WRITTEN SIGNED SPOKEN GRAPHIC & OTHER OFFERINGS BY TOPIC:

 NOTE: *Talila A. Lewis ("TL") is an autonomous Black queer(ed) multiply-disabled multi-modal/lingual genderfluid person who writes signs voices themself. 

INTERRUPTING RACIAL CAPITALISM, NEUROEXTRACTIVISM, MOVEMENT EXTRACTIVISM, ERASURE & VIOLENCE AGAINST MULTIPLY-MARGINALIZED COMMUNITY BUILDERS: 

• Fighting for Free[dom] & the Expense of Erasure (Part I)
• The Perils of Serving as a "Source"  (temporarily available) 
• Accountable Reporting on Disability, Race & Police Violence: A Community Response to the "Ruderman White Paper on Media Coverage of Use of Force & Disability (co-written with Ly X.Z. Brown)​

• Ongoing Anti-Black Racism & Exploitation: The Story of Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi & RespectAbility​

SELECT LANGUAGE JUSTICE OFFERINGS

• HEARD & Southerners on New Ground (SONG) in conversation about abolition, disability justice and language justice (conversation includes Talila A. Lewis Lewis alongside Naushaba Patel, Catalina Nieto, Monse Ramirez, Esperanza Dillard, Topher González Ávila) (Nov. 8, 2020)

BLACKNESS, QUEERNESS, "DISABILITY", IMPOVERISHMENT, MADNESS, PATHOCRIMINALIZATION, FREEDOM & REVOLUTION: 

• Freeing Black Fates and Capturing Black Freedom: Reclaiming Our Humanity, Contextualizing Our Trauma and Honoring Our Resistance
• the birth of resistance: courageous dreams, powerful nobodies & revolutionary madness (published in the anthology Resistance & Hope: Essays by Disabled People, edited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility Project; English text PDF written by Talila A. Lewis; English audio read by Talila A. Lewis)​
• Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts (English text and English audio by Talila A. Lewis)
• Incarceration and Ableism Go Hand In Hand, Says Abolitionist Talila Lewis  (English text and English audio by Talila A. Lewis)
• Editor's Title: Trump's Rule Attacking Disabled and Low-Income Migrants Has Violent History (Lewis did not like the editor's title but could not change it. If you share, please use one of Lewis's  Titles  (e.g., Public Charge: The Current Move to a Permanent Underclass of Migrants has its Roots in American Enslavement)
• A Roundtable on Radical Disability Politics (a roundtable conversation between Mia Mingus, Lateef McCloud, Ly X.Z. Brown, Loree Erickson, Rachel da Silveira Gorman, and Talila A. Lewis; introduced by Liat Ben-Moshe and A.J. Withers)
• Honoring Charles Kinsey & Arnaldo Rios Soto: Achieving Liberation through Disability Solidarity, The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy (written by Talila A. Lewis; translated by a group of Black/Indigenous Deaf/Disabled/DeafBlind community members; organized and supported by Lewis (Rossana Reis, Felix Rivas Gonzalez, Benro Ogunyipe, Cortez Harris, Tina Banerjee, Kari Cooke, Rachel Mazique, Leang Ngov, Isidore Niyongabo, Hunta Williams, Shakenya Ward-Brassell, Taher Chowdhury, Shakira Mason, Rosalinda Rendon, Elder Berroa, 'Rez' Muddy Moges-Riedel, Jessica 'Jessi' Hurd, Felicia Williams, Melissa Yingst, Nate Hartman, Malik Morris, Kenya Lowe, Carlos Aponte-Salcedo, Talila A. Lewis "TL",  Nayo Lim Franck, The Akerman Frank Family, & countless others who have come before us...)

INTERRUPTING POLCING, INCARCERATION, INSTITUTIONALIZATION (TRANSINSTITUTIONALIZATION)

• Concerns re Disability/Deaf Rights Communities' Responses to Policing Systems' Violence (intervening in reformist reforms from disability communities re policing)
• Disability Justice in the Age of Mass Incarceration (interventionist chapter in Deaf People in the Criminal Justice System, 2021)​
• Disability Justice is an Essential Part of Abolishing Policing and Incarceration, Kaepernick Publishing
• ​The Prison Strike Challenges Ableism & Defends Disability Rights 

• In the Fight to Close Rikers, Don't Forget about Deaf and Disabled People

SYLLABI & CURRICULUM

• Disability Justice In the Age of Mass Incarceration: Perspectives on Race, Disability, Law & Accountability (Northeastern University School of Law, Summer 2016 syllabus)

WRONGFUL CONVICTION & DISABLED PEOPLE

• MIP Fireside Chat: Wrongful Conviction of Deaf/Disabled People ​
• HEARD's Innocence Network Wrongful Convictions Day Panel: Disability, Incarceration, & Wrongful Conviction 2020 Wrongful Conviction (American Sign Language panel discussion with Kaj Kraus and Esperanza Dillard; Talila A. Lewis is signed, voiced and captioned by Talila A. Lewis)

