Please join us on Thursday, February 12 from 4 - 5pm ET on Zoom for a book talk with author Rachel Kolb and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Emory University)! More info and registration: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This was such a great event that this crip-of-colour writer needs to encourage folx to order Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing by the brilliant Professor Jina B. Kim: www.dukeupress.edu/care-at-the-...

Tomorrow! The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability Book Launch, 6:00–7:30 PM ET @ Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor & Zoom. register for irl or url here: mailchi.mp/nyu/document... @p8ja.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow for the first event of the term, with Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim! @drsamischalk.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

Our first event of the semester, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing with @drsamischalk.bsky.social and Jina B. Kim, will take place on Thursday, September 11, 4-5:30PM EST @ Zoom. Register here: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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.

Come by next Saturday if you are interested in crip authorship, including histories of subtitling, visual description and plain language writing workshop. Co-hosted with @center4ds.bsky.social

Learn more about the book, co-edited with @maramills.bsky.social, Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp, published by @nyupress.bsky.social (and part of a @center4ds.bsky.social project!). More info and free open-access edition: nyupress.org/978147983085...

White House rhetoric dehumanizes disabled communities, but activists continue to organize for access, care and justice.

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...

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...

I'm giving a new talk on *"Subtitles on Fire"* at the V&A for the Design and Disability show. Featuring a screening of *Captioning and Captioning* — celebrating all things crip authorship with @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez #DesignAndDisability www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...

On this day in 2020, we lost Stacey Park Milbern, a fierce advocate and activist who taught us about disability justice, love, organizing, and so much more. Spend a moment today with some of her most important works here: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/05/23/s...

Join us on Friday at 1PM EST for a panel on Crip Authorship: Disability as Method with Kelsie Acton, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, @jaivirdi.com, Rebecca Sanchez, and @maramills.bsky.social, who will delve into the books' central theme of translation. Livestream here: us02web.zoom.us/j/8588092479...

Tomorrow!

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

Next week!

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.

We miss you, Jonathan Sterne 💔

Tomorrow!

CDS is also excited to cosponsor IPR's first commission from 2025 Artist-In-Residence Anna RG.

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...

Please join us for the Remote Access Archive Launch Party with @criticaldesignlab.bsky.social on April 22, 12:30-2PM @ Zoom. Register here: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

So proud to share this project that I've been working on for almost five years, alongside @maramills.bsky.social, Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp (via @center4ds.bsky.social and @nyupress.bsky.social): 'How To Be Disabled In A Pandemic.'

"How to be Disabled in a Pandemic," a chronicle of ableism and disability activism in NYC, is out today! This volume remembers those we lost, celebrates the resilience of survivors, and calls for systemic change that endures beyond crisis. Featuring our scholars from the @center4ds.bsky.social

CDS has several co-sponsored events coming up this month with the New York History of Science Lecture Series, NYU Center for Media, Culture & History, and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. See our calendar for more info: disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/events/

How to be Disabled in a Pandemic is a collective research effort (w/ @harriskornstein.bsky.social among many others) to document ableism & disability activism in NYC during the first 4 years of COVID-19. Out next month from @nyupress.bsky.social -- a surprise of advance copies in yesterday's mail:

Excited to officially announce a new book series for Johns Hopkins University Press, on Disability in the History of Science, Technology & Medicine! Series editors are Mara Mills, Wayne Tan, and myself. We're open for submissions! See link for more info. #histSTM #Disability #DisHist #Academia

CDS is so excited share our new logo, created by Jules Galbraith. The logo is in homage to Alt Text as Poetry blue and Derek Jarman's Blue (IKB).