Articulating and Enacting Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project
UCLA Department of English, Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAJoin 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....