Lately, the amount of time I have spent teaching others about disability, accommodations, HIPAA, ableism compared to the amount of time I have spent doing my actual job is ridiculous. It's a form of #AcademicAbleism. (1/n)

Might be time to start seriously considering a plan B... And it's not that I don't love advocacy and take seriously fighting for disabled people in STEM, but if that's essentially going to be 100% of my day, maybe it's time for a new degree and path and studying the science of disability... (7/n)

How much longer before I'm not actually in academia? I'm certainly not balancing "publish or perish" & disability advocacy in my day-to-day. Lately, it feels like I spend 15% of my day on job duties and the rest on educating & arguing far more than I intended. This can't continue (6/n).

This is how #HigherEd pushes us out. It requires this activism of us: no one else speaks up, so of course we have to. We have to because we've been the hurt student, the trampled employee, the forgotten person outside the conversation. Of course we speak up. While others publish, we speak up. (5/n)

And I am god damn tired of it. I can't win. I can't win because the lack of understanding of disability is so great and I can't possibly teach these folks all they need to know. Yet, I'm also failing miserably at my own benchmarks and tasks. #HigherEd is so entrenched in ableism. (4/n)

Yet, the violations have been so god damn blatant lately, the discrimination against disabled students and faculty in STEM so fucking huge, that I have had to speak up. I know it's taking time away from what "counts" i.e. pubs, products, etc yet I can't turn away because no one else speaks up. (3/n)

I have been spending far more time advocating for student rights & the rights of neurodivergent folks in #STEM#HigherEd. Not because I want my advocacy to be such a large part of my identity. I actually would prefer to do more science & research, publish more, submit more grant proposals (2/n)