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Megan Lynch (she/her)<a href="https://sfba.social/@ascentale" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ascentale</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/@PamelaSchure" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@PamelaSchure</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bikenite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bikenite</a> A1. (cont'd) If things aren't bottlenecked and I'm pressed for time, I use the car to drive out beyond west campus where the research fields are.If I have time/spoons, I ride there instead. Always prefer riding to driving, but the super-charged ableism here decimated my physical capacity to do it. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BikeNite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BikeNite</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a>

UC Access NowStarting July 26th, 2020 (the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act), UC Access Now and allies started sending emails to the Governor, the UC Board of Regents, and every UC chancellor to read and act on the UC Access Now Demandifesto.Our Governor mentions his dyslexia when it's convenient for him, but he never bothered answering the hundreds of people who wrote him about the systemic ableism within UC.""Gov. Gavin Newsom recently sent burner phones to major California business leaders with his number preprogrammed — paid for by his nonprofit, allowing him to communicate with executives without having to disclose the content publicly.""Ah. That's why.<a href="https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-lawmakers-transparency/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-lawmakers-transparency/</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@disability</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a>

UC Access NowPassing this info on, but remember that "student disability centers" are not your friends or advocates. Their real client is UC's ableist neoliberal power structure.'"Are you a prospective UCR student with a disability or an advocate supporting one? Join us for our information session to learn about the comprehensive resources, services, and opportunities available through the Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC)!"May 27, 2025, 4 - 5pm<a href="https://events.ucr.edu/event/info-session-with-the-student-disability-resource-center-sdrc-846" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://events.ucr.edu/event/info-session-with-the-student-disability-resource-center-sdrc-846</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>

UC Access NowHave added this to our "Benefits Counseling Doc", which dates back to before the UC UAW strike. It contains links to free/discounted things that people in the University of California community may be eligible for but not yet know about.<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Um9UEJizN_3-kEvkDedRdaPwOyR5PsLv3JKslFI-djg/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Um9UEJizN_3-kEvkDedRdaPwOyR5PsLv3JKslFI-djg/edit?usp=sharing</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a>

UC Access NowFrom UAW 4811 to its members:AFSCME picket info: <a href="https://afscme3299.org/blog/strikefeb-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://afscme3299.org/blog/strikefeb-2025/</a>UPTE picket info: <a href="https://upte.org/ucstrike" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://upte.org/ucstrike</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Union</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labor</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Strike</a>

UC Access NowInaccessible cycling racks were the last straw that catalyzed the formation of UC Access Now.It was very difficult getting non-disabled anti-ableists to be active.These cycle racks were installed without consultation with us, but in response to our hard-fought campaign.We told abled cyclists all along that accessible racks benefit you too! Most rack designs & installations throughout UC do not take upright bikes with trailers, bakfiets, cargo bikes, trikes, etc into consideration at all.And this is an upright bike towing a trailer parked at the racks installed as a result of our activism. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CycleParkingAudit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CycleParkingAudit</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Infrastructure</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fedibikes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fedibikes</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@disability</a>

UC Access Now<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@disability</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a> This is nothing UC Access Now wasn't already pointing out, but it's still astounding how disabled people are sent to abled doctors to get "proof" of disability, yet abled doctors admit they don't know much about disability or what disabled people's lives are like! <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MedicalAbleism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MedicalAbleism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Healthcare</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a>

UC Access Now"Healthcare Disparities for Patients With Disabilities Start in Medical School"<a href="https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/healthcare-disparities-patients-disabilities-start-medical-2025a10004ge?form=fpf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/healthcare-disparities-patients-disabilities-start-medical-2025a10004ge?form=fpf</a> The study "“The Forgotten Minority”: Perpetuation of Ableism in Medical Education" : <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-024-09308-2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-024-09308-2</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MedicalAbleism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MedicalAbleism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Healthcare</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@disability</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a>

UC Access NowDisability and Accommodation Use in US Bachelor of Science in Nursing Programs - JAMA Network"Medical associations’ commitment to advancing disability-inclusive practices has led to data collection on, and a significant increase in representation of, medical students with disabilities.1,2 However, information on disability representation and accommodation use in US nursing programs remains scarce. The lack of data collection on this population impedes the ability to identify barriers, benchmark, and measure progress. To address this gap, we quantified disabilities and types of accommodations used among traditional prelicensure nursing students in US Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree programs."<a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/articlepdf/2830457/jackson_2025_ld_240320_1739309393.317.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/articlepdf/2830457/jackson_2025_ld_240320_1739309393.317.pdf</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disability</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Healthcare</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@disability</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a>

