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We are delighted to announce that Talila A. Lewis will be the keynote presenter at our 16th International Disability Law Summer School.

Lewis is a multilingual abolitionist, archivist, artist, linguist, educator, writer, griot, movement strategist, community lawyer, among other things. As a Black q***r disabled person from the Deep South who grew up and lives all over the world, Lewis uses several spoken, signed/tactile, and other embodied languages. Born into a family of proud Black educators, clergy, artists, soldiers, and laborers, Lewis is a very proud legacy of the Black Southern griot and recitation traditions. By training, Lewis is a professor, attorney, orator (written-signed-spoken), multi-disciplinary artist, athlete, and community organizer, among other things.

For the past twenty years, Lewis’s work primarily focused on: (1) disrupting and abolishing the medical-carceral-impoverishment industrial complex; (2) mapping and clarifying past and present links between ableism and all other forms of oppression and violence (especially focused on the intersections of ableism with anti-Black/Indigenous racism, and state/corporate repression, oppression, dispossession.); and (3) building power within and solidarity across multiply-marginalized communities. For instance, Lewis spent the past two decades supporting and freeing multiply-marginalized disabled people from various sites of confinement the world over (e.g., penal, medical, algorithmic, trade publishing, etc.).

*Lewis is genderfluid and generally does not use any pronouns. Please use Talila or Lewis in place of pronouns.

This year’s theme is Disabled Activism in an Age of Far-Right Resurgence and the event will be condensed into three days from the 16th to the 18th of June. We look forward, as usual, to a world-class faculty and participants from around the globe. More information on the summer school is available at https://cdlp.clr.events/event/137746

Early bird rates until 30th April 2025

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