The NYU Disability Council/Center for Disability Studies
Screening/Discussion
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- DEEJ
- (2017, 72 min; Robert Rooy and DJ Saverese)
- Screening followed by discussion with DJ Saverese
- 4-6 PM, Friday October 27, 2017
- 721 Broadway, Screening Room 006
Deej follows the remarkable journey of DJ (Deej) Savarese as he becomes the first nonspeaking autistic student at Oberlin College, providing an important first-hand perspective on neurodiversity and inclusion.
Robert Rooy and DJ share editorial control and the challenges of representing autism.
Co-Sponsors: Anthropology; Center for Media, Culture & History; Tisch Film & TV, NYU Connections
Panel/Book Dialogue
Jasbir Puar
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (Duke, 2017)
- Join author Jasbir Puar and panelists
- Liat Ben-Moshe (University of Toledo),
- André Lepecki (Performance Studies),
- Helga Tawil-Souri (MCC/Kevorkian),
- & Hentyle Yapp (Art & Public Policy)
- November 3, Friday 5 to 6:30 pm
- Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality
- 285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor
Sponsor:
Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality,
Co-Sponsor:
Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, & Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies
Lecture/ Book Celebration
Lydia X. Z. Brown
All the Weight of our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism
Friday, November 17, 2017 4-6 PM
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 20 Cooper Square, 4th floor
Lydia X. Z. Brown (Visiting Lecturer at Tufts University), is a gender/queer and transracially/transnationally adopted east asian autistic activist, writer, and speaker.
In collaboration with E. Ashkenazy and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Lydia is the lead editor and visionary behind All the Weight of Our Dreams, a new anthology by autistic people of color.
Co-Sponsors:
Anthropology; Asian/Pacific/American Institute; Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies; Social and Cultural Analysis