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Society for Disability Studies
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SDS is a lively scholarly association made up of artists, scholars and activists who promote Disability Studies. #DSQArchives #Soc4DisStudies

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Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social · 27d
This December the SDS is launching a membership drive! If you're in the field of #DisabilityStudies and looking for a community of researchers we hope you join us! Membership dues help sustain our flagship journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, which is SO important to the field! 1/6
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Today, I just learned about Mad Studies from discovering @disstudies.bsky.social via IG. I was aware of their journal but not aware of their socials. Wow, what a day of learning.
January 2, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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JANUARY 5, 2026 12-1:15 PM EST
Molly Joyce is joining SDS next week! Come and check it out!

MOLLY JOYCE: DISABILITY AS A CREATIVE SOURCE
Join composer and performer Molly Joyce for a talk on exploring disability as a creative source.
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#DisabilityStudies #Disability
A cream colored poster with dark text. The Society for Disability Studies logo at the top. Titled "Molly Joyce: Disability as a Creative Source." Event description reads "Join composer and performer Molly Joyce for a talk on exploring disability as a creative source. This session will highlight a range of Joyce's works across music, video, curation, and follow with a discussion/Q&A. This talk will include a 450minute lecture followed by a 30-minute Q&A." The event will take place January 5, 2026 from noon to 1:15 PM Eastern Time. Access features include comfort breaks, access copies of materials, sign language interpretation in several videos, descriptions of all visual material, auto captions will be on during the webinar, and chat enabled. On the left, a picture of Joyce playing a small MIDI keyboard with her right hand while her left hand, fitted with a prosthetic, manipulates wires connected to a circuit board. She is lit by warm spotlighting against a dark background."
December 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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If you are involved in #DisabilityStudies we hope that you consider becoming a member of the Society for Disability Studies! Becoming a member and paying dues is an awesome way to support disability research and the advancement of Disability Studies in #HigherEd 1/6
A light blue infographic with the "Society for Disability Studies" logo at the top. At the bottom, a comic of three disabled people with prosthetics and assistive devices who are posing for photos with one another. Reads "Why Join the Society for Disability Studies?"
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Please note, this event has been postponed - we will share the new date in 2026.
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And the following week, on January 13, please join us for a conversation with Angela Frederick along with Sunaura Taylor and Julia Watts Belser. Register today at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 2/3
A cream colored poster with bright red accents. Society for Disability Studies logo at the top. Title reads "Author Talks: Angela Frederick with Sunaura Taylor & Julia Watts Belser." On the left, a picture of Frederick alongside the cover of her book. Frederick, a white woman in her 40’s with blond hair and blue eyes, is smiling in the photo and wearing a black short sleeve top. Her book "Disabled Power: A Storm, A Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster" is out with New York University Press. The book cover shows maintenance vehicles parked in a row along the powerlines, with red cones sectioning them off from the road. The event description reads "Disabled Power tells the stories of Texans with disabilities who endured Winter Storm Uri and the 2021 Texas power crisis, one of the deadliest and costliest disasters in recent U.S. history. Drawing from in-depth interviews with disabled Texans and those who provide long-term care for severely disabled family members, sociologist Angela Frederick illuminates how people with disabilities and chronic health conditions bear unique forms of harm in disasters like Winter Storm Uri, when infrastructure, such as power and water, is disabled. Frederick also emphasizes another meaning of the term "disabled power," that is, the individual and collective resilience Texans with disabilities employed to survive the disaster." Event takes place January 13, 2026 from noon to 1:15 PM Eastern Time. Event includes a 20-minute author talk, followed by two 10-minute reader responses, followed by a break and a 25-minute Q&A.
December 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Wishing you a wonderful holiday and a meaningful break, whatever that looks like for you! We hope you're able to join us when you return for some upcoming events.

