Brilliant Imperfection: A Reading with Eli Clare
Friday, April 29
7-9PM
Husky Union Building 332
The D Center is proud to welcome noted queer and trans disabled writer and activist Eli Clare to Seattle for a reading and discussion of his new book. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure! This is our keynote event for D Month.
Join queer disabled writer and activist Eli Clare for an exploration of cure and diagnosis. Using memoir, history, and critical analysis, Eli uncovers how cure as an ideology serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, prioritizes lives, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss. He grapples with this knot of contradictions, maintaining that neither an anti-cure politics nor a pro-cure worldview can account for the messy, complex relationships we all have with our bodies and minds. He tells stories and histories from disability communities, people of color communities, fat activist communities, and queer and transgender communities, always drawing upon interlocking experiences of race, disability, sexuality, class, and gender.
Access info: The HUB building is wheelchair accessible, and adjacent to parking lot N22, which is reserved for disability parking. There are all-genders bathrooms that are wheelchair accessible on the same floor as the event. Arm-free chair seating and wheelchair/ accoter seating is available. This event will be CART and ASL interpreted. We ask that everyone come fragrance free, and will have air purifiers on site. We will also livestream the talk for folks who can’t physically be present.
About Eli: White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare happily lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont where he writes and proudly claims a penchant for rabble-rousing. He has written a book of essays Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation and a collection of poetry The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion and has been published in many periodicals and anthologies. His newest work, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, will be released early next year. Eli speaks, teaches, and facilitates all over the United States and Canada at conferences, community events, and colleges about disability, queer and trans identities, and social justice. Among other pursuits, he has walked across the United States for peace, coordinated a rape prevention program, and helped organize the first ever Queerness and Disability Conference
Nicole Masangkay | dcmedia@uw.edu
Media and Publications Coordinator
D Center at the University of Washington (web)
p: (206) 685-0949 | vp: (206) 734-3476
We have three separate events scheduled at the University of Washington, Bothell campus. Please share this out to departments and individuals you think may be interested!
Public Lecture – Bodies as Home: Notes on Cure, Disability, and the Natural World
Wednesday, April 27 6:30pm
ARC 201 (Top Floor Overlook)
FREE: Open to the public
Registration encouraged but not required at myarc.uwb.edu
Workshop – Disability, Access, and Outdoor Recreation
Thursday, April 28 9:00am
ARC 202 (Top Floor Overlook)
FREE: Outdoor professionals and student leaders encouraged to attend
Registration is required at myarc.uwb.edu. Brunch will be provided.
Poetry Reading
Thursday April 28 2:30pm
UWB Plaza
FREE: Open to the Public
Registration is encouraged but not required at myarc.uwb.edu.
I believe that Eli will also be visiting the UW-Seattle campus for a brief engagement on April 29th that has yet to be published.
