Intimacy Violation: screening of a work-in-progress film by Yining Chi, followed by a participatory performance around audio description led by the artist and a discussion moderated by Meesh Sara Fradkin. Thursday, April 24, 7-9pm @ Come Forever + Zoom "Intimacy Violation is a video essay that explores the intersections of disability, kinship, trust, and authority […]
Thursday, April 24th at 8pm, at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater, ISSUE is proud to present AIR CHANGE PER HOUR, the first commission from 2025 Artist-In-Residence Anna RG that interrogates relationships between sound, space, and accessibility in the context of airborne safety. Rooted in the ongoing realities of the pandemic, this work challenges expectations of […]
Tuesday, 29 April, 4-6PM Espacio de Culturas at KJCC 53 Washington Square South Please join The Center for Disability Studies, and book editors Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp to celebrate the publication of How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic with refreshments and brief readings by some of the book's authors. […]
Wednesday, April 30th At 12:30pm 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Flex Space David Serlin in conversation with Mara Mills and Sophie Gonick. Moderated by Andrew Ross. Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with […]
Friday 16, May, 2025 1pm-2:30pm (Zoom) The editors of the volume “Crip Authorship: Disability as Method”, Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, have brought together a variety of disabled positions on the topic of “authorship”: The contributions ask how disability and authorship are aesthetically and structurally connected and influence each other. Together with some of the […]
Saturday, 21 June 2025 V&A South Kensington Join us for an afternoon of talks, a screening, and a workshop exploring disability, authorship, and access at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Contributors to Crip Authorship—a 2024 CHOICE Reviews Outstanding Academic Title—will share their work on how disability can shape the way we write, communicate, […]
Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 6 - 7:30 PM Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library 40 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011 As part of Disability Pride Month, essayists Aiyuba Thomas, Chancey Fleet, and Harris Kornstein, all featured in a new book, How to be Disabled in a Pandemic , discuss their experiences with […]
NYU Center for Disability Studies is honored to co-present a screening of the Sundance-award winning documentary LIFE AFTER at NYC’s Film Forum on July 23 at 7:10pm introduced by Mara Mills. Join us and stay for a talkback with director Reid Davenport, disability activist & author Emily Ladau and comedian Maysoon Zayid. If you […]
Authors' Roundtable: ‘How To Be Disabled In A Pandemic’ Wed, September 03 10:40 AM - 12:30 PM Second Floor: Cedar B Sheraton Grand, Space Tower Roundtable Chair, Harris Kornstein, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona Presenter, Marika Cifor, PhD, The University of Washington Presenter, Nadia Naomi Mbonde, Doctoral Candidate, NYU Presenter, Mara Mills, Professor, New […]
How can feminist-of-color disability politics help us navigate contemporary crises of care and decimated social safety nets? Join Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim for a discussion of Jina's new book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025), which examines the imaginative work of disabled, queer, […]