Coming up on January 5th is a session with Molly Joyce. Register today at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 1/3
A cream colored poster with dark text. The Society for Disability Studies logo at the top. Titled "Molly Joyce: Disability as a Creative Source." Event description reads "Join composer and performer Molly Joyce for a talk on exploring disability as a creative source. This session will highlight a range of Joyce's works across music, video, curation, and follow with a discussion/Q&A. This talk will include a 450minute lecture followed by a 30-minute Q&A." The event will take place January 5, 2026 from noon to 1:15 PM Eastern Time. Access features include comfort breaks, access copies of materials, sign language interpretation in several videos, descriptions of all visual material, auto captions will be on during the webinar, and chat enabled. On the left, a picture of Joyce playing a small MIDI keyboard with her right hand while her left hand, fitted with a prosthetic, manipulates wires connected to a circuit board. She is lit by warm spotlighting against a dark background."
December 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read “Encountering the Blank Page: Improvising through Illegible Movements of Mad (Not)Doings” by Jose Miguel Esteban
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#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: “Encountering the Blank Page: Improvising through Illegible Movements of Mad (Not)Doings by Jose Miguel Esteban (University of Toronto) This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly”
December 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read “Sounding Mad Poetics as Resistant-Methods and Research-Creation” by Christina Foisy
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#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: “Sounding Mad Poetics as Resistant-Methods and Research-Creation by Christina Foisy Keywords: Mad Research-Creation, Mad Poetics, Sound Art, Listening Otherwise, Radical Compassion, Epistemic Justice, Sound Epistemologies, Ethics of Listening, Arts-Based Inquiry, Disability and Neurodiversity, Decolonial Listening, Anti-Sanism, Sonic Epistemologies This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly”
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read "Academic Antipsychiatry: Exploring Methods and Language of Psy Abolition in Mad Studies" by Efrat Gold
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#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: “Academic Antipsychiatry: Exploring Methods and Language of Psy Abolition in Mad Studies by Efrat Gold (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) Keywords: mad studies, antipsychiatry, psy abolition, mad methodology, language and naming, professionalization, abolitionist critique, psy complex This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly"
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read "Contending with the 'adult gaze' in Mad Studies: Participatory research methods led by psychiatrized children & youth" by Maria Liegghio
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#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: Contending with the “adult gaze” in Mad Studies: Participatory research methods led by psychiatrized children and youth by Maria Liegghio (York University) Keywords: adult gaze, children and youth, psychiatrisation, participatory action research, youth engagement This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly"
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read "Mad Dreaming with SF: A Plea to Educators to Create Spaces for Reimagined/Transformative Futures" by Maria Karmiris
dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...

#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: Mad Dreaming with SF: A Plea to Educators to Create Spaces for Reimagined/Transformative Futures by Maria Karmiris Keywords: anti-ableism, inclusive practices, imagination, contesting developmentalism This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly"
December 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read “Research-Based Theatre, Military Trauma, and Mad Praxis” by Lauren Spring
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#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: Research-Based Theatre, Military Trauma, and Mad Praxis by Lauren Spring Keywords: Military trauma, research-based theatre, phenomenology, PTSD, moral injury, embodiment, arts-based research This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly”
December 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read "LatDisCrit and Mad Resistance: Decolonial Crip Counterstories as Spaces of Possibility" by Alexis Padilla
dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...

#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: LatDisCrit and Mad Resistance: Decolonial Crip Counterstories as Spaces of Possibility by Alexis Padilla This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly"
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read "Holy Heritage: A Methodology for Learning about Religious Mad People’s History" by Geoffrey Reaume
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#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: "Holy Heritage: A Methodology for Learning about Religious Mad People’s History by Geoffrey Reaume Keywords: Mad people's history, religious writings, Margery Kempe, mad studies This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly"
December 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read "Finding a home in madness: Hermit crab essays as creative research method & pedagogy" by Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Rowan McCandless and Sara Hashemi
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#MadStudies #MadMethods #DSQ
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: "Finding a home in madness: Hermit crab essays as creative research method & pedagogy by Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Rowan McCandless, and Sara Hashemi Keywords: hermit crab essay, creative writing, arts-based research, disability studies, memoir This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly"
December 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read "Why do We Archive? Ethical, Political, and Technical Reflections on Art Collections in Psychiatric Institutions" by Stefanie Gil Franco
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#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: Why do We Archive? Ethical, Political, and Technical Reflections on Art Collections in Psychiatric Institutions Stefanie Gil Franco (CADOS-UCP; Centre for Communication and Culture - CECC/UCP) Keywords: psychiatric institutions, artistic archives, deinstitutionalisation, Portugal, mad studies This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly
December 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read "Wading in Digital Waters: Black Mad/Cripistemologies of Motherhood and “Mental Illness” in Online Support Groups Amid the Double Pandemic" by Nadia N. Mbonde
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#DSQ #MadMethods
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: "Wading in Digital Waters: Black Mad/Cripistemologies of Motherhood and “Mental Illness” in Online Support Groups Amid the Double Pandemic by Nadia N. Mbonde (New York University) Keywords: online peer support groups, Black motherhood, COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Black sanism, autoethnography This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly"
December 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue
We invite everyone to read "Developing Mad Methodologies, Moving Toward a New 'Patient Perspective'" by Michael Rembis.
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#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #HistoricalMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: "Developing Mad Methodologies, Moving Toward a New “Patient Perspective” by Michael Rembis (University at Buffalo - SUNY) Keywords: patient perspective, historical methods, mad methods, radical compassion, mad writers, mad people's history This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly"
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue

