Event

Disability/Visibility with Alice Wong, a Conversation

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 19:00to20:30

(Virtual/ Online Event with Captions)
You need to register for the free event at the ticket link: www.eventbrite.com/e/disabilityvisibility-with-alice-wong-a-conversation.... The event will also be recorded and shared on our website after the event.

Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, media maker, and consultant. She is the Founder and Director of the Disability Visibility Project® (DVP), an online community dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture created in 2014. Currently, Alice is the Editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century, an anthology of essays by disabled people, available now by Vintage Books (2020). For her full bio, please see: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/about/alice-wong-media-kit/

This event will be a virtual fireside chat between Alice Wong and Elizabeth Patitsas, with a special introduction by Yolanda Muñoz. The conversation will focus on Alice Wong's recent book, Disability Visibility and her podcast. This will be followed by a Q and A period.

This event is part of the 2nd Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com), organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. This series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC (and the Initiative for Digital Citizen Research), the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), Milieux, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, Algorithmic Media Observatory, MILA, Cinema Politics, McGill’s Department of History and Classical Studies, Black Feminist Futures Working Group, the Sustainability Projects Fund, Moving Image Research Laboratory, The McGill Writing Centre, MUTEK IMG, the Intersectionality Research Hub, and Machine Agencies. https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/p/sponsors....

There is no fee required to attend this event. We will provide captions. The event will be recorded and the video will be made available on our website within a few days of the event. 

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