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Mara Mills

@maramills.bsky.social
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prof of media, culture, and communication @ nyu history & theory of digital media, electronics, computing disability studies / disability arts banner: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/1… avatar: jojo doodles conference sketches

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Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
'How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic' @maramills.bsky.social @harriskornstein.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social was recommended in our Year in Books for showing how to fight "for a world free of prisons, cops, and futures foreclosed by the unequal distribution of health."
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The Year in Books - Inquest
Inquest staff recommendations of not-to-be-missed decarceral books from 2025.
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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Just saw this "Top 10 #Books I Read in 2025 on disability, art, & education" curated by Bill Porter. Honored that my ANIMATED FILM & #DISABILITY is listed with my favorite DS authors! @margaretprice.bsky.social, @maramills.bsky.social, Rebecca Sanchez, Georgina Kleege substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Top 10 Books I Read in 2025
A Curated List of Books That Deepened My Understanding of Disability, Art, and Education
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Thinking of Sharon Kowalski today and saw that she died in October 2023. She and her partner Karen Thompson were such forces in the queer and disability worlds of the 80s/90s. I don't see many markers of her passing online. Remembering Sharon Kowalski: www.danielfuneralhome.com/obit/sharon-...
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Sharon K. Kowalski - Daniel Funeral Home & Cremation Service
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NYU Center for Disability Studies @center4ds.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
NYU’s Center for Disability Studies is honored to co-present a screening of the Sundance-award winning documentary LIFE AFTER at NYC’s Film Forum on July 23 at 7:10pm.
Over an orange background, black text: “Multitude Films. Life After. July 23. 7:10PM. Film Forum NYC. Co-Presented by ReelAbilities Film Festival. Tickets at filmforum.org/events/event/life-after-july-23. Introduced by Mara Mills of NYU’s Center for Disability Studies, followed by talkback with director Reid Davenport, activist and author Emily Ladau, and comedian Maysoon Zayid.” In the middle, an archival image of a disabled Black man with crutches protesting next to a large pink sign that says “Not Dead. We want to live!” At the bottom, symbols at the bottom for Audio Description, Open Captions and ASL, followed by logos for Film Forum and NYU’s Center for Disability Studies.
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T. Green, MLS 💻🧑🏽‍💻📚🇵🇭🇺🇲 @flipinthestacks.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
"... I am honored to join the Mellon Foundation as a senior fellow. Together, we will work to strengthen the public knowledge ecosystem and ensure that the transformative power of information remains accessible to all..." - Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress
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Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 30/06/2025
ASAN mourns the loss of Patricia "Patty" Berne, co-founder of Sins Invalid and a trailblazing leader in the Disability Justice movement. #PattyLivesThroughUs
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
tomorrow! (hybrid)
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Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Labs for Liberation are running a great program of learning and engagement this summer!
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
With an excerpt from How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press 2025). Wisdom and disability expertise from my many coauthors: a collective of disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and nondisabled scholars, students, activists, lawyers, journalists, artists and librarians.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 06/06/2025
Many congratulations to the excellent @ndkane.bsky.social for what looks like a terrific new exhibition at the V&A and this glowing review of it www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Design and Disability review – ‘A world-shaping, boundary-breaking joy of a show’
From self-tightening shoes to an all-purpose hands-free vibrator, this superb exhibition demonstrates that disability-led culture and design is about so much more than ramps
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Communication, Culture & Critique @ccc-journal.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Our June issue is now live! It kicks off with a forum on Media and Fascism, featuring a star-studded list of contributors. Get started with this introduction by forum editors @paulachak.bsky.social and @ajbauer.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/ccc/article-...
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Cruel capitalism: a forum on media and fascism
Abstract. This article introduces a forum on “Media and Fascism” by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of intern
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National WIC Association @natwicassoc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
‼️(THREAD) Today, Chairman Harris openly said that cuts in the House Appropriations proposal are only the FIRST STEP in cutting WIC fruit and vegetable benefits by up to 75%. 🗣️🗣️🗣️ We MUST oppose this. >> bit.ly/nocuts26
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NYU Center for Disability Studies @center4ds.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Today! ADA at 35: Navigating Accessibility in the Hybrid Interior from 6-8PM at Center for Architecture and Zoom! calendar.aiany.org/2025/06/02/a...
