Disability Justice Zine Workshop
Location
Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 123
Date & Time
May 7, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
You're invited to a Disability Justice Zine Workshop hosted by the Minor in Critical Disability Studies. During the workshop, you will have the opportunity to craft a zine under the instruction of Jen White-Johnson.
Masks are required and provided. Questions? Contact Tania Lizarazo, lizarazo@umbc.edu.
Jen White-Johnson is a disabled and neurodivergent artist and designer educator who centers Black disabled joy and futures in her work, informed by disability justice and Black feminist disability framework. Jen has presented her disability justice activist work and collaborated with a number of brands and art spaces across print and digital such as Target, Coachella and Adobe Design. Jen’s work is also permanently archived at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National African American Museum of History and Culture in DC. Jen holds a BA in Visual Art from The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and a MFA in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she also imparts her knowledge as a current instructor, Jen resides in Baltimore, MD, with her husband and 11-year-old son.
Co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the Latin American Feminisms Working Group; and the Public Stories Lab.
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