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  • Three people against gray wall. Sky Cubacub on the left wears pink and blue scalemaille headpiece, chainmaille crop top with shoulder and reflective clear/white scalemaille details and sleeveless bodysuit colorblocked with neon colors and black-and-white triangle pattern with handmade wrestling boots in silver and turquoise. Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project is sitting in power wheelchair in middle and has a knit pink hat, using a ventilator, and black-and-white zigzag leggings with the seams on the outside, hooded cape with teal and orange colorblocking. Nina Litoff on far right kneels down, wearing a black chainmaille chestpiece with a black sheer tank dress with a chevron piece over their chest and a black and silver holo skirt under. All three wear colorful makeup and look directly at the camera.

    Radical Visibility: Sky Cubacub of Rebirth Garments

    16 Cooper Square, Studio 16 Cooper Square, New York, NY, United States

    **Venue update: 16 Cooper Square, Studio, Center for Ballet and the Arts** PERFORMANCE followed by DISCUSSION facilitated by Prof. Kevin Gotkin, NYU MCC & DANT Instead of a typical stoic runway, Rebirth Garments hosts fashion performances that feature local models of all sizes and ages who identify as Queer and/ or Crip including apparent and […]

  • Sick and Tender: Sini Anderson and Amy Berkowitz in Conversation

    8th Floor Commons 239 Greene Street, New York, NY, United States

    Sick and Tender: Sini Anderson and Amy Berkowitz in Conversation Monday, February 24th 239 Greene Street, 8th Floor Commons   Presented by the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture Co-Sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies and the NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication 239 Greene Street, 8th Floor Commons, 6:30 to 8:30 (access via […]

  • Talking Books and the History of Aural Speed Reading

    Bobst Library 745 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United States

    Mara Mills, "Talking Books and the History of Aural Speed Reading" Thursday, February 27th at 6:00pm Bobst Library, Room 745 Speech gained momentum in television and radio broadcasting in the 1970s, after the commercialization of "time compressors" that allowed tape recordings to be accelerated without any change in pitch. This talk will discuss the cultural […]

  • CANCELLED | Reading/Book Talk: Ralph Savarese, The Body Is a Big Sagacity

    8th Floor Commons 239 Greene Street, New York, NY, United States

    In light of the university's response to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled.   Thursday March 12,4-6 PM,  239 Greene Street, 8th floor commons Ralph Savarese (Grinnell College) The Body Is a Big Sagacity: Reading Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony with Autist Jamie Burke From:  See it Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers and the Schooling of […]

  • CANCELLED Screening/Discussion: Code of the Freaks

    19 University Place First floor theater 19 University Place, First floor theater (102), New York, NY, United States

    With apologies, this event has been cancelled. Friday April 3, 4-6 PM,  19 University Place, First floor theater (102)  Code of the Freaks (Salome Chasnoff, 2020, 68 min.) Taking its title from Tod Browning’s classic film, this radical reframing of how characters with disabilities are represented looks at a century of Hollywood favorites with a […]

  • CANCELLED Screening/Discussion: Perfectly Normal for Me

    20 Cooper Square, 2nd floor event space 20 Cooper Square, 2nd Floor Event Space, New York, NY, United States

    Thursday April 23rd,   5-7 PM 20 Cooper Square, 2nd floor Commons CANCELLED Perfectly Normal for Me (Catherine Tambini, 2018, 50 min)  Post-screening discussion: Director Catherine Tambini, producer Elizabeth Hemmerdinger, and dancers/protagonists Veronica Siaba and Kathleen Downes Alexandria, Jake, Caitlin and Veronica, ages 5 to 15, want to change the conversation. They reveal in their own […]

  • CANCELLED Touch This Page: Closing Reception at NYU Tandon

    Bern Dibner Library 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    EXHIBITION on view for the Spring 2020 semester. CLOSING RECEPTION 4pm to 5:30pm on 5/10. Bern Dibner Library, NYU Tandon (5 MetroTech Center) “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 […]

  • Film Screening and Discussion: Disability, Documentary, and Description

    Film Screening and Discussion: Disability, Documentary, and Description Thursday, May 7th, 7 to 9pm Image description: A white woman with shoulder length blonde hair covering one eye, sits, looking down and wearing a polka-dotted raincoat. To the side of her is a hand-held mirror that reflects her hand and some coins. A caption appears on […]

  • Virtual Event | Reading/Book Talk: Nadina LaSpina, Such a Pretty Girl

    Friday May 15th, 4-5:30 PM,  Zoom - RSVP for link and to provide access requests Disability rights activist Nadina LaSpina will read from her memoir Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride, which describes her journey to find a place for herself in an ableist world. The reading will be followed […]

  • Judy Heumann in Conversation with Simi Linton

    NYU Center for Disability Studies The ACLS Scholars & Society Program NYU Big Ideas Series co-sponsors The NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative A reading and conversation with disability rights activist and author Judy Heumann in conversation with Simi Linton Reading from her 2020 memoir, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights […]