Society for Disability Studies
SDS is a lively scholarly association made up of artists, scholars and activists who promote Disability Studies. #DSQArchives #Soc4DisStudies
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- SDS 2026 Awards Category Senior Book Award Honors an outstanding single-authored scholarly book published in the past two years by an established scholar. Eligibility: Authors of scholarly monographs - submit by 31st March 2026. #DisabilityStudies More information: disstudies.org/nominate/
- Mentoring Award Recognizes exceptional commitment to mentoring students, activists, artists, and practitioners within or beyond academic settings. Eligibility: Open to any member of the Disability Studies community - submit by 31st March 2026 disstudies.org/nominate/ #DisabilityStudies
- SDS 2026 Awards Category: Lifetime Achievement Award Honors a senior member of the Disability Studies community whose sustained work has shaped the field. Submission: Via the SDS Nominations and Awards Form by 31st March 2026. #DisabilityStudies #SDSAwards disstudies.org/nominate/
- SDS Awards (Nine in total!) disstudies.org/nominate/ Timeline: Nominations Open: December 8, 2026 Nominations Due: March 31, 2026, 11:59pm, Eastern Time (U.S.) Award Review Period: Spring–Summer 2026 Award Announcements: November 2026 SDS General Membership Meeting #DisabilityStudies
- If you're not yet a member, please join us! We have sliding scale membership dues that allow us to foster #DisabilityStudies scholarship and community engagement. If you have the resources, you can also gift membership to another! Register: www.patreon.com/SocietyforDi... #Academic #Disability
- Coming up next week - join the SDS community for a discussion with Charles Bell and Alysse Loomis!
- Our next event with Charles Bell and Alysse Loomis is taking place on February 10 from 12 - 1:15 Eastern. Please email any access requests to our admin coordinator Gaby at admin@disstudies.org. Register today at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #DisabilityStudies #AcademicChatter #EdStudies
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- The Society for Disability Studies invites nominations for the 2026 SDS Awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to Disability Studies across scholarship, activism, mentorship, & creative practice Descriptions of all 9 awards: disstudies.org/nominate/ Nominations form: bit.ly/2026SDSAwards
- Our next event with Charles Bell and Alysse Loomis is taking place on February 10 from 12 - 1:15 Eastern. Please email any access requests to our admin coordinator Gaby at admin@disstudies.org. Register today at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #DisabilityStudies #AcademicChatter #EdStudies
- The Society for Disability Studies invites nominations for the 2026 SDS Awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to Disability Studies across scholarship, activism, mentorship, & creative practice Descriptions of all 9 awards: disstudies.org/nominate/ Nominations form: bit.ly/2026SDSAwards
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- Reposted by Society for Disability StudiesDiscover how five scholarships secured by our Professor Hannah Morgan has enabled five Commonwealth students to undertake fully funded and remote study of our ground-breaking MA in Disability Studies, Rights and Inclusion. ow.ly/uyMR50XTpti
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- Reposted by Society for Disability StudiesFree Disability Research zines, all made by the Disability Action Research Kollective (DARK) Find them and subscribe to new releases here : linktr.ee/disabilityark
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- JANUARY 5, 2026 12-1:15 PM EST Molly Joyce is joining SDS next week! Come and check it out! MOLLY JOYCE: DISABILITY AS A CREATIVE SOURCE Join composer and performer Molly Joyce for a talk on exploring disability as a creative source. 1/3 #DisabilityStudies #Disability
- If you are involved in #DisabilityStudies we hope that you consider becoming a member of the Society for Disability Studies! Becoming a member and paying dues is an awesome way to support disability research and the advancement of Disability Studies in #HigherEd 1/6
- Since the early 1980s, the SDS has been the major org promoting the advancement of Disability Studies. Early scholars promoted disability rights alongside meaningful disability research. They pushed for emancipatory research and the inclusion of disabled folks in higher ed. 2/6
- Please note, this event has been postponed - we will share the new date in 2026.
