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Design Interview

Crip Aesthetics, Art: An Interview with Nat Decker

  By Sam Pappas First recorded on April 3rd, 2023 In early 2021, visual artist Nat Decker (they/them) began collaborating with Gracen Brilmyer, director of the Disability Archives Lab, to create a logo representing the lab: a purple and blue paperclip, stack of folders, and pencil, each 3D and wiggling in parallel with 3D text […]

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First-person narrative Interview

Beyond Ramps in our era of COVID-19 and Beyond: A Conversation with Beatrice Adler-Bolton

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton (CUNY) & Sabrina Ward-Kimola (Concordia University) First recorded on March 22nd, 2022 Beatrice Adler-Bolton (she/they) is a disability activist, co-host of the Death Panel podcast, artist and earning her master’s in Disability Studies at The City University of New York. She is also the co-author of Health Communism. Their work draws from […]

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First-person narrative Research

The unexpected healing from identifying as disabled

By: Tara Brar. I’m a research assistant for the Disability Archives Lab, working on The Labour of Belonging: Disabled Archivists & Archival Work.  Before joining the project, my views on disability were essentially the societal “defaults,” where disability is inherently negative, a lack, or something to keep private. I had an underlying feeling that being […]