Disabling the Classroom: A disability DEI workshop featuring Derek Newman-Stille

On Tuesday, March 18th, join us for a free Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Workshop focused on Disability.

Disability is often neglected or downplayed in social justice work or DEI Training. This workshop will take accessibility as a central space for DEI, exploring the ways that we can make our classrooms more accessible and engaging to multiple body-minds. We will engage in an in-depth exploration of what it means to make our spaces accessible in an intersectional way beyond what is required of us by accessibility services.

This will be an opportunity for you to learn new methods of engagement that not only work for disabled students, but also engage the rest of your class as what works for disabled students also happens to work better for most other students.

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Derek Newman-Stille (they/them) is a Queer, Nonbinary, Disabled author, activist, artist, poet, editor, and educator who teaches in the Gender and Social Justice Department at Trent University. Derek has written fiction and academic works around topics like gender, disability, fat, fairy tales, science fiction, and fantasy.