We are so excited to announce the Winter 2024 schedule of events for Disrupting Disruptions: the Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Tech Speaker and Workshop Series! All events are free, virtual or hybrid (so join us in person in Montreal for the hybrid events if you'd like), and professionally CART captioned. You need to register for the events to get the zoom link. Below is our winter 2024 schedule-- for more information go to: http://disruptingdisruptions.com or https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/p/schedule-of-e.... We are going to add another 1-2 events in the coming weeks. *January 4, 2024: Alisha B Wormsley on Shrines for the Familiar: Radical World Building through Collective Dreaming <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alisha-b-wormsley-on-radical-world-building-through-collective-dreaming-tickets-778410425537?aff=oddtdtcreator>, 6 PM ET (virtual) * *January 9, 2024: Dr. Aron Lee Rosenberg on Jacking Out: A Year Spent Offline <https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dr-aron-lee-rosenberg-on-jacking-out-a-year-spent-offline-hybrid-event-tickets-776337946697?aff=oddtdtcreator>, Noon- 1:30 PM ET (hybrid)* *January 16, 2024: Dr. Margaret Galvan on In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-margaret-galvan-on-in-visible-archives-queer-and-feminist-virtual-tickets-776483020617?aff=oddtdtcreator>, 6 PM ET (virtual)* *January 24, 2024: Dr. Jaipreet Virdi on Deaf Futurity <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-jaipreet-virdi-on-deaf-futurity-virtual-tickets-776503431667?aff=oddtdtcreator>, 6 PM ET (virtual), in addition to CART captioning, we will have ASL interpretation* *January 29, 2024: Dr. Sasha Luccioni on AI and Climate Change: Equating Positive Impacts with Negative Effects, <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-sasha-luccioni-on-ai-and-climate-change-hybrid-tickets-776381677497?aff=oddtdtcreator> Noon ET (hyrbid)* *February 7, 2024: Tawana Petty on In Pursuit of Data Justice: When Opting Out Becomes Improbable <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tawana-petty-virtual-tickets-779705138057?aff=oddtdtcreator>, 6 PM ET (virtual)* *February 13, 2024: Dr. Brenna Clarke Gray on Every Technology Was Somebody’s Choice: Resisting Inevitability Discourse and Recognizing Power in the Generative AI “Revolution," <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-brenna-clarke-gray-virtual-tickets-779712831067?aff=oddtdtcreator>6 PM ET (virtual)* *February 15, 2024: Khari Johnson on AI and Journalism <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/khari-johnson-on-ai-and-journalism-tickets-782305596097?aff=oddtdtcreator>, 6 PM (virtual)* February 21, 2024: Dr. Mél Hogan on the Environmental Impacts of Chat GPT and AI Technologies <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-mel-hogan-on-the-environmental-impacts-of-chat-gpt-ai-tech-virtual-tickets-776637663157?aff=oddtdtcreator>, 6 PM ET (virtual) May 7, 2024: Dr. Ashley Shew on Against Technoableism <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-ashley-shew-on-against-technoableism-virtual-tickets-776624463677?aff=oddtdtcreator>, 6 PM ET (virtual). This event is part of the Ada X HTMlles festival Events are organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum at McGill University's Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Thank you to our funders: SSHRC Connection Grant: Digital Citizen Research, the Sustainability Projects Fund, Ada X, IGSF, Indigenous Futures Research Centre, MILA, Digs Lab, Algorithmic Observatory, and more! .