Helen Rottier
PhD in Disability Studies. Disabled Dis-Epistemologies and Knowledge Production. Opinions are my own. she/her
- “I learned to talk through binoculars.” Zac Oyama, the person that you are! @dimension20.bsky.social #D20Gladlands
- “What’s an uncle if not a professor?” 👨🏽🔬 @dimension20.bsky.social #D20Gladlands
- “Even the pursuit of joy is a muscle that you have to learn to build.” - Aabria Iyengar 🪩💖
- *taps the sign* AI cannot write, because writing is more than stringing words together in a specific order. #AcademicSky
- Cole Denisen’s article on “neurotypical perspectivelessness” is a must-read for anyone interested in critical neurodiversity. Denisen bridges the radical origins of the ND movement with feminist of color theories of flesh to contend with politics of knowledge. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #AcademicSky
- “In education, policies framed as neutral often uphold structures that benefit privileged groups. Without critical reflection, adherence to these norms reproduces inequity regardless of intent.” Denisen (2026, p. 2)
- “More than recognition of variation, neurodiversity is a philosophical stance: an account of how oppression, identity, and survival are lived through the bodymind. In this sense, it functions as a theory of flesh - grounded in pain, resistance, community, and the production of situated knowledge.”
- Sofia Samatar’s The Practice, The Horizon, And The Chain is a brilliant provocation and intervention into the university as an institution of power, control, and meaning-making/-taking. #HelenReads
- “‘Can the University be a place of both training and transformation?’ she thought, and tears pricked her eyes as she answered, ‘No. No, because it’s not possible to do both of those things at once.’ But then she thought of the boy, the prophet, and the Practice.” - Samatar, Practice/Horizon/Chain
- We are in an ideal moment to *train in transformation*. To make habits of social change and care. To build capacity, so that we have a little more to use, to give each day. Keep going. Practice and practice and practice, because practice helps you get better and because practice is the doing.
- Memorable college classes: 1. Feminist Theatre 2. Performance Art 3. History of Gender and Race in the United States since 1945 4. Child Psychology 5. Neuroscience of Learning
- One of my underrated strengths as an academic is “knowing that something exists or could exist.” This post brought to you by all the people who have been amazed when I sent them the campus libraries’ publishing agreement resources. #AcademicSky
