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Upcoming Events

  • Hostile Legislation, Digital Activism, and TransCrip Stories

    Tuesday, November 28, 4:00-6:00pm EST

    This roundtable stories in/access and crip feelings in the wake of anti-trans and anti-critical race theory legislation, as well as the rollback of COVID-19 protections and policies.

  • Writing (or not) on Crip Time: A Crip Mentoring Roundtable

    RESCHEDULED: Friday, January 19 from 12:00-1:30pm EST

    The Digital Accessible Futures Lab will be convening an informal Zoom roundtable of interdisciplinary scholars and activists in critical disability studies and digital studies to talk with graduate students, early-career faculty, and community members about writing/making (or not) on crip time. Panelists: Nirmala Erevelles, Anna LaQuawn Hinton, Crystal Yin Lie, and Vyshali Manivannan

Past Events

  • Community Conversation with Disability Network Washtenaw Monroe Livingston (DNWML) || Disability Design and Activism
    Will Purves, Alex Gossage, and Izzie Bullock from the Disability Network Washtenaw Monroe Livingston (DNWML) joined students and other university community members in a disability studies course to talk about designing with disability in mind and thinking about access capaciously.
  • Donia Human Rights Center Panel | A Discussion on Disability Justice, Human Rights, and the Politics of Space

    This panel is convening as a form of repair across the disciplinary divides, hoping to foster connections among the divergent fields that grapple with questions of disability justice. Panelists : Crystal Lee, Lydia X.Z. Brown, Eman Rimawi-Doster, and Laura Guidry-Grimes

  • [Lydia X.Z. Brown] Algorithmic Ableism at the Intersections: Disability, Race, Gender, and New Technologies
    From algorithmic worker management, credit decisions, threat assessment, health predictions, decision-making technologies, and surveillance apparatuses, algorithmic and automated technologies increasingly have an outsized impact on disabled people, particularly disabled people from multiply-marginalized communities.
  • Access Advocacy: A Crip Mentoring Roundtable
    How do we advocate for access in environments that are hostile to life and living? Where can we find community and fellow accomplices as we undertake this work? Please join us as we think-together about access labor, access intimacy, disability justice, and digital crip/mad life in the time of COVID. Panelists: Sara María Acevedo, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Ruth Osorio, and Rua M. Williams.
  • [J. Logan Smilges] Queer Silence: Rhetorical Quieting and an Erotics of Absence
    In their interactive talk, J. Logan Smilges shows how queer and otherwise marginalized populations navigate the risks that subtend their precarious visibility. Centering their analysis on the dating app Grindr, Smilges introduces profile pictures as a digital site for rhetorical quieting—a strategy whereby users regulate how their bodyminds signify to people around them.
  • DisabiliTEA / NeurodiversiTEA Party (Zoom)
    The Digital Accessible Futures Lab is hosting a virtual tea party for undergraduate and graduate students interested in disability culture and community. Meet other disabled and neurodivergent students and play some community-building games! Bring your own cup of tea or other beverage/snack/stim toy of your choosing!
  • DisabiliTEA / NeurodiversiTEA Party (f2f)
    Please join the Digital Accessible Futures Lab for a Disabili-TEA & Neurodiversi-TEA Party! Meet disabled and neurodivergent undergraduate/graduate students! Learn about disability culture, resources, classes, and events!
  • Teaching (While) Crip: A Disability Pedagogy Workshop
    According to our universities, we have returned to normalcy — we have supposedly arrived. Normalcy has become a metonym for all of the practices, spaces, pedagogies, and modes of relation that we are expected to desire. “Care” and “flexibility” flicker as vestiges of a supposedly post-covid past, the future of remote learning remains uncertain, and rigor looms centrally in the refiguration of f2f pedagogy. This workshop asks us to consider what it means to crip the classroom. What does it mean to teach crip? What does it mean to learn or teach while crip?
  • [Roundtable] Crip Mentoring, Access Advocacy & the Job Market
    Learn from emerging scholars about navigating interdisciplinary work as a new faculty member, how to think through disability disclosure and pandemic burnout, as well as advice about access advocacy and crip mentoring. Panelists: Sara M. Acevedo, Crystal Yin Lie, Vyshali Manivannan, and Rua M. Williams.