Stammering pride tweets posted once a day✨ Profile photo: 'Proud Stammerer' painted by Paul Aston 🎨 Bot created by @dysfluent 🗣
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⚠️Almost exactly a year later, this bot has become defunct thanks to Twitter/X's new policies.
However, @dysfluent is considering how the bot can work on other platforms to continue the spread of stammering pride. Stay tuned.
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Dysfluent Issue 2 is finally ready to pre-order! 📖
The magazine is a compilation of interviews and visual artwork celebrating and challenging stammering pride.
Pre-order a copy of the magazine here:
dysfluent.bigcartel.com
Orders will ship in November 🚀
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Hi there 👋
This bot was created by @dysfluent, as a response to Stutter No More, a Twitter bot that perpetuates narratives of overcoming stammering 😒 (1/8)
“Every time we stutter, we make it a safer place for those people to talk. Every time we stutter, we show someone else what stuttering sounds like.”
– Chris Constantino (2016)
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“For me on reflection it was the words left unspoken, spiralling around my mind before crashing against a cruel unseen barrier that caused me so much shame.”
– Stephen Greene, Stutterverse (2022)
#stammeringpride
“We are a better culture because there are people who stutter in it.”
– Barry Yeoman, StutterTalk 670 (2019)
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“I get to learn from other people who stutter a better way to live.”
– Peter Reitzes, StutterTalk 714 (2022)
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“I have every right to my words
just like all my friends
we are like the songbirds
our song never ends…”
– Bevin Murphy, ‘My Stutter’ (2019)
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“A sense of belonging is nourishing to one’s identity as a person who stutters.Being in the company of others who stutter and our allies is my favourite way to assure my Identity.”
– Stephen Greene, Stutterverse (2022)
#stammeringpride
“Stammering pride can only be fully understood in relation to prejudice.”
– Campbell, Constantino & Simpson (2019)
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“[The stuttering dimension] is a place for curiosity, insight and social connection.”
– Emma Alpern (2019)
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“Stammering Pride is a counter narrative to the dominant societal narrative around fluency.”
– Campbell, Constantino & Simpson (2019)
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“It comes back to us [as people who stutter]: we should be focusing our resources and energy to educate so we can shift the way society engages with us.”
– Chaya Goldstein, StutterTalk 670 (2019)
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“It comes back to us [as people who stutter]: we should be focusing our resources and energy to educate so we can shift the way society engages with us.”
– Chaya Goldstein, StutterTalk 670 (2019)
#stammeringpride
“Take space in communication. Specifically, occupy half the space in a one-to-one conversation. Inform listeners by showing up, participating, and self-disclosing by stuttering with pride rather than apology.”
– Vivian Sisskin, Redefining Stammering (2021)
#stammeringpride
“We wear our vulnerability on the outside, and that invites emotional intimacy with others. We slow down conversations, fostering patience.”
– Barry Yeoman (2019)
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“Ever since coming out [as a person who stutters] I’ve really been able to step in my power more.”
– Maya Chupkov (2022)
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“Stammering pride puts forward a new idea of stammering: it’s not necessarily a problem or something that needs to be fixed… maybe it is just a different way of speaking that has value in itself.”
– Nora Trench Bowles (2022)
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“Ever since coming out [as a person who stutters] I’ve really been able to step in my power more.”
– Maya Chupkov (2022)
#stammeringpride
“The two-way nature of interaction creates an opportunity for every listener to meet the openness and authenticity of stammering in a way that fosters shared respect and intimacy.”
– Campbell, Constantino & Simpson (2019)
#stammeringpride
“A sense of belonging is nourishing to one’s identity as a person who stutters.Being in the company of others who stutter and our allies is my favourite way to assure my Identity.”
– Stephen Greene, Stutterverse (2022)
#stammeringpride