2/17/2021: Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Aimi Hamraie

Today's #AntiAbleistComposition feature is Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Aimi Hamraie. Building Access was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2017. An excerpt of the text is included below. Building AccessDownload

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 …

2/15/2021 | THREAD: Planned blackouts and a weak power grid is a disability issue by Adam Hubrig

https://twitter.com/AdamHubrig/status/1361375381320835086 California power shutoff: how PG&E's actions hit the medically vulnerable the hardest 10/11/2019 Induced power outage leaves disabled people in the dark 10/11/2019 KosAbility: Ableism and the PG&E blackout 10/13/2019

2/10/2021: “Protecting Pandemic Conversations: Tracing Twitter’s Evolving Content Policies During COVID-19” by Lacy Hope

Today's #AntiAbleistComposition feature is "Protecting Pandemic Conversations: Tracing Twitter's Evolving Content Policies During COVID-19" by Lacy Hope. The essay is published in the 35:1 issue of the Journal of Business and Technical Communication. Protecting Pandemic ConversationsDownload essay