The Reciprocal Politics of Bed Space Activism: Creative Resistance & Radical World Making

The Reciprocal Politics of Bed Space Activism:
Creative Resistance & Radical World Making

Beds have been the center of urgent political struggles — be they in prisons, detention centers, hospitals, or nursing homes. Our virtual conversation series centers “bed activism,” complex forms of resistance and visionary care that emerge from the intimate spaces of sick, disabled, detained, and imprisoned peoples. It connects a long-term vision of connecting communities and movements at the nexus of abolition feminism, migrant justice, and disability justice.

Monica Cosby, creative director and founder, Acting OutSide, performance art crew

Pato Hebert, associate arts professor, NYU Tisch Department of Art & Public Policy, visual artist and organizer

Aurora Levins Morales, writer, artist, historian, teacher, mentor, activist, healer, revolutionary

Dean Spade, professor, Seattle UniversitySchool of Law, author and activist for Queer and Trans Liberation

This virtual webinar event will take place on Zoom and is free and open to the public.
Register online.

It will have live captioning. For any other access requests, please contact Iván Arenas at arenas@uic.edu.

This event series is sponsored by a 2021 Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and by the UIC Institute for the Humanities.

Other UIC Cosponsors: Disability Cultural Center, Department of Disability and Human Development, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, and Social Justice.