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Kit Ryan

@limpinglibrary

disability, poetry, and sometimes some dragons. I'm a librarian and academic interested in cripping your kidlit. All opinions are my own.

 Melbourne
Joined August 2012
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The only thing people can imagine about disabled people is our deaths and they’re usually the cause of it.
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For Les Murray's birthday: Les Murray said his autism shaped his poetry – his late poems offer insights into his creative process theconversation.com/les-murr… theconversation.com/les-murr…
Les Murray said his autism shaped his poetry – his late poems offer insights into his creative...

Les Murray said his autism shaped his poetry – his late poems offer insights into his creative...

Les Murray’s habit of rearranging and recontexualising his poetry was a reflection of his distinctive way of perceiving the world.

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Kit Kavanagh-Ryan (@limpinglibrary) uses crip readings of Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn Chronicles and Ambelin Kwaymullina’s Tribe sequence to determine whether they reinforce or subvert current understandings of disability bit.ly/3NJVVMA
Picture of the cover of The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, it is a close-up shot of a young woman's face.

ALT Picture of the cover of The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, it is a close-up shot of a young woman's face.

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Good morning @ncte @ILAToday @BUWheelock It is the 10th anniversary of the book “Wonder”. After 10 yrs of wondering why the book is so popular I wrote a review. #SpoilerAlert #TrashRepresentation #StopAssigning #NotOwnvoice #BookTwitter booktoss.org/2022/03/06/not-…
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If you need a quick break from the disasters of the world have a listen to this abc.net.au/radionational/pro…
Isabel Allende writes about her mother, Markus Zusak gets your fanmail - ABC listen

Isabel Allende writes about her mother, Markus Zusak gets your fanmail - ABC listen

Isabel Allende says her latest novel, Violeta, was inspired by her mother but also by Allende's own life. Also, readers who send fan mail and the writers who reply with Markus Zusak, Anita Heiss,...

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Conversation with another person with muscular dystrophy today. ‘So, I have three workers that come in for two hours each, daily. If they get COVID, nobody has to tell me? I’m not a ‘close contact’? I mean, they shower me.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘But COVID will kill me.’ @ScottMorrisonMP
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Today on #TheBookShow with @NicholsClaire: ▶️How @valmcdermid's time as a newspaper journalist inspired a new crime series ▶️ Writer and academic Kit Kavanagh-Ryan picks 5 spec fic books that centre disabled characters #IDPWD ▶️ SJ Norman's Permafrost 👂10am @RadioNational
A photo of a woman in her mid 60s with short white hair and horn-ribbed glasses and grey scarf and then the book cover of 1979 by Val McDermid

ALT A photo of a woman in her mid 60s with short white hair and horn-ribbed glasses and grey scarf and then the book cover of 1979 by Val McDermid

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Absolutely groundbreaking session on Disability Justice at #chla2021 with @ericakanesaka @Saichukan @limpinglibrary and others!!!! Wow!
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I know right!! Easily another hour!
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#AusDisLit poetry from 2017 by Kit Kavanagh-Ryan @limpinglibrary Left Song cordite.org.au/poetry/nothem…
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It isn’t enough to “be kind”. ncte.org/blog/2017/08/there-…
There Is No Apolitical Classroom: Resources for Teaching in These Times

There Is No Apolitical Classroom: Resources for Teaching in These Times

The following post was created by members of NCTE’s Standing Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English. …

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Spending my morning doing my hugo nominee ballot, seems like a great time to remind you I'm eligible for Fan Writer thanks to work like this from tor.com, from my series "Constructing Blindness": tor.com/2019/07/25/your-face…
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Ghosts is not a good book. It is not a good representation of Latinx anything .... stop promoting it during latino history month. booktoss.blog/2016/09/18/gho…
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My take-away from the Posthuman panel today: the posthuman child’s agency is rooted not only in anti-capitalism, but in a total upheaval and reassessment of oppressive institutional structures. So fascinating! #IRSCL19 – at Stockholm, Sweden
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In “Queering Kinship: Beyond the Human/ NonHuman Divide in Children’s Literature,” Kathleen Forrester uses queer theory to analyze egg stories and kinship, specifically in relation to race supremacy and heteronormativity #IRSCL19
Image from Dr. Christopher Owen (@thecjowen)
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In “Interrogating Artificial Morality and Silencing the Posthumanist Perspective,” Elizabeth Leung explores morality and values in machines and their programming, and the role of the public and corporations in determining these morals #IRSCL19
Image from Dr. Christopher Owen (@thecjowen)
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Rosalind Borst shares her interesting PhD project w/ “Female Anger in Folk and Fairy-Tale Picturebooks.” While being assertive with one’s anger for resolving conflict is most healthy, in her texts women contain and externalize their anger in unhealthy & destructive ways #IRSCL19
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*Paraphrased* from Joosen: What about a Queer child who regularly encounters heteronormativity and transphobia, and whose attempts to challenge it are met with shaming and mockery? Some young people have already encountered exhausting levels of prejudice at a young age. #IRSCL19
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Joosen highlighting that even though many young people resist or question problematic ideologies, "many have not been given the tools to do so." #IRSCL19
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"Not everyone who is silent is silenced." -- Vanessa Joosen #IRSCL19
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