Thursday October 7, 2021   9:45-11:00am

A Conversation with Alice Wong, Disability Activist

Founder and Director of the Disability Visibility Project, created in 2014, a community partnership with StoryCorps and an online community dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture.. Zoom Registration is required.Registration deadline October 6. Please click here to register.

Thursday, November 18, 2020    4:30-6:00pm

A Conversation with Daphne A. Brooks, Yale University

Author of several books and articles on race, gender, performance and popular music culture. Her latest book, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, is part of a three-volume study of Black women and popular music culture.Zoom Registration is required.Registration deadline November 17. Please click here to register.

Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, media maker, and consultant. She is the Founder and Director of the the Disability Visibility Project, created in 2014, a community partnership with StoryCorps and an online community dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture. Wong is also a co-partner in four projects: DisabledWriters.com, a resource to help editors connect with disabled writers and journalists, #CripLit, a series of Twitter chats for disabled writers with novelist Nicola Griffith, #CripTheVote, a nonpartisan online movement encouraging the political participation of disabled people with co-partners Andrew Pulrang and Gregg Beratan, and Access Is Love with co-partners Mia Mingus and Sandy Ho, a campaign that aims to help build a world where accessibility is understood as an act of love instead of a burden or an afterthought. Wong is the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, an anthology of essays by disabled people (Vintage Books, 2020) and working on her upcoming memoir, Year of the Tiger, available in 2022.

Daphne A. Brooks is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University. She is the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910, winner of The Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from ASTR; Jeff Buckley’s Grace, and her latest book, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound which is part of a three-volume study of Black women and popular music culture.