The first event in 2023 for the THI Research Cluster for “Disability Geographies and Disability Time Travels” will be held on Friday, February 24th from 11-12:30 via Zoom. We will be reading the Introduction and Chapter 1 from Sami Schalk’s new book Black Disability Politics (Duke 2022). We are very excited about this as our first text because it brings together many of the themes that are central to this cluster’s work: the importance of intersectionality to the project of disability justice and the role of disabled Black communities in creating disability justice movements; the importance of history in the “time travel” of imagining disability futures — not to mention that for those of us in this part of California, much of the history Schalk is engaging is, in fact, local history, attached to the geographies many of us encounter every day.
The book is available in our shared DS-THI drive, through the library, or wherever you like to order books.
