DS Working Group: River Sands, “Cripistemology, Disability Art, and Knitting as Resistance”
Disability Studies Working Group
April 11, 2025
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Join us for an Honors College Capstone presentation!
River Sands is a Disability and Human Development Major and a Social Justice minor. Their capstone explores craftivist forms of crip knowledge making.
For this working group meeting, there is no reading in advance-- the format will be a presentation with Q&A and feedback.
Access Info: Live captioning (CART) will be provided. For ASL and other access requests, please contact dcc@uic.edu.
About the working group:
The Disability Studies Working Group at UIC offers a forum for sharing work in progress. Originally formed in 2018, the Disability Studies Working Group is a cross-disciplinary collective of researchers interested in disability studies and disability issues.
Our conversations have included conference papers, dissertation or manuscript chapters, article drafts, practice defenses and job talks, and "common reads" from disability studies. Students, faculty, postdocs, other UIC affiliates, and members of the community are invited to join, and scholarly work from across the disciplines is welcome- humanities, social sciences, health sciences, hermeneutic, qualitative, quantitative, theoretical, etc. The Disability Studies Working Group provides an informal environment for scholarly cross-pollination, and endeavors to offer members of the UIC disability studies community a welcoming and supportive space to practice, experiment intellectually, and receive feedback.
Contact the coordinator Sarah Williams with any questions at swill74@uic.edu.
ID: A hand holds up a knitted sign that says “Nothing About Us Without Us” against a cloudy sky. Deep blue text shares info above against a yellow and pale blue background. At the bottom is a Disability Studies Working Group Logo, which features a light blue honeycomb shape, a UIC DCC logo, a Bodies of Work logo, and a UIC Disability and Human Development logo.
Date posted
Mar 31, 2025
Date updated
Mar 31, 2025