Fran Zerva
@franzerva.bsky.social
To live for the hope of it all 🍁 Interested in all things disability, fantasy, feminism, neurodiversity. Academic Support Worker to Prof David Bolt.
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Today is #InternationalDayofPersonsWithDisabilities. To mark the days leading up to Anita Ghai's departure on 11th December last year, we have invited disability scholars to reflect on Anita's legacy. Read the contributions: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Disability Dialogues Contributions
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December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Today is #InternationalDayofPersonsWithDisabilities. To mark the days leading up to Anita Ghai's departure on 11th December last year, we have invited disability scholars to reflect on Anita's legacy. Read the contributions: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
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🚨 NEURODIVERSITY IS MORE THAN... symposium 📅 4 March 2026, 9-5pm GMT, online. Free to attend, all welcome! Sign up below:
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Neurodiversity is More Than...
A symposium organised by Abs S. Ashley and Ombre Tarragnat
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December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🚨 NEURODIVERSITY IS MORE THAN... symposium 📅 4 March 2026, 9-5pm GMT, online. Free to attend, all welcome! Sign up below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...
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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
Edited by David Bolt, now available in hardback, softback, and electronic formats.
Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25.
For more information and to order a copy: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
Edited by David Bolt, now available in hardback, softback, and electronic formats.
Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25.
For more information and to order a copy: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...
www.routledge.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
Edited by David Bolt, now available in hardback, softback, and electronic formats.
Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25.
For more information and to order a copy: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
Edited by David Bolt, now available in hardback, softback, and electronic formats.
Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25.
For more information and to order a copy: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
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To celebrate #DisabilityHistoryMonth, browse the LUP reading list and enjoy free access to selected disability studies journal articles across the next month.
bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖
@davidbolt13.bsky.social
bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖
@davidbolt13.bsky.social
Celebrating Disability History Month 2025
To mark Disability History Month in the UK, we’ve collated a reading list from our books and journals that engage with ideas and narratives of disability, particularly our leading journal, Th…
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November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
To celebrate #DisabilityHistoryMonth, browse the LUP reading list and enjoy free access to selected disability studies journal articles across the next month.
bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖
@davidbolt13.bsky.social
bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖
@davidbolt13.bsky.social
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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
Now available to pre-order, new book edited by David Bolt, including an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege.
Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25
Now available to pre-order, new book edited by David Bolt, including an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege.
Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...
www.routledge.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
Now available to pre-order, new book edited by David Bolt, including an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege.
Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25
Now available to pre-order, new book edited by David Bolt, including an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege.
Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25
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I am delighted to be under contract to write a second edition of my 2019 book, Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide. #MoreThanNeeds
October 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I am delighted to be under contract to write a second edition of my 2019 book, Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide. #MoreThanNeeds
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Why does Amazon think it is acceptable to sell merchandise that includes hate slurs and constructs people with #dwarfism as a novelty? Would any other #disability or #racial slur be acceptable?
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Why does Amazon think it is acceptable to sell merchandise that includes hate slurs and constructs people with #dwarfism as a novelty? Would any other #disability or #racial slur be acceptable?
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Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
Volume 19 Issue 3
Special Issue: Invitation to Dance: Performing Disability Politics through the Dancing Body
Guest Editors: Stefan Sunandan Honisch and Gili Hammer
The special issue can be accessed as a whole here:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55464
Volume 19 Issue 3
Special Issue: Invitation to Dance: Performing Disability Politics through the Dancing Body
Guest Editors: Stefan Sunandan Honisch and Gili Hammer
The special issue can be accessed as a whole here:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55464
Project MUSE - Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies-Volume 19, Issue 3, 2025
muse.jhu.edu
September 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
Volume 19 Issue 3
Special Issue: Invitation to Dance: Performing Disability Politics through the Dancing Body
Guest Editors: Stefan Sunandan Honisch and Gili Hammer
The special issue can be accessed as a whole here:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55464
Volume 19 Issue 3
Special Issue: Invitation to Dance: Performing Disability Politics through the Dancing Body
Guest Editors: Stefan Sunandan Honisch and Gili Hammer
The special issue can be accessed as a whole here:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55464
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ReaderBank has a sparkly new website!
readerbank.org
And new modules to help us better understand reading experiences, how the imagination works and what this means for mental health.
Sign up to get involved in the world’s most ambitious study of the reading imagination!
🧵
readerbank.org
And new modules to help us better understand reading experiences, how the imagination works and what this means for mental health.
Sign up to get involved in the world’s most ambitious study of the reading imagination!
🧵
August 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
ReaderBank has a sparkly new website!
readerbank.org
And new modules to help us better understand reading experiences, how the imagination works and what this means for mental health.
Sign up to get involved in the world’s most ambitious study of the reading imagination!
🧵
readerbank.org
And new modules to help us better understand reading experiences, how the imagination works and what this means for mental health.
Sign up to get involved in the world’s most ambitious study of the reading imagination!
🧵
“Struggle, stigma, or systemic barriers are not signs of weakness—but can, with the right support and agency, become part of a process of transformation and strength.”
www.linkedin.com/pulse/neurod...
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August 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“Struggle, stigma, or systemic barriers are not signs of weakness—but can, with the right support and agency, become part of a process of transformation and strength.”
www.linkedin.com/pulse/neurod...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/neurod...
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me: i could do this quickly and imperfectly
🧠: lol no
me: well i guess i’ll just never start then
🧠: lol no
me: well i guess i’ll just never start then
July 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
me: i could do this quickly and imperfectly
🧠: lol no
me: well i guess i’ll just never start then
🧠: lol no
me: well i guess i’ll just never start then
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I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Activism
PDF | Collective mental health patient organising in England is usually dated to the nineteenth century and seen as arising in response to the mass... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...