KEYNOTES & OTHER PRESENTATIONS

• #Law4thePeople 2021 | Talila A. Lewis Keynote Presentation ( Talila Lewis is working with their own Deaf interpreters and captioner using spoken English, some sign; note: transcript has not been edited by Lewis)
• Anti-Eugenics Conference Keynote
• UCC MJM Donald H. McGannon Award Acceptance, Washington, DC,  September 22, 2022 (Lewis discusses HEARD, John Wilson, Jr., Alphonso Taylor, Chris Jarboe, & HEARD's collectivist, anticapitalist, grassroots work and the team that was holding down the work as Lewis transitioned out of the organization after over a decade of service)
• Stolen Bodies, Criminalized Minds & Diagnosed Dissent: The Racist, Classist, Ableist Trappings of the Prison Industrial Complex, Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability Lecture 2019 (English Transcript, not reviewed or edited by Lewis)
• Longmore Lecture: Context, Clarity & Grounding (Lewis wrote & shared this offering following the Longmore Lecture)

​SELECT BOOKS

• Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk
• Resistance & Hope: Essays by Disabled People, edited by Alice Wong
• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century, edited by Alice Wong

• No More Police: A Case for Abolition, by Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie
• Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care & Safety, edited by Cara Page & Erica Woodland
• Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons, edited by Colin Kaepernick
• Lessons In Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators, edited by The Education for Liberation Network & Critical Resistance Editorial Collective
• Deaf People in the Criminal Justice System: Selected Topics on Advocacy, Incarceration, and Social Justice, Gallaudet Press (ASL chapter summary) (there is a long story to this chapter. Suffice it to say it was painful and I could not fully express all that I wanted in the ways that I wanted...) 
• Radical Disability Politics Routledge Roundtable Conversation, Handbook of Radical Politics (a roundtable conversation between Mia Mingus, Lateef McCloud, Ly X.Z. Brown, Loree Erickson, Rachel da Silveira Gorman, and Talila A. Lewis; introduced by Liat Ben-Moshe and A.J. Withers)
• Voices of Change: Inspiring Words from Activists Around the Globe, edited by Kristen Hewitt

​SELECT MEDIA

• Top 30 Thinkers Under 30, Pacific Standard, Avital Andrews (Lewis discusses John Wilson, being nonbinary, their upbringing, and more, 2015)
• Perspectives in Belonging: Talila A. Lewis, Othering & Belonging Institute (Lewis writes about HEARD, John Wilson, deaf/disabled wrongful convictions, abolition, and more, 2016)
• Deaf, Black, & a Victim of Police Brutality, AJ+ 
• "Deaf In Prison", Al Jazeera English, Jeremy Young
• No Way to Call Home: Deaf People are Locked Inside a Prison Within A Prison, truthout.com, Mike Ludwig
• Disabled People Are Tortured in Solitary, But Tides May Be Turning, truthout.com, Ella Fassler
• This High Tech Police Lasso is Being Condemned by Mental Health Experts, VICE, Ella Fassler
• People with Mental Illness Face Acute Dangers During and After Police Encounters, truthout.com, Victoria Law
• Black, Disabled and at Risk: The Overlooked Problem of Police Violence Against Americans with Disabilities, TIME.com, Abigail Abrams
• 'Prison Within A Prison': New Mandate Offers Lifeline for Deaf People in Custody, The Marshall Project, Christie Thompson (AlphonsoTaylor is highlighted here)

SELECT INTERNATIONAL CONVOS

• Talking Cinema Presenter, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (Prague, Czech Republic, March 6 - 17, 2019).
• Writing Our Own Stories, Disability Summer School Centre for Disability Law and Policy, Institute for Lifecourse and Society 
  Upper Newcastle Road, National University of Ireland, Galway (June 9, 2021)  Talila A. Lewis in conversation with Paul Alford, Inclusion Ireland, and Reshma Valliappan, The Red Door with  Shreya Anasuya, Skin Stories chairing the panel)
• Disability, Policing, and the Question of the Human. Centre for Global Disability Studies (panel with Idil Abdillahi, Liat Ben-Moshe, Elaine Cagulada; moderated by Celeste Pang) (Virtual, June 1, 2022).
• Writing Our Own Stories, International Disability Law Summer School. (panel with Paul Alford and Reshma Valliappan) (Virtual, June 9, 2021)
• Master Planning Eugenics: Mapping, Navigating and Negotiating the Intersections and Overlays of Race, Class, Disability and Queerness, The University of British Columbia. (keynote) (Virtual, April 15, 2021). 
• Cultural Narratives of Interlocking Crises: Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter.  (Panel discussion with Tumu Johnson, Mia Keeys, Claudette Davis- Bonnik Janine Francois) (moderated by Dr. Khairani Barokka) University of the Arts: London’s Decolonising Institute. (Virtual, March 16, 2021).  
• Cross Border Crip Conversation II, Festival Theaterformen. (conversation with Jo Bannon observed by other disabled community members from around the world) (January 26, 2021).

