“DISRUPTING ABLEISM with ARTFUL ACTIVISM” 

EVENT #3 IN THE HASTINGS CENTER’S SERIES:

“THE ART OF FLOURISHING”

Event Date/Time: MONDAY, DEC 7th 3:00PM EST 

Registration Required - Free and Open to the public

Please register in advance here.

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

What will it take to bring about lasting justice for disabled people in the US? When will every body—and every voice—be indispensable? Poets and activists Lateef McLeod and D.J. Savarese imagine a society led by people with disabilities and show how disabled communities are already building this world through creative forms of resistance. 

*The film DEEJ will not be screened at this event.

FEATURED PRESENTERS:

David James Savarese is an artful activist and founder of Listen2Us: Writing Our Own Futures. An OSF Human Rights Initiative Youth Fellow alum, he is also co-producer and narrative commentator of the Peabody award-winning documentary Deej: Inclusion Shouldn’t Be a Lottery. A graduate of Oberlin College, he has published widely, including his chapbook, A Doorknob for the Eye, and a “Notable” Best American Essay, “Passive Plants.”

Lateef McLeod is a poet, blogger, activist, and PhD candidate in the Anthropology and Social Change Doctoral program at California Institute for Integral Studies. His poetry, activism, and scholarship are all informed by his experience living in the Bay Area with cerebral palsy. He published his first book of poetry A Declaration of A Body Of Love in 2010, and this year published his second poetry book, Whispers of Krip Love, Shouts of Krip Revolution.,