Been a long time since a doctor questioned my primary care team's expertise and wrought hopefully not fatal havoc in my chart, but in case they did, you heard it here first lol

Neurology has a serious problem with top tier power tripping assholes

Also great: having drugs pushed at you for a diagnosis they arrived at before doing an exam, including injectables despite saying I've had sensitivity in the past, and dismissing a drug interaction that decreases med effectiveness as "oh that's nothing"

If you have and wouldn't mind saying so, please lmk and tyvm in advance 🙏🏾

"'But You Look So Well!': (Un)Professionalizing Chronic Pain Through Academic Dress" in JOMR: journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/3-2-issue-mani…

"If to Move the Soul a Writer," a Bitsy game excerpt from my monograph WIP that my 4C24 talk was adapted from (direct link): visforvali.github.io/tinygames/if_t…

"Chaos Itself is an Order" in Fourth Genre: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/fg/arti...

"perimortem (in [theoretical] rigor)" in Kairos: kairos.technorhetoric.net/29.2/inventi...

"Pain and Relief Come of Themselves" in Peitho (direct link here): visforvali.github.io/peitho-archive…

Anyway if you're disabled/precarious/caregiving/unsupported & thinking of applying for something don't forget you may be playing in a rigged game & what you invest should never exceed that fact--it's a big chance to take when the only one living with any long-term costs is you

I think we're all used to institutions and their affiliate organizations being or becoming morally bankrupt or ignoring definitional work around their own mission statements but damn it's disappointing every time

I think that's almost all the panels this year according to the program anyway... we got into that but also mentioned that we were among the few who were. It's pretty disappointing

Direct link to the interactive photo/parable gallery: visforvali.github.io/peitho-archi...

If you are too old or set in your ways to react with adequate urgency, then step aside for those who do. Don’t write ‘why can’t we all get along’ op eds