UW Public Lectures: The Disabled Gaze: Rethinking the Past, Remaking the Future

In this talk, Dr. Jaipreet Virdi asks us to consider how being disabled
changes the ways people view the world and the things they create.
Through these perspectives, she invites alternative approaches for
remaking crip worlds, one in which disabled people, and the disabled
gaze, are centered first and foremost.

Jaipreet Virdi is a scholar activist and Associate Professor in the
Department of History at University of Delaware. Her first book,
Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History raises pivotal questions
about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure.
Her writing has appeared in Slate, The Washington Post, The Atlantic,
Psyche, The Wellcome Collection, and the New Internationalist.