Thinking of Sharon Kowalski today and saw that she died in October 2023. She and her partner Karen Thompson were such forces in the queer and disability worlds of the 80s/90s. I don't see many markers of her passing online. Remembering Sharon Kowalski: www.danielfuneralhome.com/obit/sharon-...

NYU’s Center for Disability Studies is honored to co-present a screening of the Sundance-award winning documentary LIFE AFTER at NYC’s Film Forum on July 23 at 7:10pm.

"... I am honored to join the Mellon Foundation as a senior fellow. Together, we will work to strengthen the public knowledge ecosystem and ensure that the transformative power of information remains accessible to all..." - Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress

ASAN mourns the loss of Patricia "Patty" Berne, co-founder of Sins Invalid and a trailblazing leader in the Disability Justice movement. #PattyLivesThroughUs

tomorrow! (hybrid)

Labs for Liberation are running a great program of learning and engagement this summer!

With an excerpt from How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press 2025). Wisdom and disability expertise from my many coauthors: a collective of disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and nondisabled scholars, students, activists, lawyers, journalists, artists and librarians.

Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT

Many congratulations to the excellent @ndkane.bsky.social for what looks like a terrific new exhibition at the V&A and this glowing review of it www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Our June issue is now live! It kicks off with a forum on Media and Fascism, featuring a star-studded list of contributors. Get started with this introduction by forum editors @paulachak.bsky.social and @ajbauer.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/ccc/article-...

‼️(THREAD) Today, Chairman Harris openly said that cuts in the House Appropriations proposal are only the FIRST STEP in cutting WIC fruit and vegetable benefits by up to 75%. 🗣️🗣️🗣️ We MUST oppose this. >> bit.ly/nocuts26

Today! ADA at 35: Navigating Accessibility in the Hybrid Interior from 6-8PM at Center for Architecture and Zoom! calendar.aiany.org/2025/06/02/a...

Crip Authorship comes to the V&A! Pleased to host @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez on 21st June for a special event with @louhicky.bsky.social Kelsie Acton and Georgina Kleege. Tickets to the in person event and workshop here, online stream below: www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...

So excited for your talk, Louise! (And to see you in person again after WAY too long.)

Congratulations Patrick! No doubt, the first of many honors for this groundbreaking book on disability, labor, and performance:

Made it to Carolyn Lazard's Two-Way at Artists Space before the exhibition closed: two experimental films about race, childbirth, and healthcare, set in the Elmhurst Hospital simulation center. (Both are fictional: one is a fictional documentary, the other is a documentary of a medical simulation.)

excited to (remotely) participate in Kampnagel's Performative Book Fair again. The fair opened this year with a talk by Sami Schalk on disability in Octavia Butler's Kindred: kampnagel.de/en/productio...

so excited to pay a studio visit to Finnegan Shannon at EFA today! www.studios-efanyc.org/member-artists

Missing grant money? Found it! It looks like the remaining grant funds for FY2025 have been reallocated here. We have nothing good to say about this. www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...

having been on the advisory committee for one small part of this project, I can attest that it's an essential resource. Check out the timeline page to see how immigration, race, and disability segregation--& protest--are interwoven in the history of NYC schools: nyccivilrightshistory.org/timeline/

As usual I loved the gorgeous sound descriptions by @charleseppley.bsky.social last night at Air Change Per Hour, Anna RG's sold out performance at ISSUE on sound & accessibility "in the context of airborne safety." Compositions sculpted from air filter sounds, the breath of sick artists, and more.

This Thursday, April 24 @ 7PM we are co-sponsoring Intimacy Violation: a film screening and performance by Yining Chi. At Come Forever in Williamsburg and Zoom! Register here: disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/intima...

We can't wait to celebrate the accomplishments of HTBDIAP co-editors at their launch party next week! Join @center4ds.bsky.social for an evening of refreshments and select readings. Check out the event details here: buff.ly/GTOlhfi

Never received a notification, but logging into the NEH portal, I see Warning: FULL: Administrative Termination. The book has been drafted & we will definitely be writing in our introduction about the irony of having a peer-reviewed project discussing Neuralink (among other co's) defunded by DOGE.

RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

Next week!

My NEH grant was terminated in service of a new focus on “patriotic programming,” but as an American and an Americanist, I know that resisting this dangerous decision and the broader movement of which it is a part is my patriotic duty. Wrote abt it @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1936...

Tonight at NYU MCC, the one and only Karen Tongson (our annual LeBoff Scholar):

What, what?! Mara Mills on the art of Christine Sun Kim (with a nice shout out to Patrick's Disability Works)!

If you are in New York, go see the survey of Kim's work at the Whitney!

Thanks to all who showed up to All Day All Night on zoom and in person at @whitney.org, and @christine.lol for joining the Q&A after the reading! Credit to the photographer Filip Wolak.

And thank *you* for creating this DS channel on New Books Network, Clayton!

I was so glad aperture magazine asked me to write about Alice Wong (the *other* Alice Wong, who is an artist at Creative Growth) for their current issue on "Photography & Painting." I got to think about overpainting as a disability aesthetic: aperture.org/magazines/ap...

Next week is the deadline to apply for the AAS seminar on “Sex, Gender, and Print”—led by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein, with guest speakers Emily A. Owens, Kathryn Walkiewicz, and Christopher Looby. Apply by April 4. Link in comments!

Jonathan always laughed when I called him "my dear friend." My dear friend,

Kinetic Light on "Why We Withdrew from our Kennedy Center Residency": mailchi.mp/f199b685559f...

Reflecting on the history of intellectual disability education as we hear of the dismantling of DOE and a Secretary of Education who doesn't even know what IDEA stands for (Indivs w/ Disabilities Education Act).

Excited to announce All Day All Night: A Conversation with Seth Kim-Cohen, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield, Park McArthur, and Mara Mills on Friday, 21 March, 4-5:30PM @ Zoom + the Whitney. More info and registration here: mailchi.mp/nyu/alldayal...

At the fifth-year anniversary of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the editors of How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic consider the lessons we have not yet learned.

grateful to the NEH Office of Digital Humanities for a collaborative "dangers and opportunities of technology" grant to study cochlear implants and brain implants, including those created by Musk's Neuralink. Will be filling out this survey:

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Although COVID-19 was certainly circulating earlier in NYC, and disability activists had already begun organizing teach-ins & mutual aid events, official recognition of the emergency from the NY governor and NYC mayor took place 5 years ago this week.

The fact that “mental health” is on the Trump administration’s list of banned words and phrases really says it all doesn’t it?

It's been really lovely to join the team at Catalyst: Feminism Theory Technoscience journal as an Associate Editor in Production and Design. What a lovely crew! We have a call out for papers and Cover art for our 10Y anniversary issue (on pedagogical reflections) catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...

I studied biology at UCSC and moved into STS b/c of Donna Haraway's work and encouragement. Would love to be at a rally in her presence right now: