Irving K. Zola Emerging Scholar Award
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Dr. Lezlie Frye has won the 2020 Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies for her paper Cripping the “Crack Baby” Epidemic: A Feminist Genealogy.
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Everyday Survival and Collective Accountability
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The pandemic has raised startling questions about everyday life—for example, “How is it possible that I am required to do a full-time job while also providing full-time care for my family?” or “How can I negotiate questions of ‘safety’ with my co-workers, my community, even my closest loved ones?” But these questions were already active topics of conversation […]
Read MoreStudent voices leading to structural change
Learn how an open dialogue helped create the U’s School for Cultural and Social Transformation.
Read MoreScary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers
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“The Witches,” a film in which Anne Hathaway’s character has disfigured hands, has resurfaced the debate over depicting evil as disabled.
Read MoreA powerful transformation
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When Disability Studies moved into Transform, there were 21 declared disability studies minors at the U. After just one year in the school, there are 44 declared disability studies minors.
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