{"id":111,"date":"2026-09-27T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cdash\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=111"},"modified":"2026-09-27T14:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:51:50","slug":"disability-revolution-a-book-launch-with-robert-mcruer","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cdash\/event\/disability-revolution-a-book-launch-with-robert-mcruer\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability, Revolution: A Book Launch with Robert McRuer"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                                                        <\/div>\n        \n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">What can revolutionary disability politics teach us about building broader movements for liberation? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/books\/disability-revolution\/paper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Disability, Revolution<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, Robert McRuer moves beyond single-issue understandings of disability. Drawing on the convergence of crip and queer movements, Mad pride, disability justice, neurodiversity, and the globalization of disability alliances, McRuer shows how these multivalent movements help us imagine alternative disabled worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Robert McRuer<\/strong> is Professor of English at George<br>Washington University and author of <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9780814757123\/crip-theory\/\">Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability<\/a><\/em> and <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9781479874156\/crip-times\/\">Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and<\/a><\/em><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9781479874156\/crip-times\/\"> <\/a><\/em><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9781479874156\/crip-times\/\">Resistance.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":113,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[14],"cu_event_audience":[3,4,5,6,7,10,11,12],"class_list":["post-111","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_event_type-events","cu_event_audience-alumni","cu_event_audience-anyone","cu_event_audience-carleton-community","cu_event_audience-current-students","cu_event_audience-faculty","cu_event_audience-prospective-students","cu_event_audience-staff","cu_event_audience-staff-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-10-13 14:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-10-13 16:30:00","cu_event_add_to_calendar":"show","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_building":"TB","cu_event_meeting_room":"210","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_post_thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.carleton.ca\/truth\/images\/1937\/event-lecture.jpg","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Kelly Fritsch","cu_event_email":"kellyfritsch@cunet.carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cdash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cdash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cdash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cdash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cdash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cdash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/111\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cdash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cdash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cdash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cdash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}