Hello, I am looking for someone to sub-lease my place from May 15 to the end of June.

Move-in date is flexible. Room for rent $ 450/month. 918 Stormont Circle, Halethorpe, 21227 (included furniture, gas, electricity, water, laundry, Internet and private parking) the house is in walking distance to the UMBC shuttle bus line (Halethorpe Satellite Line). About 5 min drive to UMBC campus. The place is at a walking distance to the Halethorpe Metro Station. 

For details  or want to check out the house please contact me: aputhukkudy@umbc.edu.

Thanks.

A resource round-up provided by Women’s Center staff members Meagé and MJ

In case you missed Tuesday’s roundtable on (In)Visible Disabilities and Women (or if you were there and want to keep the conversation going), we thought it might be useful to summarize some of the discussion in addition to linking some useful reading materials and resources.

As with all of our roundtables, we reached out to our panel members and asked them to keep a few guiding questions in mind as they shared their stories and examples. Some of these included:

• Where do the intersections of (in)visible disabilities and gender show up for you personally? In the classroom, peer networks, etc.?

• How does disability relate to issues like reproductive justice, sexual violence, or gender socialization?

• How is the way we talk about disability influenced by gender and sexuality?

• How does ableism impact women with visible vs. invisible disabilities differently?

• Why is this a social justice and/or feminist issue?

On Tuesday, our panelists shared their definitions and experiences of disabilities and their intersection with gender. Rina Rhyne of Voices Against Violence, elaborated on the array of sexual assault/violence perpetrated towards people with disabilities. “Sexual violence is not always physical. Caretakers and partners can manipulate the power and control they hold in relationship.” (See the Power and Control Wheel: People with Disabilities and their Caregivers)  Dr. Julie Murphy spoke to the ways in with ADHD are diagnosed (or not) and the ways in which gender socialization impact the ways in which people respond or react to with women with ADHD. Dr. Kate Drabinski reflected on teaching disability studies and encouraged us to learn more about the social model of disability. Student Leader, Prachi, shared her experience as a Deaf student here at UMBC. She explained the duality of deafness, “it is both an invisible and visible disability.” Prachi also spoke to what it means to be Deaf as a woman of color and called for a change in the way we view disabilities saying, “deafness is not ugly nor is it negative.”

With only an hour to spend together, there’s still so much more we could have discussed and learned together. Below are just a few resources to help us continue to engage in self-reflection and growth.

Thanks to our panel members for the important and rich conversation!

From Stuff Mom Never Told You

• When America’s “Ugly Laws” Hid the Disabled Poor From the Public Eye
• Disabled Sexuality Podcast

From Everyday Feminism

• How Mainstream Feminism Continues to Perpetuate Ableism (And How We Can Change That)
• I’m Not a Person with a Disability. I’m an Disabled Person
• 4 Ways to Be an Ally to People with Invisible Disabilities

News and other articles

• #SolidarityIsForTheAbleBodied, and Feminism’s Ableism Problem
• The hidden victims of campus sexual assault: Students with disabilities
• The Place of Women with Disabilities in Feminist Movements

Helpful Legal Services/ Information on Disability Rights and Accommodations

• Maryland Disability Law Center
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Pro Bono Resource Center – Maryland
• Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service
• JAN Network – Job Accommodation Network
• ADA – Americans with Disabilities Act
• Rape,Abuse & Incest National Network: Sexual Abuse of People with Disabilities
• Power & Control Wheel:People with Disabilities and their Caretakers

On-campus Resources

• Student Disability Services
• AOK Library Assistive Technology
• UMBC Counseling Center
• Voices Against Violence

Read more from other roundtable roundups:

Trans Identities + Mental Health (March 2016)

Black Trauma + Mental Health (February 2016)

White Womanhood + Critical Whiteness (September 2015)

Teri Rueb, assistant professor of visual arts, is creating an interactive Baltimore City tour.

“Teri Rueb: Listening to Baltimore”

“If these walls could speak, what tales they could tell” isn’t just a saying to Teri Rueb, it’s an artistic challenge. The assistant professor of visual arts creates interactive sound installations which allow visitors to explore a terrain on several different levels � listening to its stories, songs, and history � while walking and looking.

“I approach sound from a sculptor’s point of view,” says Rueb, “exploring its spatial aspects,” while also probing themes of time, memory, identity�and technology. In her “Trace” environmental sound installation, Rueb enabled hikers in British Columbia to hear site-specific poems, songs, and musings while carrying a backpack loaded with a Global Positioning Satellite device and small computer. She took the concept to an urban landscape in her Open City installation in Washington, D.C., exploring the idea of public space and civic identity.

Now, with the support of a Faculty Research Fellowship, Rueb will spend the fall 2001 semester creating “Invisible Cities/Sounding Baltimore,” which will collect oral histories from residents of Baltimore neighborhoods and combine them with sound compositions to create a kind of multi-layered, interactive, city tour. “I’ll go to parts of the city that I find sonically interesting, take samplings of the soundscape, and manipulate them, taking artistic license,” she explains. Using a wireless, handheld device combining palm pilot, GPS, and MP3 technologies, listeners will wander through the city and listen to the tales the streets, and walls, can tell.

A not to miss opportunity for those interested in Medical School.

Attend Monday's upcoming upcoming information session with:
Dr. Lloyd Minor, MD
Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine

THIS Monday, April 25th
11:00 AM till 12 Noon
ITE 108 A - Imaging Resource Center

Lloyd B. Minor, MD, is a scientist, surgeon, and academic leader. He is the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, a position he has held since December 2012. 

As dean, Dr. Minor plays an integral role in setting strategy for the clinical enterprise of Stanford Medicine, an academic medical center that includes the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. He also oversees the quality of Stanford Medicine’s physician practices and growing clinical networks.  More information on his bio can be found here.