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”
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“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”
El Deafo; The Hero My Younger Self Needed
Written by Sarah Elizabeth Goodwin, with support from the DAC team When I was five years old, I failed the regular hearing test the school gave to all the kindergarteners, and my strange accent and way of speaking suddenly made sense. My parents whisked me away from doctor to doctor until we ended up atContinue reading “El Deafo; The Hero My Younger Self Needed”
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”
“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”
Poetry of the Institution – A Closer Look of MacNamara’s Poetics
Written by Madison Bigelow, with support from the DAC team During Summer 2023, the entire research team co-authored a blogpost with our own reflections on Superintendent Roger D. MacNamara’s analysis of the Mansfield Training School closure in 1993, titled “The Mansfield Training School Is Closed: The Swamp Has Finally Been Drained.” Warmly referred to byContinue reading “Poetry of the Institution – A Closer Look of MacNamara’s Poetics”
Our “Caws” for Disability Representation were Answered: A Review of the Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo and Netflix’s Hit Adaptation, “Shadow and Bone.”
Written by Hannah Dang, with support from the DAC team (The following image was found under the use of the Creative Commons license. It is a promotional poster of the Netflix adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse book series “Shadow and Bone,” “King of Scars,” and “Six of Crows” featuring Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov,Continue reading “Our “Caws” for Disability Representation were Answered: A Review of the Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo and Netflix’s Hit Adaptation, “Shadow and Bone.””
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