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Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 11am.
Affect Conf 2018
Accessibility info: https://affectconf.com/accessibility
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Description
Affect ("effect") is a 2-day conference featuring stories from multiply marginalized activists, creators, and technologists working towards systemic change. To pair words with action, we also partner with local nonprofits to create projects that attendees can dive into.
This year's topics:
The Future Is Accessible, Annie Segarra (keynote)
The Personal is Political #BeingBlackandMuslim, Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed
By and for Us: How Marginalized Communities Are Redesigning Sex Ed Online, Cameron Glover
Consensual Software: Prioritizing User Trust and Safety, Danielle Leong
Queering Mental Health: An Analysis on the Criminalization of Black People and Mental Health, Da’Shaun Harrison
Activism Is Not Accessible: How To Include Disabled and Chronically Ill Folks in Your Movement, Diane Murray
We the Dreamers, Heldáy de la Cruz
How Gabby Antonio is Smashing the Imperialist, White Supremacist, Capitalist Patriarchy, Luann Algoso
Patterns of Digital Gentrification, Lynn Cyrin
Is Wakanda Accessible? And Other Questions from the Intersection of Black Womanhood and Disability., Mallory Thomas
Grassroots Organizing Strategies for Healing Our Black Trans, Nonbinary & Queer Bodies, Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza