Lydia Brown

Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown (they/them) is a feminist disability studies and critical legal studies scholar.

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Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown (they/them) is a feminist disability studies and critical legal studies scholar. Their work addresses the deep interconnections between ableism and other forms of systemic discrimination, marginalization, and oppression, and has often focused on interpersonal, state, and corporate violence, deprivation, and exploitation targeting disabled people at the margins of the margins. Their current research interests include carcerality and institutional violence; asexuality as queerness; algorithmic harm as an accelerating force of systemic injustice; and the ableism-racism nexus of transracial and transnational adoption. Ly Xīnzhèn has recent publications in FUTURE/PRESENT: Arts in a Changing America, Autism in Adulthood, The American Journal of Law and Medicine, Critical Sociology, Critical Studies in Education, and Disability Studies Quarterly. 

About Lydia Brown

Expertise

Critical Legal Studies
Disability Studies
Feminism and Gender Studies
Intersectionality of Race and Gender
Public Policy
Queer of Color Critique

Languages

Arabic
English
Spanish