One month left to apply for the DSQ Assistant Editor role! #DisabilityStudies #AcademicChatter #Disability #AcademicJournals
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New article in Disability Studies Quarterly - vol 45, issue 2
Crip Joy, Misogynoir, and Digital Care Work: Disabled Content Creators Navigating Visibility, Desire, and Surveillance
Shawna Sheperd-Murtagh (North Carolina State University)
#DisabilityStudies #CripTime #Misgynoir #Disability
Eli Clare sits in a many-boughed tree, hands wrapped around a branch, smiling broadly at camera. He wears glasses, has ginger hair and wears a blue gilet and walking gear.
As a scholar Clare has written on #LGBTQ issues, #DisabilityStudies, social justice, eco-crip theory & feminist philosophy. His poetry & creative nonfiction collection, Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows and Dreaming, a "queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams" released in 2025
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New Article in DSQ Issue 2, Vol 45
Disability and Emotional Support Dog Representation in Netflix's The Healing Powers of Dude
Luda Gogolushko (University of Oregon)
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#DisabilityStudies #DisabledCharacters #Disability
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New Article in DSQ Vol 45, Iss 2
Cripping Multispecies Care: Explorations of Disability, Ableism, and Speciesism in Multispecies Homes
Julia Linares-Roake
Lauren Van Patter
Carla Rice
Erika Cudworth
Andrea Breen
dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...
#DisabilityStudies #Disability #AnimalStudies #MadStudies
"In 1198, Pope Innocent III issued a decree that deaf people should be able to get married by making their vows in sign language."
Lovely tale, & reminder these were NOT "Dark Ages", but time of innovation & care like any other: #Unlearn
#DisabilityStudies
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Please share widely and consider submitting to this guaranteed panel for #MLA2027 co-organized by the Global Hispanophone Forum and the Disability Studies Forum! #globalhispanohpone #disabilitystudies #migration
Holding the book "Narratives of Nostalgia and Repair in American Comics and Literature" by Aanchal Vij in front of a meadow with blue flowers
Book 2) is Aanchal Vij's analysis of #nostalgia & repair in 20th-21st c #AmericanLiterature & #comics - with a focus on #traumatheory & #DisabilityStudies & the myth of American exceptionalism in works by Chabon, Spiegelman, Roth, Alan Moore & Ta-Nehisi Coates
#ComicsStudies #LiteraryStudies
Damian Mellifont PhD and Jennifer Smith-Merry's latest blog post from Lived Places Publishing explores "How Lived Experience-Led Research Can Inform Public Hearings and Government Inquiries:" livedplacespublishing.com/blog/lived-e... #disabilitystudies #openaccess #Australia #livedexperience
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From DSQ's new issue: Volume 45, Issue 2, 2026 - Winter
Editors' Introduction: The Interrelationships of Care
Donald Grushkin (CSU-Sacramento)
Jeffrey A. Brune (Gallaudet University)
Rachel Nebraska Lynch (George Washington University)
#DisabilityStudies #Disability
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Very few places talk about the financial cost of disability because being disabled is not cheap!
Anyone is #sociology, #disabilitystudies or just #disabled people know if any article?
'Multimethod research on precarious work under disabling capitalism: Methodological reflections' - Bulletin of Sociological Methodology
Out now, #OpenAccess
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#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityResearch #Anticapitalism #AntiWork
'Multimethod research on precarious work under disabling capitalism: Methodological reflections' - Bulletin of Sociological Methodology
[out now]
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#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityResearch #Anticapitalism #AntiWork
Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Winter 2026 Prefatory Matter Editors' Introduction: The Interrelationships of Care Donald Grushkin, Jeffrey A. Brune and Rachel Nebraska Lynch 2026-03-02 Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Winter 2026
New Disability Studies Quarterly Issue!