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ADA at 35: Navigating Accessibility in the Hybrid Interior - Calendar - AIA New York / Center for Architecture
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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Crip Authorship comes to the V&A! Pleased to host @maramills.bsky.social and Rebecca Sanchez on 21st June for a special event with @louhicky.bsky.social Kelsie Acton and Georgina Kleege. Tickets to the in person event and workshop here, online stream below: www.vam.ac.uk/event/135rMr...
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Crip Authorship: Disability as a Method for Creativity - Special event at V&A South Kensington · V&A
An afternoon of talks, a screening, and a workshop exploring disability, authorship, and access.
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
So excited for your talk, Louise! (And to see you in person again after WAY too long.)
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Congratulations Patrick! No doubt, the first of many honors for this groundbreaking book on disability, labor, and performance:
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Made it to Carolyn Lazard's Two-Way at Artists Space before the exhibition closed: two experimental films about race, childbirth, and healthcare, set in the Elmhurst Hospital simulation center. (Both are fictional: one is a fictional documentary, the other is a documentary of a medical simulation.)
Photograph of the Artists Space gallery entryway. A wall painted tomato red features the words Two-Way in white across the center. A windowed door to the left looks out on a 19th century cast-iron building of Soho New York. To the right a black pole and corridor lead to the exhibition space, a darkened set of two rooms where two films by Lazard are being screened on a loop.
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
excited to (remotely) participate in Kampnagel's Performative Book Fair again. The fair opened this year with a talk by Sami Schalk on disability in Octavia Butler's Kindred: kampnagel.de/en/productio...
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Eröffnung - Kampnagel
What forms and possibilities lie in literature when the focus is on inclusion and solidarity? For the second time, THE PERFORMATIVE BOOK FAIR invites you to…
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
so excited to pay a studio visit to Finnegan Shannon at EFA today! www.studios-efanyc.org/member-artists
photograph of a blue wall with black lettering that says EFA Studios 7, next to which is a paper floorplan of the artist studios, including Finnegan Shannon's on the 7th floor.
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
having been on the advisory committee for one small part of this project, I can attest that it's an essential resource. Check out the timeline page to see how immigration, race, and disability segregation--& protest--are interwoven in the history of NYC schools: nyccivilrightshistory.org/timeline/
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Timeline of Sources
A teaching guide to the history of NYC schools
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
As usual I loved the gorgeous sound descriptions by @charleseppley.bsky.social last night at Air Change Per Hour, Anna RG's sold out performance at ISSUE on sound & accessibility "in the context of airborne safety." Compositions sculpted from air filter sounds, the breath of sick artists, and more.
Photograph of a darkened performance space, ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn. One performer is lying on the floor in the far right corner and only part of his head and torso can be seen. Photo is taken from the second row, with a row of people sitting in front of the camera and others sitting on cushions on the ground. On the white wall in the background are screened two lines of text, describing sounds presumably being played in the room at the time. They state, "A second deep tone joins the first to create an unstable dissonant harmony. Higher whistle tones emerge in tone clusters, providing a chromatic glint. The white noise continues unabated."
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NYU Center for Disability Studies @center4ds.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This Thursday, April 24 @ 7PM we are co-sponsoring Intimacy Violation: a film screening and performance by Yining Chi. At Come Forever in Williamsburg and Zoom! Register here: disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/intima...
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NYU Center for Disability Studies - Intimacy Violation: a film screening and performance
Intimacy Violation: screening of a work-in-progress film by Yining Chi, followed by a participatory performance around audio description led by the artist and a discussion moderated by Meesh Sara Frad...
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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
We can't wait to celebrate the accomplishments of HTBDIAP co-editors at their launch party next week! Join @center4ds.bsky.social for an evening of refreshments and select readings. Check out the event details here: buff.ly/GTOlhfi
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Never received a notification, but logging into the NEH portal, I see Warning: FULL: Administrative Termination. The book has been drafted & we will definitely be writing in our introduction about the irony of having a peer-reviewed project discussing Neuralink (among other co's) defunded by DOGE.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is
"These are kids who will never pay taxes," Kennedy declared. "They'll never hold a
job. Theyl never play baseball. They'Il never write a poem. They'll never go out
" on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize
doing this to our children.
we are
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Next week!
