Feminist Disability Justice speaker series
Bread and Roses Feminist Research Colloquium presents: Stacey Park Milbern and the Practice of Disability Justice
Stacey Park Milbern lived and breathed disability justice -- a concept created by queer, trans, working-class, disabled people of color to articulate a holistic vision of crip thriving. Through a celebration of Stacey’s theory and praxis, this event will deepen our understanding of what it means to organize for disability justice. Join us for a discussion with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Alice Wong.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha is the author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (short-listed for the Lambda and Publishing Triangle Awards), Bodymap, Love Cake (Lambda Literary Award winner) and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. She is a lead artist with Sins Invalid.
Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, media maker, and consultant. She is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture created in 2014. Currently, Alice is the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, an anthology of essays by disabled people, available now by Vintage Books (2020). You can find her on Twitter: @SFdirewolf.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Alice Wong created the #StaceyTaughtUs Syllabus borrowing a hashtag created by the Radical Monarchs, an activism group for young girls of color. The syllabus puts together many of Milbern’s influential speeches, essays, social media posts, and roundtable comments highlighting her work with numerous community groups including Sins Invalid and the Disability Justice Culture Club. Join us for a celebration of the life and work of Stacey Park Milbern.
Wednesday, April 28
4-6 pm Pacific Time
FREE and open for ALL. ASL & live captioning provided.
Event will be recorded and posted on the 'SDSU Women's Studies' YouTube channel.
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