{"id":32887,"date":"2015-02-16T03:15:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=32887"},"modified":"2015-02-13T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:52:10","slug":"feminist-queer-crip-topic-of-interdisciplinary-studies-lecture-feb-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_16_2015\/feminist-queer-crip-topic-of-interdisciplinary-studies-lecture-feb-19","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Feminist Queer Crip&#8217; topic of interdisciplinary studies lecture Feb. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alison Kafer will discuss her 2013 book, <em>Feminist Queer Crip,<\/em> Thursday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. in Libbey Hall.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_32939\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kafer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32939\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kafer.jpg\" alt=\"Kafer\" width=\"252\" height=\"189\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32939\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kafer<\/p><\/div>She is an associate professor and chair of feminist studies at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where she also teaches classes in the Environmental Studies and the Race and Ethnicity studies programs.<\/p>\n<p>Her work on disability, gender and sexuality has appeared in a number of anthologies, including <em>Sex and Disability<\/em> (2012) and <em>Feminist Disability Studies<\/em> (2011).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChallenging the ways ideas about the future and time are deployed in the service of the illusion of normalcy, Dr. Kafer rejects \u2018the body\u2019 as a predetermined limit,\u201d said Dr. Jim Ferris, Ability Center of Greater Toledo Endowed Chair of Disability Studies and director of the UT Disability Studies Program. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrawing upon environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory and transgender politics, she envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist\/queer\/crip alliances, outlining a political framework for a more just world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kafer\u2019s free, public talk will be the third annual School of Interdisciplinary Studies Distinguished Lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alison Kafer will discuss her 2013 book, \u201cFeminist Queer Crip,\u201d Thursday, Feb. 19, at the third annual School of Interdisciplinary Studies Distinguished Lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,37],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}