INFORMATION/DATA VISUALIZATION

• Deaf/Disabled Wrongful Conviction Infographic (English infographic created by Talila A. Lewis for HEARD in tandem with Felix Garcia's December 2019 community actions, translated into American Sign Language by Esperanza Dilllard for HEARD)
•  The Revolution Must Be Accessible (English infographic co-created by Talila A. Lewis and Roxanne Zech (with support from HEARD team); video produced, edited, voiced by Talila A. Lewis; translated into American Sign Language by Erin Sanders-Sigmon, Stephanie Hakulin, Leang Ngov; and translated into Spanish by Gloshanda Lawyer & COCOA)
• Mass Incarceration Explained in American Sign Language and Spanish (Lewis wrote the statement, supported the translators, and organized the collaboration between six organizations with support of HEARD's team)
• 2018 Infographic series re deaf/disabled incarcerated community (Talila A. Lewis conceived of and created these interactive data visualizations based on HEARD correspondence; American Sign Language translations created by a number of people including Jessi Hurd)

JOHN WILSON, JR.

• John Wilson Freedom Week 2020 - Wrongful Convictions of Disabled People (conversation with Esperanza Dillard, Debbye Byrne, Talila A. Lewis; Lewis signs, voices, and captions themself)
• Happy Birthday John Wilson, Jr. - Get to Know Him Through Those who Know and Love Him
• ​John Wilson, Jr.'s Long Journey Home (video created, filmed, produced, edited, captioned in a very short turnaround by Talila A. Lewis in honor of John H.L. Wilson, Jr. and his family)​

KI'TAY D. DAVIDSON

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ALPHONSO TAYLOR

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CONVERSATIONS: INTERVIEWS, PODCASTS, WEBINARS

• Rising to Disability Justice, Middle Church (Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis in conversation with community lawyer and organizer Talila A. Lewis in spoken English, May 18, 2022)
• At the Intersections, Season 2, Episode 4: Talila A. Lewis and Disability Justice (Lewis in conversation with Marion Johnson), March 10, 2019) (English text available here)
• Innocence Network Wrongful Conviction Day Panel: Disability, Incarceration and Wrongful Convictions (Esperanza Dillard, Kaj Kraus, Talila A. Lewis in conversation in American Sign Language with Lewis voicing Lewis's self in spoken English and writing themself in English text)
• Lessons in Liberation: Bridging Abolition to School Leadership (a convo hosted by the Education for Liberation Network and Critical Resistance)
• Pigeonhole/Who Am I To Stop It: Deafness, Disability & Incarceration with Talila A. Lewis (Lewis in conversation with Cheryl Green (Nov. 17, 2017)
• Deaf (In)Justice Part II: Talila A. Lewis  (Lewis in conversation with Sarika D. Mehta) (June 15, 2016)

ORGANIZATIONAL STATEMENTS (drafted by Lewis)

• Disability Solidarity: Completing the Vision For Black Lives, Harriet Tubman Collective (Lewis was the lead drafter of HTC's charter statement)
• Statement of Police Killings of Deaf Men, Darnell Wicker & Daniel Harris, HEARD
• Statement of Wrongful Convictions of Black Deaf/Disabled People, HEARD

​REGULATORY ADVOCACY, INSIDE-OUSIDE MOBILIZATION, ORGANIZING & POWER BUILDING

• What Today's "Historic" FCC Vote Means to Deaf/Disabled People (written by Talila A. Lewis in October 2015, published in November 2016 for strategic purposes and in solidarity with 40+ orgs in the Prison Phone Justice Campaign)
• HEARD Initial Comment (March 2013)
• Comments from Deaf Imprisoned People (March, 25 2013)
• HEARD Re Further Comment (December 20, 2013)
• Community Sign On Letter (December 2013)
• HEARD Reply Comment (January, 13 2014)
• Comment Re Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (January 2015)
• Comment Re Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (January 2016)
• HEARD drafted this comment with some support from NDRN (Talila A. Lewis drafted of this comment; without notice or consent NDRN invited NAD to sign on after years of NAD having not supported HEARD or our incarcerated community's work in these efforts--at times, actively blocking our efforts. HEARD asked NAD, specifically Howard Rosenblum, to remove NAD's signature and create their own comment to the FCC and vlog clarifying their position to our communities. NAD/Rosenblum refused and NDRN did not force them to remove their signature. In protest, HEARD removed our name and Lewis drafted in very short turn around the the above comment (January 2016). This was part of a protracted campaign of erasure, commodification and more engaged in by Rosenblum and NAD of HEARD's all-volunteer efforts.
• HEARD November 23, 2019 Comment​