Dr. Kat_SP
@drstephenspeace.bsky.social
Asst. Prof HESA @Ball State University - creative intellectual. #Highered #DisabilityStudies #neurodivergence #Race #Gender #IslandBrilliance #Caribbean #Immigrants #NewYorker 🇬🇾 🇮🇳 pepperpot & phuri 😉
For the love of everything good in the world, playing semantic ping pong in email with certain folks almost feels like certain people at work enjoy misunderstanding faculty. Like damn, we all have our own work to do and some folks relish in making it harder for you to do yours.
December 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
For the love of everything good in the world, playing semantic ping pong in email with certain folks almost feels like certain people at work enjoy misunderstanding faculty. Like damn, we all have our own work to do and some folks relish in making it harder for you to do yours.
December so wild in my house. We have our elopement anniversary, Husband’s birthday, & Christmas. Nothing but money going out the door 🙃🙃 all great times to celebrate but IJS.
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
December so wild in my house. We have our elopement anniversary, Husband’s birthday, & Christmas. Nothing but money going out the door 🙃🙃 all great times to celebrate but IJS.
I am literally putting some pieces to my almost Xmas day born husband’s special day and this darn Midwest weather got me shook. Ugh. 😩 like this weather so wild.
December 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I am literally putting some pieces to my almost Xmas day born husband’s special day and this darn Midwest weather got me shook. Ugh. 😩 like this weather so wild.
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“When disability, poverty & systemic neglect make life unbearable, that is not ‘autonomy’ — it is abandonment.” CRDJ's MAiD report shows that disabled people—especially those who are poor, Indigenous, or people of color—are offered help to die more readily than help to live. [2/3]
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
“When disability, poverty & systemic neglect make life unbearable, that is not ‘autonomy’ — it is abandonment.” CRDJ's MAiD report shows that disabled people—especially those who are poor, Indigenous, or people of color—are offered help to die more readily than help to live. [2/3]
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For the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, I spoke with advocates about how this law is crucial–and the ways in which disability education can be made better as its under attack from the Trump administration at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This disability education law turned 50 today. Disability advocates want more.
"Our civil rights are not up for negotiations," Rep. Lateefah Simon said.
www.motherjones.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
For the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, I spoke with advocates about how this law is crucial–and the ways in which disability education can be made better as its under attack from the Trump administration at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Sometimes, you take a sigh when you’re revising IRB & you go right back in and do what you have to do. It’s its own kind of 😩😩😩.
November 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Sometimes, you take a sigh when you’re revising IRB & you go right back in and do what you have to do. It’s its own kind of 😩😩😩.
We were up late into this morning, watching tv shows and relaxing after cooking all literal day. I’m incredibly grateful for the Thanksgiving we had.
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We were up late into this morning, watching tv shows and relaxing after cooking all literal day. I’m incredibly grateful for the Thanksgiving we had.
We are doing a full American thanksgiving tomorrow and a more Caribbean themed Christmas spread.
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
We are doing a full American thanksgiving tomorrow and a more Caribbean themed Christmas spread.
I’m reading a publication that’s so bloody exciting. Love that for me!
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I’m reading a publication that’s so bloody exciting. Love that for me!
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Jimmy Cliff, who died on Monday at 81, was a giant of Jamaican music. Here's a sampling of his greatest work. nyti.ms/4rjAczN
Jimmy Cliff: 8 Essential Songs
A giant of Jamaican music, he gained international renown through the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” and helped establish reggae’s themes of struggle, resistance and uplift.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Jimmy Cliff, who died on Monday at 81, was a giant of Jamaican music. Here's a sampling of his greatest work. nyti.ms/4rjAczN
I’m searching for this article and can’t locate it. I’m hoping someone in my community has access to this & can share it with me. “Multi-Sensory Methods: Toward a Crip Methodology in Fashion Studies” (2024).
