Mara Mills
@maramills.bsky.social
prof of media, culture, and communication @ nyu history & theory of digital media, electronics, computing disability studies / disability arts banner: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/730402 avatar: jojo doodles conference sketches
'How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic' @maramills.bsky.social @harriskornstein.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social was recommended in our Year in Books for showing how to fight "for a world free of prisons, cops, and futures foreclosed by the unequal distribution of health."
The Year in Books - Inquest
Inquest staff recommendations of not-to-be-missed decarceral books from 2025.
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Just saw this "Top 10 #Books I Read in 2025 on disability, art, & education" curated by Bill Porter. Honored that my ANIMATED FILM & #DISABILITY is listed with my favorite DS authors! @margaretprice.bsky.social, @maramills.bsky.social, Rebecca Sanchez, Georgina Kleege substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Top 10 Books I Read in 2025
A Curated List of Books That Deepened My Understanding of Disability, Art, and Education
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Thinking of Sharon Kowalski today and saw that she died in October 2023. She and her partner Karen Thompson were such forces in the queer and disability worlds of the 80s/90s. I don't see many markers of her passing online. Remembering Sharon Kowalski: www.danielfuneralhome.com/obit/sharon-...
Sharon K. Kowalski - Daniel Funeral Home & Cremation Service
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NYU’s Center for Disability Studies is honored to co-present a screening of the Sundance-award winning documentary LIFE AFTER at NYC’s Film Forum on July 23 at 7:10pm.
"... I am honored to join the Mellon Foundation as a senior fellow. Together, we will work to strengthen the public knowledge ecosystem and ensure that the transformative power of information remains accessible to all..." - Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress
Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
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ASAN mourns the loss of Patricia "Patty" Berne, co-founder of Sins Invalid and a trailblazing leader in the Disability Justice movement. #PattyLivesThroughUs
Labs for Liberation are running a great program of learning and engagement this summer!
Critical Design Lab@criticaldesignlab.bsky.social · last yr.Free and open to the public, with ASL and CART: Summer lecture series on disability and design. Register at: labsforliberation.org/2025/05/30/l... [image description: labs for liberation logo, a circuit board-style sun, with text summer institute on disability and design, june 9-july 18, 2025]
With an excerpt from How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press 2025). Wisdom and disability expertise from my many coauthors: a collective of disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and nondisabled scholars, students, activists, lawyers, journalists, artists and librarians.
Truthout@truthout.org · last yr.White House rhetoric dehumanizes disabled communities, but activists continue to organize for access, care and justice.
Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT
Many congratulations to the excellent @ndkane.bsky.social for what looks like a terrific new exhibition at the V&A and this glowing review of it www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Design and Disability review – ‘A world-shaping, boundary-breaking joy of a show’
From self-tightening shoes to an all-purpose hands-free vibrator, this superb exhibition demonstrates that disability-led culture and design is about so much more than ramps
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Our June issue is now live! It kicks off with a forum on Media and Fascism, featuring a star-studded list of contributors. Get started with this introduction by forum editors @paulachak.bsky.social and @ajbauer.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/ccc/article-...
Cruel capitalism: a forum on media and fascism
Abstract. This article introduces a forum on “Media and Fascism” by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of intern
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‼️(THREAD) Today, Chairman Harris openly said that cuts in the House Appropriations proposal are only the FIRST STEP in cutting WIC fruit and vegetable benefits by up to 75%. 🗣️🗣️🗣️ We MUST oppose this. >> bit.ly/nocuts26
Today! ADA at 35: Navigating Accessibility in the Hybrid Interior from 6-8PM at Center for Architecture and Zoom! calendar.aiany.org/2025/06/02/a...
ADA at 35: Navigating Accessibility in the Hybrid Interior - Calendar - AIA New York / Center for Architecture
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Crip Authorship comes to the V&A! Pleased to host @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez on 21st June for a special event with @louhicky.bsky.social Kelsie Acton and Georgina Kleege. Tickets to the in person event and workshop here, online stream below: www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...
Crip Authorship: Disability as a Method for Creativity - Special event at V&A South Kensington · V&A
An afternoon of talks, a screening, and a workshop exploring disability, authorship, and access.
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So excited for your talk, Louise! (And to see you in person again after WAY too long.)
Louise Hickman@louhicky.bsky.social · last yr.I'm giving a new talk on *"Subtitles on Fire"* at the V&A for the Design and Disability show. Featuring a screening of *Captioning and Captioning* — celebrating all things crip authorship with @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez #DesignAndDisability www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...
Congratulations Patrick! No doubt, the first of many honors for this groundbreaking book on disability, labor, and performance:
Patrick McKelvey@pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · last yr.Excited to share that “Disability Works” received the Working-Class Studies Association’s CLR James Award for the best book published for academic or general audiences!
Made it to Carolyn Lazard's Two-Way at Artists Space before the exhibition closed: two experimental films about race, childbirth, and healthcare, set in the Elmhurst Hospital simulation center. (Both are fictional: one is a fictional documentary, the other is a documentary of a medical simulation.)
excited to (remotely) participate in Kampnagel's Performative Book Fair again. The fair opened this year with a talk by Sami Schalk on disability in Octavia Butler's Kindred: kampnagel.de/en/productio...
Eröffnung - Kampnagel
What forms and possibilities lie in literature when the focus is on inclusion and solidarity? For the second time, THE PERFORMATIVE BOOK FAIR invites you to…
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NYU Center for Disability Studies@center4ds.bsky.social · last yr.Join us on Friday at 1PM EST for a panel on Crip Authorship: Disability as Method with Kelsie Acton, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, @jaivirdi.com, Rebecca Sanchez, and @maramills.bsky.social, who will delve into the books' central theme of translation. Livestream here: us02web.zoom.us/j/8588092479...
so excited to pay a studio visit to Finnegan Shannon at EFA today! www.studios-efanyc.org/member-artists
having been on the advisory committee for one small part of this project, I can attest that it's an essential resource. Check out the timeline page to see how immigration, race, and disability segregation--& protest--are interwoven in the history of NYC schools: nyccivilrightshistory.org/timeline/
Timeline of Sources
A teaching guide to the history of NYC schools
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Ansley Erickson@ansleyerickson.bsky.social · last yr.Free teaching and learning resource that we need right now: how NYC students, parents, and educators saw injustice in their schools and resisted it. How they worked to build the just schools they deserved.
As usual I loved the gorgeous sound descriptions by @charleseppley.bsky.social last night at Air Change Per Hour, Anna RG's sold out performance at ISSUE on sound & accessibility "in the context of airborne safety." Compositions sculpted from air filter sounds, the breath of sick artists, and more.
This Thursday, April 24 @ 7PM we are co-sponsoring Intimacy Violation: a film screening and performance by Yining Chi. At Come Forever in Williamsburg and Zoom! Register here: disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/intima...
NYU Center for Disability Studies - Intimacy Violation: a film screening and performance
Intimacy Violation: screening of a work-in-progress film by Yining Chi, followed by a participatory performance around audio description led by the artist and a discussion moderated by Meesh Sara Frad...
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We can't wait to celebrate the accomplishments of HTBDIAP co-editors at their launch party next week! Join @center4ds.bsky.social for an evening of refreshments and select readings. Check out the event details here: buff.ly/GTOlhfi
Never received a notification, but logging into the NEH portal, I see Warning: FULL: Administrative Termination. The book has been drafted & we will definitely be writing in our introduction about the irony of having a peer-reviewed project discussing Neuralink (among other co's) defunded by DOGE.
Mara Mills@maramills.bsky.social · last yr.grateful to the NEH Office of Digital Humanities for a collaborative "dangers and opportunities of technology" grant to study cochlear implants and brain implants, including those created by Musk's Neuralink. Will be filling out this survey:
RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is
