COVID-19, Disability Justice, and Intersectionality in a "Post-Pandemic" World

This panel brought together activists and academics to discuss the importance of COVID-19 to  disability justice and intersectional liberation. As a social phenomenon, the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare a range of systemic  injustices in society, and as a disease, impacted marginalized people  the most. However, since the near-universal end to precautions in 2022,  these inequalities have fallen out of the national conversation. This panel highlighted the work of those who foreground the ongoing threat of COVID, particularly to marginalized groups, in  their research and activism.

Moira Armstrong (Rutgers University, previously Birkbeck, University of London) was joined by Emily Krebs from Fordham University, Steven Thrasher from Northwestern University, and organizers of mask blocs in New Jersey and North Carolina. 

This event was in celebration of the 2023 Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality Lynne Segal Prize, awarded yearly to graduate student work that shows excellent engagement with gender and sexuality in any discipline.