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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 1d

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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drerinpritchard.bsky.social @drerinpritchard.bsky.social · 1d

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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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

Project MUSE - Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies-Volume 19, Issue 3, 2025

muse.jhu.edu

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · Aug 13

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!

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The ReaderBank website: black text on a blue-purple background saying 'Reimagining imagination. How do you imagine the things you read? Discover more about your mind and contribute to cutting-edge research on the science of our inner worlds.' Two buttons saying 'Find out more' and 'Get involved'. A blue and red flower overlayed on top for decoration.

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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · Aug 13

“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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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · Jul 23

me: i could do this quickly and imperfectly

🧠: lol no

me: well i guess i’ll just never start then

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · Jul 24

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/...

(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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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · Jul 23

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...

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

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · Jul 23

This looks amazing. Huge congrats @franzerva.bsky.social ! I can't wait to read yours and Marnie's chapters.

David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

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

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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · Jul 23

Aww, that’s such a lovely comment! You made my day, Rhi 🤭

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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

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

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Campaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

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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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · Jun 4

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."

Printout of PowerPoint slides showing. Slide has an image of Tanya Titchkosky's book The Question of Access and the heading "Curiosity and Wonder"

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crippingbreath.bsky.social @crippingbreath.bsky.social · Jun 2

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

A ventilated person sat at a desk against a pink background; Image by Josh Slack, Inertia Creative; modified by Louise Atkinson

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Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social · May 31

New article from NDHums co-lead, Abs S. Ashley exploring neurotrans affectual landscapes in the face of anti-trans violences.

Abs Ashley @ainokash.bsky.social · May 31

New article📄Neurotrans Affect:Choreography, cocreation and coalitional resistance

in Transgender Studies Quarterly special issue: Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory, ed by J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg

doi.org/10.1215/2328...

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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · May 31

@davidbolt13.bsky.social @drerinpritchard.bsky.social @leahfburch.bsky.social

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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · May 31

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

An image of JLCDS issues and three academic books (Performing Disability in Early Modern British Drama, Advertising Disability, and Finding Blindness) distributed across a table.

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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · May 29

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...

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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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · May 29

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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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · May 22

Please consider signing and/or sharing this petition to stop compulsory redundancies at Liverpool Hope University #Solidarity ✊
chng.it/5zqNTByvfC

Sign the Petition

Stop Compulsory Redundancies; Protect Students and Staff

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · May 22

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.

Large group of students with placards gathered in front of a university building

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · May 21

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]

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · May 8

"If we imagine the poem is a body, is it possible to map the experience of chronic illness onto the space of the page?"

Thanks to Jane Hartshorn for this latest exploration of creative practice research in our new 'In Practice' project.

thepolyphony.org/2025/05/08/p...

Poetry as Chronic Illness Research: ‘Another Attempt’

Jane Hartshorn’s poetry experiments within the contradictory and temporary spaces of chronic illness, reflecting rather than controlling the experience.

thepolyphony.org

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Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social · May 2

📣📣‼️ Registration for the CRITICAL NEURODIVERSITY STUDIES: DIRECTIONS/INTERSECTIONS/CONTRADICTIONS (CNSC) conference is now open! ‼️📣📣

Sign up here:
ndhumanities.com/critical-neu...

Registration – ND Hums

ndhumanities.com

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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Apr 30

New Book in the Autocritical Disability Studies Series -
Stories on Disability Through our Voices: Born This Way by Yoon Joon Lee: www.routledge.com/Stories-on-D...

Stories on Disability Through our Voices: Born This Way

This book integrates the discipline of disability studies with the lived experiences of women with visible disabilities. It seeks to foreground the silenced voices of Korean and Korean American women ...

www.routledge.com

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