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Helen Rottier
@helenrottier.bsky.social
PhD in Disability Studies. Disabled Dis-Epistemologies and Knowledge Production. Opinions are my own. she/her
My genuine response to this would be to continue to do research, answering the same questions I try to answer now, but in a much more radical, liberated, and liberatory way. ✨👩🏻‍🔬 #AcademicSky #KnowledgePowerToThePeople
If you didn’t have to work. What would you do/study/pursue with all your free time?
February 10, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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Everything is infuriating me today! Is that good??
February 10, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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For months, people have asked me about the popular Telepathy Tapes podcast, and its premise of non-speaking autistics reading minds. And I’m here to tell you: The Telepathy Tapes is a hot, complicated mess—but not for the reasons you may think. At TPGA:

thinkingautismguide.com/2026/02/the-...
The Telepathy Tapes Is Such A Hot Mess — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
For months, people have asked me what I think of the extremely popular Telepathy Tapes podcast, and its premise of non-speaking autistics not only reading minds but bringing the world messages of love...
thinkingautismguide.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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It wasn’t Liam Ramos with Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show

He hasn’t had a happy ending & sharing a false story could hurt his family

The DoJ is moving to expedite his deportation

They want to punish Liam for capturing the hearts of the nation

His happy ending is still a long way away:
Trump lawyers aim to deport five-year-old boy after judge ordered his release
Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were seized by ICE in Minneapolis last month before a judge ordered their release
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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Write all the novels and screenplays I’ve had to table in order to “survive”
If you didn’t have to work. What would you do/study/pursue with all your free time?
February 10, 2026 at 4:28 AM
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We live in a moment of both continuity with the past, and rupture from it.

Insisting that it’s only one or the other does not make for clear analysis.
January 31, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Liam was only freed 9 days ago, and suffered horrific atrocities. He may still be in deep shock, & would be further traumatised by a stadium full of fans screaming, even with love.

The 2nd boy reminded us of how all children should be treated—there are still thousands in their concentration camps.
February 10, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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Your drafts sucked so bad they broke the website
February 9, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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In honor of Black History Month, we are highlighting Instagram accounts that enlighten and inform about the Black neurodivergent and disabled experience. From @ejwillingham.bsky.social, in the latest TPGA newsletter:

buttondown.com/TPGA/archive... #autistic #neurodiversity #BlackHistory
Black history is also neurodivergent history
Highlighting Instagram accounts that enlighten and inform about the Black neurodivergent and disabled experience.
buttondown.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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as it turns out touchdowns are a way you can score points in American football
February 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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i think people mad about bad bunny’s performance have never been forced to consider that not everything is for you
February 9, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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Even this font is giving postcolonial Spanish
February 9, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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First shot: sugarcane

The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times

Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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this is telenovela font
Even this font is giving postcolonial Spanish
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make.

The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression.

They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.
Okay so a thing I LOVED about that is how, whereas so many halftime shows kind of elevate the star above the other dancers/extras—often literally—that was like the exact opposite, he was *with and among* the people around him
February 9, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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I don't think people made of Pringles can drive legally
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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If you were hoping for some sort of overt political statement: see the literal plantation Benito created to perform in.
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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I'll just be over here crying a lil 🥹
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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If you needed any more proof that joy is a powerful form of resistance, this was it.
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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It’s amazing how artists like Bad Bunny can give us more hope for what America can be than any politician. What a an incredible gift.
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM