Very important piece in today’s student-run Spectrum newspaper: ubspectrum.com/article/2019/…
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/…
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…
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
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.
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…
A wonderful write up on Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new book, The Mark of Slavery! Be sure to join us for a celebration of her important work on Friday, Feb 25. Registration link below. buffalo.edu/news/releases/20…
You can register for the book celebration here: arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/hi…
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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
A review of #CODAfilm by @UB_History student Danielle Redfield today at @nursingclio! wp.me/p6hgwQ-7wz
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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-…
Check out this article by UB CDS post doc Shuko Tamao today in @AHAhistorians #AHAPerspectives! historians.org/publications-… @Reversedview
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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
"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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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

ALT Promotional graphic for the event "Disability Studies & Disability Visibility" featuring Dr. Subini Annamma, Dr. Catherine Kudlick, and Alice Wong. For more info visit tinyurl.com/DisVisibilityStudies There are headshots of each person and they are all smiling at the camera. The graphic has a multicolor border
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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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.



















