NYU Center for Disability Studies

This was such a great event that this crip-of-colour writer needs to encourage folx to order Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing by the brilliant Professor Jina B. Kim: www.dukeupress.edu/care-at-the-...

Together, they will explore how to refuse listening habits that discipline and punish, and how to reimagine accountability across media, law, and everyday life.

Lakshmi Padmanabhan (Film Scholar, Northwestern University), Jordan Lord (Artist and Writer, Colorado College), and LaCharles Ward (Curator and Scholar, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture).

This launch event brings together three respondents who take up the book’s invitation to think documentary and sound alongside raciolinguistics, disability access activism, and legal forensics:

Pooja Rangan examines how documentary listening—through habits she calls neutral, entitled, and juridical—can reinforce structures of profiling, exclusion, and carceral capture, even when framed as progressive or ethical.

How does listening in documentary become a proxy for justice—and what other kinds of listening might be possible? In The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability (Columbia University Press, 2025),

Tomorrow! The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability Book Launch, 6:00–7:30 PM ET @ Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor & Zoom.

register for irl or url here: mailchi.mp/nyu/document...

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Join us tomorrow for the first event of the term, with Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim! @drsamischalk.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

Use coupon code E25JBKIM to save 30% when you order Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing from dukeupress.edu.

Event is free and open to the public but requires registration.

ASL and live captions will be provided.

Please email accessibility needs as they relate to this
event to msf440@nyu.edu.

highlight the imaginative blueprints for survival left by radical writers of color such as Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Octavia Butler.

which examines the imaginative work of disabled, queer, and feminist of color literary visionaries writing after major U.S. welfare reform. Together, Schalk and Kim will foreground the necessity of a disability approach to challenging U.S. infrastructural violence and manufactured scarcity, and . .

How can feminist-of-color disability politics help us navigate contemporary crises of care and decimated social safety nets? Join Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim for a discussion of Jina's new book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025), . . .

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining th... How can feminist-of-color disability politics help us navigate contemporary crises of care and decimated social safety nets? Join Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim for a discussion of Jina's new book, Care ...

Our first event of the semester, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing with @drsamischalk.bsky.social and Jina B. Kim, will take place on Thursday, September 11, 4-5:30PM EST @ Zoom. Register here: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Tix @ lifeafterfilm.com/screening and use the PROMO CODE: NYUCDS for $4 off any screening during the film’s week-long run July 18-24.

Over an orange background, black text: “Multitude Films. Life After. July 23. 7:10PM. Film Forum NYC. Co-Presented by ReelAbilities Film Festival. Tickets at filmforum.org/events/event/life-after-july-23. Introduced by Mara Mills of NYU’s Center for Disability Studies, followed by talkback with director Reid Davenport, activist and author Emily Ladau, and comedian Maysoon Zayid.” In the middle, an archival image of a disabled Black man with crutches protesting next to a large pink sign that says “Not Dead. We want to live!” At the bottom, symbols at the bottom for Audio Description, Open Captions and ASL, followed by logos for Film Forum and NYU’s Center for Disability Studies.

NYU’s Center for Disability Studies is honored to co-present a screening of the Sundance-award winning documentary LIFE AFTER at NYC’s Film Forum on July 23 at 7:10pm.

Come by next Saturday if you are interested in crip authorship, including histories of subtitling, visual description and plain language writing workshop.

Co-hosted with @center4ds.bsky.social

How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemicHow to Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experience...

Learn more about the book, co-edited with @maramills.bsky.social, Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp, published by @nyupress.bsky.social (and part of a @center4ds.bsky.social project!).

More info and free open-access edition:
nyupress.org/978147983085...

Disability Activists Bring Wisdom From the Pandemic to New Struggles Under Trump White House rhetoric dehumanizes disabled communities, but activists continue to organize for access, care and justice.

White House rhetoric dehumanizes disabled communities, but activists continue to organize for access, care and justice.

Crip Authorship: Disability as a Method for Creativity - Special event at V&A South Kensington · V&A An afternoon of talks, a screening, and a workshop exploring disability, authorship, and access.

Crip Authorship comes to the V&A! Pleased to host @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez on 21st June for a special event with @louhicky.bsky.social Kelsie Acton and Georgina Kleege. Tickets to the in person event and workshop here, online stream below: www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...

Today! ADA at 35: Navigating Accessibility in the Hybrid Interior from 6-8PM at Center for Architecture and Zoom! calendar.aiany.org/2025/06/02/a...

Crip Authorship: Disability as a Method for Creativity - Special event at V&A South Kensington · V&A An afternoon of talks, a screening, and a workshop exploring disability, authorship, and access.

I'm giving a new talk on *"Subtitles on Fire"* at the V&A for the Design and Disability show. Featuring a screening of *Captioning and Captioning* — celebrating all things crip authorship with @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez
#DesignAndDisability www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...

There is a textured grey gradient background with a light rounded corner rectangle. Blue text reads: Remembering Stacey Park Milbern. Black text reads: On this day in 2020, we lost Stacey Park Milbern, a fierce advocate and activist who taught us about disability justice, love, organizing, and so much more. There is a quotation in italics: I want to leave a legacy of disabled people knowing we are powerful and beautiful because of who we are, not despite of it.” There is a picture of Stacey, a mixed race Korean and white person outside in front of plants. She has short dark hair, glasses, a white and blue striped shirt, and has a visible trach tube.

On this day in 2020, we lost Stacey Park Milbern, a fierce advocate and activist who taught us about disability justice, love, organizing, and so much more. Spend a moment today with some of her most important works here: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/05/23/s...

Poster for Panel Discussion 'Crip Authorship'. On Friday, 16 May 2025, at 7:00 PM, a panel discussion titled "Crip Authorship" will take place at Kampnagel, K2.Editors Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, along with three contributing authors, will discuss their volume Crip Authorship: Disability as Method. The discussion will focus on how disability and authorship are interconnected both aesthetically and structurally, with a particular emphasis on the theme of translation. The event will be conducted in English and German and will include interpretation in German Sign Language (DGS) and American Sign Language (ASL).

Join us on Friday at 1PM EST for a panel on Crip Authorship: Disability as Method with Kelsie Acton, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, @jaivirdi.com, Rebecca Sanchez, and @maramills.bsky.social, who will delve into the books' central theme of translation. Livestream here:
us02web.zoom.us/j/8588092479...

Tomorrow!

NYU Center for Disability Studies - Intimacy Violation: a film screening and performance Intimacy Violation: screening of a work-in-progress film by Yining Chi, followed by a participatory performance around audio description led by the artist and a discussion moderated by Meesh Sara Frad...

This Thursday, April 24 @ 7PM we are co-sponsoring Intimacy Violation: a film screening and performance by Yining Chi. At Come Forever in Williamsburg and Zoom! Register here: disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/intima...

We can't wait to celebrate the accomplishments of HTBDIAP co-editors at their launch party next week! Join @center4ds.bsky.social for an evening of refreshments and select readings.

Check out the event details here: buff.ly/GTOlhfi

Next week!

Our zoom webinar for All Day All Night displayed on a projector screen with an audience seated in front of it at the Whitney. The ceiling has a light grid and the walls are covered with sound paneling.

Thanks to all who showed up to All Day All Night on zoom and in person at @whitney.org, and @christine.lol for joining the Q&A after the reading! Credit to the photographer Filip Wolak.

We miss you, Jonathan Sterne 💔