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
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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
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-...
www.danielfuneralhome.com/obit/sharon-...
Sharon K. Kowalski - Daniel Funeral Home & Cremation Service
www.danielfuneralhome.com
July 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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-...
www.danielfuneralhome.com/obit/sharon-...
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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.
July 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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.
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"... 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.
www.mellon.org
July 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"... 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
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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
June 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
ASAN mourns the loss of Patricia "Patty" Berne, co-founder of Sins Invalid and a trailblazing leader in the Disability Justice movement. #PattyLivesThroughUs
tomorrow! (hybrid)
Come by next Saturday if you are interested in crip authorship, including histories of subtitling, visual description and plain language writing workshop.
Co-hosted with @center4ds.bsky.social
Co-hosted with @center4ds.bsky.social
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...
June 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
tomorrow! (hybrid)
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Labs for Liberation are running a great program of learning and engagement this summer!
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]
Labs for Liberation Summer Institute Lecture Series
Dates: June 9-July 18, 2025. All sessions are online. ASL and CART available. Summer Institute directors: Moya Bailey and Aimi Hamraie Accessibility coordinator: Angela Stanley Funded by: The…
labsforliberation.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Labs for Liberation are running a great program of learning and engagement this summer!
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.
White House rhetoric dehumanizes disabled communities, but activists continue to organize for access, care and justice.
Disability Activists Bring Wisdom From the Pandemic to New Struggles Under Trump
White House rhetoric dehumanizes disabled communities, but activists continue to organize for access, care and justice.
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June 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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.
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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
June 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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
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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
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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...
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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-...
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
academic.oup.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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-...
Get started with this introduction by forum editors @paulachak.bsky.social and @ajbauer.bsky.social!
academic.oup.com/ccc/article-...
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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
June 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
‼️(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
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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
calendar.aiany.org
June 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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...
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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.
www.vam.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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...
So excited for your talk, Louise! (And to see you in person again after WAY too long.)
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...
#DesignAndDisability 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.
www.vam.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
So excited for your talk, Louise! (And to see you in person again after WAY too long.)
Congratulations Patrick! No doubt, the first of many honors for this groundbreaking book on disability, labor, and performance:
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!
May 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Congratulations Patrick! No doubt, the first of many honors for this groundbreaking book on disability, labor, and performance:
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.)
May 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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...
kampnagel.de/en/productio...
May 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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...
kampnagel.de/en/productio...
so excited to pay a studio visit to Finnegan Shannon at EFA today!
www.studios-efanyc.org/member-artists
www.studios-efanyc.org/member-artists
April 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
so excited to pay a studio visit to Finnegan Shannon at EFA today!
www.studios-efanyc.org/member-artists
www.studios-efanyc.org/member-artists
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Missing grant money? Found it! It looks like the remaining grant funds for FY2025 have been reallocated here.
We have nothing good to say about this.
www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
We have nothing good to say about this.
www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
NEH Announces Grant Opportunity to Create Statues of Iconic Americans for the National Garden of American Heroes
www.neh.gov
April 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Missing grant money? Found it! It looks like the remaining grant funds for FY2025 have been reallocated here.
We have nothing good to say about this.
www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
We have nothing good to say about this.
www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
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/
April 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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/
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.
@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.
April 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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.
@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.
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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...
disabilitystudies.nyu.edu
April 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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...
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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
Check out the event details here: buff.ly/GTOlhfi
April 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
Check out the event details here: buff.ly/GTOlhfi