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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....

Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Jian Neo Chen, associate professor of queer studies in the departments of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Chen will share their reflections on reading contemporary trans* literature during the ongoing racial gender/sex wars. Their talk will offer some initial thoughts on the politics, aesthetics, and science of trans* auto- writing and theory spanning the late twentieth to early twenty-first centuries. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Summer Kim Lee, assistant professor in UCLA’s English Department. This event is free and...