It includes the following articles:
Prefatory Matter
Editors' Introduction: The Interrelationships of Care
Donald Grushkin, Jeffrey A. Brune and Rachel Nebraska Lynch
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#DisabilityStudies #Disability #DisabilityRights #DSQ
📚 New in [LAT-STS Library]
“Race Beyond Vision” by Márcio N. de Abreu challenges the visuocentric paradigm, showing how racial perception emerges through symbolic, affective, and socially mediated processes.👁️
🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/
#CriticalRaceTheory #DisabilityStudies #Semiotics
#NewArticle #OpenAccess "A Deafblind Critical Phenomenology: Helen Keller on Intersubjectivity and the Senses in The World I Live In" by Rebecca Esterson is available now! Read it here: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2...
#PhilSky #Philosophy #DisabilityStudies #DisabilitySky
This event will be taking place today!
#DisabilityStudies #Disability
looking for recommendations of Mad folks writing about playing/being playful with Madness - in any form! especially appreciate those from BIPOC voices and those outside the academy.
#MadSky #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies
#stellenausschreibung
Künstlerische*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) im Lehrgebiet: Crip, Choreo, Care am Hochschulübergreifenden Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT)
Besetzbar ab 01.05.2026 (Teilzeit, befristet bis September 2028)
Deadline: 05.03.2026
👉 Weitere Infos […]
"Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan" by Christine Sargent
www.rutgersuniversit...
#DownSyndrome #Jordan #DisabilityStudies #MiddleEastStudies
SDS 2026 Awards Category Most Significant Article in DSQ Recognizes an article published in DSQ during the previous calendar year that makes a substantial scholarly contribution. Eligibility: All authors published in DSQ during the relevant year are automatically considered. Review: A review committee evaluates eligible articles for innovation, clarity, and contribution to Disability Studies - submit by 31st March 2026
SDS 2026 Awards Category Most Significant Unpublished Doctoral Researcher Manuscript Recognizes an exceptional, unpublished article-length manuscript written by a doctoral researcher. Eligibility: Doctoral researchers only; manuscripts must not be dissertation chapters. Nominations: Faculty mentors must submit a three (3) page letter of nomination with the manuscript. Award: The recipient receives mentorship toward submission to Disability Studies Quarterly - submit by 31st March 2026
SDS 2026 Awards Category Irving K. Zola Emerging Scholar Award Honors early-career scholars or graduate students whose work reflects the legacy of sociologist Irving K. Zola, emphasizing disability pride, identity, and culture. Eligibility: Graduate students, early-career scholars, or those within three years post-terminal degree. Nominations: Self- and/or mentor-nominations accepted. Include a letter (up to 3 pages) connecting the nominee’s work to Zola’s values, contributions, and vision - submit by 31st March 2026
Timeline:
Nominations Open: December 8, 2025
Nominations Due: March 31, 2026, 11:59pm, Eastern Time (U.S.)
Award Review Period: Spring–Summer 2026
Award Announcements: November 2026 SDS General Membership Meeting
#DisabilityStudies #Disability
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SDS 2026 Awards: Call for Nominations
SDS 2026 Awards Category Lifetime Achievement Award Honors a senior member of the Disability Studies community whose sustained work has shaped the field. Eligibility: Senior scholars and community leaders whose impact includes scholarship, theory, teaching, or institution-building. Nominations: Must be made by colleagues (self-nominations are not accepted). Letters (of up to four (4) pages) should describe the nominee’s contributions and influence. Submission: Via the SDS Nominations and Awards Form. Electronic copies of books are required for review. Physical copies of books may be requested for review - by 31st March 2026
SDS 2026 Awards Category Mentoring Award Recognizes exceptional commitment to mentoring students, activists, artists, and practitioners within or beyond academic settings. Eligibility: Open to any member of the Disability Studies community. Nominations: Must include at least two nominators. Letters (of up to four (4) pages) should provide examples of the nominee’s mentoring and its outcomes - by 31st March 2026
SDS 2026 Awards Category Senior Book Award Honors an outstanding single-authored scholarly book published in the past two years by an established scholar. Eligibility: Authors of scholarly monographs. Nominations: Self-nominations and publisher nominations accepted. Include a letter (up to three (3) pages) describing the book’s contribution to Disability Studies. Submission: Via the SDS Nominations and Awards Form. Electronic copies of books are required for review. Physical copies of books may be requested for review - by 31st March 2026
The Society for Disability Studies honors outstanding achievements in scholarship, mentorship, creative practice, and community engagement through its annual SDS Awards. These awards recognize the broad & evolving contributions that advance #DisabilityStudies as an interdisciplinary & activist field
Our blog post centres the performance of ‘Philoctetes’ Journey. The Return’, a collaboration between the Polish MEDEP team & Teatr 21 (Centre for Inclusive Art/Theatre 21), which mainly comprises actors with disabilities, and its significance for #disabilitystudies mediaepidemics.com/2026/02/18/f...
