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This interdisciplinary reading group explores non-normative corpo-realities across disability, queerness, gender, and illness with a focus on voices from the Global South.

Drawing on work from literature, anthropology, philosophy, critical disability studies, gender studies, and political theory we are interested in reimagining embodiment, care, and resistance in ways that challenge dominant Western academic paradigms.

Throughout the year, we will explore themes such as: crip time and nonlinear futurities; debility, war, and postcolonial violence; neurodivergence, madness, and psychiatry; care, kinship, and horizontal infrastructures; the promise and violences of cure within circuits of medicine and capital; bodily metamorphosis and plasticity versus chronicity; and language, translation, and the politics of voice.

The group will meet monthly each term to discuss theoretical and speculative texts and foster collaboration and connection across departments and geographies.