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Articulating and Enacting Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project

Cover image of Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk

Dr. Schalk will provide a brief history of the National Black Women’s Health Project and analyze how the organization articulated and enacted Black disability politics within their Black feminist health activism. This talk is excerpted from the book Black Disability Politics, which explores Black activist and cultural worker engagement with disability as a political and social issue. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Dr. Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne, assistant professor in UCLA’s English Department. For full event information, click here.

Sami, a person with light brown skin and short curly hair, smiles broadly in front of a sunny, yellow background. She is wearing a bright yellow top, accented with multi-colored, rainbow earrings.

Dr. Sami Schalk is an associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on race, disability and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined (Duke 2018) and Black Disability Politics (Duke UP 2022). Schalk is also a fat Black queer disabled femme, public intellectual and pleasure activist.

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Email: englishevents@ucla.edu

Apr 11, 2023

Kaplan Hall 193

4:00PM

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Apr 11, 2023

Kaplan Hall 193

4:00PM

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This event date has passed so registration is now closed