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My NEH grant was terminated in service of a new focus on “patriotic programming,” but as an American and an Americanist, I know that resisting this dangerous decision and the broader movement of which it is a part is my patriotic duty. Wrote abt it @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1936...
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Here’s What One of Trump’s Grantee Termination Letters Looks Like
This NEH grantee was told the “immediate termination” of her grant “is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.” Is this America?
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Tonight at NYU MCC, the one and only Karen Tongson (our annual LeBoff Scholar):
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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
What, what?! Mara Mills on the art of Christine Sun Kim (with a nice shout out to Patrick's Disability Works)!
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HOLDING THE LINE
Mara Mills looks at the career of Christine Sun Kim, whose exhibition at the Whitney Museum explores themes of deafness and accessibility.
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If you are in New York, go see the survey of Kim's work at the Whitney!
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NYU Center for Disability Studies @center4ds.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Thanks to all who showed up to All Day All Night on zoom and in person at @whitney.org, and @christine.lol for joining the Q&A after the reading! Credit to the photographer Filip Wolak.
Our zoom webinar for All Day All Night displayed on a projector screen with an audience seated in front of it at the Whitney. The ceiling has a light grid and the walls are covered with sound paneling.
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
And thank *you* for creating this DS channel on New Books Network, Clayton!
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I was so glad aperture magazine asked me to write about Alice Wong (the *other* Alice Wong, who is an artist at Creative Growth) for their current issue on "Photography & Painting." I got to think about overpainting as a disability aesthetic: aperture.org/magazines/ap...
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“Photography & Painting,” Aperture No. 258 | Aperture Magazine
Aperture’s “Photography & Painting” features artists from around the world who draw inspiration from both mediums, illuminating the dialogue between camera and canvas.
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Next week is the deadline to apply for the AAS seminar on “Sex, Gender, and Print”—led by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein, with guest speakers Emily A. Owens, Kathryn Walkiewicz, and Christopher Looby. Apply by April 4. Link in comments!
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Jonathan always laughed when I called him "my dear friend." My dear friend,
A photograph of a large screen hanging from the ceiling in a darkened room, with a table carrying assorted electronic equipment below it. The screen shows a zoom split screen, with Mara Mills on the left and Jonathan Sterne on the right. Jonathan is talking and Mara is listening with her chin resting on her hands. Jonathan is a middle-aged white man wearing a blue checkered shirt and large headphones and glasses, sitting in front of two posterboards with images that look like representations of sound waves in red and blue. A stuffed unicorn can also be seen in the distant background. Mara is a middle-aged white woman with brown curly hair pulled up, wearing a black shirt, and sitting in front of a white wall against which a piece of wood painted yellow is leaning.
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Kinetic Light on "Why We Withdrew from our Kennedy Center Residency": mailchi.mp/f199b685559f...
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Why We Withdrew from our Kennedy Center Residency
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Bess W @besswww.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Reflecting on the history of intellectual disability education as we hear of the dismantling of DOE and a Secretary of Education who doesn't even know what IDEA stands for (Indivs w/ Disabilities Education Act).
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NYU Center for Disability Studies @center4ds.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Excited to announce All Day All Night: A Conversation with Seth Kim-Cohen, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield, Park McArthur, and Mara Mills on Friday, 21 March, 4-5:30PM @ Zoom + the Whitney. More info and registration here: mailchi.mp/nyu/alldayal...
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All Day All Night: A Conversation with Seth Kim-Cohen, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield, Park McArthur, and Mara Mills
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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
At the fifth-year anniversary of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the editors of How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic consider the lessons we have not yet learned.
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What We Have Yet to Learn from COVID-19: An Excerpt from "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic" - NYU Press
At the fifth-year anniversary of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, hope for “lessons learned” seems more remote than ever. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a noted... READ MORE
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
grateful to the NEH Office of Digital Humanities for a collaborative "dangers and opportunities of technology" grant to study cochlear implants and brain implants, including those created by Musk's Neuralink. Will be filling out this survey:
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Although COVID-19 was certainly circulating earlier in NYC, and disability activists had already begun organizing teach-ins & mutual aid events, official recognition of the emergency from the NY governor and NYC mayor took place 5 years ago this week.
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Karen Tongson @inlandemperor.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The fact that “mental health” is on the Trump administration’s list of banned words and phrases really says it all doesn’t it?
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