📚PhD Candidate in Disability and Religion ♿Disabled 🕊️Mennonite 🍁Canadian 😺🌱🌷🌳🌈 She/herhttps://bsky.app/profile/19jdg.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/19jdg.bsky.social/post/3ljqzsyrvz223“We talk about a lot of chronic illnesses being invisible, but I find it more accurate to say that we are made invisible. If we were listened to, our illness wouldn’t be invisible. If people saw what we had to give up, our illness wouldn’t be invisible." 1/2 https://open.substack.com/pub/madelleine/p/we-arent-invisible-we-are-made-invisible?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=55rqfw07 Mar 2025 03:09 +0000at://did:plc:posianfbntmcedzt4cyjwp5v/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljqzsyrvz223https://bsky.app/profile/19jdg.bsky.social/post/3ljnlzdulo225Why we really need to STOP using disability as an insult: "Because in about seven states, there are restrictions on people in conservatorships and guardianships voting. The attachment of things to disability has always kept people and their rights on the chopping block for a very long time." 1/2 [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Mar 2025 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:posianfbntmcedzt4cyjwp5v/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljnlzdulo225https://bsky.app/profile/19jdg.bsky.social/post/3ljeisriip22gAnother belated #BlackHistoryMonth recommendation: Lamar Hardwick's "How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church". "As a Black autistic pastor and disability scholar, Lamar Hardwick lives at the intersection of disability, race, and religion." ... 1/3 https://open.spotify.com/show/4iy3BRZ13lU78U67pG9vOQ?si=OIJts2iVQg2hhqNJabPvkQ02 Mar 2025 03:32 +0000at://did:plc:posianfbntmcedzt4cyjwp5v/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljeisriip22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/19jdg.bsky.social/post/3ljehhru6ck2dI decided to give Kanopy a try, and I'm already impressed! I'm 30 mins into my first selection, the PBS documentary "The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song"-- absolutely phenomenal! "Trace the history of the Black Church in America. From enslavement to today, the series"... 1/2 https://kanopy.com/video/1122642002 Mar 2025 03:08 +0000at://did:plc:posianfbntmcedzt4cyjwp5v/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljehhru6ck2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/19jdg.bsky.social/post/3liexyozo2s2cFor some good news in your feed this morning: this is a book that now exists in the world! And the chapter titles and reviews are 🔥 "Readers who don’t know a natural twenty from natural theology will still learn something worthwhile about ethics, mythology, and collaborative creativity." 🤓 [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Feb 2025 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:posianfbntmcedzt4cyjwp5v/app.bsky.feed.post/3liexyozo2s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/19jdg.bsky.social/post/3lietu55tb22l"In just its first few weeks since taking office, the Trump administration has quickly become the most harmful to religious freedom in modern American history." [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Feb 2025 13:25 +0000at://did:plc:posianfbntmcedzt4cyjwp5v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lietu55tb22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/19jdg.bsky.social/post/3li35u2w7p22xI've been appreciating the new Crash Course Religions overall, but the last two weeks have felt especially important. A huge thank you to @thecrashcourse.bsky.social for doing this work! Here's this week's episode on #Race and #Religion (tw: immediate discussion of residential schools) https://youtu.be/TY8p32K1js4?si=KJN1c_Po7Huk0E5e13 Feb 2025 16:57 +0000at://did:plc:posianfbntmcedzt4cyjwp5v/app.bsky.feed.post/3li35u2w7p22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/19jdg.bsky.social/post/3lhmfjosesk2mHello, good people of Bluesky! I'm a PhD candidate in Disability and Religion and I follow a lot of #Disability and #SocialJustice accounts. As I begin moving over to this platform, I thought I'd help make the move a little easier for others with a #DisabilityJustice #StarterPack go.bsky.app/JKWxSNs [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Feb 2025 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:posianfbntmcedzt4cyjwp5v/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhmfjosesk2m