Disability Studies Quarterly is thrilled to announce the publication of a new special issue on race and disability (Fall 2023, published December 1). This is a monumental work of twenty (!!!) articles that addresses some of the most pressing issues in disability studies today. This special issue should have a significant impact on the field. All credit goes to the three guest editors: Kelsey Henry, Anna Hinton, and Sony Coráñez Bolton. They and their authors worked tirelessly. Please take time to look through the table of contents, pasted below, and read through many of these important works. You can find the special issue and all the articles here: Vol. 43 No. 1 (2023): Fall 2023 | Disability Studies Quarterly (dsq-sds.org) <https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/issue/view/264> Table of Contents for DSQ’s Race and Disability Special Issue Editorial Introduction: Origins, Objects, Orientations: New Histories and Theories of Race and Disability Kelsey Henry, Anna Hinton, Sony Coráñez Bolton Section I: Reorientations Hilary Rasch, "Holding On and Letting Go in Kia LaBeija’s Self-Portraiture" Jose Miguel Esteban, "My Panalangin of (Un)belonging: Encountering Still Gestures of Prayer, Improvising Still Movements Through Depression" heidi adread restrepo rhodes, "Bed/Life: Chronic Illness, Postcolonial Entanglements, and Queer Intimacy in the Stay" Min Gu, "The Pedagogy of Waiting: A Reorientation to Time with Artists with Disabilities and Creative Growth Art Center" Chanika Svetvilas, "What I have learned (Fill in the Blank)" Lzz Johnk, "Madness/Disability as "Spectral Presence" in The Woman Warrior: Confusing Hegemonic Categories Through a Mad Asian American Modality" Athia N. Choudhury, "Milky Appetites: The Foods that Make Us Human" Jiya S. Pandya, “Crip Life Amidst Debilitation: Medicalization, Survival, and the Bhopal Gas Leak” Mel Chen, Mimi Khúc, Jina B. Kim, "Work Will Not Save Us: An Asian American Crip Manifesto" Section II: Revisitations, Revisions Camille Owens, “The Keller Plantation and the Racial Plot of Disability History in the U.S.” G. Jasper Conner, “Blind and Deaf Together: Cross-Disability Community at Virginia’s Residential School for Black Disabled Youth” Olivia Banner, “Mental Health vs Mutual Aid: Competing Visions of Care in Black-authored Media of the 1970s” Elizabeth Cady Maher, “Wolf Girls and Mechanical Boys: Whiteness and Assimilation in Bruno Bettelheim’s Narratives of Autism” Calli Micale, “Signs of Grace: Protestant Pro-slavery Rhetoric of Disability in the 19th Century” Faye Fraser, “On the Question of Soul Wounding: Secular Debility, Anti-Indigenous Racism, & Canada’s Right to Maim” Section III: Survivance & New Directions Micah Khater, "No Use to the State: Phrasing Escape and a Black Radical Epistolary of Disability in Early Twentieth-Century Alabama Prisons" Sarah L. Orsak, "Abnormal Abilities: Black Women and the Production of Able-Bodied Normalcy in Thylias Moss’s Slave Moth" Liz Bowen, "Mules and Madmen: On the Disabling Habitats of Zora Neale Hurston and Jean Toomer" Eun-Jin Keish Kim, "“Yanqui-man Put Roots on Her”: Afro-Religiosity and (Dis)abilities in Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints" Ally Day, "Reading a legacy of black gay literature in/to Disability Studies and a Crip-of-Color Theory: Exploring the work of Joseph Beam, Essex Hemphill and Audre Lorde" Alexis Padilla, "Cross-Coalitional Anti-Racist and Anti-Ableist Movements?: Building on Maroon/Fugitive Knowledges and Global South Epistemologies" Lydia X.Z. Brown, Brianna Dickens, Tiny (Lisa) Gray-Garcia, Saili S. Kulkarni, Lateef McLeod, Amanda L. Miller, Emily A. Nusbaum, and Holly Pearson, "(Re)centering the Knowledge of Disabled Activists, Poverty Scholars, and Community Scholars of Color to Transform Education" Jeff --- Jeffrey A. Brune (he/him) Editor-in-Chief, Disability Studies Quarterly Associate Professor of History, Gallaudet University <https://gallaudet.edu/personnel/jeffrey-brune/> https://gallaudet.edu/personnel/jeffrey-brune/