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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Thank you for this! Seeing it broken down in a non-UK context too helps me wrap my head around how it's enacted. FWIW my issue is very specifically w a particular segment of my academic field who are either actively doing this, or pretending it isn't 'relevant' - the discourse has always been awful
April 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Thank you for this! Seeing it broken down in a non-UK context too helps me wrap my head around how it's enacted. FWIW my issue is very specifically w a particular segment of my academic field who are either actively doing this, or pretending it isn't 'relevant' - the discourse has always been awful
Exactly - autism diagnosis will be another hurdle.
April 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Exactly - autism diagnosis will be another hurdle.
DM me the best email to reach you on?
April 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
DM me the best email to reach you on?
Right, fuck it. If you want to help write some sort of open letter or an article, do the DM slide.
I have continual brain soup and if you've got an idea please say. If you don't have an idea but want to help also say.
I have continual brain soup and if you've got an idea please say. If you don't have an idea but want to help also say.
April 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Right, fuck it. If you want to help write some sort of open letter or an article, do the DM slide.
I have continual brain soup and if you've got an idea please say. If you don't have an idea but want to help also say.
I have continual brain soup and if you've got an idea please say. If you don't have an idea but want to help also say.
Do let me know what you think!
April 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Do let me know what you think!
I'm thinking this, along with some sort of ... template for the public consultation aspect, whenever that comes through. I'm not entirely sure where a letter would go tbh - maybe something aimed at MPs individually might be better. Or an article somewhere rather than a letter.
April 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm thinking this, along with some sort of ... template for the public consultation aspect, whenever that comes through. I'm not entirely sure where a letter would go tbh - maybe something aimed at MPs individually might be better. Or an article somewhere rather than a letter.
I know that I'm yelling about this to people who are going to largely agree with me. That's the point. We - the disability studies people who know exactly why this is bad - need to get our collective shit together. This is our are we the baddies moment.
April 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I know that I'm yelling about this to people who are going to largely agree with me. That's the point. We - the disability studies people who know exactly why this is bad - need to get our collective shit together. This is our are we the baddies moment.
Or: you can't get care because you're autistic and therefore can't understand what trans is.
That's it. That's how it will be used.
That's it. That's how it will be used.
April 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Or: you can't get care because you're autistic and therefore can't understand what trans is.
That's it. That's how it will be used.
That's it. That's how it will be used.
You know how this will be used,right? Either you can't get on the wait list for gender-affirming medical care until you've been cleared for autism (but no funding to shorten those adult autism diagnosis wait lists!), good luck with adding a couple of extra years to that waiting time of several years
April 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
You know how this will be used,right? Either you can't get on the wait list for gender-affirming medical care until you've been cleared for autism (but no funding to shorten those adult autism diagnosis wait lists!), good luck with adding a couple of extra years to that waiting time of several years
We - as a field - need to speak up. I know everything is on fucking fire right now. But this is something we actually have expertise in. We have ground to stand on here.
April 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We - as a field - need to speak up. I know everything is on fucking fire right now. But this is something we actually have expertise in. We have ground to stand on here.
This can absolutely fuck off into the sun for a host of reasons, not least because it comes from the position that being trans is *bad* (and this gets backed up by the position that being autistic is bad too, it doesn't matter which way you come at it). This isn't a fucking neutral position any more
April 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This can absolutely fuck off into the sun for a host of reasons, not least because it comes from the position that being trans is *bad* (and this gets backed up by the position that being autistic is bad too, it doesn't matter which way you come at it). This isn't a fucking neutral position any more
Pretty much. Or maybe: crip which is only known/understood through being crip.
April 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Pretty much. Or maybe: crip which is only known/understood through being crip.
I have still not decided if I like the blurring enough for a new portmanteau
April 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I have still not decided if I like the blurring enough for a new portmanteau
Ontology is what we know (eg water is wet) and epistemology is the how we know it (eg empirical observation) - or ways of knowing. So cripistemology is crip ways of knowing. Crip-isto-ontology is a sort of ... crips know crip through doing/being crip
April 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Ontology is what we know (eg water is wet) and epistemology is the how we know it (eg empirical observation) - or ways of knowing. So cripistemology is crip ways of knowing. Crip-isto-ontology is a sort of ... crips know crip through doing/being crip
Reposted by Dr Emma Sheppard
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.
As both 1 and 3, I'm sort of into this. I would love to persuade Sam to shit in a box, but he would rather hold it for *days*
April 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
As both 1 and 3, I'm sort of into this. I would love to persuade Sam to shit in a box, but he would rather hold it for *days*
... this is a magnificent idea (also, thank you!)
April 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
... this is a magnificent idea (also, thank you!)
Oh no, I meant it in a very ... self-snarky way. I'm glad you liked the paper!
April 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Oh no, I meant it in a very ... self-snarky way. I'm glad you liked the paper!
I am a Very Serious Academic
April 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I am a Very Serious Academic
Thank you! I recommend reading it with a biscuit.
April 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Thank you! I recommend reading it with a biscuit.