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Exploring Disability Studies in Turkey

Written by Elisa Shaholli, Mina Keleş, Sude Kılınç, Hayel Yelek, and Duru Urer Elisa: Instructor’s Introduction For the past six months, I’ve been living in Izmir, Türkiye as part of the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Program. For Fulbright, I’m completing the English Teaching Assistantship (more commonly known as the Fulbright ETA) where I’ve been placed atContinue reading “Exploring Disability Studies in Turkey”

Response to the New York Times: The Intersection Of Dance and Audio Description

Written by Madison Bigelow, with Support from the DAC Team In recent news, The New York Times published an article entitled “Hear the Dance: Audio Description Comes of Age,” meant to highlight the advances in accessibility that dance performances have experienced as of late. I really have a soft spot for dance– I grew upContinue reading “Response to the New York Times: The Intersection Of Dance and Audio Description”

“Separating” Race/Gender/Disability in Willow Weep for Me

Written by Madison Bigelow, with support from the DAC Team For my third annotation, I chose to borrow the race/gender/disability triangle that we worked with when reading Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom and apply it to Nana-Ama Danquah’s Willow Weep for Me. While I believe that it could have been reasonably assumed that withoutContinue reading ““Separating” Race/Gender/Disability in Willow Weep for Me”

Michael Orsini: Towards a Politics of Embodied Expertise (Social Movements, Knowledge, and Felt Politics)

Written by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC Team “Towards a Politics of Embodied Expertise Social Movements, Knowledge, and Felt Politics” Presented by Professor Michael Orsini, University of Ottawa Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:00–5:30 P.M. UConn Storrs Campus, Susan V. Herbst Hall, Room 408 The University of Connecticut’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies DepartmentContinue reading “Michael Orsini: Towards a Politics of Embodied Expertise (Social Movements, Knowledge, and Felt Politics)”

Boiled Owls: A Bittersweet Symphony of Addiction and Recovery

Written by Jaylee Cox with support from the DAC team “I am not a superhuman ball of lightning that is a mythic ideological construction of what cocaine is, the substance changes when the person taking it becomes a vessel for that substance” Azad Ashim Sharma, Boiled Owls, p. 37 With a diverse background in EnglishContinue reading “Boiled Owls: A Bittersweet Symphony of Addiction and Recovery”

Boiled Owls: A Poetry Reading by Azad Ashim Sharma

Written by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC Team Tuesday, April 2, 3:45-5:15 P.M. On a quiet Tuesday evening, Asian American writer and publisher Azad Ashim Sharma sits his audience members down for a small poetry reading at the Asian American Cultural Center (AsACC) on the fourth floor of UConn’s Student Union. As soonContinue reading “Boiled Owls: A Poetry Reading by Azad Ashim Sharma”

The Dance of the “Handicapped”

Written by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC Team The post covers an insight into the origins and the revival of a Korean traditional folk dance called the “Byeongsin chum” (literally the dance of the handicapped). Between the 1990s and early 2000s, South Korea sustained an exponential growth in popularity on an international scale dueContinue reading “The Dance of the “Handicapped””

DAC’s Statement on Linguistic Justice

Written by the DAC Blog Team We recognize that the field of Disability Studies has historically undervalued and underrepresented BIPOC and Multilingual perspectives, and that Disability Justice, Anti-racism, and Linguistic Justice are deeply interrelated. We recognize that all languages are complex, systematic modes of communication whether they are expressed through sign, touch, writing, or variationsContinue reading “DAC’s Statement on Linguistic Justice”

Two Shades of Yellow

Written by Sha Jameson for “Feminist Disability Studies” I live with two shades of yellowShade One came firstShade One was youngerShade One was more gullibleShade One was about 3 feetShade One stood outShade One was surrounded by other shades of yellowShade One gets mistaken for being 4 years old as an 8-year-oldShade One gets toldContinue reading “Two Shades of Yellow”

A Collection From “Feminist Disability Studies”

In the Fall 2023 course Feminist Disability Studies (WGSS 3257), students learned all about how disability is a social and political category, charted how some of the beginnings of the field of disability studies could be found in feminist scholarship, and how the merging and cross-pollination of feminist scholarship and disability studies has changed overContinue reading “A Collection From “Feminist Disability Studies””