psycheready.bsky.social
@psycheready.bsky.social
She/her. Grad student at UConn. Disability Studies, Writing Studies, Mental Illness. I'm a worrier. Always looking for joy and community.
I've been away from bsky for a while. But I needed to come somewhere to say publicly that the world is nightmarish right now as a survivor of CSA which I know so many of us are.
November 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'm doing another sleep study tonight. We are not supposed to have caffeine after 12:30 so I just chugged a tremendous amount of latte at 12:29. What could possibly go wrong.
June 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Is anyone out there? Say hello if you know me, will you?

I just needed someplace to share. Since I passed my defense, every time I open up my dissertation document I have a minor panic attack.

But I need to do these revisions.
June 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It feels bananas to be writing a dissertation right now in light of world events. But.

Realized yesterday my findings chapter was trying to do TOO MUCH and needed to narrow it down. I found a way to do that & now I'm reinvigorated.

Was up late thinking about it though, so I'm dragging ass today.
February 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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🔴 Happening now:

Disability Community Briefing: What You Can Do to Stop the Attack on Section 504
dredf.org/event/disabi...

Will live-post some info in the thread below 👇🏻

#1. A recording of the session WILL be shared by DREDF (@dredf.bsky.social)

🧵 1/
February 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It is so surreal right now to be teaching my Gender Studies right now, because students leave class and are immediately bombarded with headlines about politicians who say the EXACT OPPOSITE of their textbook.

I nearly had a panic attack in class today just thinking about it.
February 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Trying to collect info in one place for folks. Things are moving quickly. The multiply marginalized will be disparately impacted, especially BlPOC, immigrant, and/or queer disabled folks. Here's the round up from week 1.
January 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
It is so surreal to be writing diversity statements for my job applications while our administration is trying to end diversity initiatives. It is so painful to lesson plan about systemic inequality for students whose lives may soon be at risk just by being themselves.
January 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Yeah and it’s stuff like this that makes me get irritated over “y’all really that mad over an app???” Okay it doesn’t matter to you but people get upset over losing their communities.
TikTok had a massive community of #ActuallyAustistic people, likely the largest autistic community in the world ever. It included all ages and speakers and non-speakers.

It also had a large chronically ill community.

The potential loss of community for many otherwise isolated folks is significant.
January 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Will post this more times as the semester approaches and we enter an era where we will all need to bring full-throated collective care to whatever we are doing
It's that time again to share my teaching/syllabus resource with you: a Course Ethos of Care -- each semester I have this as part of my course and we work to prioritize care throughout the semester. Pls feel free to use what works for you and leave the rest.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ETHOS OF CARE.docx
Laura Mauldin Course Ethos of Care We will think about care as a radical act throughout the semester. As such, I want to explicitly set the tone for how we’ll get through the semester wh...
docs.google.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Need to figure out how to make your home more accessible? How to rig up something to do it safely? Are your parents aging into needing these kinds of hacks & tips? I maintain a website that is a repository of ideas from disabled ppl & caregivers I talked to across the US
www.disabilityathome.org
Disability At Home
Visit the post for more.
www.disabilityathome.org
January 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My blood test results came in and I checked them on Quest instead of waiting for the Dr. to call.

When will I learn!
January 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
January 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I made a list of clear, obtainable, healthy goals for the year and then, nearly immediately, shit my pants.

Here's to 2025!
January 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This was my first Christmas without my two oldest cats, Percy and Theodore, pictured in my profile Pic. They were with me for 14 and 16 years. I'm very isolated and don't communicate with a lot of people. (I have a lovely partner tho.) My cats were a huge part of my life. I miss them.
December 27, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Here's Ringo. He's been on wrapping paper duty all week. His job is to destroy all the wrapping paper.
December 27, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Here's Georgie. She looks like she wants to talk to you about something.
December 27, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.
December 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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Whenever I have low moments about whether my writing matters (often), I think of this from Jean Rhys.
'All that matters is feeding the lake.'
December 20, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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Wisdom.
December 11, 2024 at 11:50 AM
I just made a list of all the actual crises I had this semester, then a list of all my accomplishments. Let me tell you, I am freaking AMAZING and I 1009% deserve this week off.
December 11, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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Are you a disabled academic with tenure? If so, I need your help with something maybe. DM me or ask me to DM you.
December 11, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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The denial of care is the most evil act of harm, yet also one of the most widely used and accepted. That’s because it is an efficient (ie murderous without the obscenity of physical warfare) way to uphold America’s long held eugenic ideas of “the good state.”
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Biden admin rule allowing DACA recipients to get health insurance on the ACA marketplace exchanges in 19 GOP-led states that sued.

Judge Daniel Traynor, a Trump appointee in North Dakota, issued the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 11, 2024 at 3:51 PM
I submitted my first academic job application! I've been working on it for weeks. Well, months. I'm exhausted. Now it's officially birthday weekend and I'm checking out till Tuesday, when the next one is due!
November 29, 2024 at 10:49 PM