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📚 New in our [LAT-STS Library]

“augmented: life and death as a cyborg” by Candi K. Cann ( @deathscholar.bsky.social ) rethinks death, technology, and disability through a cyborg lens. Open access!

🦿 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/ #Cyborg #DisabilityStudies #STS @mitpress.bsky.social
October 30, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Gaby Hanley-Mott has been the SDS Administrative Coordinator since April 2025. She is a Resident Associate at Binghamton University, where she received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology.

#DisabilityStudies
November 2, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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The Communications and Publications Committee is our fourth and final committee, but stay posted for one last special shoutout soon!

#DisabilityStudies #BoardOfDirectors
October 28, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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One week from today!
Learn about the work of the Society for Disability Studies and Disability Studies Quarterly this year, and celebrate our 2026 SDS Awardees, to be announced at the meeting.
Register via bit.ly/SDSGMM2026. #DisabilityStudies
October 30, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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VivaMente 2026: Final Programme

A deep dive into the history of deafness across the cultures and languages of the premodern Mediterranean!

👉Join us: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../deafness...

#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Disabilitystudies #Deafness #Mediterranean #premodern
October 26, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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Join us 10/27, 5:30–7pm at Brown for “Before Ablenationalism: Race, Disability, and Citizenship in Shakespeare and Early Modern English Law and Literature” with Penelope Geng on literature’s role in shaping ideas of mental capacity.
buff.ly/rriJyvF #DisabilityStudies
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October 26, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Stay posted for introductions to our final Board committee (plus a bonus shoutout) soon!

#DisabilityStudies #BoardOfDirectors
October 22, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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Over the subsequent years, I parted with one of these indulgent volumes only when I met someone who I thought would appreciate Bartleby. This was a HIGH BAR, incidentally. But eventually, I gave all but my copy away.
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Then this morning, while browsing #DisabilityStudies books,
October 20, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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The 2026-27 Disability Studies Lecture Series is back! 🎉💙

Join us via Zoom or in The Cog Neurodiversity Space in the John M. Pfau Library for this free program. 📚💻✨

#DisabilityStudies #Neurodiversity #HumanImpact
October 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social
My article "Disability and Queer Fiction" is now out in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. It reads Radclyffe Hall and Truman Capote on sexual inversion and the queer-crip body, and on queer fiction's unspoken ableism. doi.org/10.1093/9780... #DisabilityStudies #Queerlit #acwri
REFERENCE ARTICLE Disability and Queer Fiction Get access > Declan Kavanagh https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852668.003.0083 Published: 16 October 2026 66 Cite & Permissions . Share y Abstract This article traces the interconnections between disability and queerness in two early examples of the queer anglophone novel, namely Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness and Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms. The literary analysis that follows explores how early 20th-century authors such as Hall and Capote differently approached depictions of sexual inversion in their fiction in ways that signaled the invert body as freighted with crip cultural meaning. In analyzing the queer-crip bodies detailed by these writers under the banner of sexual inversion, this article recovers textual moments of resistance, allegiance, and generative transgression while also simultaneously holding space for the nonprogressive, negative, even ugly literary history of queer fiction's unspoken ableism.
October 18, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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Join us 10/27, 5:30–7pm at Brown for “Before Ablenationalism: Race, Disability, and Citizenship in Shakespeare and Early Modern English Law and Literature” with Penelope Geng on literature’s role in shaping ideas of mental capacity.
buff.ly/rriJyvF #DisabilityStudies
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October 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Announcing our 2027 Student Caucus CfP!

"Trojan Horses in the Machine: Subversion, Leverage, and Sowing Dissent from Within"

Submissions are due December 1! wgssouth.org/2027cfp

#AcademicSky #edusky #highered #genderstudies #dissent #gradstudents #wgs #disabilitystudies #lgbtq #womensstudies
October 19, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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#DisabilityStudies #Disability #AccessibleFashion #InclusiveDesign
October 15, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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Stay posted for introductions to our remaining two Board committees soon!

#DisabilityStudies #BoardOfDirectors
October 14, 2026 at 5:16 PM
ashleyshoo.bsky.social
A group at my workplace is doing disability simulation again. What are your favorite articles to share that explain the problems with disability simulation? I used to have a couple of great saved Twitter threads about it with links, but no more.

