Winter and Spring 2023

Crip Futures: Disability Culture at Dartmouth College 2023

Winter and Spring 2023

This is the spot for information and updates about the Disability Justice and Disability Studies events being held at Dartmouth College Winter and Spring 2023. These workshops, classes, lectures, and performances are all related to intersectional experiences of disability across race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

A series of Disability Culture events Winter and Spring 2023 at Dartmouth College

Upcoming programs and events:

Disability Justice Study Group Meetings

Image: original mixed media illustration by Ricardo Levins Morales. Loon with chicks riding on its back, in a canal with reeds on the bank: “Support those most vulnerable”
Image: original mixed media illustration by Ricardo Levins Morales
Interested in learning more about Disability Justice (DJ) and connecting with fellow students, faculty, and staff working toward undoing ableism at Dartmouth? Through collective study and discussion, we will develop and deepen our understanding of this intersectional, liberatory framework. 
Sponsored by DCAL and WGSS RSVP

Queer Disability Performance
Series

mage: Performer Pansy St. Battie exudes light as sun reflects off the mylar and metal of their outfit, makeup, and wheelchair. Photography by Xenia Curdova.
Image: Performer Pansy St. Battie exudes light as sun reflects off the mylar and metal of their outfit, makeup, and wheelchair. Photography by Xenia Curdova.
This series of performances and talks situated in the emergent field of queer disability studies, explores performance as a central lens with which to examine the impact of queer disability culture across time, space, language, and embodiment. The invited scholars and artists model deeply intersectional approaches to scholarship and art-making.
Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities
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Disability Pedagogy
Panels

Image: Watercolor painting by Jess Dorrance with a quote from Caleb Luna reads: “fatness of/in all its forms, the: pleasures of & resources in girth; resistance in breaking chairs, laws, borders, prisons & other oppressive technologies; joy of bein extra; transcendence of character limits & social norms; awe of what a body can be.” The text is embedded across a desert landscape the sky painted in muted pink and orange, while the hills are exuberant blues, pinks, and purples that suggest sunset and an emerging night. In the foreground, a vibrant green desert plant resiliently carves out space for itself as it reaches its fingers into the sky.
Image: Watercolor painting by Jess Dorrance with a quote from Caleb Luna reads: “fatness of/in all its forms, the: pleasures of & resources in girth; resistance in breaking chairs, laws, borders, prisons & other oppressive technologies; joy of bein extra; transcendence of character limits & social norms; awe of what a body can be.” 
Join us for two panels on Disability Pedagogy-- one panel of performance scholars and artists discussing pedagogy through the lens of Disability Justice and crip power and one that gathers faculty and staff across Dartmouth to investigate useful strategies for greater classroom access. 
Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Accessible Dartmouth Initiative

RSVP (To be added)

 

 

The goal of this series is to bring together scholars, artists, and activists to celebrate and unite around Disability Culture and to work for collective shifts toward Disability Justice.


 

Art by Rafi Ruffino Darrow for Sins Invalid

 

 

RSVP below for more information and event reminders!

 Contact Julia Havard at julia.havard@dartmouth.edu with questions.