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Ellen Forget
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Oooh! Very exciting! Thank you! I'll DM you my email address.
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Academic studying braille, print disabilities, and small-press publishing. Editor by trade, academic at heart. she/they. ocd & long-covid & cane user.
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Ellen Forget
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Oooh! Very exciting! Thank you! I'll DM you my email address.
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Ellen Forget
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Thank you! Flight attendants are usually great. I've never had trouble with on-flight staff.
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Ellen Forget
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Thank you, both! I managed to find accessibility services after security, so they'll take me to my gate in a cart or wheelchair. I was supposed to have a wheelchair through security, but I couldn't find them and three people told me incorrect directions so I gave up. 😅
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Ellen Forget
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Exactly. Security shouldn't cause pain. It doesn't need to! Thankfully it wasn't significant pain, but that plus the 9-hour flight I have ahead of me... it all adds up, unfortunately. I'm very early so I have time to rest. Hopefully that's enough.
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Ellen Forget
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I did it because I didn't feel I had a choice, but it was painful. There must be an alternative to checking someone's shoes that doesn't require a big step or putting all weight solely on a bad leg.
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Ellen Forget
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The security person saw me with the cane and had already patted and swabbed my knee brace, then she just pointed to this thing and told me to step a leg up. Didn't ask me if I could or offer alternatives, even when I said "this is going to be really bad for my leg."
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Ellen Forget
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There's irony in the fact that my knee brace, which I use because that knee causes me pain, set off security at the airport such that I had to go through extra screening that required me to lift that leg and then stand solely on that leg. Both of which cause pain, which is the reason for the brace.
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Ellen Forget
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My cane folds up and fits in my backpack, so I can use it when I need to get up as well! Good call on meds. I usually take as needed, but preventative is probably better for this. I always forget how easy it is to dehydrate, so that's a good tip! Thanks for your thoughts.
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Ellen Forget
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I already booked wheelchair service to reduce walking before and after the flight, and I'm in an aisle seat with my injured leg on the aisle side. I can get up to walk and stretch, but walking is also bad on my knee so I'm not sure if that's worse.
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Ellen Forget
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Q for my #Disabled and #ChronicPain friends, particularly those with knee injuries/pain. How do you handle flying? Any tips for keeping my knee happy on a long flight? My last 7-hour flight had me in unbearable, tearful pain at hour 5.5, and tomorrow's flight is 8h45m.
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Ellen Forget
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This is impressive and also very motivating. I need to start a tracker like this for my dissertation writing.
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Ellen Forget
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This explains so much. 😂
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Iva Cheung
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This is a horrendous development: dailyhive.com/canada/lifel...
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Ellen Forget
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I love the rain, genuinely, but it does make spring allergies worse. Hopefully my allergy pill kicks in and I can breathe by the time I have to give my paper. 😅
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Ellen Forget
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Happy last day of #SHARP2024!
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Ellen Forget
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Oh no! Thanks for saying so. I'd be happy to find time to chat at another point! So many great presentations scheduled for the same time, unfortunately.
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Ellen Forget
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For those sticking around #SHARP2024 tomorrow, I'll be presenting at 9am. My paper is about my project training an OCR model to read embossed braille. There are lots of fun complications involved in this project that I'm excited to share with you!
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Ryan Cordell
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I love that #SHARP2024 gave one of its two conference keynotes to a graduate student researcher—for one, it gets fresher perspectives wider attention at the event & hopefully provokes new ideas for all but two, it usefully disrupts the typical conference hierarchies—more conferences should do this
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Alex Wingate
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#SHARP2024, we’re at the second keynote with Swara Shukla, Serialised Reading and Digital Marginalia in the Wattpad Book Publishing Ecosystem. I’m gonna attempt phone based live sleeting bc I didn’t bring my laptop!
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Ellen Forget
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Hey #SHARP2024 folks. I brought my braille slates with me and haven't had much chance to use them. If you want a little card with your name or anything else embossed on it, or just want to know what braille feels like, come find me Thursday or Friday! Happy to braille for you.
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Ellen Forget
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This is my first in-person conference since my injury, so I'm still figuring out how to navigate these spaces while managing my pain and trying to limit the burden on other people to change things just for me. I'm thankful to the #SHARP2024 and U of Reading folks for everything they've done.
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Ellen Forget
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Another kind #SHARP stranger had offered to drive me themself, since they had a car, even though they weren't attending either of the sessions I was.
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Ellen Forget
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The University of Reading venue staff have all been wonderful as well. Yesterday, a kind #SHARP stranger called to arrange for security to pick me up from the MERL to drive me back to the main campus so I wouldn't have to miss a session because they were only 15 minutes apart.
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Ellen Forget
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I'm very thankful for the #SHARP2024 organizers for their care and attention regarding accessibility. There was an issue with a lift suddenly being broken today—nobody's fault!—and now they're making sure I can attend the sessions I want to without having to climb stairs.
