Bell and Lili also serve as a reminder to the campus community that service animals aren’t pets or perks—they’re essential, working partners. Understanding and respecting them makes it possible for all students to fully engage with campus life, in ways big and small, every single day.
“Against Rehabilitation” uses ethnographic research from drug courts, court-mandated drug treatment and jails and prisons across New York to argue that so-called ‘alternatives to incarceration’ programs are expanding the reach of the carceral state, reproducing systems of anti-Blackness, classism and ableism.
June 9, 2019. Ali Stroker wins Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. An actor, singer, and wheelchair user, Ali Stroker has been a trailblazer for disability representation on the stage. She was the first wheelchair user to graduate from the Tisch School of the Arts Drama Department at New York University. In 2015, she was the first wheelchair user to appear on Broadway, starring as Anna in the musical, Spring Awakening. For her performance as Ado Annie Carnes in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma!, Stroker became the first wheelchair user to win a Tony Award in 2019.
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