It's always such a giveaway that they mention parents before disabled people.
Disabled people aren't important enough, but abled parents OTOH...
My university and the professional societies I belong/ed to all rushed to push back on online options as soon as abled people felt they didn't need them and were content for things to remain inaccessible and dangerous for disabled people.
“Cully is a biocultural anthropologist with expertise in both Biology and Cultural Anthropology. She recently became disabled by a chronic condition – myasthenia gravis – that has caused her to think differently about how her discipline has incorporated disability into its models of human variation“ @disability@academicchatter
"How to feel like you're achieving work/life balance without actually changing anything about the system that ruins your health, your community and your work/life balance"
Nothing says "We care about accessibility and equity for disabled people in STEM like 'Go to Google and let their AI handle it"" #Ableism#DisabledAndSTEM
"And the Band Played On is a 1993 American television film docudrama directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The teleplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the best-selling 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts, and is noteworthy for featuring both a vast historical scope, as well as an exceptionally sprawling cast."
Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Ian McKellen, Richard Gere, Lily Tomlin, Swoosie Kurtz, Steve Martin, etc.
According to Wikipedia, it was his dyslexia that led him to science, as subjects where reading was a central focus were difficult for him. (UC Berkeley undergrad, UCLA Med Center residency).
I just replied to the same email they sent the survey link to me with. The one thing I wanted to give them as feedback in response to their questions about why I hadn't kept my membership.
"What has kept me from renewing with all plant science professional orgs has been the lack of accessibility & inclusion for disabled people. The ageism towards older students is also not helpful or welcoming."
While I tend to appreciate folks who are working on accessibility, there is a widespread ableist attitude that disabled people should be grateful for whatever scraps of consideration, inclusion, and accessibility we get.
I have no obligation to feel grateful for that. Being considered, included (including in planning), and having my public university that I've paid for all my adult life be accessible to me is my right.
@academicchatter I'm thinking anti-ableist, anti-racist, anti-sexist, etc.
Actual inclusive as possible for us to achieve online conference-planning. Pushing the date far enough out that we can do this without stressing the hell out and with enough time to fundraise for ASL interpreters, captioning, etc.
My public university system - the one I have contributed to as a taxpayer all my adult life, the one I currently pay tuition & fees to, does not see it as its job to be accessible to disabled members of the public.
Here in their job ad for "Disability Analyst" is the quiet part out loud: They'd rather fight accessibility, fight the existence of disabled members of the public because we are seen as a COST.
My broadband stopped misbehaving long enough for me to be interviewed for STEM with disabilities this morning. I think it's at least a month out from publishing, but in the meantime read the great profiles they've already got there! https://www.stemwithdisabilities.com/
How welcome do I feel as a disabled grad student here? Well, I keep seeing image fliers sent without alt text for maskless in-person events with no creative accessible online options (or any online option at all).
Another UC Davis development program for grad students that is only offered in-person during a pandemic, masks not mandated. In fact, masks are sure to be off because food is included.
When people react like disabled students are "cheating" by getting their access needs met, remember all the education/research/career opportunities disabled students weren't even considered part of the intended audience. @academicchatter@disability
NWS continues to flout ADA and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act...after the breaches have been repeatedly brought to their attention
Don't tell me ableism in STEM is no big deal. What the hell use is your #SciComm if you refuse to communicate important data (weather alerts, warnings, disasters) accessibly? Eugenics, is what it ends up being. #DisabledAndSTEM
You may think "eugenics" is an exaggeration here, but if you're a public agency disseminating information people need to make decisions about their safety and the safety of their homes in a form that can only be fully read by abled people, in the midst of #ClimateEmergency, then you're not just ableist but eugenicist. #DisabledAndSTEM#SciComm
While on the subject, AAPD has a call out for testimonials to the US Dept of Justice as to how digital inaccessibility affects you. Comments need to be received by Oct 2: https://aapd.quorum.us/campaign/51385/