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Apr 17 2024

Black Table Talk x DCC: Reading Discussion of Sami Schalk’s “Black Disability Politics”

2024 Grace Holt Lecture and Celebration

April 17, 2024

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM America/Chicago

Location

Black Cultural Center Gallery

Address

Addams Hall 209, Select

Access the Zoom link here!

https://go.uic.edu/DCCZoom

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In anticipation of the 2024 Grace Holt Lecture and Celebration with Dr. Sami Schalk, UIC’s Black Cultural Center, Disability Cultural Center, and Racialized Body Cluster are hosting a reading discussion!

Join us to discuss excerpts from Dr. Schalk’s Black Disability Politics–the connections it draws and the questions it provokes. We’ll read some passages together to get the discussion rolling. To access the readings, please visit this link. We will be reading:

  • Introduction: Black Health Matters (pp. 1-17, 16 pages)
  • Praxis Interlude One: Anti-ableist Approaches to Fighting Disabling Violence (pp. 69-80, 12 pages)
  • (Not a) Conclusion: The Present and Futures of Black Disability Politics (pp. 154-160, 7 pages)

In this busy time of the semester, read what you can, and come as you are. Don't forget to register by visiting this link!

Lunch will be provided! We’ll have vegan and gluten-free options, and lunches will be boxed / take-away friendly, in case people prefer not to unmask around others to eat.

Book giveaway (while supplies last): Get a print copy of Black Disability Politics! Access Living’s Arts & Culture Project is generously sponsoring copies of the book to be given away.

Covid safety: More masking means more safety for immunocompromised people in our communities. Because lunch will be served, people will likely be unmasked to eat and drink. Please wear a mask when you’re not actively eating or drinking! We will have extras on hand.

Access info: We will have CART (live captions) in the Zoom and projected into the space. The BCC gallery is on the 2nd floor, and the elevator is located in an adjacent, connected building, Burnham Hall.

This event is hosted by UIC’s Black Cultural Center, Disability Cultural Center, and the Provost Initiative on the Racialized Body. 

We want to thank our co-sponsors, Access Living’s Arts and Culture Project and the UIC Department of Black Studies, for their support.

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Contact

UIC Department of Black Studies
blst@uic.edu

Date posted

Mar 28, 2024

Date updated

Mar 28, 2024

Speakers

Dr. Sami Schalk | Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Sami Schalk (she/her) is an associate professor of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction (Duke 2018) and Black Disability Politics (Duke 2022). Dr. Schalk’s academic work focuses on race, disability, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. She also writes for mainstream outlets, including a monthly column called “Pleasure Practices” in TONE Madison. Dr. Schalk identifies as a fat, Black, queer, disabled femme and a pleasure activist.