About this Event
4227 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
https://www.writinginstitute.pitt.edu/writers-disabilities/events #lecture, englishBased on Dolmage’s influential book Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, this presentation will chart the ableist attitudes, policies, and practices that are built into higher education. We will also interrogate the minimal and temporary means we have been given to address inequities, and the cost such an approach has had for disabled students and faculty. We will explore our own ableist biases, apologies and defenses in an effort to build tools for a much more accessible future.
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