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Ellen Forget
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Oh no! I'm sorry to hear that. I wish more people were posting so you could follow along still. Hopefully we'll see you next year! Let me know if there's anyone in particular you wanted to connect with and I'll try to track them down for you.
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Ellen Forget
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I definitely can't liveskeet. I wouldn't be very good at it. But I try to post other conference-relates things or just use the hashtag to let people know I'm there and to please come talk to me if they see me. I was hoping to use it to follow lots more SHARP folks this week though!
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Ellen Forget
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Looking at the #SHARP2024 tag, I think we don't have a lot of SHARPists here on BlueSky? Shall we start recruiting to build our community here?
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Ellen Forget
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What a fabulous start to #SHARP2024! I'm already buzzing with new ideas and new connections. I'm grateful to everyone I talked with today, and I look forward to more enlightening conversations throughout the week.
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Ellen Forget
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Reminder to #SHARP2024 attendees: If you're posting images from the conference, add alt text! SHARP News has a handy Alt Text Guide for Book Historians if you're not sure how to get started. Or you can come find me in person! I'd be happy to help you write alt text. sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
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Ellen Forget
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Happy first day of #SHARP2024!
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Undertow Publications
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Sometimes you only ever hear about a newish press is when things go sideways. Anyway, here are some reputable presses that deserve attention. Black Shuck Books, Dim Shores, Fairwood Press, Invisible Books, Lethe Press, Neon Hemlock, Swan River, Valancourt, Word Horde.
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Ellen Forget
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I have accidentally typed shey more than once and have thought maybe I should just go with that. 😅
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Ellen Forget
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Thank you for the clarification! I like how you've phrased that, and I will have to think about that some more regarding my own identity. Still working these things out for myself.
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Ellen Forget
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I'm the exact same! Pretty much only my nb or trans friends use they for me regularly. I also use they exclusively at conferences to help normalize it for other nb folks who don't use femme/masc pronouns at all.
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Ellen Forget
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It appears that my "universal" power adapter that I bought at the airport in Canada is not so universal. So I guess I now have a mission for tomorrow in Reading!
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Ellen Forget
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For folks staying in campus accommodations, the taxi from Reading Station to residence cost me £12 this afternoon. Tell them you're going to the university car park 2! Also the food at the pub attached to the station is delicious if you need to stop for a bite first. #SHARP2024
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Ellen Forget
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I have arrived in Reading! Really looking forward to attending #SHARP2024. It's my first in-person SHARP! If you'll be there, please say hi!
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Ellen Forget
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Heathrow accessibility services were also incredible! I'm very thankful for accessibility workers. There's no way I'd be able to walk around and find my way in these huge airports without it.
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Ellen Forget
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Yeeees this! Once I presented at a conference and the moderator read out my bio word-for-word except she actively changed my nb pronouns to femme. 🙃
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
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Recently, I was peer reviewing a paper, and it cited one of my papers. Except... it wasn't anything I had written. The title sounds like something I'd write. It included coauthors I work with, and was in a journal I've published in. But it wasn't real. AI is not good for science.
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Ellen Forget
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Shout out to accessibility services at Copenhagen airport. I've never received such thorough and kind support. I was really early, so they even arranged to help me to a restaurant and pick me back up when I'm done to take me to my gate.
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Ellen Forget
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Desperately in search of my first coffee of the day, I arrived at the café before it opened. I must have looked as desperate as I feel though because they still let me in. 😅
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Ellen Forget
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It's weird that I'm waking up and you're still awake. 😂 But thank you!
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Ellen Forget
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I'm going to consume enough coffee today to rival Lorelai Gilmore. ☕️
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Ellen Forget
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Thank you, jet lag, for giving me two hours of sleep the night before a conference presentation. Good luck to me I guess. 😅
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Mlle Defarge ♿
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I genuinely don't think most people realize that access to a bathroom is foundational to being able to participate in public life. Like, if you didn't know you'd be able to go to the bathroom when you needed to, how far would you be willing/able to go from home?
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Ellen Forget
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Now that I have my bearings in Copenhagen, I should say that I'm happy to be here for the Digital Reading Experience conference! I'm presenting tomorrow on how people with print disabilities read digitally, which is part of my dissertation work done in consultation with disabled readers.
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Stephen Gregg
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My latest blog post shgregg.com/2024/06/24/c...
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Ellen Forget
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I arrived in Copenhagen today, so I'm hoping I'll be over it by SHARP. No guarantees though. 😅
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Ellen Forget
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I also forgot to mention that I ended up taking a taxi from the airport to my accommodations instead of transit as I had planned, because I was in too much pain to figure out the local transit system and how to get to where I needed to go. So that was expensive. 😬
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