Saturday, November 7th at 4pm PT/7pm ET
Join us for a conversation about disability justice with Patty Berne, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong; moderated by Yomi Wrong. Patty and Leah are contributors in Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, a new anthology edited by Alice.
This webinar is co-organized by the Disability Visibility Project and the Longmore Institute on Disability.
Yomi Wrong is an Oakland-based consultant, activist and disability justice dreamer who formerly served as Executive Director of the Center for Independent Living. She currently works in healthcare compliance, where her role is to advance quality medical care for people with disabilities.
Patty Berne is a Co-Founder, Executive and Artistic Director of Sins Invalid, a disability justice based performance project centralizing disabled artists of color and queer and gender non-conforming artists with disabilities.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled autistic nonbinary femme writer and disability/transformative justice worker, a descendent of many gardeners, psychics, teachers, border jumpers, people with a hustle, queer cousins and weirdo/neurodivergent people.
10 lucky participants will win a free copy of Disability Visibility!
ASL/captioning provided. |
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