Author: Ashley Shew

Ashley Shew, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech

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The Music Inclusion Ensemble, featuring Gaelynn Lea

Very happy to share for folks local to the New River Valley region of Virginia that Gaelynn Lea will be in concert with the Music Inclusion Ensemble on Thursday, October 20, 7:30pm-9pm EST.

The event is live at The Center for the Arts on the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech.

You can find out more and buy tickets ($5) on the Center for the Arts page.

All tickets are general admission, so people who need accessible or wheelchair seating will just go to that area (no special ticket needed).

Live CART captioning will be displayed — with some dynamo lyrics about disability rights in at least one of those songs. There will also be live, in-person ASL interpretation.

Hope to see you there!

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Big Week!

Flier features a black man with a cochlear implant reaching toward the camera with the words Wawa's World and information about the event at 8pm on April 25, 2025 in Minor Hall at UVA

The Including Disability Global Summit is an online-only conference with free registration. It runs from Tuesday-Thursday (April 22-24) this week. Schedule and registration can be found here: https://including-disability.org/2025-registration/

We have two DisCoTec team presentations — one from our tech consulting work (Th 2pm) and one from our Open the Gates gaming team (W 9am) at this event! 


The New Directions in Black Disability Studies Conference takes place at University of Virginia in fully hybrid mode on Friday, April 25. If you’d like to attend, registration is free: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0fN1qoQSSnNfmS88VxCTzkEhmwk_XNWo-bl8o_WlXesfNRw/viewform 

The DisCoTec Center (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, hat tip) is sponsoring a performance at 8am — that will be livestreamed — of Wawa’s World (Deaf Hip Hop!). I have the ad for that performance below. Please make sure to register  today to get the link if you are interested!

We will have a DisCoTec Artist Residency with Wawa (Warren Snipe) later this year!

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Anita Cameron!

From June 1-20 we are hosting disability justice legend Anita Cameron as she works on her memoir as our writer-in-virtual-residence. It’s such an honor to get to see her devote this time to working on her memoir. She will be delighting us by reading a selection from her memoir and taking questions as part of our official launch of the DisCoTec Center on June 27that 7pm EST. June 27 is also Anita Cameron’s birthday, so celebrations abound!

If you’d like to join us for Anita Cameron’s Reading and DisCoTec Launch, here is the registration link. June 27, 7:00pm-8:15pm EST. We will have CART captioning and ASL interpretation provided.

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Welcome!

Hello!

The DisCoTec Center welcomes you to our website. We, as an organization, work to connect research and researchers with the Disability community to ensure that research is informed by the community that it impacts. 

If you want to learn more about some of our work, please read these articles: “Research team receives grant to launch ‘Just Dis Tech’ project” and “Research workshop gives voice to disability community.”

Keep an eye out for future work and publications from The Center. 

Thank you for your interest and support,
DisCoTec Team