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Helen Rottier

@helenrottier.bsky.social
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PhD in Disability Studies. Disabled Dis-Epistemologies and Knowledge Production. Opinions are my own. she/her

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Helen Rottier @helenrottier.bsky.social · 3h
New Blog Post! I have been pondering Living As An Art for the last weeks/months/lives, and was motivated by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's talk at the Wisconsin Book Festival to get something written! Expect more to come on this topic. #AmWriting #LivingAsAnArt
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Living As An Art
Tonight I was one person in one seat in the filled-to-bursting Capitol Theater for John Green’s author talk at the Wisconsin Book Festival. Green promised that his talk would include, “a chemistry …
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Helen Rottier @helenrottier.bsky.social · 7h
If i had a nickel for every time @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social visited Madison during or immediately after a major Nerdfighteria celebration (P4A 2025, Pizzamas 2026):
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I'D Have Two Nickels Dr Doofenshmirtz
Alt: Dr. Doofenschmirtz saying “I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice.”
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Helen Rottier @helenrottier.bsky.social · 7h
Rainy Millennial Date Night! Joseph and I got dinner at “the millennial burger place that has so many different aiolis,” plus apple cider margaritas. Now we are in line for John Green at the WI Book Festival - all within two four blocks of our downtown apartment! @josephwetzel.bsky.social
Helen and Joseph sit at a restaurant table holding up apple cider margaritas and smiling.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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MJ @discountfaramir.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Many people on the so called left need to brush up on their disability studies, bc the last couple weeks i have been seeing ableist rhetoric that would make rfk jr’s heart sing
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have a 9 yr old boy and I want everyone to listen when I say this: some of your boys are already the problem. Which is bad enough but then I am watching you *let* them be the problem and insist that *everyone else* also let them be the problem and THAT is how we get news cycles like this week
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Btw if you read this and immediately thought “well not all men”… pause for a second. The men I trust are the ones who read what I just wrote and choose to listen, to empathize, to ask questions to better understand. They know they are not the men I am angry about and they don’t need say so.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Helen Rottier @helenrottier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Listen, men SAing women never *stopped* but the resurgence of high-profile, blatant, unpunished SA on college campuses alongside Ozempic diet culture and the revolving door of women fired from the Trump administration is WHAT WE WARNED YOU ABOUT in 2016.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/09/2026
Thinking a lot lately about the men I know who are willfully ignorant about power dynamics and how I don’t *know* they’ve done anything specifically worse than be willfully ignorant about power dynamics but also if I had to guess which of my acquaintances had, I’d guess them first.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 28/09/2026
Just got a crime warning from my university with "reports of possible drugging incidents and sexual assaults" at off-campus fraternities. One occurred after last week's Cornell news. And I hate that the lack of consequences there might've emboldened young men to perpetrate similar violence here.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Eugenics is the tool of the oppressor. We do not need it. We will not use it. Hate to break it to you, but this means: Mentioning “the gene pool” The concept of IQ and BMI Standardized tests “Gifted” AND “special” education Rawdogging viruses “Social Darwinism” “Effective altruism”
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The conclave is built to withstand empires, spies, and kings. Not iPhones. Yet during the very first vote to elect Pope Leo XIV, Vatican security detected an active SIM card inside the Sistine Chapel. Someone had brought a phone. Here’s what happened next.
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Smuggled Phones, Double Votes, and a Battle for the Church: Inside the Conclave That Elected Pope Leo XIV
A new book reveals the minute-by-minute drama of the conclave — from a cardinal's contraband cell phone to a botched vote count — and how the reformers defeated the conservative bloc to make Leo pope.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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koebi @growlithe.online · 26/09/2026
tell your friends you love them every day if you want to love is love is love is love, saying it more often can't dilute its meaning you can't say it too much tell your friends you love them
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/09/2026
Why eat spaghetti when linguini, bucatini, fettucini and Capellini exist?
