Disabled BIPOC Interventions in Teaching

Academia has a foundation in ableist practices, and that is the reason why it’s so important that disabled BIPOC intervene in the academic world. While it is important that disabled BIPOC students are on the front lines, we also need disabled BIPOC teachers who can help lead the way in fighting academic ableism. Join us in this discussion with Dr. Paul/Leena/Paulina, Saili, and Subini as we learn about what it means to intervene in teaching as disabled BIPOC.

We will provide ASL interpretation and CART captioning for this event, which participants will be able to join by video or phone.

Speakers

• Dr. Paul/Leena/Paulina Abustan (any pronoun, gender fluid) centers the alternative worldmaking of queer critical race feminist disability justice activists found within youth learning, youth popular culture animated storytelling, and Pilipinx and BIPOC coalitional activist spaces. Dr. Abustan is a 9th year higher education instructor and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Western Washington University’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and part time faculty of University of Washington’s Educational Studies and Disability Studies and Highline College’s Ethnic and Gender Studies.

• Saili S. Kulkarni, Ph.D.'s research highlights the intersections of disability and race in teacher education. She uses DisCrit (Disability Studies Critical Race Theory) to understand how teachers, particularly special education teachers of color, enact resistance in schools. Dr. Kulkarni also examines restorative and humanizing practices for young children of color with disabilities.

• Subini Annamma was a special education teacher in both public schools and youth prisons prior to her doctoral studies. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Her research critically examines the ways students are criminalized and resist that criminalization through the mutually constitutive nature of racism and ableism, how they interlock with other marginalizing oppressions, and how these intersections impact youth education trajectories in urban schools and youth prisons. Further, she positions students as knowledge generators, exploring how their narratives can inform teacher and special education. Dr. Annamma’s book, The Pedagogy of Pathologization (Routledge, 2018) focuses on the education trajectories of incarcerated disabled girls of color and has won the 2019 AESA Critic’s Choice Book Award & 2018 NWSA Alison Piepmeier Book Prize. Dr. Annamma is a past Ford Postdoctoral Fellow, AERA Division G Early Career Awardee, Critical Race Studies in Education Associate Emerging Scholar recipient, Western Social Science Association's Outstanding Emerging Scholar, and AERA Minority Dissertation Awardee. Dr. Annamma’s work has been published in scholarly journals such as Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, Review of Research in Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Theory Into Practice, Race Ethnicity and Education, Qualitative Inquiry, among others.

Moderator: Lydia X. Z. Brown, AWN Director of Policy, Advocacy, & External Affairs

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[Photo: Event banner shows letters flying off of an open book. There are pictures of three people. First is Dr. Paul/Leena/Paulina, a Light brown skinned gender fluid diasporic Pilipinx person with dark brown eyes and straight black shoulder length hair smiling. Second is Saili, a Brown-skin, South Asian, cis-gendered female, smiling, wearing an orange blazer over a dark blue shirt. Third is Subini, a Brown person with black shoulder-length hair sitting in front of a bookshelf. Text says, Disabled BIPOC Interventions in Teaching, 20 Jan 2022 at 12pm Eastern / 9am Pacific. The corner shows the AWN logo - a large "a" with a dragonfly on it, and the words awnnetwork.org. End photo description.]