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Debby Sneed

@debscavator.bsky.social

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Nondisabled researcher of disability in ancient Greece. she/her pronouns in bio. Who do you think you are? I am

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 19d

Maybe it's dorky, but I'll introduce myself. I'm a nondisabled university professor who specializes in disability in ancient Greece. I approach this all through the lens of disability studies and critical disability theory, and advocate for disabled students in Classics and Archaeology.

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 6h

Me, too 😂

Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 7h

It's not the real @angierasmussen.bsky.social writing to me as if we are friends

Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 7h

I love connecting with people on here 😂

Screenshot of message exchange with user whose display name is Angie Rasmussen, @angierasmussenn.bsky.social. They write, "Greetings." I respond, "Hey! How's it going?" followed by "Oh I see, you're a fake account" and they reply "How dare you"

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 1d

I think we're talking past each other? It seemed like you were implying that it's because white people in the South are racist that they don't live as long, and I was pointing out that those states are very diverse and we shouldn't be so dismissive of the South as just havens for racist whites.

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 1d

(I sometimes see my academic peers talking about things like annexing the South, etc., which is just such a problem given the history and also current state of the region, and that's the context in which I read your tweet.)

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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 2d

27 years ago, hateful violence took the life of Matthew Shepard. His story reminds us of what happens when intolerance goes unchecked.

Today, as extremists target our LGBTQ+ neighbors for who they are, we must recommit to building a nation rooted in love, safety, and equality for all.

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 1d

It's a complicated history! But branding the South as just a bunch of white racists is definitely not right, you have to account for things like race and class, as well as the neglect of this region based on issues like race and class.

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 1d

The South is the most racially diverse region of the United States, and also contains some (most?) of the poorest counties in the country. It's frustrating to see those states written off as full of racist white people when the story is a lot more complicated than that?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Dr Cora Beth Fraser @corabeth.bsky.social · 4d

Me, talking about autism in Higher Education!
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/three...

Three easy tweaks to make your teaching autism-friendly

Autistic students have the highest university dropout rate of any disability group. What can teaching staff do about it?

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Katie Robinson @nclgmagistrainotio.bsky.social · 4d

4 Blockbuster speakers on topics bringing connections in ancient cultures into focus in the way Classics should be studied! Qin, Tang, Han, India, Greece, & Rome! Students welcome also!
ccasouth.org has all details, abstracts, bios. Check it out! Thx,
@ancientlyric.bsky.social for leading this!

CCA South - Fall 2025 Program

JOIN US ! OCTOBER 18, 2025 9:30 am - 1:00 pm CCA South Virtual Conference University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Classics and the California Classical Association - South are pro...

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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 4d

You can check out these top 5 videos, and all our other #PeoplingVideo content over at peoplingthepast.com/category/vid... /end

Graphic reads:
Video #1: Disability in Ancient Greece with Dr. Debby Sneed
Video #14: Kara Cooney talks about Women and Power in Ancient Egypt
Video #10: Katherine Blouin talks about the Cult of Isis
Video #17 Tattoos in Ancient Egypt with Anne Austin https
Video #16: The Hyksos with Danielle Candelora

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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 4d

In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5 #PeoplingVideo contributions across the years /thread 🧵👇

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 5d

I feel similarly: social media really changed my research (for the better) and introduced me to new networks and opened new professional doors. I'm ever grateful for the community I've experienced on social media.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 6d

social media opened a lot of professional doors for me - talks, invitations to submit things, getting my work out there, networking, etc.

it's also helped with social anxiety: when i meet one of my pocket friends IRL, it's easier to talk because it doesn't feel like a "cold call."

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 6d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 7d

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Yusi Liu, Chris Gipson, and Najee Olya, building on the Mountaintop Coalition's panel at the SCS earlier this year. "International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World?" resdifficiles.com/internationa...

International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World? CFP

At the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, the Mountaintop Coalition sponsored the joint panel, “Internationa…

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 7d

Spend your energy on people who are disciplined, fired, arrested, even deported for exercising free speech in defense of victims. Spend it on defending our right to discuss topics like race and gender. Spend it on helping students, colleagues, and community members who are harmed by bad actors.

Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 7d

It's kind of like Roman Polanski's film about the Dreyfus affair. Probably it's just normal that Polanski is going so hard on someone who was wrongfully convicted.

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 7d

There are loads of really great people who are also excellent scholars who struggle to find permanent jobs, publish their work, establish a platform, but we've gotta keep the pests around because...Classics.

Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 7d

I woke up to a review of a book published by a convicted felon in my field, and it's interesting to read that in the book, he attempts to depersonalize Cicero, to separate the man from the work. That's probably a neutral choice.

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 12d

Someday I'm going to get up the nerve to submit my article manuscript on this to a journal...

Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 12d

This weekend I'm headed to Raleigh, NC to give a talk about disability, misfit relationships, and mobility aids at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The talk is free and open to the public, on Sunday, October 5 at 2pm. Register here: ncartmuseum.org/events/frien...

Friends of Greek Art Lecture—Disability in Ancient Greece: A Case Study in Mobility

Disability can be a feature of the body, but as Disability Studies scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has shown, it is also a material arrangement, one that can result in a “misfit” relationship…

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · 12d

OK well that's very nice?? Thank you!

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Rhea Classical Reviews @rheaclassical.bsky.social · 17d

New book review on Rhea!

Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴

Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!

Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate.

Andrew Fox, Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate (London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). 9781350237803. Reviewed by Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod, S…

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