[Athen] Tomorrow: Disability Justice & Crip Technoscience; Sunday: Disrupting Educational Ableism & Racism

[Lydia X. Z. Brown]

Tomorrow: Disability Justice & Crip Technoscience; Sunday: Disrupting
Educational Ableism & Racism
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#LiberatingWebinars programming

Disability Justice & Crip Technoscience: Racism & Ableism in AI & the
Future of Technology

*Friday, 23 April 2021, at 5pm ET / 4pm CT / 2pm PT*

Join AWN for a discussion with Damien Patrick Williams
<http://www.afutureworththinkingabout.com/?page_id=5038> and Crystal Lee
<http://web.mit.edu/crystall/www/> on disability justice interventions for
racism and ableism in AI.

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[image: Event banner shows a stock image of a city at night overlaid with
icons representing a connected web of data. There are photos of two people.
The first person is Damien, a Black man with a mohawk and glasses, stands
indoors in front of two tall bookshelves full of books, one thin & red, one
of wide untreated pine, and a large monitor with a printer and papers on
the stand beneath it. He is wearing a black button up shirt, a red paisley
tie, a light grey check suit jacket, and black jeans. The second person is
Crystal Lee, a medium-skinned Asian woman with a pixie cut wearing a gray
shirt and round eyeglasses with black frames. Trees and other greenery are
behind her. The text says, Disability Justice & Crip Technoscience: Racism
& Ableism in AI & the Future of Technology, 23 April 2021 at 5pm Eastern /
2pm Pacific. The corner shows the AWN logo - a large "a" with a dragonfly
on it, and the words awnnetwork.org.]

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are ubiquitous, affecting
pretrial bail determinations, health care resource allocation, school
admissions, credit reporting, hiring, and policing. For disabled people,
technology has often both created and enabled greater access and also
threatened to sever access while promoting eugenicist ideas about cures.
What interventions do Disability Justice and the emergent field of
crip technoscience
<https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29607> (named
first by Aimi Hamraie and Kelly Fritsch) make into conversations about AI
and the future of technology? Where does “algorithmic fairness” or
“algorithmic bias” fall short in addressing racism and ableism?

Speakers

Damien Patrick Williams
<http://www.afutureworththinkingabout.com/?page_id=5038> is a PhD candidate
in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, at Virginia Tech.
Damien researches how the values, knowledge systems, philosophies, social
structures, religious beliefs, and lived experiences of humans can affect
the creation and use of algorithms, machine intelligence, biotechnological
interventions, and other technological systems and artifacts. More on
Damien’s research can be found at A Future Worth Thinking About
<http://www.afutureworththinkingabout.com/?page_id=5038>.

Crystal Lee <http://web.mit.edu/crystall/www/> is a PhD candidate at MIT
and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. She works
broadly on topics related to the social and political dimensions of
computing, data visualization, and disability. She also conducts
ethnographic and computational research on social media communities.
Crystal’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation,
Social Science Research Council, and the MIT Programs for the Digital
Humanities. Previously, she was a visiting research scientist at the
European Commission, and graduated with high honors from Stanford
University.

Moderator

Lydia X. Z. Brown is AWN’s Director of Policy, Advocacy, & External Affairs.

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Disrupting Educational Ableism & Racism: Disability, Race, & Trauma in
Schools

*Sunday, 25 April 2021, at 4pm ET / 3pm CT / 1pm PT*

Join AWN for a discussion with Mahlet Meshesha
<https://u.osu.edu/humandignity/team/> and Jilisa Milton
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jilisamilton/> on disability, race, and trauma
in schools.

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[image: Event banner shows a photo of a school building in snow. There are
photos of two people. The first person is Mahlet, a Black person with tight
curly hair tied back, wearing a dark patterned shawl. The second person is
Jilisa, a Black person with long thin dreads and glasses, wearing a
turtleneck. The text says, Disrupting Educational Ableism & Racism:
Disability, Race, & Trauma in Schools, 25 April 2021 at 4pm Eastern / 1pm
Pacific. The corner shows the AWN logo - a large "a" with a dragonfly on
it, and the words awnnetwork.org.]

“Schools and the legal system tend to label these children as disobedient,
disorderly, and dis/abled while simultaneously ignoring the voices of the
children themselves. This pathologization then is perpetuated through the
labeling, surveillance, and punishment of unwanted students along with the
silencing of their voices.”
– Subini Ancy Annamma, in *The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls
of Color in the School-prison Nexus*

For many disabled people, school is not a safe place. Instead, it is a
place where we are subjected to coercive and involuntary treatment,
isolation and bullying from peers, abuse in the name of help, and constant
surveillance and criminalization – all of which cause and exacerbate
trauma. Black and Brown disabled students – especially those who face
additional vectors of marginalization – face the brunt of ableism and
racism in schools. How can neurodivergent and other disabled people make
critical interventions and inroads into educational advocacy? How can we do
anti-oppression, liberation-focused work within carceral spaces like the
family regulation system, the legal system, and the educational system?

Speakers

Mahlet Meshesha <https://u.osu.edu/humandignity/team/>, LCSW, is a
school-based trauma therapist where she works with youth and families of
Color. Her clinical practice is focused on decolonizing mental health
treatment and addressing how oppressive structural and cultural factors
impact mental health/wellness. She received her Masters of Social Work in
2019 from Boston University where she specialized in child trauma and
social work leadership. Currently, she is obtaining her Master’s in public
health at George Washington University.

