<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">You are invited to attend and participate in a special forum entitled </div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:garamond,serif"><b><font size="6">Perspectives on International Disability Activism Across Intersections</font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center">

<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Friday 17 August 2018</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">1:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. (Eastern)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Dockser Hall, Room 240</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Northeastern University School of Law</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Boston, Massachusetts</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">United States</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">(Livestream access information below.)</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">+++</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This forum, with active online and livestream participation, is a pre-conference event for the biennial Disability Intersectionality Summit, which is hosted this year with the sponsorship and support of the <a href="http://www.awnnetwork.org" target="_blank">Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network</a>. (Please note: The main summit will take place this fall in October.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start">The forum will focus on disability and its intersections with race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, in non-U.S. contexts, with the joint aims of U.S.-based activists/organizers/advocates learning from our counterparts outside the U.S., and building stronger connections with leaders and organizations abroad for future collaborations. </span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start">

<div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:large;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We are grateful to the generous support of Northeastern University School of Law's<span> </span><a href="https://www.northeastern.edu/law/academics/institutes/phrge/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy<span> </span></a>(PHRGE), the<span> </span><a href="https://www.womensmarch.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Women's March</a>, and Brandeis University's<span> </span><a href="http://lurie.brandeis.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Lurie Institute for Disability Policy</a> for making this pre-conference forum possible.</div></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">You may RSVP on </font><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/648628372202365/" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large" target="_blank">our Facebook page</a><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">, and </font><a href="https://dis-pre-conference.eventbrite.com" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large" target="_blank">buy tickets in advance</a><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"> or at the door. </font><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:start">Suggested cost is $25.00 or whatever you can </span><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">― no one will be turned away online or in-person for lack of funds</font><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:start">. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">+++</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><b><font size="6">Speakers</font></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><b>Sarah Jama</b> is a Somali-Canadian community organizer from Hamilton, Ontario. She is co-founder of the Disability Justice Network of Ontario (DJNO) and holds a Social Sciences degree from McMaster University. Her lived experiences have fostered interests and a passion for: community engagement, disability justice, and activism. </font><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><b>Khairani Barokka</b> is an Indonesian writer, poet, and artist in London, whose work has been presented extensively in twelve countries. Okka has received six residencies and multiple grants; among her honours, she was an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow for her masters, and is a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change for arts practice and research.</font><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><b>Kiran Anthony Foster</b> is a mixed-race immigrant sex worker living in auckland, new zealand. a staunch prison abolitionist, anti-imperialist marxist, and disability/queer rights activist, their continued history of radical advocacy is informed by having been born into a culture of silence as an autistic, psychotic and intersex child<br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><b>Freyja Haraldsdóttir</b> is a feminist disability activist and the founder of Tabú, an intersectional feminist disability movement in Iceland. </font></span><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">In her work for Tabú she has focused on activism around reducing violence against disabled people and building up platforms of peer support and empowerment workshops and activism for disabled people of all genders.</font><span style="text-align:start"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><b>Finn Gardiner</b> is a tireless disability rights advocate, primarily interested 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.</font><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><b>Maria (Conchita) Hernandez Legorreta</b> was born in Mexico and grew up in California. She is currently a Doctoral student at George Washington University pursuing a degree in Special Education. Conchita is founder of METAS, a non-profit organization that trains educators in Latin America that work with blind/low vision students and students with other disabilities. <br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><b>Ayman Eckford</b> is a neurodiversity, disability justice and queer activist, intersectional feminist and radical youth liberationist. They are autistic multiple neurodivergent queer Jewish refugee born in Donetsk, in the east of Ukraine, who moved to St. Petersburg, Russia after the outbreak of the civil war.</font><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><b>Lina Ekford</b> is autistic bisexual woman who live in St. Petersburg, Russia. Together with her wife Ayman, she runs Autistic initiative for civil rights and a number of projects about autism and disability.<br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><b>Shiri Eisner</b> is a bisexual, genderqueer, and feminist activist and writer. She is also Mizrahi, vegan, disabled, an anarchist, a geek, a metalhead, and a crazy cat lady. She is the author of the book <i>B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<div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:large;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You may RSVP on<span> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/648628372202365/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">our Facebook page</a>, and<span> </span><a href="https://dis-pre-conference.eventbrite.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">buy tickets in advance</a>. <span style="text-align:start">You may also pay what you can at the door.</span></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">Suggested cost $25.00 or whatever you can </font></span><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">― no one will be turned away for lack of funds</font><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;text-align:start">. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">Donations to support this programming and making it accessible are welcome. Please send donations to the <a href="https://awnnetwork.org/donate-to-awn/" target="_blank">Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network</a> and indicate that the donation is for the August DIS Pre-Conference Forum.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="text-align:start"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">Please direct questions about this forum to Lydia Brown at <a href="mailto:lydia@autistichoya.com" target="_blank">lydia@autistichoya.com</a> or +1 202-618-0187.</font></span></div></div><div><div class="m_-500680938186749624gmail-m_4185892755007440555gmail-m_9075218377363412912m_7437432572966129552gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<br clear="all"></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">______________<br><b>Lydia X. Z. Brown </b></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">(they/them/theirs)</font></div><div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><a href="mailto:lydia@autistichoya.com" title="[GMCP] Compose a new mail to lydia@autistichoya.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">lydia@autistichoya.com</a><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">+1 (202) 618-0187 </font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><a href="http://www.autistichoya.net" target="_blank">www.autistichoya.net</a></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">“‘</font><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">No’ </span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">might make them angry. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">but </span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">it will make you free.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">―</span><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"> </span><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">if no one has ever told you, your freedom is more important than their anger</font><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">” </span></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">― Nayyirah Waheed<br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” </font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">― Arundhati Roy</font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">“</span><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">Life is short and the world </font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">is at least half terrible, and for every kind </font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">stranger, there is one who would break you, </font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">though I keep this from my children. I am trying </font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, </font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">walking you through a real shithole, chirps on </font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">about good bones: This place could be beautiful, </font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">right? You could make this place beautiful.</font><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">” </span><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">― Maggie Smith</span><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="6"><b>Resist. Stay Ungovernable. Rebel.</b></font></div><div><div><div><font size="4"><font face="garamond, serif"><b><br></b></font></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="garamond, serif"><b>If you or someone you know is currently in danger or in crisis</b>, please consider reaching out to someone who might be able to help — click for <a href="https://goo.gl/Xifa1C" target="_blank">a list of text message, online chat, videophone, TTY, and phone hotlines</a>, including those specific to Deaf, LGBTQ+, and trans people. </font><b style="font-family:garamond,serif">Generally having a hard time</b><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">? Try <a href="http://bit.ly/selfcarehelp" target="_blank">bit.ly/selfcarehelp</a> for a text-accessible, interactive self-care/executive functioning tool.</span></font></div></div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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