kristen tollan
@krs10tln.bsky.social
phd candidate studying disabled friendships + social media • chronically logged on • crafty gal with too many journals • stationery aficionado • she/her • 🏳️🌈 ♿️ 🇨🇦 💖
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It's Friday night baby
July 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It's Friday night baby
life following my ankle surgery has been challenging so far (mostly mentally tbh) but I’m finally feeling well enough these last couple days to journal and maybe even do some dissertation work and that is giving me a much needed reminder that things will look up again soon 🌞😌
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
life following my ankle surgery has been challenging so far (mostly mentally tbh) but I’m finally feeling well enough these last couple days to journal and maybe even do some dissertation work and that is giving me a much needed reminder that things will look up again soon 🌞😌
some recent phd life updates —
dissertation data collection:
conducted final interviews with 5/10 of my participants; moved into the photovoice stage of participation with the other 5/10; applied for funding to provide participation incentives to the aforementioned 10 folks
dissertation data collection:
conducted final interviews with 5/10 of my participants; moved into the photovoice stage of participation with the other 5/10; applied for funding to provide participation incentives to the aforementioned 10 folks
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
some recent phd life updates —
dissertation data collection:
conducted final interviews with 5/10 of my participants; moved into the photovoice stage of participation with the other 5/10; applied for funding to provide participation incentives to the aforementioned 10 folks
dissertation data collection:
conducted final interviews with 5/10 of my participants; moved into the photovoice stage of participation with the other 5/10; applied for funding to provide participation incentives to the aforementioned 10 folks
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“…whilst books really are just books – they can be a uniquely valuable way to connect to others who are like us, all whilst carving out ideas that can educate those who are not.”
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By Dr Frances Ryan for the Disability Visibility Project about her new book Who Wants Normal?
In Trumpian times, we need joyful narratives around disability more than ever
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/07/01/i...
In Trumpian times, we need joyful narratives around disability more than ever
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/07/01/i...
July 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
“…whilst books really are just books – they can be a uniquely valuable way to connect to others who are like us, all whilst carving out ideas that can educate those who are not.”
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she’s a ten but she’s kris(ten)
July 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
she’s a ten but she’s kris(ten)
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i will not let the world darken my heart
January 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
i will not let the world darken my heart
It’s a long story but I might not have a position to return to as a graduate student TA this fall … if you know anyone looking for a (🇨🇦) research assistant (or similar) in disability studies, media studies, communications, children studies, education or the like, please reach out!
June 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It’s a long story but I might not have a position to return to as a graduate student TA this fall … if you know anyone looking for a (🇨🇦) research assistant (or similar) in disability studies, media studies, communications, children studies, education or the like, please reach out!
I see a quiz, I take a quiz... and I feel like it's both accurate and rude 😂 my first 4 that I recognized (all with a score of 80% or more, Marianne being my #1 match) are Marianne from Normal People, Penelope from Criminal Minds, Damien from Mean Girls and Alice from Twilight 🤭
May 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I see a quiz, I take a quiz... and I feel like it's both accurate and rude 😂 my first 4 that I recognized (all with a score of 80% or more, Marianne being my #1 match) are Marianne from Normal People, Penelope from Criminal Minds, Damien from Mean Girls and Alice from Twilight 🤭
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Just a few more days to submit to the FSNNA 2025 #fanstudies conference! Our theme this year is Reputation: Influence, Power, & Capital.
🤔Pick from: poster OR poster + talk
✍️Due: Abstract, bio, keywords
⏰Deadline: Monday, May 19
Full CFP & form here: fsn-northamerica.org/2025/04/11/g...
🤔Pick from: poster OR poster + talk
✍️Due: Abstract, bio, keywords
⏰Deadline: Monday, May 19
Full CFP & form here: fsn-northamerica.org/2025/04/11/g...
May 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Just a few more days to submit to the FSNNA 2025 #fanstudies conference! Our theme this year is Reputation: Influence, Power, & Capital.
🤔Pick from: poster OR poster + talk
✍️Due: Abstract, bio, keywords
⏰Deadline: Monday, May 19
Full CFP & form here: fsn-northamerica.org/2025/04/11/g...
