2025

Kevin Gotkin has been dialed into disability worlds since 2012 as an access ecologist, teacher, writer, artist, and scholar. Before joining the Center for Disability Studies as a Postdoctoral Fellow in September 2025, they led disability economic justice initiatives as Artist-Organizer with Creatives Rebuild New York. From 2016 – 2019, they helped cultivate a broad platform for […]

A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. Among those hardest hit by the pandemic, disability communities across the five boroughs have been disproportionately