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Midnight Run Annotation

Written by Troy Guidone, with support from the DAC Team The image above is linked to a magazine with a feature story about one of my uncles who runs “The Midnight Run,” or maybe better put: “The Midnight Sandwich Run.” There is no running, however, and it doesn’t take place at midnight. But it isContinue reading “Midnight Run Annotation”

Baseball and the Deaf Community Annotation

Written by Troy Guidone, with support from the DAC Team In the summer of 2023, I had the pleasure to meet Brenda Brueggemann and the opportunity to take her class Disability Narratives at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. An ongoing part of the class was an assignment Brenda was trying for the firstContinue reading “Baseball and the Deaf Community Annotation”

The Erasure of Racially-Diverse Identities in US Media: Exploring “White-Washing” in the Disability Community

Written by Hannah Dang, with support from the DAC Team What is an “identity?” As I’ve come to quickly understand, the world — and the people living in it — likes their labels. Our races, ethnicities, nationalities, sexualities, gender identities, and even our species, homo-sapiens, have a place in Earth’s family tree. But I haveContinue reading “The Erasure of Racially-Diverse Identities in US Media: Exploring “White-Washing” in the Disability Community”

News Chat: A Classroom Activity for Disability Studies

Written by Psyche Ready, with support of the DAC team. This essay is about the “News Chat,” an assignment I developed a few years ago that was an unexpectedly amazing addition to a class I’m teaching now at UConn, “Disability in American Literature. The News Chat assignment is simple: find a news article on aContinue reading “News Chat: A Classroom Activity for Disability Studies”

MTS @ Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Exhibition

Written by Madison Bigelow and Ashten Vassar-Cain, with support of the DAC team. On October 18th, the Mansfield Training School-UConn Memorial Project team presented research at the University of Connecticut’s Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Exhibition. Led by Ally LeMaster and Lillian Stockford, and assisted by Ashten Carter and Madison Bigelow, members of the team sharedContinue reading “MTS @ Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Exhibition”

NEWSFLASH: Disabilities Don’t Grant Superpowers

Written by Hannah Dang, with support from the DAC Team What kid hasn’t dreamed of being a superhero? Yes, playing with Disney Princesses and Barbie Dolls was fun, but watching superheroes was perhaps one of my favorite parts of childhood. If I became tired of romance stories and pretending to be a world-class fashion designer,Continue reading “NEWSFLASH: Disabilities Don’t Grant Superpowers”

In response to Laurie Anderson’s “A Story about a Story”

Written by Madison Bigelow, with support from the DAC Team I happen to think a lot about writing. And storytelling. This could very easily be the English student in me, but I’ve forever been fascinated by how people tell stories (and in particular, their own) – how inclusions, omissions, and perspectives not only articulate theContinue reading “In response to Laurie Anderson’s “A Story about a Story””

Generational Melancholia

Written by Paula Mock, with support from the DAC team Content Warnings: Suicide, institutional abuse/trauma, details of mental health diagnoses “Well, you know your great-grandmother had been in an institution in the fifties, right?” My uncle Erich, my mom, and I were sitting around in Erich’s living room, surrounded by fancy furniture and glass figurinesContinue reading “Generational Melancholia”

18 Models of Disability

Presentation by Kelly Coons, with support from the DAC team Creator’s Statement: This video, created for an annotation assignment in ENGL / WGSS 6750 – Doing Disability Studies in the Humanities, aims to distill 18 models of disability through the lens of a question and answers segment. There is a dash of parody targeted atContinue reading “18 Models of Disability”

“The Mansfielder” and the Publicity Machine

Written by Ally LeMaster, with support from the DAC team When I arrived on my second day of our archival visits at the Connecticut State Library, I felt like an archaeologist who exhumed only a few miscellaneous bones of an entire body. I spent my time in between archival visits scouring old Hartford Courant articles, watching videosContinue reading ““The Mansfielder” and the Publicity Machine”