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About Clayton Jarrard
Clayton is a graduate student at NYU's XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement program. His academic interests include cultural anthropology, queer studies, disability and Mad studies, and religious studies.Clayton Jarrard is a graduate student at NYU's XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement program.
NBN Episodes hosted by Clayton:
January 9, 2026
Crip Negativity
In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as ac…
January 4, 2026
Activist Affordances
For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or …
November 22, 2025
This Watery Place
What does it feel like to experience your body cleaving into two while public discussion of reproductive healthcare centers around the viability line:…
November 22, 2025
Preserving Disability
A transcript of this interview is available [here] Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession (Library Juice Press, 2024) weaves t…
November 21, 2025
Unfurl
A transcript of this interview is available [here] A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, a…
September 19, 2025
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity
From award-winning writer Sarah Schulman, a longtime social activist and outspoken critic of the Israeli war on Gaza, comes The Fantasy and Necessity …
September 2, 2025
Counter-Cartographies
What if we embraced neurodivergent ways of being not as deviations to be corrected but as vital ways of inhabiting the world? What new realities might…
August 1, 2025
Provoking Religion
In the late twentieth century, artists were on the front lines of the culture wars. Leaders of the Christian Right in the U.S. made a national spectac…
April 12, 2025
Care at the End of the World
In Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025), Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-colo…
March 28, 2025
How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic
How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic is the first book to document the experiences of those hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City—disabled…
March 26, 2025
Mad Studies Reader
The last few years have brought increased writings from activists, artists, scholars, and concerned clinicians that cast a critical and constructive e…
January 18, 2025
Disability and the History of Science (Osiris, Vol 36)
Transcript for the episode is linked for download here. Disability has been a central—if unacknowledged—force in the history of science, as in the sc…
January 10, 2025
Shame-Sex Attraction
We are survivors. We were subjected to dehumanizing practices by people who sought our erasure. We believe telling our stories is both powerful and …
October 27, 2024
How to Tell When We Will Die
The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding…
August 3, 2024
When Monsters Speak
Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (Duke UP, 2024) showcases the development of Stry…
July 23, 2024
Disability Works
In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project ali…
July 10, 2024
Storming Bedlam
Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism. The contemporary world is over…
June 4, 2024
Feminism Against Cisness
The contributors to Feminism Against Cisness (Duke UP, 2024) showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from…
June 1, 2024
Unsettling Queer Anthropology
This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways qu…
May 30, 2024
Disability Worlds
In Disability Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging dis…
May 21, 2024
Disabled Ecologies
A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance. Deep belo…
April 3, 2024
Crip Spacetime
In Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024), Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, p…
November 6, 2023
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) tracks the conceptual journ…
October 20, 2023
Undoing Suicidism
Note: This episode contains a discussion of suicide. A list of resources is available below. In Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to …