Newberry Library Gender & Sexuality Seminar
February 21, 2020
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
The Newberry Library, First Floor
Address
60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60601
Calendar
Download iCal FileRethinking Interdependency: Desiring Messy Dependency
Akemi Nishida, University of Illinois at Chicago
How is an idea for social change, interdependency, actualized in the everyday lives of disabled queer people? Based on my conversations with queer disabled organizers of community-based interde- pendent care networks, I illuminate the challenges and desires that emerge from the network. Practicing interdependency is hard, as it was often influenced by the surrounding capitalist-ableist ideologies and dictated by their internalized respectability politics. They desired, instead, to reclaim their messy dependency and be entangled in each other’s company. I argue that messy dependency is the reality of disability communities and their vision for more inclusive society.
“A Time of Dementia”: Temporality, Care, and Confinement in
Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons, University of Illinois at Chicago
Time is a powerful force for people with dementia and their caregivers. Drawing on nine months of ethnographic research in a dementia unit of a nursing home, my project explores how various forms of temporality influence the lived experiences of and care relationships between institutionalized old women with dementia and the immigrant women of color employed to care for them. Drawing on feminist disability studies, I query how time simultaneously operates to reproduce gendered, racialized, classed, aged, and disability oppressions and serves as a site of solidarity, relationship- building, and resistance among old women with dementia and their caregivers.
Newberry Scholarly Seminars papers are pre-circulated . Contact scholarlyseminars@newberry.org to register. Please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend. This seminar will be held on the first floor of the library which is half a floor above street level. There is a lift at the front entrance of the building on Walton Street, and an elevator accessible at the back entrance off Oak Street, but you must ring the doorbell for admission at the back door.
Friday, February 21, 2020
3:00 to 5:00 pm / Baskes Boardroom
60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610, www.newberry.org
Date posted
Feb 11, 2020
Date updated
Feb 11, 2020