Events

Unpacking Ableism in Our Lives: A Workshop on Developing a Disability Studies Lens ♥ ★ ✚

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Unpacking Ableism in Our Lives: A Workshop on Developing a Disability Studies Lens A workshop on why and how we should develop a disability studies framework for understanding the world around us and our own lives. We ask that participants read the Lateral forum on critical disability studies before the workshop, consisting of three short…

Black Nonsense (Or, Black Radical Utterances in the Idiom of Madness ✚

Black Nonsense (Or, Black Radical Utterances in the Idiom of Madness Join us for our second event in our “Mental Health in a Time of Pandemic” series. Professor Bruce’s talk begins with a meditation on “mad” black captives in the novels and short stories of Richard Wright, Gayl Jones, and Ntozake Shange. While confined in…