Sociology of Disability

Disability Activism and Knowledge Work: Creative Futurities, Encounters, and Disencounters 1

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Wednesday May 31 8:30 am to 10:00 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC Hybrid

This session opens a co-creative space for activists and scholars, including disabled non-scholarly, as well as scholarly, grounded individuals and groups. The purpose of the session is to dialogue and ... more

Disability Activism and Knowledge Work: Creative Futurities, Encounters, and Disencounters 2

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Wednesday May 31 10:30 am to 12:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC Hybrid

Let’s Talk About It: Breaking Barriers and Igniting Conversations about Sex and Sexuality Among Disabled People

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Monday May 29 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC In-person

The right to sexual expression is a fundamental human right. For many people with disabilities, however, this right to sexual expression is often elusive while the intersection of disability and ... more

Listening and learning from within: Toward intersectional experiences of multiply-marginalized communities

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Wednesday May 31 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC In-person

The session centers voices of multiply-marginalized communities to resist ableist, racist, economic, and gender-based harm. How systems, practices, and policies can be re-imagined to reflect the intersectional experiences of multiply-marginalized ... more

Madly Off in New Directions: Emerging Work in Mad Studies

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Tuesday May 30 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Mclaughlin College-MC Hybrid

Mad studies is an area of scholarship that unites activist and academic approaches and experiences, focusing on the perspectives and experiences of those who identify as Mad or psychiatric survivors (... more