coe-staff: AEC Disability Awareness Event: LYDIA X. Z. BROWN 04/27 @ 5:30PM

[Krista Chronister]

Please join us for the Accessible Education Center's 2018 Disability Awareness Event with LYDIA X. Z. BROWN<https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/2018_disability_awareness_speaker>!!



Disability Justice, Neurodiversity, & Intersectionality



When: FRIDAY, APRIL 27th @ 5:30pm

(Refreshments served at 5:00PM)



Where: Straub 156 (UO Campus)



FREE and open to the public!



Lydia X. Z. Brown (aka Autistic Hoya) is a disability justice advocate, organizer, and writer whose work has largely focused on violence against multiply-marginalized people with disabilities. Lydia is a Public Interest Law Scholar at Northeastern University School of Law, where they serve as an active member of the Committee Against Institutional Racism (representing the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association) and the Transgender Justice Task Force, and are a founding core collective member of the Disability Justice Caucus.



Lydia has been honored by multiple institutions including the White House<https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/08/15/keeping-promise-ada-unequal-justice-disabled-victims-murder>, Washington Peace Center<https://washingtonpeacecenter.org/2014awardees#LydiaBrown>, Society for Disability Studies<http://disstudies.org/>, and American Association of People with Disabilities<https://www.aapd.com/aapd-paul-g-hearne-leadership-awards/>.  In collaboration with E. Ashkenazy and Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu, Lydia is the lead editor and visionary behind All the Weight of Our Dreams, the first-ever anthology of writings and artwork by autistic people of color, published by the Autism Women’s Network in June 2017.



Website: https://autistichoya.net/

Blog: http://www.autistichoya.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Autistic.Hoya



The Accessible Education Center (AEC) promotes access and full and inclusion of students with disabilities into the university environment.



ASL Interpreting, FM Systems, Closed Captioning, and Wheelchair Accessible
Please minimize use of fragrances/perfumes & no flash photography at the event. Thank you!
For additional accommodations, please contact AEC at uoaec at uoregon.edu<mailto:uoaec at uoregon.edu> or call 541-346-1155.


This event is proudly co-sponsored by the UO AccessAbility Student Union (AASU).



*Please share widely! Spread the word!*

Attached PDF poster is text readable and includes an image​. [Photo: Lydia Brown, a young East Asian person with short black hair and glasses, standing against a wrought-iron banister and marble staircase in a darkly painted room. Lydia has a serious expression and is wearing a gray suit with teal shirt and tie. Photo by Natan Dvir.]

Thank you and we hope to see you all there!


Darien Combs and Kelsey Kuperman
Graduate Counselors
Accessible Education Center
155 Oregon Hall
(541) 346-1155 (Main Office)
uoaec at uoregon.edu<mailto:uoaec at uoregon.edu>

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