Emily Nott

@misoalways and @emilynott2 are so excited to share “Crip Wisdoms: A Feminist Disability Studies Coloring Book!” This coloring and activity book was created by Miso Kwak and Emily Nott, two graduate students, friends and co-conspirators in Teejop (Madison, WI). The book was designed by Miso and Emily collaboratively, with art inked by Emily and tactile edition design by Miso and @clovernookcenter 100% of Miso and Em’s proceeds from this book go to @disability_visibility project. The book includes not only pages to color, but prompts for poems, activities, reflection questions, further learning, pleasure activism and dialogue with loved ones. Our hope is that this book is a pathway for people into engaging with Feminist Disability Studies theory and crip wisdoms, and that Engagement with these ideas creates pathways to care, resistance, softness, struggle, and possibility. We hope this book gives you a place to color, make, stim, and reflect in ways that nourish you. Thank you to all who made this book possible, first @fierceblackfemme in whose class this zine began. Thank you @slothprof for helping us dream new ways to share this book, to @madhumanities for funding the first printing, and to @clovernookcenter and Samuel Foulkes for your care in working with us on the braille and tactile version. Print and Braille copies are available at clovernookprints.org/books and free open source PDF copies are available for a suggested donation at bit.ly/emilynott. Image IDs in alt text. Photo of Miso and Em by @dynaeallicephotography Love and solidarity, em and miso 💛💛

🎨🖌️Thanks to all who made art & swag with us yesterday! See all of it and more (and make some of your own) at this year's Teachers for Social Justice Curriculum Fair! Sign up in our bio 📝 All our art is inspired by this year's theme, "Fighting for Our Futures: Teaching for Solidarity and Justice in this Crisis." We're in a crisis moment of escalating authoritarianism, militarism from Iran and Chicago to Palestine and Latin America, anti-Blackness, deportation, and more. While this crisis is deeply dangerous to our communities, it also holds opportunities: to unmask the realities of an oppressive system that have been veiled to some; to illustrate how our diverse freedom struggles are interconnected; to see ourselves in each other and build solidarity; to envision better, freer futures to guide us. This is where our art — and our work as educators — comes in 🦋⛓️‍💥 📨Get someone from your school community and join us as we share ideas and work around organizing and teaching for a better world together. Sign up and learn more in our bio. #abolishice #freepalesti̇ne #chicago #education

A delightful new book shares disability wisdom while introducing readers to disabled leaders like Dr. Sami Schalk @fierceblackfemme , Alice Wong @disability_visibility , Miso Kwak @misoalways , and Emily Nott @emilynott2 . You can order a copy in print or in Braille. Descriptive Transcript Haben Girma, a woman with long black hair, dancing hazel eyes, and medium dark skin, sits at a picnic table in a park. A large, spiral-bound book in front of her has a row of six illustrated spoons against a peach-colored background. From left to right: a plain spoon, a spoon with an ornate handle, a small spoon, a large spoon with a flourish in the middle, a spoon turned on its side, and a spoon with a square handle. Dotted lines and scissors suggest cutting the spoons out of the page. Haben: Can blind people color? She holds up a crayon nestled in a four-sided sleeve. Haben: In Braille on the crayon it says red. She rotates the crayon to reveal the other side. Haben: And then if you flip it, for those who can’t read Braille, there’s raised print. She places the crayon down and turns the book around so it faces her instead of the camera. Haben: The title says, “Crip Wisdoms: A Feminist Disability Studies Coloring Book. Braille version by Emily Nott and Miso Kwak.” She opens the book. The left page is filled with Braille text, and the right page has a tactile drawing. Haben: Inside are tactile raised images. So this is actually an interactive coloring book. If you want to color, you can color. If you want to do other activities—write poems, have conversations. There’s a lot of wisdom in these stories, and it gives people the opportunity to learn about disability culture, disabled leaders while engaging in the way you want to engage. The video cuts to Miso Kwak, an Asian femme with shoulder length black hair, sitting in front of a window with closed blinds. She wears headphones and holds up her book. Miso: One of my favorite pages in the book features Dr. Sami Schalk who talked about pleasure activism. She points to the left page of the book which has Braille text. Transcript continued in comments… #CripWisdoms #ColoringBook #AccessibleArt

Grateful to my adventure buddy @turtlereptile for our Joshua tree ramble. Big stars, blooming cacti, cleansing hikes and deep rest. In a spirit of ongoing partnership and joy, we are thinking of this as the first honeymoon of many. So much gratitude to Joshua tree and mama earth for holding us. Music by @buffalonicholsmusic #latergram #joshuatree #hiking #bloom #rest

Today I hosted breakfast for my family and announced the start of the Madison/ Milwaukee Scavenger hunt. Some of my favorite places in both cities were featured in this illustrated map drawn (& gifted to me) by my dear friend @emilynott2 . In a stealthy, strategic solo mission to win, my sister-in-law, @michalia_ won with 11 locations! My brother Cameron was a COMPLETE gentleman and … celebrated his soon to be wife’s win graciously, despite missing out on being in every single photo needed in order to win. What a chivalrous chauffeur! Congratulations, sis!

