Ellen Samuels will be on campus to give a talk titled "Will the Real Disabled Person Please Stand up?" or "What's Wrong with This Picture?" on Wednesday, April 20th at 4 p.m. in 311 Denney. There will also be a graduate student-only workshop prior to the talk from 1-2 p.m. in the same room.
Ellen Samuels is the author of the book Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race (NYU Press, 2014) and was awarded the Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship in 2011. Her talk will focus on the ways that social media provides a window into broader social perceptions of disability, highlighting incidents involving Kanye West, George Takei, and police killings of African American and Native people. Samuels will discuss the ways that these events bring the intersections of race, disability, and policing into stark focus, and result in policies that affect economic benefits, accommodations, and civil rights for disabled people.
This venue is wheels-accessible and can be lit by natural or fluorescent light. Attendees are asked not to wear fragranced products. To RSVP for the workshop or discuss access needs, contact Margaret Price at price.1225@osu.edu.
Sponsored by the Department of English; Sexuality Studies; Disability Studies; Comparative Studies; Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and the Disability Studies Graduate Student Group.
