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Moving at the Speed of Trust: Disability Justice and Transformative Justice
Featuring Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Elliott Fukui, with Darryn Hollifield and Natalie Cuddy, ASL interpretation. Introduction by Hope Dector.
Read MoreEli Clare: Gawking, Gaping, Staring: Living in Marked Bodies
Disabled people, trans people, fat people, and people of color all know what it's like to be stared at. Through words and images, Eli explores the internal experiences of living in marked bodies and the external meanings of oppression and bodily difference.
Read MoreThe Ability to Live: What Trump’s Health Cuts Mean for People with Disabilities
In this video, Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern discuss the Trump administration’s proposed Medicaid cuts and the disastrous effects these cutswill have on people with disabilities, cutting “right to the core of being able tolive.” The budget priorities and cuts of right-wing and fascist regimes reveal volumes about who is valued and viable in a society and who is not. The Trump administration’s proposed cuts to Medicaid declare people with disabilities, poor people, young […]
Read MoreAbleism is the Bane of My Motherfuckin’ Existence
Activists Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern expand on the disability justice framework and the need for a politicized understanding of ableism within a context of racism, classism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.
Read MoreReina Gossett: Making a Way Out of No Way
Keynote address at The Scholar & Feminist Conference 41: Sustainabilities.
Read MoreInvisible Lives, Targeted Bodies: Queer Precarity and the Myth of Gay Affluence
Amber Hollibaugh
ABOUT THE EVENT Queer precarity is a reality. As the wealth gap continues to grow, LGBT/Q people struggle with increasing hardships and economic crisis, alongside the majority of working-class and poor Americans. Economic precarity has necessitated new forms of labor organizing, including worker centers and union–community partnerships. But the particular struggles of queer and gender […]
Read MoreScholar & Feminist 41: Sustainabilities
Reina Gossett, Cara Page, Krystal Portalatin, Joo-Hyun Kang & more.
REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM SPEAKERS Description—#sf41 In the forty-first year of BCRW’s cornerstone conference, we are taking seriously the framework of sustainability to ask how we can sustain the material, financial, creative, cultural, spiritual, and communal resources necessary to maintain the vitality of our communities, movements, and critical feminist inquiries. The conference brings together feminist scholars, […]
Read MoreKeywords/Key Questions
Heather Love, Sayantani DasGupta, Lennard Davis, Robert McRuer, Rayna Rapp, Sunaura Taylor, and more.
ABOUT THE EVENT: This symposium will mark the publication of Keywords for Disability Studies, a collection of 60 essays that identify and define key terms in the field. An evening artists’ panel on October 1 featuring Sunaura Taylor, Riva Lehrer, and Park McArthur will address the topic of “Keywords for Disability Culture.” On October 2, […]
Read MoreBody Undone: A Salon in Honor of Christina Crosby
Conversation featuring Christina Crosby, Lisa Cohen, Leigh Gilmore, Laura Grappo, Maggie Nelson, Gayle Pemberton, and Gayle Salamon.
Read MoreBody Undone: A Salon in Honor of Christina Crosby
Christina Crosby, Lisa Cohen, Leigh Gilmore, Laura Grappo, Maggie Nelson, Gayle Pemberton, Gayle Salamon
“Body Undone” focuses on Christina Crosby’s forthcoming memoir of living with disability, A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain. In 2003 Professor Crosby broke her neck in a bicycle accident. She writes, “Spinal cord injury has cast me into a surreal neurological wasteland that I traverse day and night. This account is an effort […]
Read MoreAction on Education
REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM SPEAKERS Description—#sfedu Speakers include Ujju Aggarwal, Lalaie Ameeriar, Abigail Boggs, The Black Youth Project, Nuala Cabral, Natalia Cecire, Jaz Choi, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Kandice Chuh, Antonia Darder, Dána-Ain Davis, Ejeris Dixon, Tadashi Dozono, Melanie Duch, Rod Ferguson, Cindy Gao, Jamaica Gilmer, Dana Goldstein, Che Gossett, Karen Gregory, Zareena Grewal, Ileana Jiménez, Shenila […]
Read MoreGender, Labor, Healing: Irish Immigrant Experiences in 19th Century NYC
Meredith Linn
Meredith Linn, assistant professor of urban studies, shares her research into the experiences of illness, injury, and healing among 19th-century Irish immigrants in New York City. In particular, Linn explores the different kinds of injuries (and sometimes permanent scars and disabilities) that male and female Irish immigrants suffered in New York as a result of […]
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