What a wonderful @aera_edresearch 2026! I am so grateful for the exchange of ideas, and being able to share space with scholars trying to use (re)search and praxis as tools of resistance and change. Thank you to the friends who presented with me at two round tables and one symposium! Especially grateful to have been part of “scholars on the beach,” because we are human beings deserving of pleasure, softness, and joy and not research automatons. Love my @uwsoe family, yall are amazing. 💛 Alt text of photos in alt text. Alt text for video: video pans across a beach. You can see Brittany, Devin, Sam, nevin, Noah, maya, Tracey. People wave and smile at the camera. It is windy a you can see ocean and palm trees in the background.

One more time now. CORRECTION! Shoutout to @lauren.mcginley.vujosevic for catching that I listed my “Building arts based…” session in Chicago time. Updated in this graphic! See you in LA! @aera_edresearch Image ID: photo of em in a circle with green text on a black background. AERA 2026 Schedule: 1) Session Organizer: Towards Undisciplining: Temporality, Objects, and Method in Education Research Friday April 10, 11:45am to 1:15pm PT. With Chris Kirchgasler. Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 304B 2) Building Arts-Based Social-Emotional Learning Practices Through Embodied Professional Learning. Thursday April 9, ⭐️7:45 to 9:15am⭐️PT. With Tracey Bullington. At Marriott Los Angeles Ground Floor, Gold 2 3) Crip Wisdoms in Color: Coloring Book as Collaborative Disability Justice Methodology Wed, April 8, 9:45 to 11:15am PT. With Miso Kwak. At Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Ground Floor, Gold 2

Little mobile zine library in action! Chicago based rolling suitcase library with a focus on political education zines. Google form in our bio if you’re interested in a popup at your (Chicago area) school, library, or event. Image ID: a stenciled brown rolling suitcase that says “little mobile zine library” in bright pink, yellow, and blue. You can see a whole pile of zines spread out on a navy tablecloth, and titles have a focus on political education topics. There is a box of zines to take and a set of agreements about engaging with the library.

THANK YOU to our amazing guest speaker @emilynott2 for engaging our students in thoughtful art making and discussion around disability justice, art for social change, and alternative pathways in art education. Thank you also for sharing copies of your book, Crip Wisdoms: A Feminist Disability Studies Coloring Book (Clovernook Press, 2025, with co-author Miso Kwak) AND the @littlemobilezinelibrary with us! We can’t wait to see what you do next and continue to learn from you 🥰 🎨📝 Image description: Emily Nott stands at the center of a group photo, surrounded by 18 students from the MSU art education program. The students are holding up completed coloring pages from Crip Wisdoms. Everyone is smiling and facing the camera.

SAVE THE DATE! Art/ED Workshop!! March 25 @ 3 PM KAC 202 Join MSU Alumni Emily Nott for an interactive workshop centered around alternative careers in Arts and Education, their recent book Crip Wisdoms: A Feminist Disability Studies Coloring Book (Clovernook Press, 2025, with co-author Miso Kwak) and arts as a transformative tool of social change. Feel welcome to bring favorite art making materials to the session, copies of the coloring book will be provided to attendees on a first come, first served basis. If you have accessibility requests for this event please reach out to Dr. Allen at [email protected]. This session is supported by the @msucal CIPC Teaching Microgrant and @msu_aahd Emily Nott (she/they) is an artist, educator, and researcher. She is an instructor and doctoral candidate in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She believes in arts as a transformative tool for social change. Her work is dedicated to centering and supporting out-of-school time educators and teaching artists in their growth and thriving and is passionate about education justice. Image Description: This Visiting Scholar flyer shows a photo of Em who is a white femme person with round glasses smiling at the camera. They wear a see-through black collared shirt and black overalls with gold necklace and earrings, and their long blonde hair is pulled back. Thank you @laurenhasglasses for the flyer design!

Help me stencil this suitcase for our little mobile zine library! (Image id: a person is hunched over a brown suitcase with a spray painted stencil in yellow, pink and blue. They pull the stencils off to reveal the words “little mobile zine library”). We will be at the @tsjchicago curriculum fair this weekend… see you there!

Hey! We are the little mobile zine library, created by a group of collaborating educators, librarians, and artists in Chicago. Little Mobile Zine Library has a focus on critical, liberatory and political education zines for teachers and students. Contact form to share a zine or request a popup from the mobile zine library at your school or community event in our bio.