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Remi Yergeau", "event_type":"Lecture \/ Discussion", "event_type_id":"13", "description":"Event description coming soon.\n\nThis event is open to the public, and we encourage all interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students to attend.\n\nAdvance registration is recommended:\n\nRegister to attend on Zoom: https:\/\/umich.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_K4_jYtqoRB-nwC-diXGR1w \n\nThis event will be recorded. A full recording will be uploaded to the DISCO Network YouTube channel within approximately one week of the event.\n\nMeet the Panelists:\n\nAlejandra Caraballo is a civil rights attorney and Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic. Her scholarship and practice address the intersection of civil rights law, technology policy, and institutional accountability, with particular focus on the areas of digital privacy in areas of stigmatized healthcare around reproductive care and gender affirming care. She is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts, and is admitted to the Southern District of New York and the Eleventh, Ninth, and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Her litigation practice has included impact cases on healthcare discrimination, employment discrimination, and LGBTQ civil rights, including work on Kadel v. Folwell, Lange v. Houston County, and Boston Alliance v. HHS. Alejandra\u2019s published legal scholarship includes The Anti-Transgender Medical Expert Industry (Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2022) and Extradition in Post-Roe America (CUNY Law Review, 2023). Her scholarship has been cited in law reviews, amicus briefs, and media coverage of LGBTQ civil rights litigation.\n\nCeleste Trianon is a transfeminine jurist and activist, based out of Montr\u00e9al (in the traditional lands of the Kanien'keh\u00e1ka) and active all across Canada. Celeste holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al and a Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto). She is currently working with the Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund in Toronto, while completing her lawyer licensure process with the Law Society of Ontario. Through Juritrans, the legal clinic she founded prior to starting her first law degree, over a thousand trans people in Qu\u00e9bec, Nova Scotia and other provinces have been able to get information and accompaniment in applying for legal name changes. Celeste has created opportunities for 2SLGBTQ+ law students to be involved with their own community through partnerships with various Canadian law schools. She has equally coordinated several judicial interventions defending the rights of trans people, both at trial (notably in A.B. v. Qu\u00e9bec Minister of Education) and at the Supreme Court of Canada (namely Hak\/EMSB and UR Pride). In her capacity as a content creator, she has built a following of 22,000+ on Instagram, primarily through breaking the news on developments in transgender issues in Canada. Celeste maintains Canada's Anti-Trans Risk Map, a resource extensively used in academia, conferences, and even by trans U.S. citizens seeking to flee their country.\n\nMeet the Moderator:\n\nM. Remi Yergeau is a Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Communication and an associate professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University. They also direct the Digital Accessible Futures Lab as a part of the DISCO Network. Remi is an autistic academic, and their scholarly interests include rhetoric & writing studies, digital studies, trans and queer rhetorics, disability studies, and theories of mind. Their book, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Duke UP, 2017), is a winner of the 2017 Modern Language Association First Book Prize, the 2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, and the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award. Along with 13 colleagues from DISCO, Remi is a co-author of Technoskepticism (Stanford UP, 2025).\n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART captioning services will be provided. 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Interested students may register for this session using the same form as the main event. More information coming soon. \n\nAdvance registration is recommended:\n\nRegister to attend in-person: https:\/\/sessions.studentlife.umich.edu\/track\/event\/session\/111880\n\nRegister to attend on Zoom: https:\/\/umich.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_jmr7uP-iSuyjO0RgeRTl1Q\n\nThis event will be recorded. A full recording will be uploaded to the DISCO Network YouTube channel within approximately one week of the event.\n\nMeet the Panelists:\n\nDr. Aria S. Halliday is an award-winning author who specializes in the study of cultural constructions of black girlhood and womanhood in material, visual, and digital culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Her research is published in venues such as The Black Scholar, Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Girlhood Studies, and Women, Gender, and Families of Color. She is the author of Black Girls and How We Fail Them (UNC Press, 2025) and Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2022). She edited and introduced The Black Girlhood Studies Collection (Women\u2019s Press, 2019). She was an Institute for Citizens and Scholars Career Enhancement Fellow (2020-2021), a Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (2022-2023), and the 2021 Stuart Hall Foundation x Cultural Studies Award winner for her article \u201cTwerk Sumn!: Theorizing Black Girl Epistemology in the Body.\u201d Currently, she is the Marie Rich Endowed Professor in Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women\u2019s Studies and program in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She\u2019s working on two books, A Black Feminist Guide to Automobility, and In a 90s Kind of World: Black Girls and Women in Popular Culture. She is also the owner and founder of Plume & Prosper, a wellness retreat experience.\n\nNessa Keddo is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Media, Diversity and Technology at King\u2019s College London. She is Programme Director for MA Global Media Industries and the Department\u2019s EDI Lead. Nessa\u2019s research explores the intersection of diversity practices and technological deployment in the media industries. More recently with the onset of automated praxis through generative AI, her work explores the affordances and challenges of digitised and platform labour, particularly for marginalised practitioners and independent creators. Nessa\u2019s research is grounded in critical approaches to the embedding of diversity practices in the media industries. She is co-author of the upcoming book Race, Racism and Diversity in the Cultural and Creative Industries (2025), which focuses on the business case for diversity, specifically since the commercialisation of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.\n\nAshleigh Greene Wade is Associate Professor of Digital Studies, jointly appointed in Media Studies and African American Studies. Broadly speaking, her work traverses the fields of Black girlhood studies, digital and visual media studies, Black Feminist theory, and digital humanities. Wade has a Ph.D. in Women\u2019s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and is an alumna of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies Fellowship Program. Her work on digital Blackness appears in The Black Scholar, National Political Science Review, Women, Gender, and Families of Color, Visual Arts Research, and Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. Wade\u2019s forthcoming monograph, Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency and Possibility in Everyday Digital Practice (Duke University Press), explores the role of Black girls\u2019 digital practices in documenting and preserving everyday Black life.\n\nDr. Rianna Walcott is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland, and Associate Director of the Black Communication and Technology (BCaT) Lab as part of the DISCO Network. An alumna of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP), Dr. Walcott earned her PhD in Digital Humanities at King's College London for her research on Black (and specifically Black British) communication practices and digital media, locating the evolution of a hybrid \u2018Black British\u2019 identity within the wider Black diaspora. She combines digital research, Black feminist praxis, decolonial studies, arts and culture, and mental health advocacy in her work. 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