On Tuesday September 5, 2023, Professor Liat Ben-Moshe (University of Illinois, Chicago) delivered a lecture in the Modern Critical Theory lecture series for the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her talk was titled “Decarcerating Disability: Prison Abolition and Deinstitutionalization.” Quoted content is from the lecture unless noted otherwise. All images are by 愚木混株 Cdd20 from Pixabay. Liat Ben-Moshe’s Modern Critical Theory lecture was a master class in public scholarship rooted in abolition and reclamation of disabled culture....