SDS 2026 Awards Category Irving K. Zola Emerging Scholar Award Honors early-career scholars or graduate students whose work reflects the legacy of sociologist Irving K. Zola, emphasizing disability pride, identity, and culture. Eligibility: Graduate students, early-career scholars, or those within three years post-terminal degree. Nominations: Self- and/or mentor-nominations accepted. Include a letter (up to 3 pages) connecting the nominee’s work to Zola’s values, contributions, and vision - submit by 31st March 2026
SDS 2026 Awards
Irving K. Zola Emerging Scholar Award
Honors early-career scholars or graduate students whose work reflects the legacy of sociologist I. K. Zola, emphasizing disability pride, identity, and culture - submit by 31 March
#DisabilityStudies #Disability
disstudies.org/nominate/
SDS 2026 Awards Most Significant Unpublished Doctoral Researcher Manuscript Recognizes an exceptional, unpublished article-length manuscript written by a doctoral researcher. Eligibility: Doctoral researchers only; manuscripts must not be dissertation chapters. Nominations: Faculty mentors must submit a three (3) page letter of nomination with the manuscript. Award: The recipient receives mentorship toward submission to Disability Studies Quarterly - submit by 31st March 2026
SDS 2026 Awards
Most Significant Unpublished Doctoral Researcher Manuscript
Recognizes an exceptional, unpublished article-length manuscript written by a doctoral researcher - submit by 31st March 2026
disstudies.org/nominate/
#DisabilityStudies #Dissertations #Theses #AcademicChatter
SDS 2026 Awards Category Most Significant Article in DSQ Recognizes an article published in DSQ during the previous calendar year that makes a substantial scholarly contribution. Eligibility: All authors published in DSQ during the relevant year are automatically considered. Review: A review committee evaluates eligible articles for innovation, clarity, and contribution to Disability Studies - submit by 31st March 2026
SDS 2026 Awards
Most Significant Article in DSQ
Recognizes an article published in DSQ during the previous calendar year that makes a substantial scholarly contribution - submit by 31st March 2026
#DisabilityStudies #Disability #AcademicChatter disstudies.org/nominate/
An inspirational memoir cerebral palsy book can shift how readers understand disability.
Facing the Challenge, Beating the Odds documents lived experience and faith-based resilience. Author background is referenced at www.jimmymulzetstory.com
#Memoir #DisabilityStudies #CerebralPalsy
SDS 2026 Awards Category Curatorial or Exhibition Award Honors curatorial, artistic, or exhibition-based work that advances the visibility of Disability Studies in arts, culture, or public engagement. Eligibility: Exhibitions or creative projects featuring multiple works; projects do not need to be institutionally framed as Disability Studies. Nominations: Self-nominations and nominations by Disability Studies community members accepted. Include a letter (of up to four (4) pages) describing the project’s scope, accessibility practices, and impact - by 31st March 2026
SDS 2026 Awards
Curatorial or Exhibition Award
Honors curatorial, artistic, or exhibition-based work that advances the visibility of Disability Studies in arts, culture, or public engagement - submit by 31st March 2026
disstudies.org/nominate/
#DisabilityStudies
#NewArticle #OpenAccess "What the Suffering of Others Demands of Us: Levinas, Critical Disability Theory, and Procreative Beneficence" by Cynthia Coe is now out! Read it here: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2...
#PhilSky #Philosophy #DisabilityStudies #DisabilitySky
Please read Anne Lyse's recent blog post for Lived Places Publishing that inspires and asks for engagement with disability as a unique, individual lived experience: livedplacespublishing.com/blog/redefin... #disabilitystudies