Director of The Future of Disability Studies, Working Group Discusses Teaching in the Age of COVID

Former director of the Future of Disability Studies, and the Precision Medicine: Ethics Politics and Culture working groups,  Rachel Adams discusses her course “Comics, Health, and Embodiment” and its new relevance in the age of COVID, with Columbia News. The class looks at graphic narratives with a focus on embodied identities such as gender, sexuality, race, and age with recent additions of more comics by people of color in response to the BLM movement and graphic narratives that deal with experiences of health, illness, and disability in light of the current pandemic.