Campus Disability Awareness Month

Enter the book raffle by 3/31  |  Raffle was organized by SDEA, DASH, ADS, and the Libraries.

Monday, March 18, 8 PM, Troy Dance Lab at Swarthmore College. Urban Jazz Dance Company & Antoine Hunter.

A Bay Area native, Purple Fire Crow, also known as Mr. Antoine Hunter, is an award-winning African, Indigenous, Deaf, Disabled, Two-Spirit producer, choreographer, film/theater actor, dancer, dance instructor, model, poet, speaker, mentor, and Deaf advocate. . . The founder and director of Urban Jazz dance, Hunter has performed with numerous dancers and dance companies around the world. . . . He is a faculty member at East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Youth in Arts, and Dance-A-Vision. 

Wednesday, March 20th 4:15 p.m. to 6:30 pm. In Lutnick 200 Early Career Scholars Talk by Lindsey Grubbs, Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University Medical School. Abby Folsom’s Incarceration: the Prison, the Asylum, and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Abolition

Wednesday, April 3rd, 7pm at Bryn Mawr Film Institute: Screening of Alison O’Daniel’s film The Tuba Thieves as part of the  Strange Truth film series. Followed by a conversation with O'Daniel and Deaf rapper WaWa Snipe.

Alison O'Daniel is a d/Deaf visual artist and filmmaker who builds a visual, aural, and haptic vocabulary that reveals (or proposes) a politics of sound that exceeds the auditory.  O'Daniel's film 'The Tuba Thieves' premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and is currently on the International film festival circuit. O'Daniel is a United States Artist 2022 Disability Futures Fellow and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video. She is an Assistant Professor of Film and California College of the Arts in San Francisco. 

For more info about this screening, scroll down on the Strange Truth film series website. Free for members of the Tri-Co community. This film will be shown with open captions. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided at this event. Audio description is available for this screening upon request.

ASL-interpreted performances of Honors Thesis project "Much Ado" Friday March 29 to Sunday March 31, Frear Ensemble Theater (LPAC) at Swarthmore College

Disabled guest presenter, activist, and author Walela Nehanda will be presenting on 3/30. A collaboration with DASH (Disability Advocacy for Students at Haverford) and REEO. 

Lunch and Learn with Access and Disability Services

• April 12th

Sara Nović, author of True Biz, in conversation with Melanie Drolsbaugh, ASL instructor at Swarthmore, with interpreters voicing the ASL conversation for the audience on Wednesday April 17, 6-7:30 pm.

• Science Center 101, Swarthmore College, ASL interpretation provided
• True Biz is the 2024 selection for One Book One Philadelphia.