Brasileira in the USA. Author of #HackingtheUnderground. Infrastructures, design, disability studies, Latin American STS. Associate professor @rpi_sts.
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This is the month that this baby launches! "Hacking the Underground: Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System." It's published by @UWAPress, in the Feminist Technosciences series. A 🧵.
I'm also behind on promotion!
This conversation with Lee Vinsel, recorded in April, was a joy. I'd just returned from the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, and you can definitely tell.
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Yeah. I've been sick this week so I'm behind on promotion and such, but it was really fun to talk to my buddy @rsvelho in this episode of Peoples & Things. Raquel's work is exemplary in a number of ways, and I so enjoy thinking with her.
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Yeah. I've been sick this week so I'm behind on promotion and such, but it was really fun to talk to my buddy @rsvelho in this episode of Peoples & Things. Raquel's work is exemplary in a number of ways, and I so enjoy thinking with her.
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Dr. Raquel Velho’s Hacking the Underground explores accessibility in public transportation
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Abstracts due this Sunday Feb 11. Can’t wait to see what grad students are working on!
Interested? Whether youre at the end of a study, at the beginning of your research, or do something else (e.g. creative practice), we can't wait to see it.
** Abstracts due Sunday Feb 11 at tinyurl.com/NESTS2024 **
ALT A decorative banner that reads the following text; Call for abstracts. Anything STS, anything liberatory futures. Works in progress, creative practice, making and doing. 250 words max by Sunday, February 11, 2024
I've been terrible at posting lately, but today, 4pm ET, we have a Cafézim on Networking and Campus visits! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
I can share this now that it's been 2 years since my father passed away (after 10 years of illness). He passed away days before the semester began, book revisions were due, academia had to keep going for me.
My @insidehighered piece explores the pressure to continue as normal in academia during life changes, a pressure I've had to navigate since my brother's unexpected passing -- I'd love to learn how others have navigated a work-life balance⚖️
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And then, when everything was handed in this summer, tenure portfolio and all, I completely fell apart. Grieving and mourning caught up to me, in ways I'd never been given tools to deal with, and boy oh boy, it was/is a wild ride.
So exciting to see my book out there! It's also true: @AlansTweets opens (and closes) this book. Though it pains me deeply that Alan didn't get a chance to read this version of the work, it comforts me that his contributions live here, too.
Received a copy of this lovely book this morning from @rsvelho made me smile and then cry as first few pages mentioned phenomenal @AlansTweets
ALT Book cover disjointed underground map with the words hacking the underground: disability, infrastructure, and London's public transport system by Raquel Velho
Have only just learned that @AlansTweets is not longer with us. He was a force. I am grateful for every word and moment he has ever shared with me. I'm so, so glad to have met him.
Everyone at Transport for All is heartbroken by Alan Benson's passing. Alan was an astounding campaigner and ambassador for the disabled community, our Board Co-Chair, and our friend. Our thoughts are with Yvonne, Alan's family, and all who knew him.
ALT Alan looks into the camera. He is wearing a grey blazer over a black top, and is leaning his head against his wheelchair head rest. He is in front of an entrance to Waterloo East Station.
Exciting bit of news before the holiday break! Watch me update all my socials re: becoming Associate Professor w Tenure.
Huge thanks to everyone who helped me get here. A more comprehensive (but not exhaustive) list of thanks in my book, #HackingtheUnderground!
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Are you an STS scholar in a higher education setting, teaching STS? Planning on coming to 4S/EASST in Amsterdam? I've put together a panel that I hope to be a share-out, P322 "The Places of STS in Higher Education Institutions" nomadit.co.uk/conference/eas…
This includes a syllabus and curriculum share-out, and overall discussion of what our programs in STS at the undergraduate level are attempting to accomplish. What goals do we have for these programs?
Final call for today's Cafézim: it'll likely be a small community gathering - we're all tired, I'm sure. <3
I'm excited to say that thanks to gentle nudges from people who've enjoyed having #Cafezim as a collective informal space for discussions, we're back for a singular meeting this semester to discuss "Academia and Burnout." Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
ALT Poster for an event. The middle of the image is coffee cup, shot from the top. Above it, text reads: "December 1: 4-5pm (ET). Latinx scholars in the global north. Cafezim/Cafecito." Below it, text reads: "Theme: Academia and Burnout, a gentle collective conversation."
In light of it being job application season as people write their teaching statements, I really cannot emphasize this enough: it's Paulo Freire. Not Paolo Freire, or Paulo Friere.
You can get a copy of #HackingtheUnderground in time for the holidays with the @UWAPress holiday sale discount!
The UW Press holiday sale starts now! Stock up on great reads for everyone on your list.
Use code WINTER23 at checkout for 40% off ALL books on our site, plus free domestic shipping. The sale ends January 5.
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You know a publication is official when Google Scholar scrapes it into your profile! Happy belated birth-day to my baby book, #HackingtheUnderground!
ALT Screen capture of Raquel Velho's Google Scholar page. Under the publications list, you can see the book, "Hacking the Underground: Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System".