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Welcome to week two of UM Press Annotates #DisabilityStudies. Last week, readers joined in annotating the margins of Jay Timothy Dolmage’s Academic Ableism: Higher Education and Disability Studies (University of Michigan Press, 2017).

We’re closing the month with a chapter from Jina B. Kim, Joshua Kupetz, Crystal Yin Lie, and Cynthia Wu’s edited collection, Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies (University of Michigan Press, 2021). A pioneer of disability studies, Tobin Siebers has inspired contemporary disability scholars across disciplines.

UM Press Annotates invites readers to share annotations for Amanda Cachia’s chapter, “Disability Aesthetics.” Cachia’s chapter examines iconic images of disability from art history. Her reflections on disability aesthetics within the classroom also open space for educators from all disciplines to connect to their own pedagogical choices.

Learn more about Sex, Identity, Aesthetics in this video of a general discussion with the collection editors . (And, find a hint about the award-winning book we’ll read next week.)

Please join us in annotating Amanda Cachia’s “Disability Aesthetics” this week, from February 27 th through March 5 th .

How to Participate

The University of Michigan Press looks forward to engaging with readers through UM Press Annotates. To help make the conversation productive for all, we ask annotators to follow these community guidelines:

• Seek to understand differing perspectives. Questions can inspire meaningful conversation and help us develop shared understandings, even where we may disagree.
• We welcome scholarly disagreements, but ask all annotators to engage in respectful communication practices.
• Help make the conversation searchable across social media with the hashtags #UMPAnnotates and #DisabilityStudies.

To add annotations and respond to others, sign up for a free Hypothesis account . Once you have an account, there’s no need to install a browser extension; Hypothesis is embedded in our Fulcrum platform. Sign in, select some text, and click the annotate button to join the conversation: happy annotating!

This post was written by Michelle Sprouse, a PhD candidate in the University of Michigan's department of English and Education and UM Press editorial intern. Michelle currently oversees the UM Press Annotates pilot program. In her own research, she explores social annotation as a tool for connecting reading and writing in post-secondary contexts.