Jilisa Milton <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jilisamilton/> is an Alabama
based civil rights attorney, policy analyst, social worker, racial justice
activist, community organizer, and relational strategist. She has nearly a
decade of experience working at the intersection of racial equity, critical
race & feminist theory, poverty, criminal justice reform, mental health,
and reproductive justice. Ms. Milton currently practices law in Alabama,
implementing a project in the Black Belt that protects children with
disabilities from entering the school to prison pipeline, and ensures
access to disability-related legal services and health services.

Moderator

Lydia X. Z. Brown is AWN’s Director of Policy, Advocacy, & External Affairs.

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Health Justice is Disability Justice: Disabled Perspectives in Public
Health Research, Policy, & Advocacy

*Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 5pm ET / 4pm CT / 2pm PT*

Please join AWN for a discussion with Nassira D. Nicola
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/nassira-nicola/> and Emily M. Lund
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mKKjryQAAAAJ&hl=en> on
disability justice and public health.

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Arab-American femme with light olive skin and dark hair, posing in front of
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cat's-eye glasses with swirls of translucent pink, and a gauzy salmon-pink
scarf looped around her neck. Next to her scarf, her employee ID badge
hangs from a yellow button with "challenge ableism" written in black. Her
lipstick is an exact match for the color of her scarf, and her eyeshadow is
the same color as the button. The second person is Emily, a white
non-binary person with medium-length brown hair and glasses smiles at the
camera. They are wearing a teal fleece shirt. The text says, Health Justice
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Policy, & Advocacy, 28 April 2021 at 5pm Eastern / 2pm Pacific. The corner
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awnnetwork.org.]]

The COVID-19 pandemic helps reveal ableism in our laws, policies, and
practices through health care rationing proposals, disastrous vaccine
rollouts, and relief measures that have failed to assist disabled people
impacted by loss of personal attendant care, forced to work in high-risk
jobs, and disproportionately more likely to experience homelessness,
domestic violence, and food insecurity. What do disabled advocates,
scholars, and policy experts have to offer public health research, policy,
and advocacy? How can disabled people’s knowledge, wisdom, and offerings
disrupt and end unjust and inequitable pandemic policies and practices?

Speakers

Nassira D. Nicola <https://www.linkedin.com/in/nassira-nicola/> is the lead
Health and Disability Program Coordinator in the Office of Health Equity at
the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. She has advised numerous
programs within DPH, and across the country, on ways to learn from and
include disabled people as both members of the public and colleagues. When
not working (or when in long meetings), she can be found knitting piles of
lace shawls and blankets for other people’s babies.

Emily M. Lund <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mKKjryQAAAAJ&hl=en>,
PhD, CRC, is an Assistant Professor of Counselor Education in the
department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and
Counseling at the University of Alabama. Their primary research interests
include interpersonal violence and trauma in people with disabilities;
suicide and non-suicidal self-injury in people with disabilities; the
experiences of graduate students with disabilities; and LGBTQ+ issues,
particularly as they intersect with disability. Dr. Lund has published over
90 peer-reviewed articles and edited two books on these and similar topics.
Their work emphasizes positive disability identity development,
marginalization, intersectionality, and disability cultural competence.

Moderator

Lydia X. Z. Brown is AWN’s Director of Policy, Advocacy, & External Affairs.

RSVP for “Health Justice is Disability Justice: Disabled Perspectives in
Public Health Research, Policy, & Advocacy”
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Please email questions to lbrown at awnnetwork.org.
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representing a connected web of data. There are photos of two people. The
first person is Damien, a Black man with a mohawk and glasses, stands
indoors in front of two tall bookshelves full of books, one thin & red, one
of wide untreated pine, and a large monitor with a printer and papers on
the stand beneath it. He is wearing a black button up shirt, a red paisley
tie, a light grey check suit jacket, and black jeans. The second person is
Crystal Lee, a medium-skinned Asian woman with a pixie cut wearing a gray
shirt and round eyeglasses with black frames. Trees and other greenery are
behind her. The text says, Disability Justice & Crip Technoscience: Racism
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turtleneck. The text says, Disrupting Educational Ableism & Racism:
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Pacific. The corner shows the AWN logo - a large "a" with a dragonfly on
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Event banner shows a green smoothie and cut-open apple. There are photos of
two people. The first person is Nassira, a fat Arab-American femme with
light olive skin and dark hair, posing in front of a grey cubicle wall. She
is wearing a charcoal-grey t-shirt, black cat's-eye glasses with swirls of
translucent pink, and a gauzy salmon-pink scarf looped around her neck.
Next to her scarf, her employee ID badge hangs from a yellow button with
"challenge ableism" written in black. Her lipstick is an exact match for
the color of her scarf, and her eyeshadow is the same color as the button.
The second person is Emily, a white non-binary person with medium-length
brown hair and glasses smiles at the camera. They are wearing a teal fleece
shirt. The text says, Health Justice is Disability Justice: Disabled
Perspectives in Public Health Research, Policy, & Advocacy, 28 April 2021
at 5pm Eastern / 2pm Pacific. The corner shows the AWN logo - a large "a"
with a dragonfly on it, and the words awnnetwork.org.
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