"Disability Incarcerated" lecture, Feb 26, 6:30-8pm, HUB 250; Workshop: Building Coalitions for Movements, Feb 27, 7:00-8:30pm, Alder 107
"Disability Incarcerated" lecture by Liat Ben-Moshe, Thurs. Feb 26, 6:30-8pm, HUB 250
Please be fragrance free! (more access info below)
How can a disability lens help in understanding the rise of the U.S. prison nation and recent and historic acts of police brutality? What happened when people demanded to close down institutions for people who are labeled intellectually or psychiatrically disabled? What can it teach us about present day prisons and their abolition? This talk builds on the analysis of activists and scholars who fought and are fighting for a world with no institutionalization, imprisonment and State policing.
***Accessibility Info***
ASL interpreters and CART have been requested. The HUB is wheelchair accessible from the main (west) entrance. HUB 250 is on the second floor, with elevators to the right of the main entrance. There will be a scent free seating section next to an air purifier. A single-stall, non-gendered, accessible, scent-free bathroom is located on the third floor of the HUB.
Please be fragrance free! For the health and safety of community members with chemical sensitivity, please abstain from using scented cosmetics, lotions, or hair products and please do not wear clothes that have recently been smoked in. Baking soda will be provided. For more info: http://eastbaymeditation.org/accessibility/PDF/How-to-Be-Fragrance-Free-.pdf
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Liat Ben-Moshe is Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo. She is the co-editor of Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (Palgrave 2014) as well as special issues of Women, Gender and Families of Color on disability (Spring 2014). She is the author of articles and book chapters on such topics as deinstitutionalization and incarceration; the politics of abolition; disability, anti-capitalism and anarchism; queerness and disability; inclusive pedagogy; academic repression; and representations of disability.
This event is supported by the D Center and the Disability Studies Program at the University of Washington (https://www.facebook.com/uwdisabilitystudiesprogram).
To request another disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at: 206.543.6450 (voice), 206.543.6452 (TTY), 206.685.7264 (fax), or email at dhhreq@uw.edu.
Workshop: Building Coalitions for Movements, Fri Feb 27, 7:00-8:30pm, Alder 107
Note: The title of this workshop is subject to change.
Come join fellow local activists in the ongoing community discussion and brainstorming about ways for movements to build coalitions with a emphasis on disability justice and abolition/liberation.
Prisons don’t make us safer. Psychiatric hospitals don’t make us safer. The police don’t make us safer. Detention centers don’t make us safer. These institutions imprison and commit acts of horrific violence against our queer, trans, disabled, mentally ill, poor, and black communities, and communities of color, especially those most marginalized at the intersections of related oppressions. Let’s bring our movements together so we can build coalitions that can dismantle these institutions from all angles. Using Disability Justice as our uniting framework, we’ll break out into discussion groups led by organizations representing different movements to workshop ways to better connect our movements. Finally, we’ll come back together and share our new ideas and strategies for coalitions and collective action and liberation.
More information to follow!
***Directions***
For more complete directions to the building, please visit the following:http://www.washington.edu/maps/
Directions and parking information will be provided once the location has been finalized.
***Accessibility Info***
ASL interpreters and two CART providers have been requested for small and large group workshopping. More accessibility information will be provided once the location has been finalized.
We ask that you please be fragrance free. For the health and well being of community members with chemical sensitivity, please abstain from using scented cosmetics, lotions, hair products, etc and please do not wear clothes that have recently been smoked in. Baking soda and an air purifier will be provided. For more info: http://eastbaymeditation.org/accessibility/PDF/How-to-Be-Fragrance-Free-.pdf
To request another disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at: 206.543.6450 (voice), 206.543.6452 (TTY), 206.685.7264 (fax), or email at dhhreq@uw.edu.