- And the following week, on January 13, please join us for a conversation with Angela Frederick along with Sunaura Taylor and Julia Watts Belser. Register today at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 2/3
- Wishing you a wonderful holiday and a meaningful break, whatever that looks like for you! We hope you're able to join us when you return for some upcoming events. Coming up on January 5th is a session with Molly Joyce. Register today at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 1/3
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read “Encountering the Blank Page: Improvising through Illegible Movements of Mad (Not)Doings” by Jose Miguel Esteban dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read “Sounding Mad Poetics as Resistant-Methods and Research-Creation” by Christina Foisy dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read "Academic Antipsychiatry: Exploring Methods and Language of Psy Abolition in Mad Studies" by Efrat Gold dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read "Contending with the 'adult gaze' in Mad Studies: Participatory research methods led by psychiatrized children & youth" by Maria Liegghio dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read "Mad Dreaming with SF: A Plea to Educators to Create Spaces for Reimagined/Transformative Futures" by Maria Karmiris dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read “Research-Based Theatre, Military Trauma, and Mad Praxis” by Lauren Spring dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read "LatDisCrit and Mad Resistance: Decolonial Crip Counterstories as Spaces of Possibility" by Alexis Padilla dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read "Holy Heritage: A Methodology for Learning about Religious Mad People’s History" by Geoffrey Reaume dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read "Finding a home in madness: Hermit crab essays as creative research method & pedagogy" by Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Rowan McCandless and Sara Hashemi dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #MadStudies #MadMethods #DSQ
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read "Why do We Archive? Ethical, Political, and Technical Reflections on Art Collections in Psychiatric Institutions" by Stefanie Gil Franco dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read "Wading in Digital Waters: Black Mad/Cripistemologies of Motherhood and “Mental Illness” in Online Support Groups Amid the Double Pandemic" by Nadia N. Mbonde dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #DSQ #MadMethods
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read "Developing Mad Methodologies, Moving Toward a New 'Patient Perspective'" by Michael Rembis. dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods #HistoricalMethods #AcademicChatter #DSQ
- Mad Methods - Disability Studies Quarterly's new Special Issue We invite everyone to read the introduction to this issue, written by its co-editors, Efrat Gold and Michael Rembis: "Introduction: Mad Methods, Methods of Madness" dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #MadStudies #DisabilityStudies #MadMethods
- Exciting news! A new Special Issue, on Mad Methods, has been published in our journal, Disability Studies Quarterly If you're looking for a great weekend read, this might be exactly what you need! Guest edited by Efrat Gold and Michael Rembis, the SI includes 12 articles & a Prefatory Matter piece
- SDS 2026 Awards: Call for Nominations & Call for Award Reviewers The Society for Disability Studies (SDS) invites community members to participate in the 2026 SDS Awards in two ways: * submit nominations for the awards, and * apply to serve on Awards Review Committees. disstudies.org/nominate/
- We're now also on LinkedIn! Join us there, if you also use this other platform - and help to spread the word about SDS' membership drive! www.linkedin.com/company/soci... #DisabilityStudies disstudies.org
- Are you an SDS member who wants to get more involved? Our awards committee is looking for members who might review for one or two different awards categories! If you want to support the recognition of amazing artists, mentors, and researchers this is a great opportunity 1/3
- We're looking for folks who will support an accessible, equitable, and fair review process of awards. These reviews will be done virtually in a synchronous manner, or virtually in an asynchronous manner. 2/3
- Would you buy us “a cup of coffee?” Just like you, a cup of coffee can keep us up and running. Please donate $5–$10 today. www.paypal.com/donate/?host... #DisabilityStudies #AcademicChatter
- This December the SDS is launching a membership drive! If you're in the field of #DisabilityStudies and looking for a community of researchers we hope you join us! Membership dues help sustain our flagship journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, which is SO important to the field! 1/6
- We've been around for 40+ years, highlighting the ingenuity of disabled folks and the importance of Disability Studies. While the academy has been slow to catch onto seeing disability as method, we're adamant that it offers a lens through which we can understand the world. 2/6
- Engage w/ SDS also via: IG: www.instagram.com/dis_studies/ X: x.com/dis_studies Fb: www.facebook.com/SocietyforDi... Discord: discord.com/invite/DSUxz... Join our mailing list (non-members welcome): groups.google.com/g/society-fo... For members-only comms, join SDS www.patreon.com/c/societyfor...
