Dear Professor,

I wish that your classroom was accessible to me, i wish that i didn’t have to struggle to open heavy doors, that i didn’t have to walk up and down stairs because your lecture hall has stadium seating, that i didn’t have to try and fit into a chair that is attached to its desk. I wish that i wasn’t required to go to every class to maintain my grade because it means that when i wake up every morning i have to debate whether my pain will be worth the points i got for going to class.

I wish that you recorded your lectures because your slides don’t have all the information and i can’t keep up with my notes and sometimes i can’t understand what you say and i would like to be able to revisit the lecture later. I love your class but i would enjoy it so much more if it wasn’t so difficult for me to attend, if i didn’t have to put in more energy than i have to spare in order to keep up. I want you to understand that every day i have to weigh my education against my health because i can’t take care of both the way i need to.

I'm going to an event that's mostly accessible and then someone physically, blocking access to a space (unintentionally) and instead of being The confident person that I can be sometimes, and asking that person to make space for me

I just don't want to have to ask to get the same access.

Until you end up sitting in the hallway listening to people talk until someone leaves which gives you the unofficial permission to leave and then you go home and you think you're okay and you're not

and you're just so tired

And you feel like you're crying is performative just like the fact that you're crying in your own apartment where no one can see you.

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She’s the Head of the history department at UC Santa Barbara and was extremely intrigued when I mentioned that you took a lot of photos common to textbooks and made an effort to find the uncropped photos… She also liked the idea of the lack of gatekeeping. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but she wrote down the blog title and the url, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she passed it off to everyone in the European field. I think I just mostly wanted you to know (if you don’t already— I’m sure I’m not your only student fan) that you’ll probably be getting some serious academic perusal at some point and also that your crusade for accessibility is shared.

— liz-of-all-ladybirds

Eh, I've had some experiences with "serious academic perusal" of my blog, and it's been my observation that they either "get it" or they don't. Either automatic "Ahhhh YES exactly!!!" or "But...why isn't this blogger talking about technique/symbolism?"or "the info and sources are sound but why present it that way?"

I think there's a lot of dissonance when it comes to someone from a History, Literature or Art History discipline reading a project like this which is actually grounded more in Interdisciplinary Studies, which invokes all three and slaps some Sociology all over it.

My day job is really all about accessibility, which is related to why I have access to curricula and reading materials for undergrad classes. My position is one of those kind of esoteric academic ones that ends up on "jobs you never knew existed" lists, and having an educational background that's diverse in application is a constant help there, as here.