Brilliant Imperfection: A Reading with Eli Clare
\nFriday, April 29
\n7-9PM
\nHusky Union Building 332<\/p>\n
The D Center is proud to welcome noted queer and trans disabled writer and activist Eli\u00a0Clare to Seattle for a reading and discussion of his new book.\u00a0Brilliant Imperfection:\u00a0Grappling with Cure!\u00a0This is our keynote event for D Month.<\/p>\n
Join queer disabled writer and activist Eli Clare for an exploration of cure and diagnosis.\u00a0Using memoir, history, and critical analysis, Eli uncovers how cure as an ideology\u00a0serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, prioritizes lives, makes profits,\u00a0justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss. He grapples with this knot\u00a0of contradictions, maintaining that neither an anti-cure politics nor a pro-cure worldview\u00a0can account for the messy, complex relationships we all have with our bodies and\u00a0minds. He tells stories and histories from disability communities, people of color\u00a0communities, fat activist communities, and queer and transgender communities, always\u00a0drawing upon interlocking experiences of race, disability, sexuality, class, and gender.<\/p>\n
Access info: The HUB building is wheelchair accessible, and adjacent to parking lot\u00a0N22, which is reserved for disability parking. There are all-genders bathrooms that are\u00a0wheelchair accessible on the same floor as the event. Arm-free chair seating and\u00a0wheelchair\/ accoter seating is available. This event will be CART and ASL interpreted.\u00a0We ask that everyone come fragrance free, and will have air purifiers on site. We will\u00a0also livestream the talk for folks who can’t physically be present.<\/p>\n
About Eli: White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare happily lives in the Green\u00a0Mountains 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\u00a0Liberation and a collection of poetry The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion and has\u00a0been published in many periodicals and anthologies. His newest work, Brilliant\u00a0Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, will be released early next year. Eli speaks, teaches,\u00a0and facilitates all over the United States and Canada at conferences, community\u00a0events, and colleges about disability, queer and trans identities, and social justice.\u00a0Among other pursuits, he has walked across the United States for peace, coordinated a\u00a0rape prevention program, and helped organize the first ever Queerness and Disability\u00a0Conference<\/p>\n