Close Modal Time Reconsidered: Aging and Disability Join the Museum’s Center for Life Sciences for an evening of dialogue and convening focusing on the concept of “crip time” (the non-linear, flexible experience of time shaped by disability) and aging. This conversation will consider the concept of aging and the life course asking questions such as: what does it mean to age while disabled? How does disability prepare us for aging? How does disability disrupt expectations of aging? What about those who experience time differently?An esteemed panel of voices across sectors will explore these questions and more during this special event, part of the Museum’s yearlong Being Human spotlight.Access Information: This event will have ASL interpretation and typewell live captioning. Seats will be reserved up front for those accessing interpretation/captions. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Masks are required by all in person attendees and will be provided at the entrance if needed.Virtual livestream tickets now available! Register for the Event Date and Time Friday, March 21 | 7:00 pm Location Blue Wing View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English Register for the Event Date and Time Friday, March 21 | 7:00 pm Location Blue Wing View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English This conversation will consider the concept of aging and the life course asking questions such as: what does it mean to age while disabled? How does disability prepare us for aging? How does disability disrupt expectations of aging? What about those who experience time differently?An esteemed panel of voices across sectors will explore these questions and more during this special event, part of the Museum’s yearlong Being Human spotlight.Access Information: This event will have ASL interpretation and typewell live captioning. Seats will be reserved up front for those accessing interpretation/captions. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Masks are required by all in person attendees and will be provided at the entrance if needed.Virtual livestream tickets now available! Featuring Image Alison Kafer, PhD Dr. Alison Kafer is a renowned scholar, educator, and activist whose work bridges the fields of disability studies, gender studies, and queer theory. She is the author of the groundbreaking book Feminist, Queer, Crip (Indiana University Press, 2013), which reimagines the intersections of feminism, queer theory, and disability to challenge traditional notions of time, embodiment, and political possibility. Dr. Kafer’s research focuses on rethinking accessibility, coalition-building, and the ways marginalized identities intersect to shape lived experiences and cultural narratives. Image Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a nonbinary femme disabled writer and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician/Roma ascent. They are the author or co-editor of ten books, including The Future Is DIsabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs, Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon), Tonguebreaker, and Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. A Disability Futures Fellow, Lambda and Jeanne Córdova Award winner, five-time Publishing Triangle shortlister and longtime disabled QTBIPOC space maker, they are currently building Living Altars, a cultural space space by and for disabled QTBIPOC writers. Image Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons, PhD Assistant Professor in Biomedical Humanities Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons is an assistant professor in biomedical humanities. She received her Ph.D. in disability studies with a concentration in gender and women’s studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Yoshizaki-Gibbons’s research employs an intersectional lens to examine the ways gender, race, class and immigration status mediate the lives of old and disabled people and those who care for them. As a scholar activist, Yoshizaki-Gibbons advocates for greater inclusion of old and disabled people, particularly those with dementia, in society. Her current project analyzes how temporality influences the care relationships between old women with dementia and the immigrant women of color employed to care for them in dementia units of nursing homes.
