In the afternoon of March 3, I’ll be presenting a bit of my dissertation research at the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science Conference in the Basswood Room of the Emory Conference Center at 2:45 pm. Come through! I’ll tell you about this picture!
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Beyond Access: Why Disability Matters a talk by @miamingus
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Black Thought 2.0 Conference April 6-7 @Duke
I’m super geeked to be presenting at the Duke University Black Thought 2.0 Conference April 7 at 1: 30 pm. I’ll be repping the Crunk Feminist Collective and paneling with the wonder twin, Alexis Pauline Gumbs. They also have me listed as a Ph.D. which is simultaneously motivating and terrifying. Conference organizers will be live streaming and tweeting the event…
Alternative Academic Careers @EmoryDiSC
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Task Managers
So I’ve decided to give a new task manager a try as Google tasks was not quite cutting it for me. I am now a 40 minute user of producteev and so far so good! Anyone else have task managers that they like?
Vampires and Cyborgs: Transhuman Ability and Ableism in the work of Octavia Butler and Janelle Monáe
The afrofuturist dystopic visions of Octavia Butler and Janelle Monáe tip on the tightrope of critical disability studies through the possibilities and limitations they reveal for post-human bodies. In Butler’s speculative fiction, disabled characters are gifted with transhuman abilities that are also impairments, making them hypervisible vulnerable targets of violence. Ableism in her texts…
Welcome!
Hello world! This is my website. I’ll talk about my research, share publications, projects, and processes on these pages (I love alliteration!). I’m currently a graduate student at Emory University finishing a PhD in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Take a look around! Follow me on Twitter! Looking forward to connecting! Best, Moya