UC Access Now"Compliance" is what you do when a law is passed and you are just trying to do the bare minimum to comply with the law.This is the system UC has where disabled people have to go to separate offices (a different one for employees than students, for instance) to fight for the bare minimum in accessibility.You don't have to worry as much about someone pressuring you to scrub all references to accessibility if you simply make the highest common denominator of accessibility be the default.You can still offer accessibility - offer it to everyone instead of rationing it. Design your courses, your workplace to be ACCESSIBLE and inclusive as you can. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a>

UC Access NowEveryone should contemplate the amount of money, administrative and legal power that UC puts into preventing public education and resources from being accessible and inclusive to disabled people......and then contemplate what they must reward given that several of the young tech folks who were henchtraitors to Musk at the US Office of Personnel Management and the US Treasury have degrees from UC Berkeley and UC Davis.<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)If anyone has an in at Google Scholar and can help me with this, I'd appreciate it. Eventually my thesis will be done and I can put use that to start a profile, but I'd very much like to get the UC Access Now Demandifesto to kickstart it earlier.<a href="https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Attribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Attribution</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)So frustrating. At least 3 works that appear on Google Scholar cite the UC Access Now Demandifesto (and the one in my pinned tweet SHOULD have cited it), but there's no way for me to use the Demandifesto as a link for my own Google Scholar Profile.I've tried uploading it to Hcommons in addition to Internet Archive, but the platform has been so error-ridden that I still cannot publish it there. (I am told Google Scholar will pick up Hcommons.) <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Attribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Attribution</a>

UC Access NowAbled people can be utterly casual about elevators being broken. "I'll just have to take the stairs".Not everyone in the public (UC is a public university) can take the stairs.Things like this are also another reason why online must continue to be invested in and developed - what if your class or your only office space is not on the ground floor?<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@disability</a>

UC Access NowDisabled people at UC said all throughout the ongoing pandemic that UC should make online options available and increase training & resources for the development of robust creative accessible pedagogy and working options.Instead, the Academic Senate at the behest of UC leadership rolled back online accessibility. De-invested.What a shock that online accessibility is needed again and we aren't even all the way done with COVID...If you'd invested in it as we urged, you'd be better prepared now.<a href="https://bso.ucla.edu/news/campus-operations-modified-undergraduate-graduate-classes-remote-through-friday-jan-17" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bso.ucla.edu/news/campus-operations-modified-undergraduate-graduate-classes-remote-through-friday-jan-17</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PalisadesFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PalisadesFire</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@disability</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)I've posted photos before of these great ceramic public artworks at the UC Davis Arboretum, but today had better lighting so I took new photos.This is a semi-circular wall of plants and insects. Despite UC Davis being a public university, blind folks aren't really welcome - there's next-to-no Braille anywhere at the Arboretum. This is one of the few tactile works, but it's incised in Roman letters.<a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/PublicArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicArt</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Ceramics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ceramics</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sculpture</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/DavisCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DavisCA</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Arboretum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arboretum</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)Of course, now I wish I'd deleted at least one of the "California"s to reduce repetition, but I felt it was important to emphasize I have contributed to this institution all of my adult life and have every bit as much right to an equitable educational experience as anyone else here. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)Repeatedly being treated the way I have been treated at UC Davis made it difficult to do drafts and be "professional" about this. After a month of this being in email drafts, I finally just sent this email in regard to the call to register to yet another inaccessible UC Davis Plant Breeding Retreat at Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/plantscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@plantscience</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/disability" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@disability</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)This is the view folks online get right now because everyone at UC Davis is so concerned about accessibility.They've moved somewhere else in the room and are talking.No captions.<a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/DisabledAndSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DisabledAndSTEM</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)Yup, seminar has started. No link.(EDIT: Got it. Late. Because UC Davis sets up barriers to online access that it does not set up for in-person maskless attendance. ) <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/UCAccessNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCAccessNow</a>

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