[Air-L] ICA26 Panelists Needed: Disability & Inequalities in Communication

[E. S. Gray]

Dear scholars!

I am organising a panel for ICA26, and would like to invite interested
panelists. Please see details below if you would be interested.

*Panel: Addressing Inequalities in Inter-Ability Communication:
Explorations of Practice, Performance, and Presentation*

*Topic Description: *This panel will explore how disabled individuals,
scholars, performers, and artists center their narratives through
communication that incorporates or conveys their perceptions, navigation of
the world, or sense of reality. The common social scripts for communication
require communicators to be matched within "norms" of ability and access.
This expectation creates pressure to conform with conventions of delivery
that effectively marginalize any expression that does not fit the
culturally sanctioned scripts, whether due to necessity (e.g., bodily or
neurological limitations) or comfort (e.g., what feels natural within a
particular body). This panel explores what happens when that pressure to
conform is relaxed, and disabled individuals find or create space to freely
to express themselves according to what they can do very well, their lived
and embodied experiences, and what feels natural for their bodies or minds.

*Looking for panelists who feel their work intersects with this topic
including:* research, practice, presentation, art, humor, or performance

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*About me: *My Name is Emmanuel-Sathya Gray. My interdisciplinary work in
communication and community psychology currently focuses on what performers
and artists teach us about breaking patterns of deference to dominant
narratives, and bringing our realities from the margins to the center
stage. I have published on activism, climate justice, and resilience, and
am working on a book chapter (under review) and paper (in progress) related
to the disruptive use of humor by disabled comedians on social media.

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If you are interested in joining me on this adventure to make this panel
happen, please reach me at grayea at mail.uc.edu and send me some information
about the work you'd like to discuss. Looking forward to corresponding with
folks!