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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My 7 year old is aware of girls her age that have been assaulted. I was a little older than her the first time a friend disclosed to me bc she knew my mom would do something when hers wouldn’t. Some of y’all are acting real brand new about a very old problem.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/09/2026
patriarchy is humanity's oldest protection racket patriarchs: you should give up most of your power and freedom to us because the world is big and scary and dangerous and we will protect you from the danger also patriarchs: *are the danger*
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weird little whale guy @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So much love and healing to every one of us who have been SA'd in college by a man who was never held accountable.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I woulda pushed my little sister off the foam ledge in the first 4 seconds
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"wow what a low effort post." yes. exactly. it's a post
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Iruka @iruka-abolition.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you're a man, and you're seeing this, and you're not sure what to say, do, or how to respond: There's stuff called bystander intervention training. You can learn it.
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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just realized Beth in Little Women dies from Post Acute Infection Syndrome (what Long Covid is a subtype of too) #PAIS
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sometimes it feels like the main sin of the humanities in this moment is to think humanity is fascinating and worthy of study.
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Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮) @linasigns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just want to mention that many of my male friends and colleagues don’t know who Brock Turner is.
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Star @star.telstarcat.xyz · 29/09/2026
why is jason kelce dressed like he's getting to the bottom of this
Screenshot of an ESPN halftime segment with Jason Kelce wearing a flat cap and a beige-patterned overcoat with a black tie and white undershirt. Chiron below reads "Jalen Hurts (PHI): Rush TD at end of half, ball was snapped with 1 second left"
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Quinn @ampersands.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"What kind of outfit is Kelce wearing?" "Imagine if they had Colonial Williamsburg, but for Irish people."
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 09/11/2024
Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies: “What a weird thing to say” “Do you hear yourself right now?” “You shouldn’t say shit like that to people” “I won’t let you talk to them that way” “That’s a disgusting opinion to have” “Shut the fuck up, dude”
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liz @bookjanitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
live every week like it’s fat bear week
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Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I got a text today from MGP in which she bitches about no big names financially supporting her. I’m sorry, I will not send you money because your policy goals (mostly) suck.
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Chelsea @chelseasprite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh this year's set of bake off competitors is so very young. "I don't know how much I put in I measure with my heart" NOT FOR BAKE OFF YOU DON'T
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 26/09/2026
Why am I arguing in my zotero highlights with the author of a paper from 1880 😂
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, non-chain restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Darlings. Listen. I cannot offer you absolution or permission. I can only tell you what I know, how I would react, how writing interacts with the ableism we all marinate in. You can do whatever you want. Just know that whatever you want comes with consequences.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every time I give any sort of advice about how to be a better ally to disabled people, there’s always someone who turns up to bargain. Ex: a piece of writing advice I give out. “Avoid disabled people hiding their disability. It’s a stereotype and a painful one.” “Okay, but what if my character—“
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 26/09/2026
Give me the confidence of the marketer who proudly decided to slap a sticker on this box of 70 items that reads “value pack: 40% more compared to 50 count”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On Dolly Parton Day, I'm remember how she... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research and the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Funded high school band programs She is missed!
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Jaimie N. Schock, Author @jaimieschock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Went to a funeral yesterday. At the reception, we ran out of food. The family of the deceased didn't really get anything to eat, as they arrived later. My husband, completely unprompted, left the reception, picked up a ton of food, and brought it back. It was nice to know the family would get to eat
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 26/09/2026
12-year-old: Why did humans invent money? Me: It makes trade easier--a hat-maker can get milk even if the milk-maker doesn't need hats 12: Why not give everyone the same amount of money? Me: The idea is to make people work harder 12: But once someone has more, they can just cheat to stay ahead
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Helen Rottier @helenrottier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As I navigate my own endometriosis, pain, and infertility journey, Dolly Parton is a beacon, truly a saint. She spoke up about her body and her pain in unprecedented ways, especially for a woman in the public eye. And everyone’s children are her children. 💖
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Dolly Parton's Iconic Smile
Alt: Young Dolly Parton smiling with towering blond hair.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some of you fail to understand that masking can be something you do because you believe in restricting risks for vulnerable people in your lives: it can be an act of community. Not always of course. But some people don’t mask because they’re disabled, they mask for this reason.
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Nate 'The Belated' Carney @inapproprinate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.” - Dolly Parton
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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