Collective Study

Over the past several months, I have been publicly writing my dissertation research on Substack, tracing the historical relationship between race, disability, classification, and the overrepresentation of Black students in special education.

As the series begins to come to a close, I’m hosting a small live online study space introducing the foundations of DisCrit (Disability Critical Race Theory), a framework that examines how racism and ableism operate together within education and society.

Across four live conversations, we will explore:

• Session 1: What is DisCrit and why does it exist? We will trace how DisCrit came to be, what gap it was built to fill, and why neither Critical Race Theory nor Disability Studies alone was enough.

  Session 2: What DisCrit reveals that other frameworks miss We will explore how racism and ableism operate together in ways that traditional educational frameworks often fail to recognize.

• Session 3: What does DisCrit say about what’s happening in schools right now? We will examine contemporary racial inequities in special education, school discipline, and school classification systems.

• Session 4: Where do we go from here? We will have a collective conversation about what becomes possible when we rethink education beyond deficit, diagnosis, and reform alone.

More than a traditional course, this collective study space is for educators, school psychologists, school administrators, graduate students, disability justice advocates, and anyone interested in thinking more deeply about race, disability, and schooling beyond institutional talking points.

Part seminar, part conversation, and part public scholarship.

These sessions are designed to make complex theory accessible, relational, and historically grounded.

You do NOT need prior background in DisCrit, Critical Race Theory, or Disability Studies.

You only need to come with curiosity, openness, and a willingness to think collectively.

So, let’s learn together!