Polio Newsletters and the Embodiment of Disability in Mid-Century America Presentation uri icon

Description

  • In a pre-ADA world in which access to public spaces remained next to impossible, widely-circulating polio newsletters provided a forum for exchanging ideas for both ready-made products and material hacks and adaptations to enhance readers’ mobility and quality of life. Speaker 1 examines the embodied uptake of two newsletters.

Date/time Interval

  • 2025-07-01 - 2025-07-31