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October 2019
Book Launch and Discussion: Bodyminds Reimagined
Join us in celebration of Dr. Sami Schalk's Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction. The book traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. A reception will follow. Co-sponsored by: The Center for the Study…
Find out more »Touch This Page @ NYU Bobst: opening reception
Touch This Page Thursday, October 10th, 4pm to 5:30pm | NYU Bobst Library TOUR + RECEPTION 4-5:30pm, Mamdouha Bobst Gallery, 70 Washington Square South EXHIBITION runs the month of October, Bobst Library Atrium. “Touch This Page! Making Sense of the Ways We Read” is an exhibition about multisensory experiences of reading. Its central objects are 3D replicas from historical books for blind and low-vision readers printed between 1830 and 1910. The exhibition, co-directed by Sari Altschuler (Northeastern University) and David…
Find out more »Screening Disabilities
Screening Disabilities: When I Walk & When We Walk with Margaret Mead Film Festival, American Museum of Natural History, 79th and Central Park West. Two films by Jason DaSilva: 12:30pm When I Walk (2013, 85 mins) / 2:30pm When We Walk (2019, 78 min) Documentaries by filmmaker/disability activist Jason DaSilva reveal the possibilities and politics of living with disability. Talkback with director DaSilva. Tickets* here *NYU students, professors and staff are entitled to a discounted ticket. Contact faye.ginsburg@nyu.edu for information.…
Find out more »December 2019
Radical Visibility: Sky Cubacub of Rebirth Garments
Sky Cubacub is a non-binary queer and disabled Filipinx human from Chicago, IL. Their clothing line, Rebirth Garments, challenges mainstream beauty standards through centering queer and disabled people of all sizes, ethnicities and ages. They maintain the notion of Radical Visibility, a celebratory resistance, highlighting the parts of us that society typically shuns, a movement based on claiming our bodies; through the use of bright colors, exuberant fabrics and innovative designs, they refuse to assimilate and are spearheading a…
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