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Shona S
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Sometimes #sociology PhDing on #BlackFeminism and #Disability. Other times "shaking shit up" in the heritage sector, or spontaneously driving 4 hours to explore. Always freely & authentically me🕊 🇯🇲🇬🇧
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Today's win on this sunny Sunday involves a bit of lakeside PhDing while my partner fishes because, after two months of recovering from surgery & pregnancy loss, I finally feel more like me again🌞

#SocSky #PhDSky #AcademicSky #BlackStudies #DisabilityStudies #BookSky
March 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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After a couple of days of having my car climbed on by monkeys, getting lost in christmas light trails and exploring Wiltshire with my partner, I felt refreshed when diving back into my lit review reading today😊

#AcademicSky #Sociology #PhDSky
A small brown rhesus macaque monkey sits on the driver's side wing mirror, leaning against the window and looking in at us. An illuminated Egyptian pyramid lantern sits under the night sky, with an illuminated palm tree and Sphinx in front of it. A queue of people wait to enter the pyramid. There are Egyptian hieroglyphs bordering the doorway and the sphinx's stand. Shona, a white skinned mixed race woman, stands in front of Stonehenge. She wears a long black coat, black tights, black boots, and her dark brown curly hair in a messy bun. She stands facing to the left and looking down smiling as she stretches her hand out to make it look like she is resting her hand on top of Stonehenge in the distance. She holds a coffee cup in her other hand.
December 3, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Today's read is brought to you by the hours of excited voice notes shared last night, when my friend told me she's applying to PhD on a similar topic to me🥳 (ft. Christmas nails because it's nearly December!)

#BookSky #Sociology #SocSky #AcademicSky #PhDSky #Disability #BlackStudies
Dennis Tyler's book, 'Disabilities of the Colour Line: Redressing AntiBlackness from Slavery to the Present', with my left hand on top of it. I have christmas nails, a couple stripey, one white with red candy canes on, one green and one red.
November 30, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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One thing about me is I absolutely cannot work in silence so today's antics include turning my R&B playlist up, while I re-visit my literature review notes. They also include forgetting what I've read, but we won't speak about that🤫😂

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My laptop sits open on a soft pink checked blanket. The screen shows my literature reviee spreadsheet, with references for the text I've written alongside the themes I've noted and colour coded. These include themes like black feminism, disability studies, and resistance. On my keyboard rests my notes on bell hooks chapter on self recovery.
November 25, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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In a human experience where you can very easily wake up disabled after spending your life up until that point as non-disabled, it absolutely blows my mind that even after a largely disabling and fatal pandemic we still live in a world where poverty and disability are used for political entertainment
Front page of The Mail newspaper, detailing how the PM is clamping down on benefits, as though all benefits claimants are fraudsters and burdens.
November 24, 2024 at 10:59 AM