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Articulating and Enacting Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project

Apr 11, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
UCLA Department of English, Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Dr. Sami Schalk, associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schalk will provide a brief history of the National Black Women’s Health Project and analyze how the organization articulated and enacted Black disability politics within their Black feminist health activism. This talk is excerpted from the book Black Disability Politics which explores Black activist and cultural worker engagement with disability as a political and social issue.

The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Dr. Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne, assistant professor in UCLA’s English Department.

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Dr. Sami Schalk is an associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on race, disability and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined (Duke 2018) and Black Disability Politics (Duke UP 2022). Schalk is also a fat Black queer disabled femme, public intellectual and pleasure activist.

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Date:
Apr 11, 2023
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Website:
https://english.ucla.edu/events/articulating-and-enacting-black-disability-politics/

Organizer

UCLA Department of English
Phone
3102064030
Email
englishevents@ucla.edu
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Venue

UCLA Department of English, Kaplan Hall 193
415 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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