Pop Culture Representations of Disability
Oct 21, 2019
1:30PM to 3:00PM
1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Canada
Date/Time
Date(s) - 21/10/2019
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
Mills Library Community Room – L304 (third floor)
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The Disability and Mad Studies Reading Group endeavors to cultivate an accessible social and intellectual disability community on campus for those with disabilities, developing Disability Studies scholarship, engaged in disability inclusion and accessibility work, and/or interested in learning more. Anyone is welcome to participate, including community members without affiliations to McMaster. To receive updates and meeting invitations, email Aisha and Alise at cripgrad@mcmaster.ca to join our mailing list. Please get in touch if you would be interested in co/facilitating a future session!
Upcoming Fall 2019 Activities
(You’re invited to review the listed readings/material before the meeting, but this is not required for attendance.)
Topic: Pop Culture Representations of Disability
Time? Monday, October 21 from 1:30-3pm
Location? Mills Library Community Room – L304 (third floor)
Facilitator: Aisha Wilks, MA student in English & Cultural Studies
*Lunch provided*
RSVP: tinyurl.com/CripGrad
Readings:
- Queer Eye episode (season 4, episode 2) “Disabled, But Not Really” available on Netflix (and screened during our meeting)
- Dan Freeman’s Live Tweet of the Queer Eye episode “Disabled, But Not Really”
- Alex Haagaard & Liz Jackson’s Queer Eye Demonstrates How We Can Show Disability, But Fail to Represent It in Quartz
- Imani Barbarin (@Imani_Barbarin / CrutchesandSpice.com) article entitled “On Being Black and ‘Disabled But Not Really’” at ReWire News
- Vilissa Thompson’s (@VilissaThompson) response on Twitter and subsequent article called “Some Disabled People Blasted Queer Eye. But Without Talking About Race, It Misses the Point” for Healthline