Fran Zerva

Today is #InternationalDayofPersonsWithDisabilities. To mark the days leading up to Anita Ghai's departure on 11th December last year, we have invited disability scholars to reflect on Anita's legacy. Read the contributions: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

🚨 NEURODIVERSITY IS MORE THAN... symposium 📅 4 March 2026, 9-5pm GMT, online. Free to attend, all welcome! Sign up below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse Edited by David Bolt, now available in hardback, softback, and electronic formats. Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25. For more information and to order a copy: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...

To celebrate #DisabilityHistoryMonth, browse the LUP reading list and enjoy free access to selected disability studies journal articles across the next month. bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖 @davidbolt13.bsky.social

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse Now available to pre-order, new book edited by David Bolt, including an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege. Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25

I am delighted to be under contract to write a second edition of my 2019 book, Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide. #MoreThanNeeds

Why does Amazon think it is acceptable to sell merchandise that includes hate slurs and constructs people with #dwarfism as a novelty? Would any other #disability or #racial slur be acceptable?

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies Volume 19 Issue 3 Special Issue: Invitation to Dance: Performing Disability Politics through the Dancing Body Guest Editors: Stefan Sunandan Honisch and Gili Hammer The special issue can be accessed as a whole here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55464

ReaderBank has a sparkly new website! readerbank.org And new modules to help us better understand reading experiences, how the imagination works and what this means for mental health. Sign up to get involved in the world’s most ambitious study of the reading imagination! 🧵

“Struggle, stigma, or systemic barriers are not signs of weakness—but can, with the right support and agency, become part of a process of transformation and strength.” www.linkedin.com/pulse/neurod...

me: i could do this quickly and imperfectly 🧠: lol no me: well i guess i’ll just never start then

I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Really excited to be a part of this fab edited volume! My chapter “Moments of Identification: Neurodivergent Sociality and Loss in Marvel’s WandaVision” questions the neurotypical/neurodivergent binary and embraces the ambiguity found in the spaces in-between: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta... @drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social

Recent findings from @mencap.org.uk highlight the real-world impact of changes to PIP on people with a learning disability: buff.ly/SJnAhY0 Cuts to #PIP would mean stress, isolation & hardship - when PIP already fails to meet the additional costs of living with a learning disability. #disabled

Looking forward to presenting with @luciejones83.bsky.social today on our work on disabled researchers and research culture! We're at the @ljmuofficial.bsky.social APSS faculty conference "Forever Curious."

We launched our Artist Collaborator search last week! Take a look here to learn more if you are an artist who lives on or with ventilation & would like to participate in a paid residency 🙌🏽 www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre... @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social

New article from NDHums co-lead, Abs S. Ashley exploring neurotrans affectual landscapes in the face of anti-trans violences.

A touching open letter from our fab SEN and Disability Studies students about the proposed redundancies at Liverpool Hope University: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

On 28 June, the CCDS launched Dr Ella Houston's monograph Advertising Disability. The book is part of the Autocritical Disability Studies series edited by Prof David Bolt. In addition, there is a response by Dr Catalin Brylla. The launch can now be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOvd...

Please consider signing and/or sharing this petition to stop compulsory redundancies at Liverpool Hope University #Solidarity ✊ chng.it/5zqNTByvfC

Students gathering to protest mass redundancies at Liverpool Hope today 😍 I don't work there any more but I feel like I can still confidently say our students are THE BEST.

Jill Pluquailec of Sheffield Hallam has organised an open letter laying out the impact on #DisabilityStudies as a field - please do share and sign [add a comment with your info]

"If we imagine the poem is a body, is it possible to map the experience of chronic illness onto the space of the page?" Thanks to Jane Hartshorn for this latest exploration of creative practice research in our new 'In Practice' project. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/08/p...

📣📣‼️ Registration for the CRITICAL NEURODIVERSITY STUDIES: DIRECTIONS/INTERSECTIONS/CONTRADICTIONS (CNSC) conference is now open! ‼️📣📣 Sign up here: ndhumanities.com/critical-neu...

New Book in the Autocritical Disability Studies Series - Stories on Disability Through our Voices: Born This Way by Yoon Joon Lee: www.routledge.com/Stories-on-D...

#MedHums101 Medical humanities puts lived experience at the centre of health research. Check out some of our most read articles on this topic: thepolyphony.org/tag/lived-ex...

What can a synthesis of neurodiversity theory and care ethics offer to research on language, communication, and culture? I am interested in how neurodivergent experiences challenge normative assumptions about relationality, communication, and value. 🧵

Goodley, Dan, Kirsty Liddiard and Rebecca Lawthom. 2025. “The Depathologising University.” Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 27(1): 120–133. DOI: doi.org/10.16993/sjd...

Just re-read this - written almost 10 years ago - from the brilliant @touretteshero.bsky.social - about PIP. History always repeats itself. www.touretteshero.com/2016/03/19/i...

Your neurodiversity week celebration reminder that the term should not be directly attributed to Judy Singer 🧠🌈

This looks amazing! There is still time to book your tickets for tomorrow’s launch #anti-ableism

Comrades! Now the audiobook's finally out, I have five codes for free audible copies of *Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism*. If you want one just like and share/quote this post. After 48 hours I'll pick five sharers at random to send the codes to.

As the CCDS has recently passed its 15th anniversary, not to mention the 60th issue of JLCDS and the 15th book in the Literary Disability Studies series, an event will be hosted at Hope Park, 1.30-4.30, 30th May, full details of which can be found: store.hope.ac.uk/product-cata...

Can finally share my VERY EXCITING NEWS!!! Me, @amfoster.bsky.social and @luciejones83.bsky.social have been awarded @edicaucus.bsky.social funding for 'Divergent Minds in the Archive', a project investigating archive accessibility for neurodivergent users (and staff)... 1/n

perfectionism is just a terrified kid in a trenchcoat standing on a pile of learned coping skills

New podcast! Me and the always-excellent Stuart Murray talked about uncertainty for Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health: in the critical medical humanities and as part of methodology, but also in academia more broadly. open.spotify.com/episode/5HxB...

Super excited to get my hands on this - the perks of working for Prof @davidbolt13.bsky.social 📚

therapist: and what do we do when we’re feeling stressed? me: stop making plans, avoid text messages, and accidentally alienate myself from all of my friends therapist: no

I was interviewd @dailystar.co.uk to again argue that #Dwarfism is not a commodity. If people think it's acceptable would they consider hiring any other #Disabled person? www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...

they say "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" well i don't want to be strong, i want to drink iced coffee and read books and take naps.

New Work in Literary Disability Studies Literary Neurodiversity Studies: Current and Future Directions Bradley J. Irish This is the 16th title in the series edited by David Bolt, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, and Julia Miele Rodas. For more on the series: link.springer.com/series/14821

The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies has published its 60th issue. Published by Liverpool University Press, an open access article from the issue can be found here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

I don’t know who else needs to hear this right now, but you don’t have to “earn” rest in order to deserve it.

Last April I joined Dale Pickles on The SENDCast to talk about autistic masking, school and mental health. I’m thrilled to hear that this was their top most listened to podcast of 2024! You can listen here or on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. 🎙️ @thesendcast.bsky.social thesendcast.com/girl-unmaske...