🤔Pick from: poster OR poster + talk
✍️Due: Abstract, bio, keywords
⏰Deadline: Monday, May 19
Full CFP & form here: fsn-northamerica.org/2025/04/11/g...
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The University of Glasgow & the British Library have announced a fully funded PhD Studentship on "Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection"
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD StudentshipsearchSearch iconClose menu iconMenu icon bar 1Menu icon bar 2Menu icon bar 3
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May 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The University of Glasgow & the British Library have announced a fully funded PhD Studentship on "Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection"
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
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"The blank document can also pose near-infinite possibilities for those of us accustomed to stories prewritten for us, those of us aching to break out of normative frameworks of value."
Check out my latest with @rootedinrights.bsky.social on a crucial daily practice as a disabled&Mad writer.
Check out my latest with @rootedinrights.bsky.social on a crucial daily practice as a disabled&Mad writer.
In our next essay on disabled resources for these times, @cavar.bsky.social writes about a personal creative practice called junk journaling. Learn more about what it is, how it's helped them, and how YOU can start! #disability #writing #journaling
rootedinrights.org/junk-journal...
rootedinrights.org/junk-journal...
(Junk) Journaling Toward Connection
Sometimes (oftentimes) writing is the kind of thing we need to back ourselves into. Facing forward, diving in, especially from great proverbial heights, is simply Too Much—for those who don’t see t…
rootedinrights.org
May 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"The blank document can also pose near-infinite possibilities for those of us accustomed to stories prewritten for us, those of us aching to break out of normative frameworks of value."
Check out my latest with @rootedinrights.bsky.social on a crucial daily practice as a disabled&Mad writer.
Check out my latest with @rootedinrights.bsky.social on a crucial daily practice as a disabled&Mad writer.
It’s not PhD related but ins other news: I have an MRI on my ankle tonight at 2am (😭) to explore a tarsal coalition my doctor found in an x-ray in December 2024… hoping this is able to help me move forward in addressing my issues with pain and mobility BEYOND cerebral palsy. But 2am?! 😩
May 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It’s not PhD related but ins other news: I have an MRI on my ankle tonight at 2am (😭) to explore a tarsal coalition my doctor found in an x-ray in December 2024… hoping this is able to help me move forward in addressing my issues with pain and mobility BEYOND cerebral palsy. But 2am?! 😩
Checking my email today for news from @oii.ox.ac.uk @berkeleyischool.bsky.social almost as frequently as I did last May for SSHRC results 🙃🫣
Working on my application for the @oiioxford.bsky.social summer doctoral program at Berkeley and feeling very excited at the prospect of a California summer! 🌞
March 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Checking my email today for news from @oii.ox.ac.uk @berkeleyischool.bsky.social almost as frequently as I did last May for SSHRC results 🙃🫣
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Digital ownership matters. Without it, the past—and the truth—can vanish in an instant. 🕳️ #VanishingCulture archive.org/details/vani...
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March 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Digital ownership matters. Without it, the past—and the truth—can vanish in an instant. 🕳️ #VanishingCulture archive.org/details/vani...
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Ch. 4 of this book arrives just when I need to read it: "Care at the End of the World: Health/Care Infrastructure and Disability Justice Life-Writing"
In "Care at the End of the World," Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- & queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of US welfare reform. Read the intro for free on our website now! #DisabilityStudies
https://buff.ly/4b5wmmc
https://buff.ly/4b5wmmc
February 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Ch. 4 of this book arrives just when I need to read it: "Care at the End of the World: Health/Care Infrastructure and Disability Justice Life-Writing"
I received an email from a student today asking me to reconsider their grade on an assignment. I went back to look at the comments I gave, and I stood by the mark I gave. I’m not saying this to belittle the student, of course… (1/2)
February 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I received an email from a student today asking me to reconsider their grade on an assignment. I went back to look at the comments I gave, and I stood by the mark I gave. I’m not saying this to belittle the student, of course… (1/2)
PhD life so far in Feb ‘25:
received a reference letter so nice it made me cry;
finished an example of the photo-voice project I’m doing in my diss;
nearly completed the participant handbook;
my diss proposal moved to the ethics eval stage;
started a spreadsheet to keep track of quotes etc
😴
received a reference letter so nice it made me cry;
finished an example of the photo-voice project I’m doing in my diss;
nearly completed the participant handbook;
my diss proposal moved to the ethics eval stage;
started a spreadsheet to keep track of quotes etc
😴
February 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
PhD life so far in Feb ‘25:
received a reference letter so nice it made me cry;
finished an example of the photo-voice project I’m doing in my diss;
nearly completed the participant handbook;
my diss proposal moved to the ethics eval stage;
started a spreadsheet to keep track of quotes etc
😴
received a reference letter so nice it made me cry;
finished an example of the photo-voice project I’m doing in my diss;
nearly completed the participant handbook;
my diss proposal moved to the ethics eval stage;
started a spreadsheet to keep track of quotes etc
😴
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Its not even an original monstrous thought, because that is just how awful RFK Jr is.
