Can you please provide instructions regarding how to join these sessions?
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TJ Gaudelli
Arizona Museum of Natural History
Mesa AZ
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-24-2023 10:05 PM
From: Avi Decter
Subject: MUSEUMS AND CHANGE resumes on Thursday, 9/14, at 12:30pm EDT MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
Join Izetta Autumn Mobley, Ph.D. in a dialogue about ableism and disability justice in museums.
The crises of the pandemic have made museums acutely aware of their own biases. Among these biases is ABLEISM--a prejudice against people whose minds or bodies are perceived as falling out of the range of normal or acceptable. But ableism affects the lives of many Americans, indeed the lives of almost everyone. Change and difference in one's body or mind are conditions of living. Over our lifetimes, all of us are susceptible to disability, accidents, illness, or aging. Disability is therefore far from outside the norm: disability and disabled people are the norm.
Izetta Autumn Mobley, Ph.D., is Director of Interpretation, Collections, & Education at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture. Dr. Mobley is a scholar, facilitator, and museum educator. Her work focuses on public history, gender, race, medicine, and disability.