Call for Chapters in the Edited Volume- “Neurodivergent Narratives of Navigating Academia: In Our Own Words”Submission Deadline for Abstracts: January 31, 2025 As an autistic professor, I am excited to announce a call for chapters for an upcoming edited volume that explores the personal and professional journeys of neurodivergent professors. This volume aims to highlight […]
New Documentary about Anna Stubblefield, Derrick Johnson, Sexual Assault, and Facilitated Communication
I want to let readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY know that there is a new Netflix documentary, entitled “Tell Them You Love Me,” about the circumstances leading up to the arrest of philosopher Anna Stubblefield for the sexual assault of Derrick Johnson, a disabled Black man; Stubblefield’s trial and conviction; and the aftermath of these events. […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – A Response to Commentaries on Empire of Normality by Robert Chapman
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ I’m grateful to Shelley Tremain for organizing this symposium. I’m also grateful to Mich Ciurria, Jane Dryden, Johnathan Flowers, and Sofia Jeppsson – all scholars that I have long admired – for their careful engagements with Empire of Normality. I’m […]
CFP: Absurdities of Academia: Liminal Realities of Vulnerable Academics (deadline: Feb. 15, 2024)
This is an invitation for full submissions for an edited volume, Absurdities of Academia Edited by Saba Fatima, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Contact for inquiries (not for submissions): sfatima@siue.edu. For submissions, please follow the submission guidelines below. Contributors: This is a solicitation for contributions from women of color in academia and/or other […]
Ableism, CRCs, and Academic “Freedom”
“The only people who have benefitted from equity initiatives in Canadian universities are nondisabled cis white women.” I articulated the sentence above during a portion of last week’s 3-hour final group session of the UBC study designed to identify why few disabled academics hold Canada Research Chairs at UBC and throughout Canada. (I referred to […]
CFP: Enacting Disability Justice, York University Online, Apr. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 (deadline: Feb. 28, 2021)
ENACTING DISABILITY JUSTICE The Annual York Critical Disability Studies Conference is one of the few graduate conferences in Disability Studies. This year, it will be offered online for the first time over four weeks on April 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2020 via zoom. Registration will occur closer to the date of the conference and […]
Beyond “High-Risk”: Statement on Disability and Campus Re-openings
Accessible Campus Action Alliance Jump to: The Issues Beyond the “High-risk” Framework for Accommodations Best Practices for Campus Re-Openings Prioritizing Relations of Care The Issues As scholars of disability, health equity, institutional policy and inclusion; as disabled faculty who have spent careers negotiating legal and institutional processes of accommodation; and as allies committed to uplifting […]
The Unbearable Confidence of the Racialized Apparatus of Disability
“First and foremost, I aim to issue a caution . . . When addressing and identifying forms of epistemic oppression one needs to endeavor not to perpetuate epistemic oppression.” – Kristie Dotson (2012, 24) Several months ago, the moderator of the Teaching Disability Studies Facebook group, a group that had operated for several years, announced […]
“Gas-lighting, Discrimination, and Humiliation: The Day-to-Day Experience of a Disabled Academic” by Kay Inckle
This morning, Zara Bain (interviewed for Dialogues on Disability in May 2015) posted the article below on Twitter. The article, which was published in February of this year, deserves wide circulation. ________________________________________________________________________________ Gas-lighting, Discrimination, and Humiliation: The Day-to-Day Experience of a Disabled Academic By Kay Inckle “The university might deem it reasonable for you to […]
Signs of Blind People
If you used Google to get here and you are sighted, you might have noticed that the graphic for Google Doodle today commemorates the introduction of tenji block on railway platforms in Okayama, Japan, fifty-two years ago today. “Tenji block” is the name that Seiichi Miyake gave to the tactile paving slabs that he invented […]
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