COVID-19, Disability Justice, and Intersectionality in a "Post-Pandemic" World
When:
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Venue:
Online
This panel will bring together activists and academics to discuss the importance of COVID-19 to disability justice and intersectional liberation. As a social phenomenon, the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare a range of systemic injustices in society, and as a disease, impacted marginalized people the most. However, since the near-universal end to precautions in 2022, these inequalities have fallen out of the national conversation. This panel will highlight the work of those who foreground the ongoing threat of COVID, particularly to marginalized groups, in their research and activism.
Contact name:
Emily Cousens
Contact phone:
07950434511
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Moira Armstrong
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Moira Armstrong Moira Armstrong is a PhD student in American Studies at Rutgers University - Newark. They received a BA in English and history with a minor in LGBTQ studies from Kent State University in 2022 and an MA in gender, sexuality, and culture from Birkbeck, University of London in 2023. Additionally, for the past two years, they worked as a research assistant for Queer Pandemic, an oral history project collecting the stories of queer people in the United Kingdom during COVID-19. Their research interests include queer and disability studies, oral and public history, the COVID-19 pandemic, and asexuality and aromanticism