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”
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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.””
Crip Camp Zoomed In
Written by Allison Kogut, a UConn student, with support from the DAC team At approximately 00:32:17 in “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution,” a group of campers have a conversation about how they are treated by their parents. In the 1960’s and before, disabled people were rarely mixed with nondisabled people on a day-to-day basis. Therefore,Continue reading “Crip Camp Zoomed In”
Video Reading Annotation of “Feeling My Way Into Blindness” by Edward Hoagland
Written by Allison Kogut, a UConn student, with support of the DAC team Presenting “Feeling My Way Into Blindness” by Edward Hoagland was a transformation into a blind eighty year old man. From my experience interacting with men around that age, I can practically hear the dry, sarcastic humor and whimsical reminiscence. Of course, withoutContinue reading “Video Reading Annotation of “Feeling My Way Into Blindness” by Edward Hoagland”
Motherhood & Disability
Presentation by Allison LeMaster, a UConn student, with support from the DAC team
William Hay and The Hmong
Written by Max Soroka, a UConn student, with support from the DAC team Context: While taking the advanced seminar in Disability Documentary and Narrative at the University of Connecticut we had numerous opportunities to connect the literary works we were exploring. I wrote the following piece in response to a prompt asking to compare andContinue reading “William Hay and The Hmong”
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