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July 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Really excited to be a part of this fab edited volume! My chapter “Moments of Identification: Neurodivergent Sociality and Loss in Marvel’s WandaVision” questions the neurotypical/neurodivergent binary and embraces the ambiguity found in the spaces in-between:
www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...
www.routledge.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Really excited to be a part of this fab edited volume! My chapter “Moments of Identification: Neurodivergent Sociality and Loss in Marvel’s WandaVision” questions the neurotypical/neurodivergent binary and embraces the ambiguity found in the spaces in-between:
www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
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This looks amazing. Huge congrats @franzerva.bsky.social ! I can't wait to read yours and Marnie's chapters.
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
@drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social
New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
@drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...
www.routledge.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This looks amazing. Huge congrats @franzerva.bsky.social ! I can't wait to read yours and Marnie's chapters.
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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
@drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social
New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
@drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...
www.routledge.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
@drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social
New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
@drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social
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Recent findings from @mencap.org.uk highlight the real-world impact of changes to PIP on people with a learning disability: buff.ly/SJnAhY0
Cuts to #PIP would mean stress, isolation & hardship - when PIP already fails to meet the additional costs of living with a learning disability.
#disabled
Cuts to #PIP would mean stress, isolation & hardship - when PIP already fails to meet the additional costs of living with a learning disability.
#disabled
Mencap research: The impact of changes to PIP
"Do You See Me?" is our new campaign A campaign is when people work together to try to change something. to make sure that people with a learning disability are fully included and valued in all…
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June 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Recent findings from @mencap.org.uk highlight the real-world impact of changes to PIP on people with a learning disability: buff.ly/SJnAhY0
Cuts to #PIP would mean stress, isolation & hardship - when PIP already fails to meet the additional costs of living with a learning disability.
#disabled
Cuts to #PIP would mean stress, isolation & hardship - when PIP already fails to meet the additional costs of living with a learning disability.
#disabled
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Looking forward to presenting with @luciejones83.bsky.social today on our work on disabled researchers and research culture! We're at the @ljmuofficial.bsky.social APSS faculty conference "Forever Curious."
June 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Looking forward to presenting with @luciejones83.bsky.social today on our work on disabled researchers and research culture! We're at the @ljmuofficial.bsky.social APSS faculty conference "Forever Curious."
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We launched our Artist Collaborator search last week!
Take a look here to learn more if you are an artist who lives on or with ventilation & would like to participate in a paid residency 🙌🏽
www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
@kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
Take a look here to learn more if you are an artist who lives on or with ventilation & would like to participate in a paid residency 🙌🏽
www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
@kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
We launched our Artist Collaborator search last week!
Take a look here to learn more if you are an artist who lives on or with ventilation & would like to participate in a paid residency 🙌🏽
www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
@kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
Take a look here to learn more if you are an artist who lives on or with ventilation & would like to participate in a paid residency 🙌🏽
www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
@kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
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New article from NDHums co-lead, Abs S. Ashley exploring neurotrans affectual landscapes in the face of anti-trans violences.
May 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
New article from NDHums co-lead, Abs S. Ashley exploring neurotrans affectual landscapes in the face of anti-trans violences.
Brilliant afternoon yesterday celebrating 15 years of #CCDS with powerful talks from some very important disability studies figures from Liverpool Hope! Thank you for all that you for disability studies - you are the reason we keep fighting ✊ #KnowledgeNotNeeds
May 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Brilliant afternoon yesterday celebrating 15 years of #CCDS with powerful talks from some very important disability studies figures from Liverpool Hope! Thank you for all that you for disability studies - you are the reason we keep fighting ✊ #KnowledgeNotNeeds
A touching open letter from our fab SEN and Disability Studies students about the proposed redundancies at Liverpool Hope University:
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An Open Letter from Disabled Students Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University
An Open Letter from Disabled Students Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University To the Leadership of Liverpool Hope University, We are writing to express our disappointment regardi...
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May 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A touching open letter from our fab SEN and Disability Studies students about the proposed redundancies at Liverpool Hope University:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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On 28 June, the CCDS launched Dr Ella Houston's monograph Advertising Disability. The book is part of the Autocritical Disability Studies series edited by Prof David Bolt. In addition, there is a response by Dr Catalin Brylla. The launch can now be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOvd...
CCDS Book Launch: Dr Ella Houston's Advertising Disability
YouTube video by Centre for Culture and Disability Studies
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May 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
On 28 June, the CCDS launched Dr Ella Houston's monograph Advertising Disability. The book is part of the Autocritical Disability Studies series edited by Prof David Bolt. In addition, there is a response by Dr Catalin Brylla. The launch can now be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOvd...
Please consider signing and/or sharing this petition to stop compulsory redundancies at Liverpool Hope University #Solidarity ✊
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Stop Compulsory Redundancies; Protect Students and Staff
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May 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Please consider signing and/or sharing this petition to stop compulsory redundancies at Liverpool Hope University #Solidarity ✊
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Students gathering to protest mass redundancies at Liverpool Hope today 😍 I don't work there any more but I feel like I can still confidently say our students are THE BEST.
May 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Students gathering to protest mass redundancies at Liverpool Hope today 😍 I don't work there any more but I feel like I can still confidently say our students are THE BEST.
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Jill Pluquailec of Sheffield Hallam has organised an open letter laying out the impact on #DisabilityStudies as a field - please do share and sign [add a comment with your info]
May 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Jill Pluquailec of Sheffield Hallam has organised an open letter laying out the impact on #DisabilityStudies as a field - please do share and sign [add a comment with your info]