Disability Studies and Self-Advocacy in the Cultural Field
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Disability Studies and Self-Advocacy in the Cultural Field
July 22, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Join the Museum, Arts, and Culture Access Consortium (MAC) for this panel on disability studies and how it can inform the cultural world. Disability studies and self-advocacy challenge us to reject disability as an individual deficit and examine the ways in which disability is both constructed and experienced collectively.
This panel is designed to give participants historical perspective on disability rights with a focus on the roles of people with disabilities in the arts. The panel will center lived experience, with a focus on the perspectives of self-advocates and activists with disabilities. Participants will learn from a diverse set of approaches to disability, challenge their perception of disability history and the pressing issues of today, and leave with tangible ideas to take back to cultural organizations.
Moderators: Danielle Levine, self-advocate, graduated in 2019 from the Melissa Riggio Program at Kingsborough Community College. She is a self advocate and advocates for job opportunities for people with disabilities. She had the opportunity to teach classes about self-advocacy and stresses the importance of standing up for yourself, others and the causes you believe in. Danielle works as an administrative assistant at a doctors office and loves her job
Christopher Leydon: Disability studies in the humanities professor at CUNY SPS.
Panelists:
- Cassandra Evans, CUNY SPS faculty member. She is teaching disability studies in the Humanities in the Fall.
- Annie Roos, SPS MA student who graduated in January. She worked at the Rubin Museum and the American Folk Art Museum and is now on the West coast.
- Kevin Gotkin, In 2016 with Simi Linton, he co-founded the Disability/Arts/NYC (DANT), an activist organization that seeks to advance the aesthetics and artistry of disability in NYC. This work has been funded by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and the Cultural Agenda Fund administered by The New York Community Trust. The activism can be seen reflected in the city’s first cultural plan, CreateNYC, and in public programming around the city, including “An Etiology of Omission” at The Whitney Museum in the fall of 2017.