In the 19th century, many asylums, epileptic colonies, and other institutional spaces had farms attached to them. To exploit disabled people's labor with the excuse that that labor would "cure" or "fix" them.
In the 19th century, many asylums, epileptic colonies, and other institutional spaces had farms attached to them. To exploit disabled people's labor with the excuse that that labor would "cure" or "fix" them.
RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms"
The farms will "reparent" them.
www.motherjones.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Its not even an original monstrous thought, because that is just how awful RFK Jr is.
In the 19th century, many asylums, epileptic colonies, and other institutional spaces had farms attached to them. To exploit disabled people's labor with the excuse that that labor would "cure" or "fix" them.
In the 19th century, many asylums, epileptic colonies, and other institutional spaces had farms attached to them. To exploit disabled people's labor with the excuse that that labor would "cure" or "fix" them.
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How to be Disabled in a Pandemic is a collective research effort (w/ @harriskornstein.bsky.social among many others) to document ableism & disability activism in NYC during the first 4 years of COVID-19. Out next month from @nyupress.bsky.social -- a surprise of advance copies in yesterday's mail:
January 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
How to be Disabled in a Pandemic is a collective research effort (w/ @harriskornstein.bsky.social among many others) to document ableism & disability activism in NYC during the first 4 years of COVID-19. Out next month from @nyupress.bsky.social -- a surprise of advance copies in yesterday's mail:
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honey, this limerence isn't big enough for the two of us
February 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
honey, this limerence isn't big enough for the two of us
Not particularly related to academia, but I finally got my hands on this book I've been wanting for ages! As a journal girly trying to get back into reading, this is everything I need.
February 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Not particularly related to academia, but I finally got my hands on this book I've been wanting for ages! As a journal girly trying to get back into reading, this is everything I need.
Has anyone heard any updates on our submissions from @cp25atlanta.bsky.social yet? 😀
February 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Has anyone heard any updates on our submissions from @cp25atlanta.bsky.social yet? 😀
At least 2 victims of the California wildfires had cerebral palsy. Their deaths didn’t need to happen, and further demonstrate that changes need to be made to the way we consider our disabled community members. They shouldn’t be left behind. Having CP too, this breaks my heart and terrifies me.
"[Anthony Mitchell Sr.] was an amputee who used a wheelchair. His son Justin Mitchell had cerebral palsy and needed help to get out of bed...So the pair huddled together awaiting a rescue that never came, becoming two of the first victims of the unprecedented firestorms." https://buff.ly/3PA294H
Altadena family says disabled father and son were left to burn: 'Nobody was coming'
Anthony Mitchell Sr., an amputee who used a wheelchair, and his son Justin, who had cerebral palsy, died due to slow evacuation efforts during the Altadena fire, relatives said Friday.
www.latimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
At least 2 victims of the California wildfires had cerebral palsy. Their deaths didn’t need to happen, and further demonstrate that changes need to be made to the way we consider our disabled community members. They shouldn’t be left behind. Having CP too, this breaks my heart and terrifies me.
I found this poem by David Gate on IG today. It does a beautiful job of putting into words why I am writing this dissertation about disabled friendships and social media. Internet friends are just as real as offline friends and for some disabled people the web is a vital way to build community.
January 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I found this poem by David Gate on IG today. It does a beautiful job of putting into words why I am writing this dissertation about disabled friendships and social media. Internet friends are just as real as offline friends and for some disabled people the web is a vital way to build community.