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This week, UM Press Annotates wraps up a discussion of #DisabilityStudies that ranged from higher education, aesthetics in art history, to post-revolutionary Mexico.

There is still space in the digital margins for your contribution to the #DisabilityStudies conversation. Consider these possibilities:

• Reflect on cjzander’s annotation on Academic Ableism . As educators, in what ways are we complicit in harming students? What can we commit to changing in our practice?

• Add image links to enrich Amanda Cachia’s chapter, “Disability Aesthetics,” in Sex, Identity, Aesthetics .
• Respond to leahhardy’s question about eugenic forces in prenatal screening.

To read more about #DisabilityStudies, check out these new and forthcoming titles from UM Press:

• Beholding Disability in Renaissance England by Allison P. Hobgood (University of Michigan Press, 2021)
• Diaphonous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature by Jeremy Colangelo (University of Michigan Press, 2021)
• A History of Disability by Henri-Jacque Stiker, with a new forewordby David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder (University of Michigan Press, 2019)
• The Matter of Disability: Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect , edited by David T. Mitchell, Susan Antebi, and and Sharon L. Snyder (University of Michigan Press, 2019)
• The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future by Amanda Apgar (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2023)
• Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication by Joshua St. Pierre (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2022)
• Translating Human Rights in Education: The Influence of Article 24 UN CRPD in Nigeria and Germany by Julia Biermann (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2022)

How to Participate

The University of Michigan Press looks forward to engaging with readers through UM Press Annotates. To help make the conversation productive for all, we ask annotators to follow these community guidelines:

Seek to understand differing perspectives. Questions can inspire meaningful conversation and help us develop shared understandings, even where we may disagree.

We welcome scholarly disagreements, but ask all annotators to engage in respectful communication practices.

Help make the conversation searchable across social media with the hashtags #UMPAnnotates and #DisabilityStudies.

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This post was written by Michelle Sprouse, a PhD candidate in the University of Michigan’s department of English and Education and UM Press editorial intern. Michelle currently oversees the UM Press Annotates pilot program. In her own research, she explores social annotation as a tool for connecting reading and writing in post-secondary contexts.