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🫐PhD student in Anthropology 🫒filmmaker 🥑director of The Cat that Lives in Your Dreams 🌶️Disability Activist/Scholar 🍓Channelling Zora 24/7
"After rotting away for 20 years in the institution, life feels like hell.... I just want to be able to go see the mountains and fields" Gi-ock, Ju, the only female member of the Marronnier Eight (a group of disabled activists who in 2009 led a South Korea’s deinstitutionalization movement)
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“Autism tends to make mothers go all in, hoping their child will get better somehow. They spend everything on therapy and treatment — I’ve even seen families sell their houses to cover the costs. So there are many households that have become poor because of it.” -A mother of an autistic child
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#asian_women #disabilities #cute #fetish #infantilization #asia #korea #autism
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Compared to Jun-Dec 2023 when Yoon was president, SADD has tripled their subway protests in same 6 month period this year. They are demanding President Lee Jae-myung, who has identified himself as partially disabled, to come to the table to negotiate SADD's requests. www.chosun.com/national/nat...
19.12.2025 20:46 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Honored that my documentary *The Cat That Lives in Your Dreams* is nominated for **Best Documentary** at the **International Film Festival Manhattan Online 2025** 🎥🐈
📅 ~Dec 20
🌏 Watch here: watch.eventive.org/iffmnyconlin...
#IFFMNYCOnline2025 #TheCatThatLivesInYourDreams #DocumentaryFilm
@seung.bsky.social ‘s quote on accessibility rights for person with disabilities in public transportation (read more here: www.substack-bahn.net/p/seoul-metr...
19.12.2025 20:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Amazing news! The Cat that Lives in Your Dreams was just selected by New York International Women Festival via FilmFreeway.com!
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A handwoven piece of blanket in the color of abalone with fringes on the bottom hung on two pieces of wire from the ceiling
guide.moaubc.yourcultureconnect.com/e/everyone-s...
06.12.2025 22:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“ableism is a socially constructed complex
system of disempowerment which intersects with, and is just as pervasive
as, other systems of oppression.” -Angel L. Miles, Akemi Nishida, and Anjali J. Forber‑Pratt.
A light blue infographic with the "Society for Disability Studies" logo at the top. At the bottom, a comic of three people in Zoom windows extending orange hearts to a central box. Post reads, "This Giving Tuesday, support Disability Studies Quarterly!"
This Giving Tuesday, support Disability Studies Quarterly!
Donate via the SDS PayPal page here: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
#DisabilityStudies #GivingTuesday #DisabilitySky
Six disabled anthropologists pose in front of a screen showing another person in a Zoom room
AAA roundtable for The Disabled Anthropologist: Erin L. Durban, Sumi Colligan, Valerie Black (on screen), Anna Jaysane-Darr, Krisjon Olsen, Alana Ackerman, and Kim Fernandes (missing Megan Moodie who also joined by Zoom)
29.11.2025 18:48 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0In Red Skin, White Masks, UBC political scientist Glen Coulthard notes capitalism is based on theft: a theft of time (extracting value from labour) & a theft of land (dispossessing original owners). This idea of capitalism as theft unsettles any idea of ethical investment within capitalism.
25.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0This and other atrocities can be tracked at the substack of the amazing @emilybass.bsky.social
26.11.2025 20:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The book is officially out today! I can't wait to return to Chicago and hold my copy in hand! @socmedanthro.bsky.social
05.04.2025 04:13 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 2
In case this of interest, a short piece from the "Dispatches" section of our project at GWU, "Rituals in the Making." Dispatches are short vignettes or essays derived from our research.
ritualsinthemaking.com/2023/06/26/a...
While Alice has become an ancestor, her work continues! If you want to share her wisdom with others, you can purchase copies of her books for your local library, share her dazzling array of digital media from DVP, or donate to her legacy fund: www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...
15.11.2025 23:59 — 👍 57 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 0
Frequent flyer: photo of Erin, a white genderqueer person with short brown hair and professor glasses, inside of an airport. I’m wearing a tag for people with hidden disabilities.
Cover of The Sexual Politics of Empire with an announcement that it won a 2024 Lambda Literary Award.
Photo of a white smiling family of three. From left to right: a tween girl in a yellow shirt, a grey curly haired lesbian with glasses, and a short brown haired person with clear glasses. Flowers fill he background.
Photo of my cats curled up like a yin yang: a brownish Maincoon and a white flame point Siamese.
Hi, BlueSky, I’m Erin (they/them)! This account will focus on my work as an interdisciplinary professor in critical disability studies. My first book, The Sexual Politics of Empire, recently won a Lambda Literary Award. Now I’m writing a new book about disability accessibility and ethnography.
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A white woman with short hair and big hoop earrings holding a book “Access Vernaculars” with an asian woman with long hair holding a tote bag with a few book covers printed on it. Both are in black clothes.
A white woman with shortish gray hair with a white woman with short hair and glasses sitting with a menu on the table. Both are smiling.
Two asian women holding black tote bags — one with the front of the bag that reads “New Books in Disability Anthropology 2025” the other with the back of the same bag that has 8 different book covers printed on it
An asian woman with long hair smiling with a white woman with short hair and glasses
Had the great honor to be part of the DRIG (The Disability Research Interest Group) at my very first triple As (American Anthropological Association) conference! Pictures with Cass, Fayna, and Professor Ma!
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