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I’m searching for this article and can’t locate it. I’m hoping someone in my community has access to this & can share it with me. “Multi-Sensory Methods: Toward a Crip Methodology in Fashion Studies” (2024).
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Heated seats and heated steering wheel are the best inventions ever.
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Heated seats and heated steering wheel are the best inventions ever.
I’ve had the worst headache since arriving in Denver. I’m so looking forward to going home and the headache going away. Nonetheless, it was a great conference experience!
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I’ve had the worst headache since arriving in Denver. I’m so looking forward to going home and the headache going away. Nonetheless, it was a great conference experience!
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For anyone at the National Women’s Studies Association right now, some of us are organizing an impromptu memorial gathering for @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. 7-9pm tonight Saturday Nov 15 at the Sheraton hotel pool deck. Come be in community and share memories of Alice. 💜
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
For anyone at the National Women’s Studies Association right now, some of us are organizing an impromptu memorial gathering for @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. 7-9pm tonight Saturday Nov 15 at the Sheraton hotel pool deck. Come be in community and share memories of Alice. 💜
Saddened to hear about the loss of Alice Wong, who gave so much to this world. My work doesn’t exist without the possibility model that was Alice. What a disability trailblazer.
bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Saddened to hear about the loss of Alice Wong, who gave so much to this world. My work doesn’t exist without the possibility model that was Alice. What a disability trailblazer.
This ASHE conference owes me NOTHING.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This ASHE conference owes me NOTHING.
There is NOTHING like people telling you that they cited your work in their conference presentations. It’s not something I expect. Like, you never know if people are reading your work or it’s finding the audience you’re writing for. I’m grateful and humbled.
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
There is NOTHING like people telling you that they cited your work in their conference presentations. It’s not something I expect. Like, you never know if people are reading your work or it’s finding the audience you’re writing for. I’m grateful and humbled.
I’m turned around from the longest day ever and also all this travel. But I made it. My bed is calling my name!
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I’m turned around from the longest day ever and also all this travel. But I made it. My bed is calling my name!
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The police killing of Sonya Massey shows how disability, race, and gender converge in deadly encounters—and why we must reimagine crisis response around care, not control.
Read our new blog: “When a Call for Help Becomes Lethal” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/when-a-call-...
#DisabilityJustice #SonyaMassey
Read our new blog: “When a Call for Help Becomes Lethal” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/when-a-call-...
#DisabilityJustice #SonyaMassey
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The police killing of Sonya Massey shows how disability, race, and gender converge in deadly encounters—and why we must reimagine crisis response around care, not control.
Read our new blog: “When a Call for Help Becomes Lethal” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/when-a-call-...
#DisabilityJustice #SonyaMassey
Read our new blog: “When a Call for Help Becomes Lethal” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/when-a-call-...
#DisabilityJustice #SonyaMassey
What a week I’m having.
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
What a week I’m having.
The Caribbean region & of course, Jamaica are on my mind hard. Kinda hard to focus on anything else. Praying for our friends, families, institutions, culture.
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Caribbean region & of course, Jamaica are on my mind hard. Kinda hard to focus on anything else. Praying for our friends, families, institutions, culture.
Don’t forget to take a moment for yourself outside of work. This was me, in my art studio about to dive in.
October 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Don’t forget to take a moment for yourself outside of work. This was me, in my art studio about to dive in.
When your year 2 documents are due an entire week before normal. 🫤🙃😐😑🥴
October 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
When your year 2 documents are due an entire week before normal. 🫤🙃😐😑🥴
Teary eyed and typing. Pinch me moment… working on something time sensitive & noticing there are new citations of some of my 2024 work, in papers AND dissertations?! And it’s in conversation with scholar(ship) I read and enjoy!? 🤯 from new scholars and grad students? Eventually this
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Teary eyed and typing. Pinch me moment… working on something time sensitive & noticing there are new citations of some of my 2024 work, in papers AND dissertations?! And it’s in conversation with scholar(ship) I read and enjoy!? 🤯 from new scholars and grad students? Eventually this