CSJ: Disability Justice Winter Reading Group - Meeting #3

Location

Online

Date & Time

January 24, 2022, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Description

This year, CSJ: Disability Justice + Access Matters invites our campus community to learn from a perspective of disability justice so that we can continue to make space for everybody and every body now and in the future. Learn more about the Critical Social Justice: Disability Justice + Access Matters theme here.For more CSJ events, check out our website and myUMBC. For more information about upcoming events or to inquire about collaboration, please email the Women’s Center at womenscenter@umbc.edu.

From November to January, the Women's Center is hosting our Critical Social Justice: Disability Justice Reading Group. All of our readings will be sent out each month and participants are invited to join us for monthly discussions!

The topic of our third and final meeting is "Dreaming Disability Utopias." In this selection, we will explore the radical, transformational perspective that disability justice offers. In activating our creativity and our own curiosity, we will think about the latent possibility in disabled utopia.

Sky Cubacub, “Radical Visibility A Disabled Queer Clothing Reform Movement Manifesto,” published in Disability Visibility, 2020 (scan available here on Box)
Patricia Berne, Jamal T. Lewis, Stacey Milbern, Malcolm Shanks, Alok Vaid-Menon and Alice Wong, “Beauty always recognizes itself,” published in Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1/2, 2018 (PDF available here on Box or via JSTOR)
Mia Mingus, "Access Intimacy, Interdependence, and Disability Justice," 2017, originally published and available on Mia Mingus’s personal blog Leaving Evidence
Stacey Park Milbern, "On the Ancestral Plane: Crip Hand Me Downs,” 2019, originally published and available on the Disability Visibility Project blog Links and full schedule available via Google Doc here.

CSJ 2022: January Reading Club Discussion Monday, January 24, 2022 · 1:00 – 2:00pm

This discussion group will be hosted through Google Meet. If this platform presents accessibility challenges for you, please be in touch so we can consult on the best ways to make this experience accessible for you.

Please note: UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all students, staff, faculty, and visitors. If you have difficulties accessing any of the materials on our site or any of our events or discussions, please contact us so that we can provide an alternative format and/or remedy any accessibility challenges.