Toward an Anti-Ableist Academy Conference Virtual Sessions

Toward an Anti-Ableist Academy Conference invites the campus community to learn more about creating a welcoming University climate that actively works toward embracing disability culture and experiences.

The Conference encourages open dialogue and discussion with students, staff, faculty and disability experts, providing opportunities to learn about best practices that ensure the disabled community can fully participate in campus life at the University of Michigan.

In addition to our kick-off and keynote speaker event on Tuesday, October 29, (https://diversity.umich.edu/events/anti-ableist-academy-conference/toward-an-anti-ableist-academy-conference-2024/), there will 4 virtual sessions held on Wednesday, October 30 and Thursday, October 31 to further encourage open dialogue and discussion with students, staff, faculty and disability experts, providing opportunities to learn about best practices that ensure the disabled community can fully participate in campus life at the University of Michigan.



Disability Culture in Comics: Finding and Telling Our Own Stories Our Own Ways

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PF Anderson (Emerging Technologies Informationist, Taubman Health Sciences Library)

With the advent of graphic medicine and indie publishing, disability representation in comics has moved beyond Professor X, Oracle, Daredevil, and Doc Ock into the realm of #OwnVoices and #NothingAboutUs. People are telling their own stories about their own complicated messy intersectional lives with lived experiences that include a diversity of experiences — adaptive sports, autism, anxiety, bipolar, diabetes, epilepsy, spina bifida, wheelchair life, and much more. What do these small press and independently published disability comics look like, and how do you find them? How do they show disability culture and community? Are they just for kids? (Spoiler: NO! But some are.) Are they being used in academia? (Spoiler: YES! And in therapy, too!) These questions and more will be answered in this presentation.

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