Michigan Dis Studies

The Disability Studies Group at the University of Michigan.

[Dr. Jessie Male 🍉 @ProfJMale]

All the members of the Disability Pedagogy panel at UMich!Grateful to share ideas with incredible scholars! #cripfu

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

This is not a metaphor for the end of a conference #cripfu

[U-M DPSS @umichdpss]

No drones allowed on campus while @umich policy is being developed. https://t.co/NHqMj33hlB
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[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

Chandler: collaborative art possesses expressive possibilities, but when collaboration is the "only" option, it's kind of a drag #cripfu3a

[chad iwertz duffy @ceiwertz]

Sarah Lawrence exploring the relationship b/w the body and identity in #cripfu #cripfu3b

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

Chandler: "crip art aesthetics" invites us to be satiated by the difference that disability makes #cripfu3a #cripfu

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

Chandler narrates experiences in welding studio that demonstrate tolerance, not "crip" acts of desire and collaboration #cripfu3a #cripfu

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

Chandler: "ableist ambushes" force us to "dwell" in examples of abutments between dis culture and ableist structures #cripfu3a #cripfu3a

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

We're so thankful for our live tweeters, who put accessible pedagogy into practice 140 characters at a time! #cripfu

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

Chandler frames the broad Canadian debate re: disability as hauntingly preoccupied with access, including access to death #cripfu3a #cripfu

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

Now we hear from Eliza Chandler, "Strange Beauty: Aesthetic Possibilities for Sustaining Disability into the Future" #cripfu3a #cripfu

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@rebecahpulsifer reading Molloy is "an exercise in becoming comfortable with the unknown" #cripfu3a #cripfu

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@rebecahpulsifer suggests the convergence of Molloy & Moran (Beckett) argues against fast reading, quick answers/interpretations #cripfu3a

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

@rebecahpulsifer intellectual disability offers an ethics of delay that informs close reading: "slow reading" #cripfu3a #cripfu

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

@rebecahpulsifer offers a recuperation of close reading as a form of deep attention, links to Kafer's "crip time" #cripfu3a #cripfu

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

Well, Ekpo rocked! Next up, Rebecah Pulsifee! #cripfu3a #cripfu

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@wordtomymother tumblr use induces "stuplimity " (Ngai): concatenation of boredom and astonishment #cripfu3a #cripfu

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

@wordtomymother tumblr creates a depressive state that engenders different empathetic modes of communication #cripfu3a #cripfu

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

@wordtomymother "tumblr time" repetition, cyclicality, fatigue, interested disinterest; homologous state of non-normative time #cripfu3a

[Michigan Dis Studies @UofM_DisStudies]

@wordtomymother : tumblr's spare interface structures user interaction into atemporal, non-teleological scrolling #cripfu3a #cripfu