The website is growing to be a broader digital community space. It was first created by Akemi Nishida, a disability justice activist, researcher, and educator based in the land of the Three Fire Confederacy (also known as Chicago).
Main Facilitator
Akemi Nishida (she/her)
Akemi uses research, education, and activism to investigate how ableism occurs in relation to racism, cis-heteropatriarchy, and other forms of social oppression. Akemi’s disability justice activism extends both locally and nationally, whether through her involvement with the racial and disability justice grassroots organization, AYLP, in Chicago or as a research assistant for the Disability Project at the Transgender Law Center. Nishida is the author of Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire (Temple University Press, 2022) and teaches feminist disability studies at University of Illinois Chicago.
Media Director
Nour A. Ghobrial (she/they)
Nour is a PhD student in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her interests include feminist-of-color disability studies, distressed eating, care studies, and arts-based research methodologies.
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