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erin l. durban
@erindurban.bsky.social
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🐌 assoc. prof. of anthro and critical disability studies
❤️ feminist studies PhD
📖 author of the sexual politics of empire: postcolonial homophobia in haiti
♿️ project about collective access in ethnographic research for social justice and abolition
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AAA roundtable for The Disabled Anthropologist: Erin L. Durban, Sumi Colligan, Valerie Black (on screen), Anna Jaysane-Darr, Krisjon Olsen, Alana Ackerman, and Kim Fernandes (missing Megan Moodie who also joined by Zoom)
Six disabled anthropologists pose in front of a screen showing another person in a Zoom room
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Tomorrow is the hybrid launch event at UCSB for our Journal of Haitian Studies special issue on “The Rights to Live Creatively!”
Event announcement with art of an orange abstract person being embraced by a multi headed abstract figure like a fairy or angel.
May 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Sorry, I’m at the bookstore. ♥️📚
Independent Bookstore Day announcement for Saturday April 26. Little Star and banner decals.
April 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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TODAY! A conversation with students at the UMN Disability Student Cultural Center.
How to Crip Intersectional Research Flyer with a photo of a white nonbinary scholar with short brown hair and glasses.
April 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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20 minute online presentation about the Disabled Anthropologist Oral History Project on May 9!
Event flyer with photo of four smiling white queer disabled scholars of different generations.
April 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Flyer for Creating Disability Accessibility in Ethnographic Research through Collaboration: A Conversation with Erin L. Durban. A photo of Erin shows a white nonbinary person in glasses and a face mask wearing an invisible disability lanyard.
April 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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My copies came in the mail!!!
Two copies of the book The Disabled anthropologist, edited by Sumi Colligan and Anna Jaysane-Darr. The book cover has Picasso-like abstract faces on it and a bunch of symbols and cogs surrounding them.
April 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Researchers from the two collaborative ethnographic projects highlighted on the “Cripping Ethnography” panel at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference in Portland, OR. @sumicol.bsky.social @kikiyates.bsky.social @mirandadj.bsky.social
A photo of six white queer disabled scholars ranging in age from early 20s to 70s.
March 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Grateful for two days of the NSF “Disability Anthropology Across Four Fields” workshop! ❤️
Workshop swag of a folder and notepad with a DisAnthAF logo. A zoom room with twenty boxes, some with multiple smiling people. People are forming hearts with their hands or sharing heart emojis. The chat shows links to books on trans care and kinship and care.
March 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Announcement for a talk at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference on Wednesday called “Cripping Ethnography.”
March 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Photos of two articles and two books: Care Work and Trans Care
February 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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“In order to fight the many threats to trans life that face us in the current decade, we need all the help we can get.” From Aren Aizura’s “Flailing at Feminized Labor” (2023) @incommensurati.bsky.social
Photo of a marked up paper essay that highlights the quote in the post.
February 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Today is for Trans Care.
Cover of the book Trans Care by Hil Malatino. There are no images on the book.
February 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Spectacular Access Fail: My college held a strategic planning event through the DEI office. They didn’t offer a hybrid option, nor respond in a timely way to my request for a remote participation accommodation. But they did feature the photo of me and Miranda in their presentation. 🙄
A slide for a university forum featuring three photos of “diverse” professors.
February 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Our new professional photo! ♥️💛
Photo of Professors Miranda Joseph and Erin Durban, an intergenerational white queer couple.
February 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Snuggles when it’s cold outside! ❄️
Cat being snuggled like a baby.
February 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Rest in Power, Devva Kasnitz ❤️
(Portrait by Mallory Kay Nelson)
Watercolor of a woman in profile. She’s wearing professor glasses, a tiara, and fairy wings. Devva holds a wand in the shape of a star and is surrounded by big colorful dots.
January 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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It’s coming! 🌊 💦 🐋🚰
#transecologies #transgenderstudies
Photo of the Trans Ecologies issue of the Transgender Studies Quarterly journal. The cover has a brown femme floating in water in a yellow flowing dress.
January 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Happy new year! Excited that the proofs of my coauthored chapter in The Disabled Anthropologist was at the top of my very full email inbox. 😅
Screenshot of a book chapter title page for Reimagining Ethnographic Research for Collective Access though Crip Collaboration by Erin Durban and Miranda Joseph.
January 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Sneak peek of our TSQ Trans* Ecologies issue!!! 🤩❤️🐳
Shoog McDaniel’s photograph from an underwater perspective of a brown skinned, long haired, fat femme floating near the water’s surface. The person has flowing yellow clothes on and their body is mirrored in the surface of the water.
December 13, 2024 at 3:42 AM
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Slowly reading dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss by @slothprof.bsky.social. Essential for critical disability studies, feminist studies, critical ethnic studies, and like everyone in or nearby the university.
Cover of dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss. It features a photo of a little girl walking away from the camera in a wide park path framed in light blue.
December 12, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#BookChallenge
#ReadBannedBooks
Cover of shake loose my skin by Sonia Sanchez. The image is a sepia photograph of Sanchez, a middle aged black woman with short locs, hoop earrings, and a black shirt. Her eyes are closed and she faces the light, as if turning to the sun for warmth.
December 11, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#BookChallenge
#ReadBannedBooks
Cover of Foucault History of Sexuality Volume 1. With images of Greek statues, black nerd glasses, and a broken chain.
December 8, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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🩷 Pre-Ordered my copy of Jina Kim’s Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip of Color Writing!!! www.dukeupress.edu/care-at-the-...
Cover image with a brightly colored painting of a person in an orange jumpsuit holding their harness up to a crack in a pipe that is gushing water.
December 5, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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Hi, BlueSky, I’m Erin (they/them)! This account will focus on my work as an interdisciplinary professor in critical disability studies. My first book, The Sexual Politics of Empire, recently won a Lambda Literary Award. Now I’m writing a new book about disability accessibility and ethnography.
Frequent flyer: photo of Erin, a white genderqueer person with short brown hair and professor glasses, inside of an airport. I’m wearing a tag for people with hidden disabilities. Cover of The Sexual Politics of Empire with an announcement that it won a 2024 Lambda Literary Award. Photo of a white smiling family of three. From left to right: a tween girl in a yellow shirt, a grey curly haired lesbian with glasses, and a short brown haired person with clear glasses. Flowers fill he background. Photo of my cats curled up like a yin yang: a brownish Maincoon and a white flame point Siamese.
December 2, 2024 at 1:55 AM