Kit Ryan
@limpinglibrary
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disability, poetry, and sometimes some dragons. I'm a librarian and academic interested in cripping your kidlit. All opinions are my own.
Melbourne
Joined August 2012
It's out! Thank you @ladyredjess and @amandatink for helping 'Who Gets to Survive the Apocalypse? Disability Hierarchy in Post-Disaster Fiction in Australian YA' out in the world as part of this issue. Always love to write about how #CripLit & #kidlit help us imagine crip futures
Australian Literary Studies is proud to publish our latest issue edited by @ladyredjess and @amandatink: Writing Disability in Australian Literature. A major intervention in Austlit scholarship with important new work, read more here: https://t.co/0KWnInCaJ0
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This one's mine! Looking forward to seeing some you there in person or online
10. What can the Air Temples in Avatar: The Last Airbender tell us about performative accessibility? Can the linguistic case structure of a fictional language help us express real-world feelings around cure and crip time? In a world full of magic, who are miracle cures even for?
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Can't wait!
We're less than a month away! Join us in-person at @CamEdFac or online for two-days of #disability in #childrenslit
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The only thing people can imagine about disabled people is our deaths and they’re usually the cause of it.
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For Les Murray's birthday: Les Murray said his autism shaped his poetry – his late poems offer insights into his creative process https://t.co/P6frHZ0YCO
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theconversation.com
Les Murray’s habit of rearranging and recontexualising his poetry was a reflection of his distinctive way of perceiving the world.
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Kit Kavanagh-Ryan (@limpinglibrary) uses crip readings of Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn Chronicles and Ambelin Kwaymullina’s Tribe sequence to determine whether they reinforce or subvert current understandings of disability https://t.co/nDK25ejdKz
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Honoured to a contributor to this exciting collection
Come celebrate ALS special issue, Writing Disability in Australia, edited by @ladyredjess and @amandatink. To be launched by Dr Scott Avery – readings from @katerina_bry and Anna Jacobson Online, captioned https://t.co/I9VPdzR7df
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I know The Hourglass Throne is thr end of only a single cycle. I want to be there until the end. Tldr: 11/10, @KDEdwards_NC books makes my dehydrated houseplant self want to grow some new leaves. Would lose sleep again. Also, the audio is stellar.
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Knowing they're together in all their arguments and catscradle connections, growing in all their own ways, I trust this series. And it has been cathartic and vivid and heartbreaking and often bloody funny.
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As an assault survivor I wasn't sure if these books would work for me, sometimes I can't, even when the author writes from compassion and belief. It's not a book thing. It's a brain thing. But there is something about watching this family
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I am sleep deprived and raw and a little bit more at home inside my skin. These stories are unapologetically queer and hopeful and furious and full of family and more types of live I've ever seen in the fiction I read. Platonic and romantic and passionate and gentle. Prickly.
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When it ended, birds screaming their claim on the tree outside my window at 5am, I downloaded the first audio again, staying with these characters a little longer. Delighting in re-finding threads from the first book I hadn't known yet known would turn into the tapestry of THT
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Between end of session teaching, pointy end PhD hell and a brutal flare up of winter, I haven't been able to manage long form fiction for months. A year? Time is weird. @KDEdwards_NC's Hourglass Throne is so good and so beautifuly paced I pulled an all nighter to listen to it.
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Good morning @ncte @ILAToday @BUWheelock It is the 10th anniversary of the book “Wonder”. After 10 yrs of wondering why the book is so popular I wrote a review. #SpoilerAlert
#TrashRepresentation
#StopAssigning
#NotOwnvoice
#BookTwitter
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If you need a quick break from the disasters of the world have a listen to this
abc.net.au
Isabel Allende says her latest novel, Violeta, was inspired by her mother but also by Allende's own life. Also, readers who send fan mail and the writers who reply with Markus Zusak, Anita Heiss,...
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interviewing @joseph_elliott for #TheBookShow was an absolute pleasure. Listen in for disability, queerness, and the worldbuilding of one of my favourite series. (Plus, @NicholsClaire has a great lineup this episode. I mean, just listen!)
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