Anti-Racism Reads: February event

Join us for the next installment of Anti-Racism Reads, which will feature a group discussion on the book The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs. 

We have copies of this book available at no cost to reduce barriers to participation. Please indicate when you register if you would like a copy.

Facilitators:

Aimée Morrison and Meg F. Gibson

When: Thursday February 29, 2024 | 12 – 1:30 p.m.

Where: Dana Porter Learning Lab

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Find the book: Library’s catalogue (Omni)  |  W Store

About The Future is Disabled 

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled - and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation? 

Building on the work of their game-changing book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other - and the rest of the world - alive during Trump, fascism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care and mutual aid in real life, disabled community building, and disabled art practice as survival and joy. 

Written over the course of two years of disabled isolation during the pandemic, this is a book of love letters to other disabled QTBIPOC (and those concerned about disability justice, the care crisis, and surviving the apocalypse); honour songs for kin who are gone; recipes for survival; questions and real talk about care, organizing, disabled families, and kin networks and communities; and wild brown disabled femme joy in the face of death. With passion and power, The Future Is Disabled remembers our dead and insists on our future. 

From Arsenal Pulp Press

About Aimée Morrison  

Aimée wanted to be a computer scientist until she was the only girl in all her high school courses. So, she pursued her second love, English, working her way around to computers again eventually, working in digital humanities labs and projects at all three universities she has attended, and continuing to this day in her teaching and research.  

Aimée’s work focuses on popular reception and remediation of computer technologies, as well as on social media as a platform for auto/biography and activism, particularly through hashtags and selfies. Basically, she farts around on the internet for most of her teaching and research, which is probably better than coding all day anyway. 

About Meg F. Gibson 

Meg is associate professor in Social Development Studies and Social Work at Renison University College. Her scholarship and teaching focus on queer and trans studies, critical disability studies, social work, feminist research methods, and the history and philosophy of social services. Meg’s current research explores several areas: the perspectives of Autistic people on "eloping" or departing suddenly from places; the ways in which different people understand and use "neurodiversity"; and the experiences of diverse parents (particularly 2SLGBTQ+ and/or disability-identified parents) in meeting the care and work responsibilities in their households -- and how policy can best support them.