Event Recordings

Black Disability Poetics and Politics: A Conversation with Sami Schalk and Vilissa Thompson (March 28, 2023)
Dr. Sami Schalk is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (Duke University Press 2018) and Black Disability Politics (Duke University Press 2022). Vilissa Thompson is the Founder & CEO of Ramp Your Voice! and the creator of the viral hashtag #DisabilityTooWhite. This conversation was organized by the Wake Forest Disability Studies Initiative and sponsored by the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute with support made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Provost’s Fund for a Vibrant Campus; the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and the Disability Affinity Resource Group.
Thank you to Eudora Struble and the Disability Affinity Resource Group for recording and captioning the video.