Interventions in Disability Politics
This year CAPPE is hosting a series of online talks on disability politics. All are welcome. The talks will take place every 4-6 weeks on Wednesday evenings 6pm-7.30pm. Please contact us if you have any accessibility requirements: z.sutherland@brighton.ac.uk
Wednesday 18th January:
National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities
Zoom link to join webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85893421054?pwd=VkpiNUVZZTBxSVJEbkhrM3hPelIrQT09
Meeting ID: 858 9342 1054
Passcode: 068631
It has been over 30 years since the passage of the ADA, but it has only been within the last decade that disabled Latinxs are becoming more visible and demanding disability justice. According to a 2016 national telephone survey conducted by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 61 million adults identified as having some type of disability, which means that 1 out of 4 people have a disability in the U.S. When we look at the 2010 census, 1 out of 6 people are Latina/o. Looking at the BRFSS data from 2016 to 2018 and comparing the Latino population with the rest of the country, there are now 11.8 million Latinas/os who identify with some type of disability— the two most frequent disability types being mobility impairments (15.5%) and cognitive impairments (13.3%). Although both the number of Latinxs, people with disabilities, and disabled Latinxs are increasing, we have yet to unify and position ourselves and leverage our power in the public and private sectors.
Within this context, the National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities (CNLD) has emerged as the first national organization whose sole mission is “to affirm, celebrate, and collectively uplift Latinxs with dis/abilities through community building, advocacy, protection of rights, resources, and education.” In this webinar hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics: Interventions in Disability Politics, we will discuss the purpose and goals of CNLD, its growing pains, its importance within the current U.S. sociopolitical climate, and the intersection of Latinidad, language, and disability identity.
Other talks in this series:
8th February – Genetic Fictions: Imagining disabled lives in contemporary debates about prenatal diagnosis – Lucy Burke.
Lucy is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. She specialises in the areas of critical medical humanities, literary and cultural disability studies and critical and cultural theory. Her research considers representations of dementia and cognitive disability in contemporary literature, life writing and film. She is also interested in cultural representations of disability more generally and in the impact of new medical technologies on the ways in which we think about ourselves and others.
15th March –– The Centrality of Disablement: Subjectivation to the Reproduction of Capitalist Social Relations. Ioana Cerasella Chis.
Ioana is a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham within the Department of Political Science and International Studies. She is interested in social & political theory; the philosophy of technology, and the politics of work and disablement.
5th April – “Co-Operation For Liberation? Disabled People And Co-Ops In The UK” https://www.isrf.org/2022/10/14/co-operation-for-liberation/ – Steve Graby.
Steve Graby is an independent scholar-activist in the field of Disability Studies and the Disabled People’s Movement. Their PhD thesis, ‘Personal Assistance: The Challenge of Autonomy’, led to their current ISRF-funded research project on disabled people’s involvement in co-operatives (of all kinds) in the UK. Their other research interests include neurodiversity, the social model of disability and its intersections with queer and trans-inclusive feminist theory, anarchism and psychogeography.
3rd May – The intersections of art and labour – Sophie Carapetian.
Sophie is an artist whose work seeks to interrogate the relation between art and capital through reflections on labour and wage struggles within the arts economy.
7th June – Disability and migration – Rebecca Yeo. Rebecca is a Senior Research Associate (ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow) within the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol.
Her research interests are centre around experiences of disability and forced migration in the UK, and exploring how intersectional injustices could be addressed. She is currently undertaking a research project on ‘Refining and promoting a ‘social model of asylum’ as a tool to transform responses to disability and forced migration in the UK’.
5th July – Disabled People, Labour Markets and Exploitation in the late 20th Century – Kirstie Stage.
Kirstie’s thesis examines the labour and livelihoods of disabled people between 1970 and 2015, investigating the mechanisms through which disabled people expressed, understood, and engaged with important issues within their social and professional lives.
