Zoé Samudzi & Beatrice Adler-Bolton, in conversation with Alcide Breaux (Curated by CtC)

Theory Stairs, 2:00-3:30 PM; moderator Menko Dijksterhuis

This talk explores mask prohibitions, campus crackdowns on pro-Palestine protests, and the interconnected issues of COVID-19, Palestine solidarity activism, and disability justice. Against the backdrop of the Dutch government’s enforcement of face-mask policing at protests and a fading political awareness of disability justice during the pandemic, it examines how these issues relate to the broader struggle for Palestinian liberation. By positioning disability justice as a framework to protect the rights to inclusive assembly and anonymity, this discussion emphasizes empowering the most vulnerable to actively engage in global movements for justice.

Zoé Samudzi is the Charles E. Scheidt Visiting Assistant Professor of Genocide Studies and Genocide Prevention at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She holds a PhD in Medical Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is also a Global Blackness Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Johannesburg and a fellow with African Museums and Heritage Restitution. She is an associate editor with "Parapraxis Magazine" and co-author of "As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation" (AK Press).

Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a blind/low vision and chronically ill artist and author. She is the co-host of the "Death Panel podcast" and studies radical patient groups and the capitalist political economy of health as an independent researcher. Her first book, "Health Communism" co-authored with Artie Vierkant, was published by Verso Books in the US and UK in October 2022. "Health Communism" argues for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and health.

Alcide Breaux is an interdisciplinary artist and bioethicist working across video, sound, sculpture, performance, and scientific research. They create work reflecting on inhabiting a pathologized body, and negotiating the fluid systems of biopolitical power that flow through and between private corporations, government agencies, and corporeal forms. In 2022, they co-initiated the disability justice research program Crip the Curriculum at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam.