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el
@inforobin.bsky.social
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on the stem to humanities train with no idea of its final destination ~ marxism / disability / feminism / autism + neurodiversity paradigm ~ 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Jun 16
Thank you so much! :) Just got some, really appreciate this!
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Jun 16
unsure if these things are transferable, but if anyone can no longer attend the @durhamimh.bsky.social Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference online & would like to pass their virtual place on, please DM me! It’s very useful for my PhD proposal & illness/stress got in the way of me getting one
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Apr 23
finally found an adult orthopaedic team for cerebral palsy (basically unheard of, so I was very lucky!) and will be having an operation ASAP, but the recovery will complicate ME/fibromyalgia symptoms. 2025 so far has made me reflect a lot on disability + society which I’m hoping to speak about.
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Apr 23
employed for the rest of 2025 (part time for a non-profit, yay!) & hoping the lessened financial stress will mean I can be present again. feeling very upset about the Supreme Court ruling and wanting to intentionally include nb/trans experience into my proposal & focusing more on neuroqueer feminism
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Jan 3
hopefully will be around more soon :) excited to be able to spend much more of my time engaging in the things i care about!
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Jan 3
2 months into this CFS flair up and back onto graded exercise, good to know it works (managed to hike snowdon last year!) but the first few weeks feel horrific. using phd proposal prep / reading as motivation! it’ll be nice to read more than i currently can and focus again
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · Dec 18
Check out our critical neurodiversity studies conference call for abstracts and save the date! ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK – ND Hums
ndhumanities.com
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Dec 2
birds and books … the joys of unemployment (ignoring all the stress !)
painting of a eurasian magpie! a pile of books regarding queer phenomenology, bodies & society, and Marxism
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · Nov 27
I appreciate online conferences as much as the next chronically fatigued autistic but I'd also like to see more in person conference accessibility (e.g. encouraging of masking) so we don't have a disabled/abled segregation system where disabled people miss out on the booze and gossip.
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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Nov 27
I see we’re bashing in person conferences as ableist again & can I just remind folks that online conferences are equally ableist if we’re going to do this.

In-person conferences are my access need. The way my neurodivergence manifests means I find online presentations impossible to focus on. /1
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Nov 29
enjoyed helping design the poster / doing tech and admin for the Hegel in Ancient Greece workshop yesterday! It went so well and feel very proud of Chris :D whilst it’s not my area of expertise, I feel very grateful to have the opportunity to listen and (try to) learn from some fantastic people!
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crouton eater @croutoneater69.bsky.social · Nov 29
Wish psychiatry was even half as sexy as Hannibal made it out to be
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Nov 21
I know this has been done before, and is by no means a new topic, but I think using real life situations and examples is really important. Also listening to ND people with higher support needs who are expressing their struggles and actively including them in this is necessary right now.
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Nov 21
I think this may be one of the reasons why some ND people disagree with the neurodiversity paradigm; under current systems it’s hard for some to see literally *how* distress & disablement can be listened to and addressed without the pathology paradigm & deficit models. I’m trying to write this up :)
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Nov 21
I think something that can hold me back in academic spaces is my struggle to fully understand conceptual theories without literal examples. I’m also still learning a lot of new stuff and I struggle to fill in the blanks. I need processing time still!
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Nov 21
something I’ve found incredibly helpful when learning about the neurodiversity paradigm, psych reform vs abolition & mad studies is conceptualising *what* these futures would practically look like. Trying to engage in a lot of different literature to write up some conceptions at the moment
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Dr Jay Watts (they/she) @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · Nov 19
Thrilled to have a chapter in @lisabortolotti.bsky.social’s and all’s fab book on #EpistemicJustice. Mine explores how epistemic justice can help us understand how different diagnoses ‘do’ very different things in interaction, using BPD vs depression as examples. I argue we must reimagine diagnosis!
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · Nov 18
link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Our edited volume, Epistemic Injustice in Mental Healthcare, has now been published and is free to download. I made a very small contribution - excellently edited and led by @lisabortolotti.bsky.social and supported by Wellcome
Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare
This open access book features chapters from clinicians, psychologists, and philosophers to explore issues about epistemic justice in mental healthcare.
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Nov 19
My partner Chris is running a workshop exploring the connection between Hegelian and Ancient Greek philosophy at The University of Sheffield on the 28th November! Free entry and there will be some really fantastic speakers :) Sign up here & please share: www.eventbrite.com/e/hegel-in-a...
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Nov 14
almost 2 weeks after the tmtbt conference and I’m slowly recovering from the knock on flair up! starting to work on my first blog post and trying to get over feeling like I have far too much to learn before attempting this, but we’ve all got to start somewhere :D
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Nov 6
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-the-ra....
All The Rage!
A day of workshops and talks about class struggle feminism.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Nov 6
if anyone wants to join in using this despair into action and lives in/around Sheffield, there is a socialist feminist workshop on collective action against the far right on the 23rd nov. £5 low wage, £10 otherwise, and happy to cover for anyone that money is a barrier for - link in comments
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Oct 17
also attending the Too Mad to be True conference in a couple weeks as my partner (philosophy PhD candidate) was also really interested! Feels like a nice way to have a break, do something interesting and take a break from job applications/stress lol
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Oct 17
will be quiet here for a bit, my job contract is coming to an end soon and due to a vacancy freeze at ny workplace, everything feels: AHH! hoping for a new position where I still have time to work on PhD proposal without burning out completely
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Oct 6
today's company whilst reading in bed (first CFS flair up for a while... eep)
pigeon sat on top of a bird feeder stuck to a window
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Oct 6
coming to the end of my final book regarding desire & currently writing about how marxist feminism, queer theory and critical hedonism can help us redirect our desires away from capitalism and social norms! also got this badge from Queer Lit in Manchester yesterday :DD
a stack of books held up infront of a plant and print of a painting by Elizabeth Rowe titled 'dysphoria'. the books, from top to bottom are: the right to sex by Amia Srinivasan, gender trouble by Judith Butler, Straight sex by Lynne Segal, Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown, tomorrow sex will be good again by Katherine Angel and imtercourse by Andrea Dworkin. a badge that says, in pastel rainbows colours, 'neurodivergent and queer'. it has four stars, a rainbow and a planet on it too!
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el @inforobin.bsky.social · Oct 2
currently writing a fairly informal proposal & doing the reading for it; it's taking its time as im trying to balance health, work, and other academic interests (marxist feminism, queer & crip theory!)

im a self-identified autistic (mwaha) w/ cerebral palsy + CFS. hoping to have autism dx this year