#DisabilityStudies #Disability
October 11, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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Captions, #BSL, #ASL. Shares findings from research at Princeton Theological Seminary & Manchester Met. We found churches often borrow capitalist ideals of the productive leader. Guests share their collaborative ways of leading & tell us what needs to change. #DisabilityStudies #DisabilityTheology
October 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
livedplaces.bsky.social
Wonderful to see Lived Places Publishing authors Emma Boswell and Annmaree Watharow sharing their important book in support of understanding #Ushersyndrome: livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97... #Disabilitystudies
October 9, 2026 at 2:32 PM
wgssouth.bsky.social
Announcing our 2027 Disability Caucus CfP!

"Tinkering, Maintaining, Hacking: Disability Wisdom for a Renewed Age of Fascism"
Submissions Due December 1, 2026

#disability #accessibility #disabilitystudies #highered #edusky #gradstudents #wgs #queerstudies #southernstudies #academicsky #wgssouth
Disability flag background with text reading, "Call for Papers | Tinkering, Maintaining, Hacking: Disability Wisdom for a Renewed Age of Fascism Submissions Due December 1, 2026" WGS South What wisdom does the lived experience of disability, madness, and chronic illness offer in a renewed age of fascism? “Disabled people are experts and designers of everyday life,” posit crip STS scholars Hamraie and Fritsch (2019) in their “Crip Technoscience Manifesto.” From smashing curbs to hacking assistive technology, disabled people have long been tinkering, making, and building more accessible worlds. Perhaps less flashy, but necessary, is the slow, everyday work of maintenance and care. When all we have is each other, what does the mundane, slow work of maintenance and care look like? What does it offer us? For the upcoming 2027 conference, the Disability Caucus invites scholars to submit papers, panels, and creative works that engage with this sub-theme of tinkering, maintaining, and hacking. We also broadly invite scholarship and creative works on the following related topics: - Histories of disability justice/activism under global fascism - Disability and the climate crisis - Feminist of color disability studies - Debility, immigration, and detention - Disability and the internet: AI slop, doomscrolling, and brain rot - Disability and higher ed - The intersection of trans studies and disability studies - Precarious labor, the gig economy, and disability - Surveillance and disability - MAHA, healthcare, and the ADA under Trump 2.0 Please submit any questions to Disability Caucus Chair, Anastasia Todd at Anastasia.todd@uky.edu. To join the Disability Caucus Google Group, visit: https://wgssouth.org/disability-caucus
October 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Hear from our Board of Directors and the Editor of Disability Studies Quarterly, and celebrate our 2026 SDS Awardees, to be announced at the meeting. CART and ASL will be provided. Open to all members.

Register via bit.ly/SDSGMM2026. #DisabilityStudies
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SDS General Membership Meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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October 9, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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Congratulations to CHRR affiliate Dr. Nancy Hansen for her appointment as Professor Emerita!

#umanitoba #disabilitystudies
Congratulations to CHRR affiliate Dr. Nancy Hansen for her appointment as Professor Emerita! Dr. Hansen’s research has explored disability history (eugenics and bioethics), geography of disability, disabled women’s issues, disabled people’s access to primary health care and disability and the media. #umanitoba #disabilitystudies
October 7, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Join us 10/27, 5:30–7pm at Brown for “Before Ablenationalism: Race, Disability, and Citizenship in Shakespeare and Early Modern English Law and Literature” with Penelope Geng on literature’s role in shaping ideas of mental capacity.
buff.ly/rriJyvF #DisabilityStudies
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October 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞

How were hearing, deafness & silent communication understood across premodern Societies?

Check the programme and register for this event: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/vivam...

#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #DisabilityStudies #Deafness
October 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM
disprecwork.bsky.social
The @brisunipress.bsky.social press.bsky.social Spring catalogue is out & includes Disabling Capitalism alongside Decolonizing Critical Management Studies & Self, Society and Economy! Out in Feb 2027 - paperback & open access
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/disabling-ca...
#Marxism #DisabilityStudies
printscreen of the 3 books mentioned in the post
October 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Stay posted for introductions to our other three Board committees soon!

#DisabilityStudies #BoardOfDirectors
October 1, 2026 at 5:11 PM
tenuretracker.bsky.social
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (@ucla.edu) is hiring:
Lecturer in Disability Studies

#lecturer #disabilitystudies
September 24, 2026 at 1:02 AM