This is @nolan_syreeta. Proudly boldly Mad Black & Disabled. I am claiming Mad as a disability pronoun for the 1st time not because I am angry all the time. Those who know me, know. 😂 I am Mad at being left behind by the current construct of mental health @BlackInMH, FR 1/ [QT]
@nolan_syreeta Let me get level real with you all right now. I am getting Spravato treatment, nasal derivative of ketamine, 2x a week because I still struggle with my will to live. I am struggling with one of my courses through @ElsevierNews Evolve. I sleep in my car every Monday night. Yet 10/
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This is a mini takeover while high on Spravato at my doctor’s office. I want to transmute the pain of being alive into the passion I have to transform mental health policy. I am beginning this painful acceptance of my mind leaning towards death while having dreams & goals, I 2/
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want to achieve. @jtknoxroxs and @nolan_syreeta 🔥 ❤️ ♾️ ❤️ 🔥 Just meeting with her was such a joy earlier this week on @Zoom from @MiraCosta. The one thing that I have been finding hard is that online programs for MPH programs have live lecture. @UCSanDiego had live 3/
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lecture or at least recorded lecture. When I wrote my article with @JDisSoc, I had Academic Netflix. @MiraCostaPrez, I am shocked to be @DisInHigherEd and trying to learn medical billing and coding in two classes without a lecture. Thank God for the 4/ https://t.co/yHiyVyzeNw
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in person classes where I get to talk to the instructor and they teach the material. This #BlackHistoryMonth This #BlackDisabledLivesMatter call all lines up with a #BlackDEHEM, a #BlkDEHEM on the 1st anniversary of my mom’s passing. Have I been perfect in running this? No, 5/
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but I wanted to try. So I have missed a few days, I am going to post questions and my answers! Please, please engage with this event. When I get home I am scheduling the rest of the questions for the month. Let me see: #BlkDisChat Day 5/ Question 4 Is coming up now: 6/
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#BlkDisChat Day 5/ Question 4 What is the hardest part of being Black & Disabled in getting your basic needs met? Please feel free to share your crowdfunding tweet as a quote tweet of your answer #MutualAid @ChronicLoaf_ has the Best study vibes to not be alone & community 7/
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I think the hardest part has to be breaking down my walls constructed of the thoughts that I should be able to survive on my own and ask for help. Being Invisibly #Disabled and broke, I spent every Monday night sleeping in my car which is a night of productivity lost to the 8/
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effort of sleeping in a car in the winter. $350 by Monday gets me gas for class, a night’s stay in a hotel, & paid car insurance V: Syreeta-Nolan If you want to provide monthly support, that would be greatly appreciated. I don’t write much, but here: https://t.co/LbTOoCPxpS 9/
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#BlkDisChat Day 6/ Question 5 What is the hardest part of being Black and Disabled in getting your emotional and sexual needs met? @BlackInMH @blackinxnetwork @DisInHigherEd @FetLife @sexAbled
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackDEHEM #BlkDEHEM 11/
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Why did I do this to myself? Everything. All of it is the hardest part. Since mom passed, emotional wreck. Yet, it allowed me to be fullest self for the 1st time. Being on @FetLife can be hard as a #DisabledSubmissive, but I am upfront about it. LittleSye is my 12/
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screen name on @FetLife and I have always known BDSM (Bondage, Domination, and SadoMasochism) was my home. I saw how a standard relationship and the trauma impacted my mom. I wanted something different & more for myself. My best friend and I when I was 18 went to my 1st kink 13/
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event. All this to say, 20 years on and off again in this lifestyle and my disability advocacy are meeting on July 26th in my discussion on: Chronic Pain versus Pleasure Pain and Kinky Roles @FetLife @SanDiegoSummit @nolan_syreeta What question do I have for us now? 14/
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Day 7: #BlkDEHEMRollCall Review/Reflection of Compounded Burden of Being a Black and Disabled Student during the age of COVID-19 that I wrote the closing with mom and had a small community help me edit I haven’t seen any introductions yet. @blackinxnetwork @DisInHigherEd 15/
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This is my #BlkDEHEMRollCall for #BlackHistoryMonth My name is Syreeta, I am the co-founder of this page with @AlexisSMobley I am currently going back to school for Medical Billing & Coding, but my dream is to transform the field of MH I am working on my MPH applications 16/
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It was a community effort empowered by the energy from @CripCampFilm. It was a call to action. It was bold in sharing my experience to sharing a vision for a more inclusive academia. I think it was a beautiful challenge to just let my story be enough w/o a single reference 17/
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#BlkDEHEMChat Day 8/Question 7 What is the hardest part of being Black and Disabled in getting your academic and accommodation needs met? @jtknoxroxs thank you for your remarkable work on our graphics! #BlackDEHEM #BlkDEHEM 18/
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I think the hardest part of me has to be the asking for help part. I mean there are SO MANY forms needed including from doctors who don’t know how to fill out the forms because they are different everywhere. That is why I went back to @MiraCosta, my info was on file. Easy! 19/
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#BlkDEHEMChat Day 9/ Question 8 What mentors have made your life easier in academia? Answer any or all questions at your ease, but please help me out for #BlackHistoryMonth2024 to have a bit more engagement than me. Please @BlackInMH, @blackinxnetwork, & @DisabledStem 20/
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I am honestly just relieved that it is the 9th right now and I am almost at the end of this thread. Mentors that have helped me along the way have been: @JimLeBrecht
@DrSamiSchalk
@TeleseFrancesca
@anjalifp
@DougZiedonisMD
@Tinu And many more Love, @nolan_syreeta 21/21
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