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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> 'Chancey Fleet' via Technology Programs at Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library <HeiskellTech@googlegroups.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 17, 2025 11:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> heiskelltech@googlegroups.com<br><b>Subject:</b> How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic: a Virtual Panel<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0)'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic</span></i></b><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>: A Disability Pride Panel [virtual]</span></b><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-bottom:3.75pt;color:currentcolor'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 6:00pm - 7:30pm EDT</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>New York Public Library, in collaboration with the NYU Center for Disability Studies</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>More Info & RSVP:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://www.showclix.com/event/how-to-be-disabled-in-a-pandemic/tag/nyplhomepage" target="_blank" title="https://www.showclix.com/event/how-to-be-disabled-in-a-pandemic/tag/nyplhomepage"><span style='color:#0086F0'>https://www.showclix.com/event/how-to-be-disabled-in-a-pandemic/tag/nyplhomepage</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:3.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><img border=0 width=361 height=179 style='width:3.7604in;height:1.8645in' id="image_0" src="cid:B63333A3-EFE5-474E-AE10-145B9FDC0D0A" alt="Headshots of four speakers"></span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div style='margin-top:15.0pt;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0)'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>As part of Disability Pride Month, essayists Aiyuba Thomas, Chancey Fleet, and Harris Kornstein, all featured in a new book, <i>How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic</i> (NYU Press), discuss their experiences with disability in New York City during the Covid-19 lockdown. This program is presented as a collaboration between the New York Public Library and the NYU Center for Disability Studies. <i>How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic</i> is available to </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#E41B23'><a href="https://borrow.nypl.org/search/card?id=7861fa92-3144-50c8-8ea4-184b643ef192&entityType=FormatGroup"><span style='color:#E41B23'>borrow through NYPL</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>, and an accessible e-book can also be downloaded for free via </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#E41B23'><a href="https://opensquare.nyupress.org/books/9781479830909/"><span style='color:#E41B23'>NYU Press Open Square</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>To join the event online</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> | This event will be streamed on Zoom. To receive a Zoom link, please be sure to <a href="https://www.showclix.com/event/how-to-be-disabled-in-a-pandemic/tag/nyplhomepage" title="https://www.showclix.com/event/how-to-be-disabled-in-a-pandemic/tag/nyplhomepage"><span style='color:#0086F0'>register</span></a>! The link will be shared with registrants shortly before start time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>ABOUT THE PANELISTS</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Aiyuba Thomas </span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>is a justice-impacted researcher and activist dedicated to addressing issues that impact marginalized communities, especially those affected by mass incarceration. Aiyuba co-authored <i>Abolition Labor: The Fight to End Prison Slavery</i> (OR Books), offering insights and a national inquiry into prison labor, and most recently served as the Project Manager for Movements Against Mass Incarceration, an archival oral history project that aims to span the nation. He is a MA graduate from NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and an alumnus of Columbia JIE and NYU PEP. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Chancey Fleet</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> is a Blind tech educator and activist based in Brooklyn. She is the founding Assistive Technology Coordinator at the New York Public Library, where she runs a free peer-powered tech coaching service that connects library patrons with print-reading disabilities to one-to-one coaching and runs the Dimensions Lab for free and open tactile graphics creation. Chancey is a 2017 Library Journal Mover and Shaker, and serves as President of the National Federation of the Blind\u2019s Assistive Technology Trainers\u2019 Division. Check out Chancey\u2019s library at: </span><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#E41B23'><a href="http://talkingbooks.nypl.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#E41B23'>talkingbooks.nypl.org</span></a></span></u><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>.</span></u><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Harris Kornstein</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> is a scholar and artist whose work focuses on queer play through contemporary technologies and digital cultures, media art/activism, and disability and queer/trans studies. Their current book project considers what we might learn from drag performers to creatively counter many of the harms of digital technologies, and they co-edited the anthology <i>How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic</i> (NYU Press). Harris is currently Assistant Professor of Public & Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona and earned a PhD in Media, Culture & Communication from NYU. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>ABOUT THE MODERATOR</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Quemuel Arroyo </span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>is the MTA's first agencywide Chief Accessibility Officer, where he leads the implementation of policies, initiatives, and programs that advance accessibility throughout the organization. Prior to joining the MTA, Arroyo served as Interim President and Global Head of Community at Charge, an e-scooter charging and docking company, and previously as the first Chief Accessibility Specialist at the New York City Department of Transportation, where he helped settle the largest accessibility claim in the nation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>ABOUT THE NYU CENTER FOR DISABILITY STUDIES</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>The NYU Center for Disability Studies promotes disability scholarship, artistry, and activism at NYU and beyond through research and publishing, a disability studies minor, a public event series, and collaborative programming with arts and other organizations internationally. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>\u200b</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>ACCESSIBILITY NOTES</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Online<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:0in;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Real-time CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) captioning will be provided for this event. <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=circle><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;line-height:15.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;align-self: start'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for this event<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#E41B23'><a href="https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/disability-pride-month"><span style='color:#E41B23'>DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH AT NYPL</span></a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#E41B23'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>The New York Public Library is celebrating Disability Pride Month throughout July. Discover a wide array of accessible resources, including book recommendations, accessible technology training, braille study groups, and more. Plus, join us for free events for all ages\u2014this month and all year long! To learn more and see what's coming up, please visit: </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#E41B23'><a href="https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/disability-pride-month"><span style='color:#E41B23'>https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/disability-pride-month </span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id=ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id=ms-outlook-mobile-signature><div><p class=MsoNormal>Any errors brought to you by iPhone! <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Chancey Fleet<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Assistive Tech Coordinator \u2014 Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Call or text: 347-632-8383 <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Technology Programs at Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library" group.<br>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a href="mailto:HeiskellTech+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">HeiskellTech+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>