We invite everyone to read the introduction to this issue, written by its co-editors, Efrat Gold and Michael Rembis: "Introduction: Mad Methods, Methods of Madness"
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#MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods
Poster for the article, featuring DSQ's logo. Light blue text is written on a darker blue background. Underneath the dark blue background is a photo of books and a lamp. It reads: "Introduction: Mad Methods, Methods of Madness by Efrat Gold (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) & Michael Rembis (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) Keywords: mad studies, mad methods, critical disability studies, mad people's history, transnational mad studies, multiplicity, field formation, critical methodologies This article is part of a new Special Issue: Mad Methods, in Disability Studies Quarterly"
December 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Exciting news! A new Special Issue, on Mad Methods, has been published in our journal, Disability Studies Quarterly

If you're looking for a great weekend read, this might be exactly what you need!

Guest edited by Efrat Gold and Michael Rembis, the SI includes 12 articles & a Prefatory Matter piece
Poster about the new issue, with dark blue text written on top of a light background. It reads: "New Issue: Mad Methods Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol 44, Issue 5, 2025, Special Issue: Mad Methods. Guest Editors: Efrat Gold & Michael Rembis. Authors: Michael Rembis, Nadia N. Mbonde, Stefanie Gil Franco, Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Rowan McCandless & Sara Hashemi, Geoffrey Reaume, Alexis Padilla, Lauren Spring, Maria Karmiris, Maria Liegghio, Efrat Gold, Christina Foisy, Jose Miguel Esteban"
December 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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SDS 2026 Awards: Call for Nominations & Call for Award Reviewers

The Society for Disability Studies (SDS) invites community members to participate in the 2026 SDS Awards in two ways:

* submit nominations for the awards, and
* apply to serve on Awards Review Committees.
disstudies.org/nominate/
Society for Disability Studies SDS 2026 call for nominations and call for award reviewers
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
disstudies.bsky.social
SDS 2026 Awards: Call for Nominations & Call for Award Reviewers

The Society for Disability Studies (SDS) invites community members to participate in the 2026 SDS Awards in two ways:

* submit nominations for the awards, and
* apply to serve on Awards Review Committees.
disstudies.org/nominate/
Society for Disability Studies SDS 2026 call for nominations and call for award reviewers
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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We're now also on LinkedIn! Join us there, if you also use this other platform - and help to spread the word about SDS' membership drive!
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December 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Are you an SDS member who wants to get more involved? Our awards committee is looking for members who might review for one or two different awards categories! If you want to support the recognition of amazing artists, mentors, and researchers this is a great opportunity 1/3
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Would you buy us “a cup of coffee?” Just like you, a cup of coffee can keep us up and running.

Please donate $5–$10 today.

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#DisabilityStudies #AcademicChatter
Graphic with a steaming cup of coffee with the SDS logo and a QR code on the right. Text reads: ‘Would you buy us “a cup of coffee?” Just like you, a cup of coffee can keep us up and running. Please donate $5–$10 today.’ Light beige background.
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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This December the SDS is launching a membership drive! If you're in the field of #DisabilityStudies and looking for a community of researchers we hope you join us! Membership dues help sustain our flagship journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, which is SO important to the field! 1/6
A light blue infographic with the "Society for Disability Studies" logo at the top. At the bottom, a comic of three disabled people with prosthetics and assistive devices who are posing for photos with one another. Reads "Why Join the Society for Disability Studies?"
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM