survive it.
open.substack.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM