I have always wanted one of these! God bless the hopeful souls making MK merch at a time that the world wasn't ready for it

Bob's interactions with the guy at the turkey counter are my absolute favourite moment from the show, but experiencing the turkey moments as psychic horror totally makes sense to me!

Wonderful news Mia, congratulations!

I reckon all those subsections sound like a great idea for starting though. My favourite literature review guidance work is the chapter in Helping Doctoral Students to Write by Kamler & @patthomson.bsky.social, it's really fantastic for everyone but especially for historians!

Is your framing global or focused on a particular region/time period? A lot of topics that could be considered disability by contemporary definition are also very local histories of medicine, and historians often don't want to apply disability language if it wasn't used at the time/by their subjects

I realise your CV is extremely impressive but I still reckon you should bump that to the top 💜

Oh great! it can look like a lot of things in history and really depends on how you are defining your field of inquiry. Looking at a range of "state of the field" type articles from other subdisciplines too might help you find what works for you (e.g. balancing chronology/themes etc.) good luck!

(apologies for the barrage -- answers to those will help inform what recommendations I or others give!) But also, Blackie & Moncrieff's 2022 State of the Field article a good start for reviewing; also, @disabilitystor1.bsky.social and @lucydelap.bsky.social are personal favourites of mine generally!

To clarify did you mean "disability history" as "history *of* disability", rather than how disability and historical practice intersect? Also, is disability defined using current/historical/cultural terms? Or include what's now understood as mental illness/psychosocial disability/neurodivergence?

Thank you for bringing these together 💜

It's genuinely made my life so much easier in just a week of using it, but also it was a shock to remember "oh yeah, it's technically possible for an app to just be simple and useful"

(as an aside, if you read this book and think "nice references" at any stage, hit me up)

Thank you so much, I appreciate it! However I was caught in the middle of a generosity gunfight between you and @brionyneilson.bsky.social who got it to me seconds ahead, so am ok now thanks! One fewer panic attack this arvo and some faith in humans absolutely restored by you both 💜

Life duly saved, thank you

That's so kind of you! This course sounds like such a delight, I really love the updates 💜

Tbh I used to have to do this but that was in Melbourne; there'd usually be one British student who I'd have to rely on to help me explain the dense cringe layering

also speaks to how it is both the highest privilege and greatest joy of my life to toil in writing and qualitative research, to genuinely engage on the level of process with the raw acute stuff of humanity