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4/12/23 | More Than Accessibility by Makena Metz

Makena Metz has generously shared an essay titled More Than Accessibility for circulation to visitors and readers of the Anti-Ableist Composition web presence. Click the file link below to access the full essay. A text-only version will be made available on this webpage soon. More Than Accessibility: The Effect of Student Writing in a Disability-Forward… Continue reading 4/12/23 | More Than Accessibility by Makena Metz

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Call for Collaborators • March 2021

The Anti-Ableist Composition Collective is seeking collaborators who will help expand our Collective's presence and solidify a collaborative, interdependent ethic of care. The Collective is especially interested in disabled and neurodivergent writers who can help in one of the following areas: Blog Editor: Responsible for reading and providing small amounts of feedback to writers who… Continue reading Call for Collaborators • March 2021

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Thursday February 18, 2021: Nirmala Erevelles at University of Washington 3pm Pacific Time

Neil Simpkins provided the following information via the Disability Studies and Rhetoric and Composition listserv. "The Disability Studies program at the University of Washington is hosting Nirmala Erevelles this week on Thursday at 3pm Pacific Time, and I thought I would share the info about the talk." Description "Scenes of Subjection": Carceral Logics and Disability… Continue reading Thursday February 18, 2021: Nirmala Erevelles at University of Washington 3pm Pacific Time

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2/9/2021: “‘It’s Like Writing Yourself into a Codependent Relationship with Someone Who Doesn’t Even Want You!’ Emotional Labor, Intimacy, and the Academic Job Market in Rhetoric and Composition” by Jennifer Sano-Franchini

Today's #AntiAbleistComposition feature is "'It's Like Writing Yourself into a Codependent Relationship with Someone Who Doesn't Even Want You!' Emotional Labor, Intimacy, and the Academic Job Market in Rhetoric and Composition" by Jennifer Sano-Franchini. The essay is published in the 68:1 issue of College Composition and Communication. EssayDownload

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Call for Submissions: COVID-19 and the Question of a Future for Disability and Composition

How can we possibly write right now? How do we write when the world is spinning, when our bodyminds [1] are constantly responding to the material, social, emotional, and psychical pressures of grief, mourning, death, sickness, disabling infrastructures, state-sanctioned violence, and university-sanctioned negligence? Is there a future for disability and composition? This is the framing… Continue reading Call for Submissions: COVID-19 and the Question of a Future for Disability and Composition