Sawyer Seminar Series

Disability has long been framed as an individualized, bio-medical deficit in need of remediation, control, or erasure. Dominant definitions have deferred to the “expert knows best” over the person themselves. These framings originated from medicalized perspectives that approached illness or impairment as a problem to be solved. In educational spaces, special education classes for students … Read More

How do we reckon with and repair the injustices of institutionalizing disabled people? Haunted house attractions, exclusive housing estates, and abandoned buildings are some of the common afterlives of disability … Read More