Together, they will explore how to refuse listening habits that discipline and punish, and how to reimagine accountability across media, law, and everyday life.

Lakshmi Padmanabhan (Film Scholar, Northwestern University), Jordan Lord (Artist and Writer, Colorado College), and LaCharles Ward (Curator and Scholar, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture).

This launch event brings together three respondents who take up the book’s invitation to think documentary and sound alongside raciolinguistics, disability access activism, and legal forensics:

Pooja Rangan examines how documentary listening—through habits she calls neutral, entitled, and juridical—can reinforce structures of profiling, exclusion, and carceral capture, even when framed as progressive or ethical.

How does listening in documentary become a proxy for justice—and what other kinds of listening might be possible? In The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability (Columbia University Press, 2025),

Use coupon code E25JBKIM to save 30% when you order Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing from dukeupress.edu.

Event is free and open to the public but requires registration.

ASL and live captions will be provided.

Please email accessibility needs as they relate to this
event to msf440@nyu.edu.

highlight the imaginative blueprints for survival left by radical writers of color such as Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Octavia Butler.

which examines the imaginative work of disabled, queer, and feminist of color literary visionaries writing after major U.S. welfare reform. Together, Schalk and Kim will foreground the necessity of a disability approach to challenging U.S. infrastructural violence and manufactured scarcity, and . .

How can feminist-of-color disability politics help us navigate contemporary crises of care and decimated social safety nets? Join Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim for a discussion of Jina's new book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025), . . .

Tix @ lifeafterfilm.com/screening and use the PROMO CODE: NYUCDS for $4 off any screening during the film’s week-long run July 18-24.

Learn more about the book, co-edited with @maramills.bsky.social, Faye Ginsburg, and Rayna Rapp, published by @nyupress.bsky.social (and part of a @center4ds.bsky.social project!).

More info and free open-access edition:
nyupress.org/978147983085...