[Athen] Next week+coming soon: #LiberatingWebinars on accountable disability journalism, cultural work+disability justice, and disability literature

[Lydia X. Z. Brown]

*Radically Revealing Truth: Accountable Disability Journalism*

*Wednesday 13 April 2022 at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific*

Please join the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network for a conversation with
Cara Reedy, Finn Gardiner, Alaina Leary, and s.e. smith on accountable
disability journalism.

Journalism is a way through which we view and learn about the world around
us. Especially because we cannot be everywhere at once, journalism is the
way in which we connect with community-it is where we begin to learn of
each other's lives and how we can support one another. Because community
care relies on the reports that journalists make, it is vital that
journalism be accurate and accountable to our communities. Accountable
journalism is justice. And accountable disability journalism is disability
justice. Join us as we explore what this means.

We will provide ASL interpretation and CART captioning for this event,
which participants will be able to join by video or phone.

*RSVP for accountable disability journalism*
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/radically-revealing-truth-accountable-disability-journalism-tickets-314086590447>

*Speakers*

*Cara Reedy* is a journalist and producer who worked at CNN producing
documentaries as well as writing for Eatocracy and CNN Business. She’s
freelanced at NPR. In 2019, she co-produced a short doc for The Guardian
entitled Dwarfism and Me, which was an exploration into the treatment of
Dwarfs in American society. She is now the Director of the Disabled
Journalists Association at Storyline Partners.

*Finn Gardiner* is a disability rights advocate with interests in
educational equity, intersectional justice, comparative policy, and
inclusive technology. He holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the
Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and a
bachelor’s degree in sociology from Tufts University. He is currently the
Communications Specialist at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at
Brandeis University, where he combines disability advocacy, policy analysis
and research, and written and visual communications through policy briefs,
original reports and white papers, and contributions to research projects.
His research and advocacy interests include education and employment for
autistic adults, comparative disability policy, inclusive technology, LGBTQ
cultural competency, and policy that addresses the intersections between
disability, race, LGBTQ identities, class, and other experiences.

*Alaina Leary* is a program manager at We Need Diverse Books, a book
reviewer for Booklist, a journalist, and an affiliated faculty member at
Emerson College. Her work has focused on increasing equity and access for
marginalized people and has been published in outlets like Good
Housekeeping, The New York Times, Refinery29, The Boston Globe Magazine,
Teen Vogue, and Healthline. She lives outside of Boston with her wife,
three literary cats, and a rainbow bookshelf.

*s.e. smith* is a Northern California-based journalist, essayist, and
editor. smith's work on disability, culture, and social attitudes has
appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, Time, The Guardian,
Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Vice, in addition to anthologies, most recently
Disability Disability. They received a National Magazine Award in 2020 for
their work in Catapult.

*Moderator*: *Lydia X. Z. Brown*, AWN Director of Policy, Advocacy, and
External Affairs

Please note that after registering on EventBrite, you will also receive
instructions for receiving a Zoom link. AWN will host this event on Zoom as
well as livestream to Facebook.

[Image: Banner shows a blue gradient background with a strip of a photo of
buildings with TV screens. There is Cara, a black curly haired, light brown
skin, smiling African American woman wearing a black v-neck shirt. Then
there is Finn, a Black person wearing glasses and a blue shirt. Last is
Alaina, a white person with short dark brown and lavender hair, standing
outside in front of a wall of flowers, holding a bouquet of dried flowers.
s.e. is not pictured. Text says, Radically Revealing Truth: Accountable
Disability Journalism, 13 Apr 2022 at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific, with Cara
Reedy, Finn Gardiner, Alaina Leary, and s.e. smith. The corner shows the
AWN logo - a large "a" with a dragonfly on it, and the words awnnetwork.org
.]

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*Cultural Work, Visual Art, and Disability Justice*

*Sunday 24 April 2022 at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific*

Please join the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network in conversation with
Ashanti and Micah as we explore the world of visual art and cultural work
as it intersects with disability justice.

We will provide ASL interpretation and CART captioning for this event,
which participants will be able to join by video or phone.

*RSVP for visual art and disability justice*
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultural-work-visual-art-and-disability-justice-tickets-306041707987>

*Speakers*

*Ashanti Fortson* is an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, editor, and
professor with a deep interest in difficult emotions, quiet moments, and
the rifts and connections between human beings. Their work explores
transience and reflection through a tenderhearted lens, and depicting the
vastness and variety of human experience is one of their foundational
principles. Ashanti lives in Baltimore with their spouse, their cat Miss
Cheese, and at least three pet rats at all times.

*Micah Bazant* (they) is a visual artist and cultural strategist who works
with liberation movements to reimagine the world. For over a decade they
have created collaborative art inspired by struggles to decolonize
ourselves from white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, and the gender binary.
They are a settler on Ohlone land (so-called Berkeley, CA) and love growing
food, reading speculative fiction, and admiring caterpillars. Learn more
about their work at micahbazant.com and @micahbazant on instagram.

*Moderator*: *Lydia X. Z. Brown*, AWN Director of Policy, Advocacy, and
External Affairs

Please note that after registering on EventBrite, you will also receive
instructions for receiving a Zoom link. AWN will host this event on Zoom as
well as livestream to Facebook.

[Image: Banner shows colored pencils and a paintbrush on top of a paint
palette. There is Ashanti, a light-skinned Afro-Latine non-binary person
with dark, jaw-length curly hair and dark circle-frame glasses. They're
wearing a coral-colored sweatshirt with a floral pattern in white, yellow,
blue, and black. Then there is Micah, a white trans person with short brown
hair, wearing a blue t-shirt. They are smiling playfully and holding a
large leaf over half their face. Text says, Cultural Work, Visual Art, and
Disability Justice, 24 Apr 2022 at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific. The corner
shows the AWN logo - a large "a" with a dragonfly on it, and the words
awnnetwork.org.]

***
*Crip Cultural Work: Disabled and Writing Literature*

*Wednesday 18 May 2022 at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific*

Please join the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network in conversation with
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, The Cyborg Jillian Weise, and T. S. Banks on being
disabled and writing literature.

We will provide ASL interpretation and CART captioning for this event,
which participants will be able to join by video or phone.

*RSVP for disability and literature
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crip-cultural-work-disabled-and-writing-literature-tickets-298927629587>*

*Speakers*

*Cyrée** Jarelle Johnson* (he/him) is a poet and writer from Piscataway,
NJ. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Review, Vice, and
ArtNews among other publications. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from
Columbia University. SLINGSHOT, his first collection of poetry, won a 2020
Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry, and is available now from Nightboat
Books. He was a 2020 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow
and the inaugural Brooklyn Public Library Poet-In-Residence.

*The Cyborg Jillian Weise*'s books include The Amputee's Guide to Sex
(2007, 2017); the novel The Colony (2010); The Book of Goodbyes (2013);
Cyborg Detective (2019) and the chapbook Give It to Alfie Tonight (2020).
Cy started Borg4Borg Productions and directed A Kim Deal Party. It is
inaccessible and unavailable to nondisabled audiences. Cy's memoir is
forthcoming from Ecco in 2023.

*T. S. Banks *(he/they/ze) is a Black & QTDisabled, non-binary teaching
artist, poet, and playwright from Madison, WI. He is the founder of Loud ‘N
UnChained Theater Co and co-founder of Sweet Water Liberation Lab. Their
work addresses visioning for Black Liberation, a critique of the medical
system, radical care + access, madness, QT Liberation, disability justice,
abolition and cross-movement solidarity.

*Moderator*: *Lydia X. Z. Brown*, AWN Director of Policy, Advocacy, and
External Affairs

Please note that after registering on EventBrite, you will also receive
instructions for receiving a Zoom link. AWN will host this event on Zoom as
well as livestream to Facebook.

[Image: Event banner shows paper with cursive writing on them. There are
three people. First is Cyrée, a black trans person with locs pushed to the
side under a black hat smiling at the camera in a multicolored leopard
print shirt. Second is Cy, a white cyborg wearing a vest with lots of gold
zippers. Cy's hand is raised to one side. Cy's back is not straight. Third
is T, a dark skinned Black QT Disabled & fat poet. He has on a gold sweater
and a dark green button up, glasses, and locs with gold tips. Text says,
Crip Cultural Work: Disabled and Writing Literature, 18 May 2022 at 7pm
Eastern / 4pm Pacific. The corner shows the AWN logo - a large "a" with a
dragonfly on it, and the words awnnetwork.org.]
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