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Dr. Sami Schalk is an Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schalk’s interdisciplinary research focuses broadly on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture, especially speculative fiction and Black literature. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (Duke University Press 2018) and Black Disability Politics (Duke University Press 2022). Vilissa Thompson is a disability rights consultant, writer, and activist. She is the Founder & CEO of Ramp Your Voice!, an organization focused on promoting self-advocacy and strengthening empowerment among disabled people. She created the #DisabilityTooWhite viral hashtag in 2016 that addressed the lack of diversity within the disability community. https://myfox8.com/community-calendar/?_escaped_fragment_=/show/?start=2022-07-23#!/details/Black-Disability-Poetics-and-Politics-A-Conversation-with-Sami-Schalk-and-Vilissa-Thompson/10362456/2022-10-11T16