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SUMMARY:Disability Justice
DESCRIPTION: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 manage and contain perceptions of behavior or communication that fall outside the realm of “normal.” Carceral spaces\, like prisons and nursing homes\, sequester and confine testimonies about disabled experience\, particularly of adults (as much of the literature and knowledge of disability is focused on young children or youth). From the vantage point of the Humanities\, disability studies have pointed out the ways these models and definitions of disability can be reconsidered to better understand disability as an essential part of what it means to be human and a necessary aspect of coalition building. One of the main contributions disability studies makes to the humanities is expanding conversations about representation. Disabled characters in literature\, film\, and television are often used to represent negative ideas or function as literary devices rather than providing realistic portrayals of people living with disability or madness. These representations deliver a message\, one that does not pertain to the lived realities of the Deaf\, neurodivergent\, and disabled individuals. Disability studies continue to influence the understanding of representation by centering disabled individuals as experts (rather than passive objects spoken about by caregivers or medical professionals). The disability rights phrase “nothing about us without us” or the disability justice phrase “existence is resistance” captures the idea that disabled people should be part of creating the literature\, art\, laws\, policies\, and history about disability. This simple idea that disabled people are the authority on their own experiences has marked effects on the way disability is represented. \nClick here to register!
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LOCATION:Express Newark\, Room 213\, 54 Halsey Street\, Newark\, NJ\, 07102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Disability and Reparations: From Haunting to Hope (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION: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 institutions … justice and reparations are not. However\, there is increasing momentum at the international human rights and local community levels for truth-telling and reparations towards disabled people who experienced institutionalization. In her keynote\, Associate Professor Steele introduces the human rights and philosophical reasons why reparation is necessary and discusses some ways in which governments and communities are already engaged in these practices. \nRegister to receive Zoom link. 
URL:https://sawyerseminar.newark.rutgers.edu/event/disability-and-reparations-from-haunting-to-hope-zoom/
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