Writing Disability: a reading and conversation with Liz Bowen, Sarit Frishman, Jesse Rice-Evans

Three activist-writers on the possibilities, challenges, and politics of writing with and about disabilities.

The event will have ASL interpretation and be wheelchair accessible

Information: The seminar will be at Fordham University, Lincoln Center campus (McMahon, room 109). Space is limited. Refreshments will be served. Feel free to forward this invitation to others who might be interested. Please note this is a fragrance free event.

Please RSVP at [email protected], and contact us for any disability access or accommodation question at [email protected].

Speakers:
Liz Bowen is a Ph.D. candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, where she is working on a dissertation project that traces disability and animality as intertwined sites of literary experimentation in the long twentieth century.

Sarit Frishman is a Sick and Disabled, Queer, Trans Femme of Color, a former survival Sex Worker, a community support organizer for Sex Workers, a harm reduction outreach worker and organizer, and a poet / writer with a background in spoken word.

Jesse Rice-Evans is a doctoral student in rhetoric and writing studies (English) at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her work centers on activist disability rhetorics on Twitter, embodiment rhetorics, and femme semiotics.

This is part of Fordham University’s Seminar on Disability Research across Disciplines, a seminar series organized by the Faculty Working Group on Disability and funded by the Provost Office.