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Disabled Authors in Conversations! Virtual events for Disability Pride month
By Alicia Waters | July 19, 2022
LIVE from NYPL | Easy Beauty: Chloé Cooper Jones [nypl.org]
Wed, July 27 at 6:30 PM
Join Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty, for a conversation about her groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen.
More info, DB numbers, and Register here: [nypl.org]
https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/07/27/chloe-cooper-jones-easy-beauty [nypl.org]
“I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis, the way she has been seen—or not seen—has informed her lens on the world her entire life. But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body), something in her shifts, and she sets off on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she’d been denied, and had denied herself.
Jones speaks with critic, journalist, and author of the novel The Life of the Mind, Christine Smallwood about what it takes to move through the world in a disabled body.
Disability Pride Author Talk: M. Leona Godin and Andrew Leland
In this conversation, authors M. Leona Godin and Andrew Leland discuss their work and journeys toward understanding and embracing blind pride.
More info, DB numbers, and Register here: [nypl.org]
https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/06/21/disability-pride-author-talk [nypl.org]
M. Leona Godin is a writer, performer, educator, and the author of There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness [penguinrandomhouse.com]. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, O Magazine, Electric Literature, Catapult, and other print and online publications. Godin holds a PhD in English, and besides her many years teaching literature and humanities courses at NYU, she has lectured on art, accessibility, technology, and disability at such places as Tandon School of Engineering, Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, and the American Printing House for the Blind. Her online magazine exploring the arts and sciences of smell and taste, Aromatica Poetica [aromaticapoetica.com], publishes writing and art from around the world.
Andrew Leland’s book about the world of blindness (and figuring out his place in it) is forthcoming from Penguin Press. His writing and audio stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, newyorker.com [newyorker.com], Radiolab, McSweeney’s, 99 Percent Invisible, and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor to the Believer, and hosted KCRW’s experimental arts-and-culture podcast the Organist.
Disability Pride Author Talk: Keah Brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
In this conversation, authors Keah Brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha will discuss their work and experience as writers with disabilities. More info, DB numbers, and regsiter here [nypl.org]:
https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/07/25/disability-pride-author-talk-keah-brown-and-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha [nypl.org]
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Keah Brown is a journalist, author, studying actress and screenwriter. She is the recipient of Ulta Beauty’s Muse 100 award, which is a celebration of 100 inspirational voices around beauty, she is one of The Root’s 100 most influential African Americans of 2018. Keah is the creator of the viral hashtag, #DisabledAndCute. Her work has appeared in Town & Country Magazine, Teen Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire UK, and The New York Times, among other publications. Her Debut essay collection, The Pretty One is out now. Her debut picture book, Sam’s Super Seats will be out Fall 2022 via Kokila books.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled nonbinary femme writer, educator and disability/transformative justice worker of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. They are the author or co-editor of nine books, including most recently, co-edited with Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival, Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement, Tongue breaker, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (ALA Above the Rainbow List, short-listed for the Lambda and Publishing Triangle Awards), Body map (short-listed for the Publishing Triangle Award), Love Cake (Lambda Literary Award winner), and Consensual Genocide, with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani, she co-edited The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. They are the 2020 recipient of the Lambda Foundation’s Jeanne Cørdova Prize in Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, recognizing “a lifetime of work documenting the complexity of queer experience” and are also the recipient of the groundbreaking 2020 US Artists Disability Futures Fellowship.
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