[Book Launch] Not Without Us: Centring Disability and Inclusion in SG

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Book Launch of Not Without Us: Centring Disability and Inclusion in Singapore

Saturday, 4 February, 2.30PM – 4PM

Happening at The POD @ NLB, 100 Victoria St, National Library, Singapore 188064), access from L1

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• This event is free for all to attend, but seats are limited.

• Venue is accessible by lift from Level 1 of the National Library Building. A staff member from Ethos Books and signage will be posted in the Level 1 lobby to direct attendees up to the venue.
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How can we embrace a more inclusive way of being? How do we move beyond attitudes of charity to engage with disability as a generative source of knowledge and embodiment? Join us in conversation with contributing writers of Not Without Us: Alvan Yap, Fadiah Johari and Jocelyn Tay, moderated by co-editor Meng Ee Wong, as they discuss their lived experiences of and observations on disability, and explore ways to expand notions about inclusion and care in Singapore.

We would like to thank the National Library Board for providing venue support for this book launch.

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Disability is all around us—among people we meet, the media, sports, our own family and friends. Undeniably, all of us have or will one day come to experience or encounter disability. But how can we reckon with the realities of those who live with disability, or its reality in our own lives? In a city-state slowly moving towards inclusion, how do those meant to be 'included' feel about such efforts? Not Without Us: perspectives on disability and inclusion in Singapore is a groundbreaking collection of essays that takes a creative and critical disability studies approach to centre disability, and rethink the ways in which we research, analyse, think and know about disability in our lives. Across multiple domains and perspectives, the writings in this volume consider what it means to live with disability in a purportedly inclusive and accessible Singapore.

Find out more about the book here: https://bit.ly/notwithoutus2023

Alvan Yap has been an educator, writer and editor for almost 20 years. His stint as a special education teacher included a year-long overseas assignment with the Singapore International Foundation. He is also the playwright of Not in my lifetime?, a play about special education in Singapore. Alvan has worked as an advocate with the Disabled People’s Association and is currently in a management role with a social service agency.

Nurul Fadiah Johari is currently working as a researcher. She has also written pieces in local publications such as Perempuan: Muslim Women in Singapore Speak Out (2016), Growing Up Perempuan (2018), Budi Kritik (2018) and The White Book (2020). She is interested in examining the intersecting problems of patriarchy, capitalism and racism, and their implications on mental health and trauma, especially in the lived experiences of minority women.

Tay Jocelyn is an autistic undergraduate student of History at Nanyang Technological University. Her main area of interest is disability history and the disability movement, with a particular focus on neurodiversity and neurodivergence. She is currently working to advocate for disability and neurodivergent rights in Singapore, as well as highlighting disabled perspectives within Singaporean history.

Meng Ee Wong is Associate Professor at the Psychology and Child & Human Development academic group at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He researches and teaches in special and inclusive education, assistive technology, disability studies and teacher education across diploma and postgraduate courses. He has published in international journals, including Asia Pacific Journal of Education, British Journal of Visual Impairment, and International Journal of Inclusive Education. He currently serves on several non-profit and charity organizations, including SG Enable. In 2019, he was appointed Chairman of the Goh Chok Tong Enable Fund.

Kuansong Victor, Zhuang is Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, and International Postdoctoral Scholar at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. His research lies at the intersections of communications, media, and cultural studies, and disability studies, especially as it pertains to the workings of technology and inclusion. He hopes to use his research to contribute to current debates about how inclusion happens both in Singapore and around the world.

Dan Goodley is Professor of Disability Studies and Education at the University of Sheffield and a prominent scholar in the field of disability studies. He is also co-director of iHuman: the interdisciplinary research institute for the study of the human at the University of Sheffield. He has published extensively on disability, as well as participated in research spanning diverse fields over the past 30 years.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Pod, 100 Victoria Street, Singapore, Singapore