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We promote academic research and teaching in Disability Studies and work to integrate people with disabilities into the community.

Buffalo, NY
Joined October 2018
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We’re hiring!! UB’s Dept of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies seeking Asst Prof w/ intersectional approach to Disability Studies. Review of applications begins Nov 13. ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/…
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Do you❤️disability studies works-in-progress? Join the next @chstmorg Disability and Mad Studies Working Group meeting February 14 at noon to discuss “Carthorses, Jades, and Equine Disability” with Monica Mattfeld. Sign up here: chstm.org/content/disability…
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Join @UB_History on Feb. 22nd at 4:15 PM on Zoom for a talk by Prof. Susan Burch, "Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions." This is an online only event. More info and registration: arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/hi… #UBuffalo @Middlebury
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Disability Studies/History friends, help us spread the word! @UB_History is hiring for TWO positions in the History of Health, Disability, and/or Science.
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It is so exciting to finally see my article, "Disability Reproductive Justice," in print in @PennLRev! Let me know if you want a copy.
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Check out this event sponsored by @utarlington with national disability rights activists about community attendants’ experiences and the fight for better wages! ASL and AI CART available, open to the public! Today 12 CST via Teams. Attend using this link: tinyurl.com/ADAPT-PACT-of-Te…
Check out this event sponsored by @utarlington with national disability rights activists about community attendants’ experiences and the fight for better wages! ASL and AI CART available, open to the public! April 6 via Teams. Attend using this link: tinyurl.com/ADAPT-PACT-of-Te…
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Join us on Feb 25th at 3 PM for a New Book Celebration in honor of Prof. Jenifer Barclay and her book, The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America! Prof. Barclay will be joined by Dr. Kim Nielsen to discuss her book. arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/hi… #UBuffalo
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"Academic historians have not done enough to root out anti-Asian sentiment on our own campuses," writes @Reversedview in #AHAPerspectives. AAPI students "encounter a spectrum of assumptions, comments, & practices that signal that they do not belong."historians.org/publications-…
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UB Center for Disability Studies retweeted
There’s lots of gear designed for wheelchair users to minimize the challenges of camping, including navigating uneven terrain and pitching a shelter. Here’s the @wirecutter guide to adaptive outdoor recreation equipment. nyti.ms/2PIqom4
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"Culture influences technological design. What happens, then, if we change our expectations? If we stop stigmatising disability and see beauty in difference?" - @jaivirdi psyche.co/ideas/lets-use-bol…
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The self-propelled “Merlin Chair” was designed by Belgian inventor John Joseph Merlin in the #18thc, had two bigger “driving wheels” attached to a propelling rail which the user could use to navigate the chair and a third smaller balancing wheel. #DisHist #histSTM
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UB Center for Disability Studies retweeted
12/5, 4 pm Pacific! Webinar on Disability Studies & #DisabilityVisibility with @DrSubini & @kudlick moderated by @SFdirewolf Co-organized by @LongmoreInst & @DisVisibility ASL & captioning provided Register: tinyurl.com/DisVisibilityStu… #DisStudies #OwnVoices
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Reporting on disability written & piblished in plain language!
Deeply proud of this. @ProPublica experiments with ultra-accessible plain language in stories about people with disabilities nie.mn/35gXmyL via @NiemanLab
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If you are interested in the histories of disabled people through the centuries and would like to learn more, follow the Disability History Association @DisabilityHistr for more! #Disabilityhistorymonth #DisHist #DisabilityHistoryMonth
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UB Center for Disability Studies retweeted
African-American print media like Jet presented the worlds and experiences of disabled Black people when they were often elided in mainstream media. For example, this 1999 piece featured Frank Senior (& his guide dog Grayson), who was suing a NY bus line for discrimination.