Everything is on fire. The supports disabled people need for survival are being decimated. The robots are coming after us, harvesting our data, surveilling us, and determining who is worthy to live. What can we do?
Conveners from the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan will host a virtual roundtable event on October 16, 2025, which brings together disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars, to address the topic “How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes: On Crip Wisdom and Critique.” The roundtable will include four panelists – Beza Merid (Arizona State University), Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Christa Teston (Ohio State University), and The Cyborg Jillian Weise (Florida State University) – in conversation with M. Remi Yergeau (Carleton University).
Registration for this Zoom event is currently open. The event is hosted by the DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism) Network – “a collective of interdisciplinary researchers working to envision a new anti-racist and anti-ableist digital future” within the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan.
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