Alyssa C Davis

"You don't look autistic."

What does autism look like?

The intersection of chronic illness and capitalism is so dystopian.

You're expected to work yourself into the ground to afford healthcare, but working yourself into the ground makes your chronic illness worse, which requires more healthcare, which requires more work.

Maybe being a “failing” writer just means you’re still stubborn enough to write things that can’t be optimized.

the spoons were already low before i remembered i had to make a phone call. you know the kind. the one that requires Being A Person.

learning is a series of tiny ego deaths.

the embarrassment of realizing you misunderstood something basic.
the excitement when a new idea finally clicks.
the slow humility of changing your mind.

good morning to everyone whose first thought was a symptom check.

Sometimes I feel like I live in the hallway between rooms labeled:
artist, academic, writer, disabled person.
Everyone wants me to pick a door.
But the hallway is where I actually think.

Academia will acknowledge that knowledge is socially constructed & power-laden, then turn around to treat APA 7th edition like it descended from the mountain on stone tablets.

Living with autoimmune disease feels like being married to someone who keeps calling the cops on you in your own house.

Reminder that psychiatric medication can be lifesaving AND the psychiatric system can be violent AND people deserve autonomy over their bodies AND access shouldn't be limited to the most privileged.

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

I’m attracted to people who interrogate systems but are gentle with people.

"Why are you so quiet lately?"

Because I'm currently 8 years old & 28 years old at the same time. Because every headline is a finger poking an unhealed wound. Because the news cycle moves on by Monday, but I still have to live in this body on Tuesday.

Sins Invalid 10 Principles of Disability Justice comes to mind! As well as their original definition/conceptualization of disability justice. 💜

If disability advocacy mean shielding disabled people from conversations on accountability we will never achieve disability justice.

Watching survivors have to go on TV and beg the government to redact their home addresses from the public Epstein files is a special kind of hell.

Thank you! 🥰

Who says a thesis can’t have a choreographed dance break? 🎭✨

It feels so right to be combining my love for performance with my passion for mental health, feminism and disability studies.

“I followed procedure.”
Okay…

Procedure has upheld segregation.
Procedure has denied insulin.
Procedure has deported children.
Legality and justice are not synonyms.

We talk a lot about “decorum” in Congress.

But maybe we should be more pissed at the people sitting “politely” while protecting pedophiles than the people who walk out advocating for survivors.

Accessibility in academia is wild because professors will say “this text is foundational” and then upload it as a blurry photocopy scan that even god couldn’t OCR.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

The most radical thing a teacher ever did for me was treat my “why?” as sacred instead of smart-alecky.

“Accommodations” that require you to disclose, document, beg, be legible & believed are not liberatory.

The artist in me wants mess, ache, metaphor.
The academic wants precision, proof, sources.
The chronically ill part of me just wants to curl up under a blanket.
I don’t pick a side. I write from the tug-of-war.

The irony of learning about marginalization…
while being punished for not buying the $150 “updated” textbook. 🥴

sometimes i think about that thing a disco elysium dev said in response to someone asking why choosing fascist options lowers your morale. that being a fascist is miserable, since it requires you to believe that you are being dominated by the weak and unworthy in everything you do.

Translation: “administrative warrant” = a document the agency signs for itself. A judge didn’t have to review it. apnews.com/article/ice-...

The leaked/internal guidance saying ICE can enter homes with just administrative warrants is a massive Fourth Amendment alarm bell. 🚩🚩🚩

Stop asking marginalized people to "resilience" their way through systemic failure.