6/8-11, Society for Disability Studies conference in SF

The Society for Disability Studies will hold its annual conference at San Francisco State University from June 8th through 11th. The theme of the conference will be Conversations &
Connections Across Race, Disability & Identity. The conference coincides with activism by people in the Bay Area and on the Easy Coast to start a national organization for and by disabled people of
color. There is a registration fee for the conference, but the following events will have a lower entrance fee

The photo exhibit Brown Disabled Broken Bodies: A Tour
of Police Brutality Cases Against Disabled People of
Color will be up on <strong>June 10th</strong> from 5-7PM in the Nob Hill Room.


On Saturday June 11th from 12:30-2:30pm in the
Richmond Room, there will be a panel entitled: Coast
to Coast African Americans' Grassroots Incentives.
The organizations to be represented are from the East Coast and
California dealing with people of color with
disabilities, and especially African Americans.

On the same day, from 7:30-9:30pm in the Richmond Room, Black AND
Disabled Artists Sharing, or BADAS, will perform Black
Disabled Art History 101 with a slide show. Artists
include Hip-Hop artist Keith Jones, Jazz poet Charles
Curtice Blackwell, Safi wa Nairobi, and Leroy F.
Moore.

As part of the conference, there will also be a Color of Disability photo exhibit of the two
political conventions focusing on people of color with
disabilities by Safi wa Nairobi.
<br /><br />For more information about the exhibit and performance, email Leroy Moore, sfdamo (at) yahoo.com | Society for Disability Studies | Leroy Moore's website