Disability, Vulnerability, and Resistance: Examining the Lives of Disabled Black Girls and Women

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 8
Coordinating Council for Women in History 8
Friday, January 9, 2026: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Kimball Room (Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor)
Chairs:
Corinne Field, University of Virginia
Moya Bailey, Northwestern University
Papers:
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Harriet Tubman and the Powerful Effect of Poverty and Desperation
Deirdre B. Cooper Owens, University of Connecticut
“To Show the People I Am Not Dead”: Sojourner Truth’s Public Performances of Aging with Disabilities
Corinne Field, University of Virginia
Life Lessons: Community, Belonging, and Loss in Segregated Schools for Black Deaf and Blind Children
Jenifer L. Barclay, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Comment:
Moya Bailey, Northwestern University
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