Written by Ella Cook I write long letters, teach with hope, embrace beautiful challengeseach word, each acta quiet revolution. There’s much progress to be made;roads unpaved, voices unheard. But roads we press forward. “There is no about us without us,We must listen to those who wish to teach”:a truth that resounds,a call we must answer.Continue reading “Beautiful Challenges”
Category Archives: The Classroom
Disability Institutionalization in the United States Gallery
Co-curated by Brenda Brueggemann and Hannah Dang Introduction and Outline of the Assignment: During the first four weeks of the “Disability in American Literature and Culture” course (ENGL / AMST 2274W) at the University of Connecticut, we focused on a collaborative learning adventure about disability institutionalization in the United States. As the concluding writing assignmentContinue reading “Disability Institutionalization in the United States Gallery”
Marriage, Self-Sufficiency, & Disability
Written by Madison Bigelow This slideshow presentation contains alt text descriptions for text and images present on each slide. Additionally, a full transcript of the slide text can be downloaded here: Author’s note: This presentation was originally created as a part of an annotation series for the “Doing Disability Studies in the Humanities” graduate courseContinue reading “Marriage, Self-Sufficiency, & Disability”
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)”
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””
Disability in Mythology
Written by Hannah Dang, with support from the DAC Team PROLOGUE: At the dawn of human civilization, people spun stories inside of their heads, shared orally, and then etched out in writing. The practice of creating and sharing stories to reflect the universe hasn’t disappeared since. It was only a matter of time until storiesContinue reading “Disability in Mythology”
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”
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